TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 287, 3 December 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Galk abated,

Mr John Milne dead-. Presbyteryf.net this morning. Zealahdia Rink re-opens tonight The death of the Mahdi i. reported.Inquest on Mr Fred Dufaur proceeding. Bland Holt's dramatic season concluded. Violent gale from S.E. at Paeroa lasb

nighb. Rickarda' Company at tho Opera House to-night. Patrick Sheehan accidentally killed ab Kuaotunu.

Fourteen buildings destroyed by a Waikato bush fire,

JVlr Turnbuli's (M.H.R.'s) condition ia slightly improved. Mr Hobbs, M.H.R., says Puhipuhi is a wonderful reefing country. The enterprising burglar has been aburgling at Ponsonby again. Inspector Shannon of the Customs Department is at present in town.

The mail steamer was detained by adverse gales. No damage done. The French Government have formally recognised the Brazilian Republic. Trade with the Soudan, excepting in arms and grain, has been reopened. The Dunedin Exhibition cost, all round* about £40,000 up to the opening day. . Mangere Farmers' Club passed a resolution approving of Vaile's railway scheme. Dwbliing-houso, etc., at Mangawai, the property of Mr Sharpe, destroyed by fire. Marriage is a necessity for the poor, a diversion for tho rich, a martyrdom ' for others.

An Irishman closed his eye 3in fronb of a looking glass to sco how ho looked when aslee p. Tho Hon. Mr Ilislop, Minister of Education, arrived in. Wellington from,the South yesterday. There was a heavy easterly gnle ab Russell yesterday, bufc the weather has now cleared.

Fourteen persons have been killed, and many injured, by a colliery explosion ab Bcchm, Wosbphaiia. Divine providence knew what ifc Was about when ifc willed that love should bo independent of reason. The election of General Boulanger for Montmarfcre, one of bhe Parisian constitutes, has beon validated. .

A concert in aid of the Wesleyan Home Mission was given last night by the St. John's Choir and other friends.

A heavy gale blew yesterday at Hamilton, threshing bhe fruit from the trees in all but the mosb sheltered situations.

Mr Dillon addressed a large meeting at Ahaura on November 25th. %ho amounb received in subscriptions totalled £175. There is an epidemic of influenza throughout St. Petersburg, which is regarded as the forerunner of an outbreak of cholera.

Henry Searle, the champion sculler, is getting on famously. His medical attendant states that it will not be long before ha is aboub again.

A citizen bought himself a book the other day and wrote this on the fly-leaf: " Presented to John Jones by himself, as a mark of esteem."

Two Christchurch Justices have ruled that a flaxmil! is a factory, and boys employed. thereat.. must be given a halfhoiiday on Saturday. ■ ' "--■

The Grand Jury s ab Wellington threw out the bill in the case of William Irvine, second engineer of the s.s. Lindus, who was charged with perjury. Accordion waists are a popular coming summer fad. Worn with llutcd ruffles probably. There will be music when papa blows about the bills.

An easterly gale blew with greab violence afc Onehunga during the early part of yesberday, subsiding towards evening. Little or no damage was done. The sbatemenb previously telegraphed that the Emperor William had consented to his sister Princess Marguerite entering* the Greek Church is premature. The words and music of thab beautiful baliad, "Oh, Take Me to Thy Heart Again," are published in the "Family Friend" this week. Buy ifc and take it home. A man named Sexton was severely kicked by a horse afc Hamilton on Saturday last, and was taken to the district hospital. He is in a very precarious condition. Afc a meeting of butchers' employees, held afc Christcburch last night, ib was unanimously decided to form a trade union. One hundred men were present. Captain Russell, accompanied b}' Colonel Humphrey, Captain Douglas, and others proceeded to Taiaroa Head and other defence works around Dunedin yesterday. Several very interesting items of society gossip from the provinces in the " Family Friend." this week. The popular weekly budget i 3 just issued. Ask your news agenb for ifc.

It is asserted thab Solomon never laughed. That's not remarkable. A man who had 700 wives and a few hundred mothers-in-law was not- likely to be in a very merry humour. . The Mangere Farmers' Club bay« appointed a committee to urge upon Buck* land and Sons the desirability of removing tho Haymarkefc from Durham-street to some more central site.

The Southland farmers are jjubilanfc ab the great quantity of grass that is coming on this season, and so bringing up the supply of milk at their dairy factory to nearly 1700 gallons daily. The Caledonian G.M. Company appeal againsb Warden Northcroft's decision, in which Alfred Sawyer was awarded £375 damages. The appeal willcome before the Auckland Supreme Courb on Friday next. The Druids' Society had 250 mem berg of the Order in the procession at the opening of the Dunedin Exhibition. The " Otago Wibness " states that the Druid display was very imposing, and the best of the Friendly Societies'.

The Irish delegates visited the Boys' and Girls' Roman Catholic Schools afc Christchurch yesterday morning. At both schools they were presented with an address; at the boys'with £10, and ab tin girls' with £15. It is stated that Monsignor Satolli, importing to his Holiness the Pope on tb« presenb state of Ireland, denies the statemenb bhab bhe Governmenb land purchase scheme involves the expenditure of tea millions of money. A mabch between the Cambridge and Taupiri cricket clubs was played at Hamilton East on Saburday, and was decided on the first innings in favour of the former, Henry Wilson contributing 70 runs out ol 96 for the victors.

Mr J. W. Winks, tbe winner of the Milo Club championship * ab tbe Auckland Amateur Afchlebic Club's late carnival, ia the subject of a first-class illustrated biographical sketch in the "Family. Friend H this week. Now ready.' " •. " The Rev. -Mr Woolley (Thames), and Mr J. Bigelow (Ponsonby), lefb by the Takapuna to-.day, to attend tho sittings of the Union at Dunedin, Messrs S. H. Matthew* and F. Bafcbley having lefb previously fo« the same destination. (. The German warship.Alexandrine, whiclj has been, lying in Farm Cove, Sydney, during the ."past few weeks, is making pre* parationsfor sea, She is expected to saifl at the end of the week for Samoa to reliov«; the German corvette Sophie, which will go on to Sydney for an overhaul. ■;.-'■_