TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 217, 13 September 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail arrived. Wild West Show arrived. Crew of s.s. Richmond are out. Richmond in from the Islands. City Hall concert this evening. Kauri gum: Good pale scraped is £5. Ironworkers and Farriers meet to-nighfc. Typographical Association meet to-night-R.M.S. Zealandia came in this morning La Mascotte Rink matinee this afternoon. "Tempted" ab the Opera House tonight. Indians and cowboys on the mailsteamer. Captain J. Whitney has returned from England. This day, 1642, Tasroan discovered Nevr Zealand. "Captain" Happy Jack Sutton has arrived from 'Frisco. _ Mr Harry Wirth arrived from San Francisco this morning. Meeting of University College Council on Monday at 3.15 p.m. Mrs Louis Scharrer is on board the 'Frisco mail steamer bound to Sydney. Mr Nelse Seymre, American comedian, has arrived from San Francisco. The French corvette Champlain arrived at Sydney yesterday from Tahiti. The man who murdered a British officer recently has been arrested at Gibraltar. ' Kauri Timber Company's auriferous property at Whangapoua is most promising. It is expected that the American Congress will endorse the McKinley Tariff Bill. U.S.s. Mohican arrived at Russell last evening from Auckland, after a roughpassage up the coast. The Australian cruisers are rapidly being fitted up at London, and will be ready for service early next year. The schoonor Mary Jennings, which lefb Tasmania on August 12th for Sydney, ia supposed to have foundered. Northern members leave Wellington by' the Hinemoa and Southern members by tha 1 Stella, probably on Wednesday next. The next term of Mr F. Wright's art classes will commence on Monday, 15fch inst., at the studio, 211, Victoria Arcade. Mr G. H. Wallace, new United States Consul-General for Melbourne, is a through passenger for Sydney, on board the R.M.s. Zealandia. The Government decline to accede to the request to set apart a time to discuss tha, action of the Railway Commissioners in dis- j missing four men at Christchurch. ; Mr Gascoygne, sheriff, notfies to the jurors who were summoned to attend at the Supreme Court on Monday next, that their services will not be required. It is rumoured that the French Royalists are to be indicted in consequence of the disclosures in connection with theßoulanger plot to place the Comte de Paris on tho throne. Lodge Ara, 348,1.C., resumes operations next Friday evening, when a special meeting will be held for the purpose of installing the newly-elected W.M., Mr C. C. Me- ! Millan, and his officers. A conference of school committees ab Christchurch last night passed a resolution asking the Board of -Education .to take steps to introduce instructions in manual skill into the primary schools. The American brigantine Netiie'sjiajicheg. __ w6re opened at Lyttelton yesterday "afternoon, when the fire in the flax was found to be still smouldering. The vessel was taken into the graving dock and filled with water. The United Australian Bank is being formed in London with a capital of two millions. The London Board includes Mri Arthur Magniac and Sir W. Jervois. Half the required capital is already underwritten. The Anti-Poverty Society announces an " open meeting " for next Tuesday evening, to discuss the best means of avoiding; strikes and boycotts in the future. Several: jof the local clergy and the leaders of the' Trade Unions have been invited to attend. '■ A London commercial cable says : Frozen meat is unchanged. Seven hundred bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold by, auction. The previous rates were firmlymaintained, and in some cases an advance of 5s was obtained. Good medium quality fetched from £21 5s to £21 10s.