TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 33, 10 February 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Santley to-night. Silbon-Stirks arrived. See them at the Opera House. Matters are quiet at Tonga. Wainui has arrived from Tonga. Harmston's circus opens Wednesday. Auckland schooner Daisy totally wrecked. Lord Hartington has started on a visit to Egypt. Supreme Court Civil business commenced. Sir John Thurston loaves for Fiji tomorrow. Jem Mace has been defeated by Mitchell in four rounds. Greece is preparing to take action in the Cretan question. A strong escort accompanies the French Envoy to Dahomey. * Reports of this season's Tasmanian wheab yield are unfavourable. The steamer Jubilee, from Sydney, was delayed by bad weather. From the Newport mine, in Wales, 160 bodies have been recovered. Eight additional members have joined the Bakers Operatives Union. Jubilee postponed rowing races eventuated , last Saturday afternoon. Waitemata Champion Gig crew left for Dunedin by the Takapuna to-day. Hospital Board will discuss this afternoon the necessity for a children's ward. H. B. Morton gave his employees an ex« cursion to Motutapu on Saturday. Newton Primitive Methodist Church, re* cently enlarged, was re-opened yesterday. Mr John Bryce arrived from New Plymouth yesterday, en route for the Waikato. Many visitors in the various hotels are staying over for Mr Santley's concert tonight. The Republican press at Lisbon exaggerated the vapouring in view of the elections. Spasmodic outrages are being committed on the English residents at Lisbon and Oporto. H.M.s. Opal team defeated Ponsonby Navals by 31 points in Saturday's shooting contest. St. Sepulchred Sunday-school annual festival was held in the Domain on Saturday last. The death of Mr James Russell, formerly engineer of the Cambria mine, is reported from South Africa. The third trial of the cruiser Barracouta proved a failure. Her boiler exploded, injuring ten of the crew. It is understood that Lord Salisbury will comply with the request for a conference on the Zambesi question. Crown Lands and Survey Departments will be conducted in new Custom House buildings after to-morrow. Six thousand five hundred quarters of wheat, of January and February shipment, have been sold in London at 355. Herbert Goldie, eight years of age, has died from injuries sustained through falling rrom a horizontal bar a 6 Ponsonby. Mr Cowen, the well-known composer, has completed an opera on a Scandisavian subject for the Carl Rosa Company. The infant son of George Osborne, of Christchurch, was drowned yesterday by falling head first into a tub of water. Mr J. B. Jackson, grocer, Jervois, P»oad, Ponsonby,,. fell from a pair of steps on Friday and hurt his arm, and has been laid up since. Messrs R. .H. Rhodes and A. W. Bennett, two members of the Canterbuay polo team, left for the Lake Country to-day en route, for the South. Sir Elliott E. Bovill, Chief Justice of Cyprus, has been selected to succeed the Hon. A. C. Onslow, Chief Justice of Western Australia. Last evening a little girl about seven years of age, daughter of Mr Geo. Rhodes, builder, fell from a step and sustained concussion of the brain. The London butter market is depressed, and the market glutted. For Australian there is a poer demand. Fine is quoted at 106s ; medium quality, 80s. It is reported that the Bulgarian conspirators intended to effect the recall of Prince Alexander, or petition the Czar to nominate a ruler for the country. The work of dismantling the old Greyhound Hotel block of buildings is rapidly proceeding, and before long a more pretentious pile will occupy the spot. There has been a steady increase In the coal output of Greymouth lately. The export of coal products during last week was 3701 tons, and this week's promises to be larger. A littie girl 2i years old, daughter of Mr Greenhough, Hamilton Road, Ponsonby, who tumbled off a ladder recently and sustained concussion of the brain, is now recovering. It is reported that the Comte de Paris has abdicated in favour of the Due D'Orleans, who visited Paris in disguise, and for interference with the military was ordered to be arrested. Dr. Tanner, M.P. for Cork, has withdrawn his appeal against the sentence passed on him for using threatening language to Mr C. Barry, M.P. of Wexford, and has been bound over to keep the peace towards that gentleman. The "Daily Telegraph " states that the •' Times "-Parnell Commission will report that it is impossible to exonerate the Parnellites from the charge, as it was not trying to separate political societies from others avowing crime and outrage. The Cemetery Bridge has received a coating of tar and sand. Boards have also been affixed cautioning the public against crossing the bridge at other than a walking pace. St. Martin's Lane, leading to the bridge, requires a coating of scoria, as it is getting worn into holes. Workmen are engaged to-day erecting a hoarding in Queen-street, in front of the Greyhound Hotel. The work of demolishing the building is proceeding rapidly, and soon the old Greyhound Hotel will be a thing of the past. A larger and more handsome block ef buildings is to be erected. Senhor Martins Antas will interview Lord Salisbury with the view of arranging for a European Conference to discuss the dispute between England and Portugal as regards Zambesi. It is asserted that the English. Prime Minister is yielding to the advice of the Great Powers, and will probable acquiese in the proposal for a Conference. The reason that pickles oftentimes turn black is because the vinegar contains sulphuric acid. Renshaw's Vinegar is absolutely free from sulphuric acid, and is perfectly pure. Don't forget to ask you!? grocer for it, and refuse to take it unlesß the name is on the bottle.—(Advt.) 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 stuff sold as pepper. To make sure of getting our manufacture, ask for tins, Ever* tin bears our guarantee.—Brown, Barrett and Co., Coffee and Spice Manufacturers — (Advt.)