TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 243, 15 October 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Miss Staunton's concert to night.

Pedestrian contest (it the City Hail. Another alleged conspiracy disclosed. " A band of unmitigated evrind'ere !" Fancy dress ball at Otahuhu to night. "Rescue of Harry Gray" by largo choir St. Jame'a Hall to-nigbt. I The Now Zealand loan i 3 expected to averago 98. Duriug last month 1,330 persons arrived in New Zealand, and 853 left. The protracted Criminal Sessions are over at last. No one is so open-handed as he who has nothing to give. Honorary Captain Schmitt of the Auckland Collego Rifles is gazetted Captain in the New Zealand Militia, I Scoria lias been discovered at Northeoto ; it ia much needed for tho roads.

Somh Australian wheat crop will be about an average one this season.

Sir Herculee Kobinson will retain the Governorship of Capo Colony for a fresh term.

Major, Shepherd, of the New Zealand Militia, is gazetted Lieutenant-Colonel, and Sergeant-Major Falconer, of Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant.

There were 19S deaths in New Zealand in August, of which 94 were of children under five years of age.

The Auckland Tramway Company have lodged a claim for £120 damages against the ship that brought their last lot of cars, for damage done in transit.

The shares in the newly-formod Daydawn Mining Company, Queensland, are afe a premium of 14s.

William Stables, who waa landed in illhealth from the ship Sierra Colonna, at Dunedin, haa died in the hospital.

An area of GOO acres in thesurvey district of Ohiwa haa been set apart for the purposes of village settlement. The Customs authorities have abandoned their claim for duty on imported tramcars. In the New South Wales Assembly, the amendment, moved by Mr Abbott, on the proposed vote of censure, favouring retrenchment and additional taxation, was carried.

Mr R, Donkin, electrical engineer, Auckland, seeks letters patent for a process of extracting gold and silver from ores by electricity.

Robert Aaron, a farmer in Marlborough province, was accidentally killed last night. He was driving home in a dray when he fell from the vehicle and the wheel passed over his chest. Death ensued before the arrival of medical aid.

At the second wool sale at Melbourne yesterday, 1,700 bales were offered, and 1,100 sold, greasy realising up to Is per lb, and scoured up to 19|d per lb. New post offices have been opened at Mangere Bridge, Pukekaroro, Hakaru, and Frankton Junction in Auckland district.

Latest accounts of the Victorian wheat crop are favourable. The crops having been improved by the rain, and it is hoped that the yield will be larger thin that of last year. Another agricultural establishment for Auckland is promised, besides that at! Whangerei. An area of 137 acres of land at Kirikiriroa has been set apart as a site for an Agricultural College and Model Farm.

Experienced agriculturists are all agreed up an the neco-sity that exists, in these days of keen competition, for all farmers to acquire a knowledge of improved methods of farming, and to keep themselves posted concerning the agricultural discoveries and inventions of scientific experts. The easiest and cheapest way to do this is to subscribe to a farming journal . ol reognized excellence liko the New Zealand Fakmee, with reference to which a well known colonist haa recently written to the editor : " For many year* past I have eabscribed to farming papers, bat never befors have I met with anything equal to your journal.' Annual subscription 10a.— Publiahingoffiee.Shortland and Fort street?, Auckland.