TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fickle weather. Strike matters quiet. Kawakavva miners are back. " Neck for Nock " goes well. Election campaign commenced., Foresters , Hall entertainment to-night. Ifranee has made peace with Dahomey.'

Rev. Charles Clark lectures on Monday. Labour Conference has not been nucoessful.

P.s.Osprey goes into the' Kaipara River trade. ' ' , ' The outbreak of cholera at Aden i> denied. . ,

Sixty recidivistcs haTe eecaped from Caledonia. . '' Auckland Builders , Association has been reorganised.

.Labour candidates for Parliament ar* being selected ■ -t

Mount Eden Baptist Sunday-school anniversary soiree to-night. Carrie L; , Tyler takes hence £20,000"'worth of kauri gum forNeW York. • ; ; j ■ The London Shipping Federation has been registered as a company. l ' ' * It is reported that popular discontent ie being manifested, in Guatemala. * ; - : ;

Madame Patey, the eihger, comes to New Zealand from Australia shbrttyj ■ ''ot!

Mr W. \T. Best, the famous organist, arrives here shortly from Sydney; ; ■ ' J. M; :i Eennox received a vote '■. Of-cOtt* fidence from the electori? of Parnell.- '•'

• Beautiful •: growing weather throughout the Waikato. Fruib trees doing welli ; [

Several old soldiers interviewed Mr Humphries afa Hamilton re-land claims. -'

R. M.s. Zealandia, for -Frisco," took aWSy 50,000 gold sovereigns from Aucklatid.- * The iron-workers' strike at Home Seduces the output of pig iroii by 20j000 tdnß ; ptar week. '■'■"'■■.! i : .■.'■■■ '■: Lvv.i ...>

Good bushmerTare in demand in Waikato and Raglan ; wages £1 to 25s per#eekafifd found.' ,: = -' " '' ■' -■ '•'■■ ■■■■■■w;-;;.:'. ,■ t>k

Great regreb is • expressed *iti Waikatoat the failure to form-the "Sylvia iPaik StuU Company." ' ' * " f

Foresters' Hall entertainment last in aid of the Benedictine Fathers was veVy successful. ' ( Mr,*: S. Clendon,' B.M. at tihe Bay of Islands, , has been appointed a Juqge of the Native Lands Court. T The Hon. M r Mitchelson, Actinnt(Premier, proposes to return to Wellington about'the end of the present month.' ' ' An Anglo-Italian conference, for the purposo of arranging for the control of-fche Soudan, is now nteetrag in 'Naples;'

Mr YVorthington is to lecture to bidding teachers on "The Art of Teaching " in Wellesley-street Scbool on Saturday mornings, ' J The Ponsonby Lodge of Freemasons holds its regular monthly meeting in the Oddfellows' Hall, Ponsohby, this evening. Visitors are invited.

The Junction Hotel, Salisbury-street, Christchurch, was broken itn'to during: the absence of 'the'occupante on Sunday afternoon and £7 stolen fr,opi the.caslybox, \ Taylor, wholes injured "- on Fallpn'j contract, Rotorua ra.ilwayr well in the Waikabo'"" and his foot, will be saved if nothipg goes wrong again. . \ , A thousand persons, engaged Jn tKe mother-of-pearl industry in Austria, .will be thrown out of work by the Tariff Bill of the United States coming into operation. „ The House Committee of the Waikato Hospital Board have further postponed tKe consideration of the pumping of' water, pending receipt of information re engine required. , • ,, J *\ " Le Matin," of Paris, says that Signor Crispi will demand, as a condition of, the renewal of the Triple Alliance, that Italy shall be allowed to establish, a protectorate over Tripoli. :i " Rob Roy," by the Hamilton amateurs, was played at Cambridge} on Wednesdiy and Hamilton on Thursday most successfully. In both cases the performances werja a financial success. • '

So far' the , present contractbrs r for £ha iDirect OceatTMail Service have n6*t iridicated whether or not they intend to agree to a renewal of the contract on the' basis 61 the " ocean mail resolutions."

The postponement of t>he elections .until December is regarded with favour throughout) Waikato and Tβ Aroha, as the rolls are in anything but a satisfactory state, numbers of voters not being registered, (] Sir J. Macdonald, of Canada, spealpng r ab St. John's, said that when the new; Atlantic steamers wero afloat, Canada would.D?ht j a victorious battle for the better part, of-,tire trade with Asia, Australasia, and England. Mr Harry Hume, of the Bank t of $evr Zealand, was thrown from a bucking ,norj»e in Hamilton and received a severe shaking. His face was out,about a-little, and he was kicked in the head, but no serious quences will result. , % r The Irish Convention summoned by Mr Parnell met at Dublin yesterday. ,The principal topics of .discussion .were ±Ke potato blight and the distress caused,by it. .A vote of, censure was passed on Mf J&aKj£sr for the Tipperary , ur'rests. * /, . '~„' Mr Coates' traction engine broke through the floor of the bridge on the Central Road, Tamaheve; Waikato.' "V The Bfcringer,« sljoqd well,'and held up the engine ' until, fresh planks were provided. The gully is thirty feet deep below floor of bridge. > ■ The Wellington .have decided to prosecute the youths who took part in ,the etone-throwing at the Chinamen's hut at Lower Hutt, whicli led to the death of the young man Smith. The charge will , propably be that of stone-throwing and molesting- 1\ j' ,r .: Mr Joshua Gersed, who for some time past has held, the by no means envious position of Banger ot Fuhipuhi, has bee|u promoted to the, position of Chief Ranger for the Wellington district ac a salorv of £ 250. He was only getting £150 at Puhipuhi.—" Advocate." '->< -;

The Government have (though > tardily) made a small grant of money to open tracks over the Puhipuhi silverheld/iVEven from the gutndiggers , revenue this will be recouped to the Government. - Nothing like an election to make thorn consider the local necessities. —(Correspondent. , ) , . , <-<i

Paris, the man who was injured afcbhe bush felling contract pn Tβ Akau run, Raglan, by a • falling tree, and brought over to Hamilton, is suffering" from several.severe contusions, and it is feared his spine is injured. A few days will be required before the full extent of the injuries can be ascertained. • ' '■ ■' i >«■<.."'

Mr Vickerman, engineer, Public Works Department*, has called for tenders for<four contracts on the air-line route road, leading to Puhipuhi. This will improve the xoid to the Waiariki. The contracts'are to fell the bush one chain Wide, clearrthirtyfeeb, and stump and form "sixteen"feet. * /T>he work is to be completed within a.'moafcbiei A serious riot' occurred Hibernian picnic at Chowder Bay, Syxtoey»' yesterday. A mob of 200 larrikin's rushed, and a general melee followed, 'in."which sticks, stones, and branches of breeai;were uned as weapons. A c large-body* of police were despatched .to thß;scene\and craelled the disturbance. Forty of the riotorVwere arrested.- During:; the i. qcrurimaAe i fe&any persons were severely hur&w '■ onnaj nWL