TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 32, 8 February 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Opera-louse. Silbon Stirks expected. Opening performance to-night. Rowing Regatta this afternoon. Barque Waimea sailed for London. Bakers' Operative Union meets to-night Polo Club Races proceeding at Ellerslie. Fatal colliery explosion at Newport, Wales. Bay of Islands Jubilee Regatta on Wednesday next. The Federation Conference has commenced business.

Horticultural Show prize money now being paid in full. The Dean of Windsor has refused, the Bishopric of Durham. H.M.s. Opal will be open to the public on Sunday afternoon. Jubilee prizes will be presented by the Athletic Club to-night. London quotations for frozen meat and wool remain unchanged. Phil Robinson has been engaged by the West African Company. Lord Salisbury is suffering from weakness, the result of influenza.

The Hon. T. Fergus has returned" to Dunedin, enroute for Wellington. Judge Rawson has been transferred t.to the District Court of Western Otago. Captain Edwin prophesied another gale with rain yesterday, but it has not yet arrived.

H.M.S. Iris and Cordelia will probably replace the Opal and Calliope in these waters.

Dynamite has been discovered at Washington, but removed before it had exploded.

To-morrow evening Mrs Cooper will sing at St. John the Baptist's, Parnell, during the offertory. ,

The report that Portugal is requesting Powers to convene a Conference on the Zambesi question is denied. Sir John and Lady Thurston visited the Public Library yesterday, and recorded their names in the visitors' book.

Mr Corrie Johnston continues his meetings to-morrow at the Academy of Music, Lome-street, afternoon and evening. The Great Powers have warned Greece that if she interferes in the Cretan dispute she must submit to the consequences. Fifteen names have been enrolled of pupils for the Elam School of Art, which will open about the end of this month. Band of Hope Union give their Jubilee entertainment performers a social at the Temperance Hall on Monday evening.. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, has improved in health, but the doctors advise further rest, and a sea voyage is contemplated. -

At the Temperance Hall, to-morrow evening, the Rev. E. H. Gulliver is to lecture on the "Crash of Creeds" considered in its social aspect.

St. George's R.C. deny the rumour that they intend to test legally their claim to the Junior Whaleboat prize competed for en January 29. A " Gazette " notification of January 30th declares that seagulls shall not be killed within the provincial district of Auckland, under severe penalties. All captains in the Adelaide Militia have resigned their commissions "as a protest against the appointment bf a major to command two battalions.

Maud Booker, alias Hamilton, attempted suicide by jumping into Dunedin harbour yesterday, but was rescued, none the worse, by a man named McKewin.> Messrs J. Studholme, director, and Jas. Mills, managing director, ef the Union S.S. Company, are in Auckland on a visit, and staying at the Northern Club.

Sir W. A. White, British Ambassador to Turkey, has protested against the acquittal of Moussa Bey, Kurdish chieftain, charged with inhuman atrocities in Armenia.

The late Mr Milne's furniture will be auctioned on Tuesday at noon at his late residence, Devonport, by Arthur and Buddie, in conjunction with Bakdr Bros. The Auckland Amateur Orchestral Society meet for practice at St. James's Hall, Wellington-street, next Tuesday ah 8 p.m., instead of St. Sepulchre's Schoolroom.

The Canterbury Anglers' Society condemn the Acclimatisation Society* proposal to legalise the sale of trout, on the ground that such a measure would encourage poaching. The average heab experienced at Melbourne during .January was five degrees higher than any month since a record has been kept, and was quite unparalleled throughout Australia. The period of licerature for the Senior Civil Service examination in 1891 will be from 1800 to 1850. The special books will be Milton's "Samson Agonistes," and Shelley's " Prometheus Unbound." Seven acres three roods and twentyeight perches have been set apart as a site for the Pakiri Otamatea School, also. 13 acres in the parish of Onewhero, as an endowment for primary education. The directors of the Societe dcs Metaux and Comptoir d'Escompte, of Paris, are to be prosecuted for declaring fictitious dividends. M. Secretan, the manager of the Societe dcs Metaux, has also been indicted.

~- A tram motor, while running to Botany Bay, N.S.W., yesterday morning, capsized,. The driver, a mW named Logan, was terv ribly injured, being literally crushed to~ death under the boiler. The fireman had/a miraculous escape. *' The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce has received information from the directors of ,the Canadian Pacific Railway that nothing has yet been done with reference to the establishment of a steam service between Vancouver and Australia.

Now that it has again been fully constituted, the Representation Commission consists of Colonel Haultain, Dr. Hislop, and Mr E. Dobson (Christchurch), unofficial members, and the Property Tax Commissioner (Mr J. Sperrey) and SurveyorGeneral (Mr Percy Smith), official members.

Do not be "a penny wise and a pound foolish," but ask for and buy Brown, Barrett, and Co.'s genuine pepper. It is cleaner and cheaper than the adulterated stufi sold as pepper. To make sure of getting our manufacture, ask for tins. Every tin bears our guarantee.—Brown, Barrett, and Co., Coffee and Spice Manufacturers.— (Advt.)