TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 290, 6 December 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail due. Stanley has arrived at Bagamayo. Auckland athletic reps lefb for Danedii. to-day. Barque Presto arrived from New Caledonia. Catholic Institute sale of work on tbia evening. Tremendous downpour of rain at Wet ling ton last night. DomPedro is convinced thab the Brazilian Republic 4 will stand. Another change of programme ab tho Opera House to-night. Supreme Courb criminal sessions commence on Monday next. The Exhibition orchestral concert last night was a great success. Chambers and bankruptcy business at the Supreme Court to-day. The Portuguese Government refuses to yield its claims to the Zambesi. > The Emperor William of Germany sen.. Stanley a cable message of welcome. There was a large garden party at Fernhill Club, Otago, yesterday afternoon. Captain William H. Skinner has been appointed Major on the unattached active list.

Tho Colonial Securities Trust Agency, with a capital of £1,000,000, has been floated. The resignation of Lieutenant Francis Creighton, of the Wairoa (Auckland) Rifles, has been accepted. Mr Duncan Sutherland has been elected Chairman of the Waitaki County Council for the twelfth time. The total number, attending the Exhibition yesterday was, 3,152, of which 1,549 paid at tbe turnstile. The case of poisoning following the use of water from a spring at Point Elizabeth, proves to be British cholera. A post office has been opened at Tikinui, in the province of Auckland. P. Molqugttney is appointed postmaster. Mr Woolley, manager of a flax mill at Riverhead, was found dead in his bed aboub 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon. A great fire occurred at Foochow on November 11. Two thousand houses were destroyed, and 41 lives were lost. The Walton Park Coal Company, Dunedin, have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on the past year's operations. The Union Company have not yet decided when their weekly Bervice between this port and Sydney shall be resumed. At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, day, John Ross was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for indecent assault. The Napier Borough Council last nighb voted the Mayor £100 and a congratulatory address on his re-election for the fifth time.

It is stated that over 15,000 horses are slaughtered for food every year in Paris, and of this quantity two-thirds are used for sausages. The South London gas stokers threaten> to go out on strike unless a thousand employees are dismissed who signed the profitsharing agreement. Stanley discovered immense tracts of: fertile and well-watered pasturage. He ascribes his escape from numberless dangers to special Providence. Mr C. L. Garland is still negotiating with Mr Edison, for the purchase of the right to - his phonograph, and proposes to float* i company in the colonies. There are to be several more flax mills in the Whangarei vicinity. Some of them are already in course of erection, and will be in operation in a few weeks. The trustees of the Parnell Orphan Home have accepted the tender of Mr Brook, at £177 19s, for tbe alterations and improvements at the institution. Sale of Napier sheep at Cambridge yesterday waa not a success. Two thousand good sheep were offered, but only 800 were sold. Rain throughout the district. There is no abstract excellence, in early rising—all depends on what you do when you are out of bed. It would be better for the world if somo people never gob up. Rain throughout Hamilton district has been general and has dono an immense amount of good to crops, also to flax, which Would not bleach in hot, dry weather. The steamer Denbury, which left Singapore for Hongkong on October 21st with 400 Chinese passengers, has not since been heard of, and it is feared she has been lost. F. S. Hutchinson has been appointed postmaster at Tuakau, H. Ward at Waiwera, J. Connolly at Warkworth, G. P. Blandford at Devonport, and C. Bryant at Matamata. . Mr John Dillon had a hearty reception at Dunedin last night. He was presented with addresses from citizens of Dunedin -aad young colonists in favour of Home Rule for Ireland. An English company has.made application to the French Government for concessions to assist them in undertaking the work of throwing a bridge across the English Channel. The No. 1 prospectors' claim on the Puhipuhi silver workings, ib is said, are about to put their interests into a company to enable them to work it successfully with a large capital. John Earle and Co., the direct tea importers, whose unique collection at the Dunedin Exhibition caused so much comment, draw attention to their Ceylon tea, through our advertising columns. The French, Swiss and American recogni-\ tionof the Brazilian Republic is declared informal, as no such recognition can be accepted until the National Assembly confirms the results of the recent revolution. The Russian press discredits the statement that the Czarewitch is to be betrothed to the Princess Marguerite, sister of the German Emperor, and asserts that the Czar is desirous of a Slavonic alliance for his son. The London Dockers' Union, fearing the strike againßt foreign seamen will spread, have advised the Bristol strikers to resume work with the exception of those who commenced the strike, and this advice has been adopted. The Rifle Companies parade for daylight inspection next Saturday for the purpose o£ proceeding to the North Shore for skirmishing drill with blank ammunition. There should be a good muster, as this is a very useful drill. The selection of jurors for each class in the New. Zealand Exhibition begins next week. The New Zealand exhibitors will pick one in each class, tbe foreign and colonial exhibitors another, _ and the Judging Awards Committee a third. The Victoria Commissioners will gives banquet at Dunedin next week. Two. hundred guests, including the Governor, are expected. The Chief Secretary of Vie. toria is coming by the Mararoa, and will b<> the gue6t of the Governor during his stay. Compared with the closing rates of thq October sales, best scoured wools at London show an advance of 2d, faulty scoured an advance of Id, good greasy wools an advance of l_d, other sorts Id. greasy crossbreds have advanced _d, coars<' crossbreds Id. The sale of work announced to take place to-morrow afternoon in connection with St. Mary's Church should attract.o considerable number of people to the pan sonage grounds. The provision of a large and varied collection of clothing, and fancj goods, also refreshment stalls, ought (-;'■ make the affair ft success.