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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 149, 25 June 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Parliament resumed to-day. _ y, ', Melbourne Cup Handicaps published. 'y :, ' Zealandia Rink invitation ball to-nightjVJ Pupil teachers' examinations ar"e proceeic£|. ing. " -, ■ V :v^'-K;; ■ Proposal to light Onehunga with kero*. sene. . ~.,. .|f. "Wearing of the Green" by Baby A Ogden. '-.'. - - ' * Tbe shipmasters on the Clyde are locking ' seamen out. ' )'"'■-'■ Board of Inquiry ordered into the volunteer scandal. Onehunga Pony Race Meeting takeif place next Saturday. . :**'' _V In every feminine parade, bustles invari*; ably bring up the rear. • :-:p:'. The coal export of Greymouth last week amounted to 2,470 tons. There are 12. males and 24 females at present in Mount Eden Gaol. V ... '^ Samuel Endor, an old Tbanies identity*' died yesterday, aged 70 years. A Uncle Sam makes a .profit of.four: ,ce___y on ever j' nickle put in circulation. V<||P Dr. Payne and family leave Thames. en route for England on Monday next., •*.*; Howard was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for the electric sugar frauds. v ;. A Russian journalist has been expelled from Servia for drafting an anti-Austrian manifesto. ■ >'i • •' It was the Eden Terrace Fire Brigade thab rendered such signal service at the: Mount) Eden fire yesterday. A lad, aged 15, named Flavell, was acci- . dentally shot through the thigh at Christ-! church yesterday while playing with -a revolver. '.-.'..■. ' The summons issued against Lord Man* deville, at the instance of the Public Prose*' cutor, on a charge of fraud, has been dismissed. :;' ,'._.* Desperate rioting took place during the evictions of tenants from the Ponsonby estates, County Cork. Several of the ringleaders were arrested. The semi-official "Independence Rouraane " denounces the action oj&he Servian Regents towards Austria, andTOhdemns tbe formation of a Great Servia. h

lUI _«IW_ Ul rt ULOrtU UW via. & Sir William Jervois, ppeakiDg at the Federation League dinner, said ib was use?; less to ask the colonies to contribute to Imperial expenses. , Mr Shannon, the Customs expert, is at» , present in Auckland, and all the invoices and goods ex the Kaikoura are therefore being zealously examined. St. Augustine Masonic Lodge, Christchurch, unanimously decided in favour of a New Zealand Grand Lodge ab a meeting1 specially convened for the purpose. Mr Vincent Pyke's interesting novels"Wild Will Enderby," has been republished by Hutchinson and Co., of London* and Wise, Caffin and Co., of 108, Princesstreet, Dunedin. Sam. Rawnsley is about to erect a firstclass hotel ab Poroti, where tourists who visit the great Wairua Falls can stay, and for the accommodation of visitors and the public generally. | Whangarei Mutual Improvement Class have decided that the Anglo-Saxon civilisation of the 19th century is nob a failure. We only want to stick to brochan and the shorter catechism.

The cinder track at the Zealandia Rink, Stanley-street, is almost completed, the wet weather having delayed the men from Working at it lately. The nominations close on Saturday next. Swaggers are already making their way to Ahaura Valley in search of work.

There is quite a gathering of contractors at Greymouth in connectien with the tendering for the Ahaura* section. We understand the Goldflelds Committee have received from the Department the sum of £25 ls 10d,' being proceeds of balance of quartz crushed at the Melbourne Exhibition, after paying all expenses. • A Bill, making it illegal to form any combinations in trade or trusts, passed the Canadian Parliament recently almost, unanimously. Its provisions are very strict, and preclude the possibility of any trust evading them. fP

John Cooke, manager of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, has been promoted to the position of manager of the Melbourne^ Office. C. S. Harley takes his place at) Christchurch. . > '

The New Zealand Maori Footballers played a game under bhe Rugby rules yesterday against the Arfoma Club, and won easily by 27 points to 3. During the game, three members of the Arfoma had their ribs broken.

In consequence of the adverse vote the South Australian Ministry have resigned,, and His Excellency the Governor has sent for Dr. Cockburn, member _ for Mount Barker, who moved the resolution on which the Government were defeated. Captain Woodward, of H.M.s. Duke of Wellington, the flagship ab Portsmouth, was fined £50 and costs for contempt of court, for not producing under a writ of habeas corpus seaman Thompson, who was wrongfully sentenced for deseition. At a large meeting held on the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, attended by „ ten thousand people, resolutions were carried demanding Home Rule for Scotland* Professor Blackie addressed the meetings and his remarks were received with great enthusiasm. ' ' It is reported that a number of places ra the coal pit, Heath and Wallsend mines, will be closed nexb drawing for places. This will throw a lot of men out of work. Ib is also reported that ib is intended shortly to work the Brunner mines in the day time only. - • 'y-