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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 285, 3 December 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

! Threatening weather. Great fire in Sydney. Last five nights of Toole. Waihora arrived from South. 'Frisco mail due on Saturday. •' Paul Pry " is a great succees. Another rowdy electoral meeting , . Mr H. W. Farnali addresses City electors to-nighfc.. Thome Dramatic Company opens next; Tuesday. Mr F. Lawry speaks at Parnell again thia eveuing. City Freshwater Baths are now coming into request. There are in Mount Eden Gaol, 123 males, 22 females* Mr Adam Porter speaka at Ponsonby Hall to-night. Orchestral Union concert in Choral Hall on Friday evening. Ch oral Society's performance of Athalie', highly successful. Mr A. Grant addresses Manukau electors at Howick to night. " Off the Line, "at the Opera House, is a pretty little piece. Leprosy is extending in the Marquesas Islands, as in Tahiti. Mr Wilson is vory good in ''Paul Pry," at the Opera House. Mr W. L. Roes speaks on native land questions to-morrow night. Mr J. Greenwood addresses Edon electors at Epsom this evening. Sir G. M. O'Rorke addresses meeting ab Onehunga this evening. Boring operations are still being carried en at the Western Springe. Hon. £. Miteheisoii addresses Eden electors again this evening. Tahiti wants to bo represented in the French Chamber of Deputies. Spreckles may put steamers in the Tahiti-Honolulu direct service. Rowing Championship meeting ia nob likely to be held at Auckland. Installation Lodge, Ponsonby, N.Z.C., laeb night very successful gathering. . Assafoatida and rotten eggs in abundance at Adam Porter's meeting last night. The "rising young party named Toole , is doing good biz. at the Opora House, German Squadron leaves Wellington for the Islands about the end of next week. Te Arolia Silver and Goldmining Company's plants and leases auctioned to-day. Kauri Timber Company's mills at Tairua have just been put on half-working time. Auckland Regatta Club have reduced the champion whaleboat prize from £100 to £60. Large numbers of tourists are going to and returning from the Botorua Lake district. Seventeen patients now in the Waikato Hospital. Accidents have been numerous lately. Piako County Council hare altered their place of meeting from Cambrigdeto Morrinaville by five votes to four. Tahiti is clearing out its base Chilian silver currency, following the example o£ Tonga and Samoa. It is stated in New Fork that Dixon'a American lymph for consumption ia superior to Dr. Koch's specific. A tumult has taken place amongsb the Chinese at Tientsin, near Pekin, and the ' lives of Europeans are menaced. At- the laab meeting oi tue Raglan County Council the clerk stated thae there were 168 absentee land-owners who bad never paid rates. Large flocks of sheep are coming over from Hawko's Bay to Waikato this season. Good ewes are worth from 7* 9d to 8s 6d delivered in Waikato. His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the German Admiral, left Wellington for Wanganui to-day, and will b& absent for a few days. Mr Holmes, late manager of the Bank of Madras at Colombo, has been appointed General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand throughout the colonies. Large meeting of Maoris at Pukekawa, Tawhiao's settlement, expressed their desire to form a native council of Waikato chiefs for the discussion of all native questions. According to the Tahiti " Messenger " a "joli petite" trading cutter belonging to Tahiti has a native skipper who rejoices in the rather astonishing'title of "Capitaina Adam-and-E ye." Tawhiao said ab a meeting afc Pukakawa lately that it had been decided by his natives to pull down the trig-station at; Waitakaruru but that he would nob allow this to be done. : The Raglan County Council decided nod to put a punt on the Waikato River ab Mercer, consequently no tender was accepted. The cost would have been aboufe £130, approaches and all. After a quiet week at Rotorua the coaches yesterday brought a large number of tourists, amongst whom were several Broken Hill celebrities, who intend spending a month in the Hot Lakes district. Cannell's lime kiln on the Waipa River is in full swing and is turning out lime ia large quantities, A good many Waikato farmers intend to give it a try this season. The selling price is one shilling a bushel. At the last special horse sale in Hamilton the yards were full, some 250 being entered. The quality of the stock was not so good as on previous occasions, : and prices ruled in consequence lower than bar fore! Some of the shopkeepers injured by r the N flood on Lambton Qilay,'"Wellington, ar* tliiuking of .suing the Corporation, on the ground that the' water was thrown back upon thoir premises by the recent raising o£ the street level. Afc their- recent County Council annual meeting Raglan appointed Mr R. C. Mathiaa chairman; Piako, Mr W. P.. Chepmell; Waikato, Mr A. Primrose; and Waipa, Mr F. W. Lang. The latter three were re-elected. Some "douce" Scotch body sends Uβ chis:—A Scotchman, just beforo his regiment entered into an engagement with the enemy, was heard to pray in these terms : " Eh, Looard, dinna be an oor side, an' dinna be an t'itber side ; but just etaun' aye frae baith o' us for an oor or fcwa an , yell see the toosiest fechfc that ever was foochen." Information has been received at Rotorua from Wellington that the position of matron at the new Rotorua Hospital will be filled by a person having a good hospital training. This will prove disappointing news to many of the local applicants, amongst whom are some well qualified for the position, though not possessing the requisite hospital train* ing. With reference to the old Government; Printing Office site at Wellington, the solicitor to the hospital trustees advises thab body that the Government are responsible, for the rental of £200 per annum for the remainder of the term (two years and eight! months), and at the end of the lease must/ compensate the trueteea for the loee of the buildings." Afc a Melbourne theatre the other nignfc a donkey had io play his part by dragging hie costermonger'e barrow upon the stage. The animal was reluctant, probably from modesty, and had to be pulled forward. When the time came for it to depart it was equally obstinate, and had to be carried o£F. The audience yelled for several moments, and then when all was fairly calm »i member of tho company remarked that " it was not the first time a jackass had appeared on the stage end did opt know when to go off, '