TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 270, 15 November 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Baptist Conference closed. Last night of the Bellringers. Sir George Grey is recovering. Tennis Clubs opened this afternoon. Horbiculbural Show very successful. All Saints' sale of work again to-nighb. Wainui due from the Islands to-morrow. Educational Institute met this afternoon. VVaitemata Boating Club's trial fives to*' Cricket, tennis, and boating this after*' n °Th9 All Saint-t' "Amazons" are charm*, Railway Servants meet to*; night, i p r . Wallis had a large audience la»6; "Amy Vaugban's City Hall concert) toW. night. NI Bishop Luck arrived in Auckland ihi® day, 1882. Labour Election Committee meets to-night. v . I ■/Mr John Bryce haa returned from! Waikato. The New York money market is still feverish. .Professor Carrollo's Motutapu picnic thi£ afternoon. , , Auckland Fishing Club's second excuiv ifcn to-day. Fairclough and Miss Elsa May .on Mon* day nighb. ' Considerable uproar ab Dr. Wallis' meet* ing last nighb. Mr J. T. Arundel gives an address afc thg V.M.C.A. to-night. . Fourth concert of Auckland Orchestral Union on December 5. Very large attendance ab the v Afc flome " last nigt*. j Mr and Mrs Arthur Vivian benefit afc the City Hall on Friday next. ; Sbrawberries are in season in Waikafcoj and bhe crop promises to be a good one. ; A large number of Waikato settlers cams down bo Auckland to attend tbe Show. Auckland Sunday-school Union's In* dustrial Exhibition opens next Tuesday. Mr E. A. Mackechnie lectures on tha " Study of Shakepere," on Monday even* ing. :.] S.s. Taviuni took away a very large cargd /Of fruit on her first trip from Fiji to Mel* bourne. '■ The total -number of persons on board j-T.M.s. Serpent was 178, of whom only 'three were saved. ~ Dr. Koch promises to disclose the method, of his consumption cure at a lecture &% Berlin on the 27ch inst. ," The wreck of 11.M.c. Serpent is the greafi*' est disaster to a British warship since tha loss of the Eurydice. 1 "A" Battery Artillery mustered ati Mounfc Eden for volley ahd independentfiring this afternoon. I The betrothel of the Princess Margarelhej sister of the German Emperor, to the Prince of Naples is announced. Qu thousand wharf labourers afc Mel«i bourne have resolved to return to work or* Monday on the masters' terms. . ' \ In the course of his speech at the opening' of the Prussian Diet the Emperor Willian» : of Germany declared peace with all nations.* Some anxiety is felt, by the New South; Wales miners thab the proposed reduction in the selling price of coal will cause a proportionate reduction in their wages. ' The Union Company's steamer Talari, 3 which left Wellington on tho 9th October, with horses for India, arrived at Calcutta en the 11th inst. She only lost 6 horses outl of 235. The condition of the Countess of Jersey at London is,, worse, as the fever haa in*! creased. The Queen has sent specially'ta l inquire after the Countess of Jersey's health. • A Bill submitted to the Federal Council of Germany abolishes the .sugar and substitutes a tax of 22 marks per bun', dred kilos. Exported sugars are exempted from the tax. During the passage of tho barquS Lutterworth, from London to Wellington, an apprentice named Hugh Curtis was washed from the forecastle-head during st gale, and drowned. Grasshoppers are causing great de< struction oub Wesb in New South Wales,' and the railway was stopped for several hours through tbe insects on the line. The pest is moving down to Murrumbidgee in clouds. Frozen beef is one farthing dearer in London. Quotations for frozen mutton and lamb aro unchanged. New Zealand' hemp is in poor demand. About 200 bales have been sold afc a decline 6f f 3 per toiv After the sales, prices recovered. Fine rains have fallen throughout Nevr South Wales, and anunußually good season is predicted. The maize crop in the North will be very heavy, bufc wheat in some parts is largely affected with rust. The secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from the general manager of the Union SteamshipCompany, stating that Auckland will con-; tinue to be the port of call in this colony for the San Francisco mail steamers. The death is announced of Major*; General Charles Paeley, who served on tha staff of Major-General Pratb, in the New Zealand war in 1860, when he was severely wounded. He conducted the ongineeringj operations at Pukeraftgiera'pa, Taranaki, in 1860. • Th^ # British, Departmental Comtoitteeg dealing with bhe expiry of European Com-! mercial treaties with Great Britain, has invited the various Agents-General to submit a statement setting forth whether the, colonies wish to participate in the renewals. The rise in flax recently chronicled has given the industry a fillip in Waikato, and greater activiby already prevails at the various mills and flax fields. Tho favourite steamer Eagle will run an excursion to Sb. Helier's Bay to-morrow afternoon, leaving the ferry tee afc 2.30 and St. Helier's at 5 o'clock. In our advertising columns John Earle and Co. draw attention to the special characteristics for which their teas have become famous. • The Freetrader, fche new steamer for tha river trade in Waikato, is now finished, and has started work under the command of Captain Gall. She js a line boat) and a credit to her builders. The Service of Song enfcibled " Our Fathers-Care " was repeated lasb night to a good audience by the choir of the Pith and Edwin streets Primitive Mebhodiat. Church. In the Show prize list) lasb night, th« name of Mr William Mason, prize-taker for pigs, was misprinted Nealson, while tha exhibit of leather belting and oils attributed to Young and Co., High-street, should have been Young and Co., Forbstreet. Strawberries and cream in unlimited quantities ab Mr M. Parrish's Willow Grove Gardens, Devonport. There is accommodation for 300 people at the tables in the pleasant little arbours in the gardens, and with fine weather Willow Grove should be a popular resort during the next few months. I am glad to say, writes our Waikato correspondent, bhab Mr Hnbrick's little boy who was burned by falling into a bucket) of live cinders is not so badly hnrfc as was at first thought, ond he is progressing favourably. He is only five yeari old.