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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 53, 16 March 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fryer s Circus opens to-night Japanese village settlement. Tauronga and Thames Regat'as to-mor row. Races at Henderson's Mill. Shamrock and shillelah everywhere I Tho clork of the weather may wot the shamrock. Major-General Schaw is on n visit te New Zealand. Four cuses scarlet fevor reported yesterday. The indications in Europe continue pacific. English Consols have again risen, and are now 101 J, Annual soiree of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church to-night. Kapii, Taranaki! The Now Plymouth bowlers defeated the Aucklandors. Yestorday morning's earthquake was felt at Hawed between 3 and 4 o'clock. The Hon. Makena Kohere, M.L.C., Waiapu, has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council. Cheap railway excursion to Otorohanga, in .the King Country to-morrow, should .be ''_ largely patronised. A man named James Adams has been killed on the Otago Central Railway works, by falling over a ctiff. Good news for New Zealand poisoners, eh ! Wonder if Endeavour Inlet is anywhere near Tiinaru 1 The Sunny South Juvenile Minstrels give an entertainment at Whan Lunatic Asylum on Friday evening next. On Monday next Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove's Comedy Company opon in Abbott's Opera House with " The Maf,_sttate" and other high-class pieces. At Wellington yesterday the Star Boating Club won the annual two-mile race with the Union Club of Christchurch by six lengths. Time, 13|min. It is announced that the Marquis of Salisbury and other Ministers will attend the opening of the Imperial Conference. The Press wiil be admitted to the opening, and . *n s ;i.cial sittings of the Conference. xae popular cantata " Conquest of Drink," by 40 voices fof the Union Band of Hope Choir, will be performed, in the Gladstone Hall, Northcote, this (Wednesday) evening. No doubt a big audience will greet the performance. The hearing of the claim for compensation for the loss of the ship Lyttelton was continued at Wellington yesterday; It is now believed the case will last all the week, and it is understood, whatever the result of the present trial, appeal will be made, and the case possibly taken after that to the Privy Council. Sheep shearing by machinery has been proved a euccoes at Melbourne. The Committee of experts who have been appointed to report on the working of Wolseley's sheep shearing machine state that the quality of the work done is all that could be desired, and the speed of the machine is about equal to that of a fair average shearer. Te Whiti has consented to the Paiihaka natives abandoning Communism and beginning cultivation for separate families. Preparations are boing made for the extensive planting of crops, and it is expected that the natives will again be large producers as in former years. Tho Oamaru "Mail" says:—"We believe Oamaru can boast at the present time about as good an assortment of drunkards as any town in New Zealand." Good idea— Have a competition of " drunks" in the style of the lazy competition in the "Globe " Readers. . Mr E. Arophlett, paymaster in charge at the Royal Naval Depot, will shortly be suoC3eded by Staff Paymaster Carter, who is on his way to Sydney in the P. and 6. Company's R MjS, Valetta.. Mr Amphlett was in ,N i_£ Zealand for four months in 1878. • ' >