TABLE TALE.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 57, 8 March 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALE.

Fires l|b night. N.S.^I Ministry formed. The Jjawa is at Hobai-t. Kaurjjjurn market falling. Cartiit)' second picnic to-morrow. Speeciiday at St. John's College. Arch Jill Chinamen were acquitted. New Ijjoanatairi call payable to-day. Parn| Assessment Court to-morrow. Aitks Connell on " Cemeteries" tonight. || Sevetsf cases of fever in Ponsonby district. »'; Ladi|t night at the Zealandia open-air rink, fc Newioi Assessment Court adjourned for a weekly

King'inian is suffering from a nervous malady! .

Swin|ing Club is being formed in Hamiltii.

DrapSs hold a picnic aft Tamaki next Thursc|. Miss*|ckennann's lecture on " Alaska " this ov§ing. Furnjlre of Melrose Hall to be sold oa Tuesda|week. Mr (fj M. Reed leaves for Melbourne nexb Wednesday. RobejJj.W. Browne, horse-trainer, of Cambri^o, has filed. Turn&ck and foreman of the Newton Fire Bifn.de wanted. Choirfaster and conductor required for the Dunlin Exhibition. Annul picnic of tho Auckland Yacht Club. on|aturday week. Draihge'of the Free Public Library buildinjbeing attended to. Mr Rjsvland Mainwaring, of Kihikihi, is gaxetteijnative interpreter. Toha[iahurahu and Heremia Te Popo are gazetted assessors. Mr Hsketh is to defend District Judgo Raweonit New Plymouth. ■Ib is s|ted that Colonel Roberts is to bo appoint^ Governor of Napier Gaol. Willifi Bagnall White is gazetted lieutenant if the Auckland City Guards. A bullock was killed ■at Riverton last week inlvhich was found a 701b kidney. City Council declined to interfere with the by-lat? regulating street processions. Summonses for non-payment of city rates in SouthJWard are now being issued. Mr E; Hamlin, M.H.R., addresses his constituents at Papakura on Monday evening next.

Upwards of 130 summonses have been issuedfor non-paymentof rates in Ponsonby, Karangahape and Graf ton Wards. Auckland has the unique distinction of being the only possessor of a Hallelujah Lasses' Fife and Drum Band.

The-beautiful Pine Island is to be sold next City of Cork calls tomorrow.

Viscount Mandeville, sou of the Duke of Manchester, has • become a bankrupt. Liabilities,. £100,000 ; assets, nil. The exchange of postcards between New South Wales and New Zealand has fasen deferred until July nexb. It is estimated that there will be 17,000 tons of potatoes for export this season from the Oatnaru district.

The Austrian press is protesting againsfa the action ot Russia in the Balkan principalities. Mr R. Logan yesterday sent South a splendid, whaleboat for. the Bluff Harbour Board, i.

The Maoris at Paribaka are doing well ia cutting flax, some of them earning from £3 to £4 per week. Lieutenant Stapleton Cotton Caulton is gazetted as transferred from tbe • Cook County Volunteers to the Auckland Royal Irish Volunteers.

William Vaile, Auckland, draper, has deposited, specifications for a combination rubber washing boiler machine, wringer and mangle.

Arfch'ur Steele Ford, Thames, engineer, has deposited specifications for a patent tailings ; crusher and cylindrical friction amalgamator. The medal run for on Tuesday night at) the Zealandia Rink was won by Edward Harvey," and not Graham, as previously stated.'

A settler some time ago set fire to 70 acres of flax, in the vicinity of Rahotu, which, it is estimated, would have been worth not less than £7,000.

The .yiefcorian Railway Commissioners have accepted a tender, ab £60,555, for the excavation of a ship canal and dock in the West Melbourne swamp.

Bisiop Selwyn denies the statement telegraphed from Auckland that' he has received a legacy of between £50,000 and £60,000.;

The brokers have conceded half-a-crown decrease en freights when loading ships despatched ■by the Shippers' Committee. It is stated a Hamburg iirm are quoting freight at £1 sterling. There are from twenty to thirty lads at tho Cosfcley Institute, some of whom are receiving their education at the Ponsonby Public School, while a number aro apprenticed out.

Two: Melbourne men, Messrs Burstou and Stokes, have started to ride round the world on bicycles. Their immediate course is overland from Melbourne to Sydney, and thence by steamer to Calcutta.

A passenger by the Rockhampton from Fiji to. Sydney reports that during the voj'age'lie was robbed of a portmanteau, which contained 30 sovereigns, 30 Napoleons, £200 worth of diamonds, and letters of credit for £1,000. There is nob tho slightest clue to the robbers.

Captain Sommerville has finished the laying out of the N.Z.ft.A. Range at Blenheim. The locality, a capital one, some three mites distance from town, is reached by a splendid road. The buildings belonging to the Marlborough Racing Club have been placed at the disposal of the Association.

Country customers should look out) for A. E. Fenton's wice lisb of drapery and clothing in this paper to-morrow night.— Advt.)i