TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 29, 4 February 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Haueoto in from Sydney. Rotomahana gone to Sydney. Racial fights in Alabama (U.S.). Rev. W. Tebbs left for England. Regatta Commitcoe meets to-night. German Companies exploiting Africa. Presbytery unearthed a bogus parson. Signor Crispi, Italian Premier, resigned* New programme at Harvey Bros. , Minstrels. The squadron will be here within a month. Annual meeting Northern Club tomorrow. " Uncle Bootle" at the Opera House next Tuesday. Special meeting Gum Storemen's Union this evening. Lord Onslow will be here at the end of the month. Sir George Whitmore had one of his ribe broken lately. Inquiry shortly into cause of fire on ship Leaning Wind. Dr. Piumpton, Dean of Wells (England), is dead, aged 69. Monthly socials of Auckland Trade Unions to be held. Damaged flax from ship Leading Wind is being sold by auction. R.M.s. Monowai leaves San Francisco to-morrow for Auckland. Harbour Board have deferred re-considera-tion of extra import duties on flour. Mr C. 8.. Stone has left the Auckland Harbour Board after ten years' service. TheR.M.B. Aorangi sailed for New Zealand via Hobart on Saturday from London. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declines to introduce the decimal system. A cargo of Australian wheat, prompb shipment, has been sold in London at 36s 74d to 375. Bulk of Leading Wind's damaged flax cargo will be prepared and cleaned for reshipment. Mr Holmes, new general manager of Bank of New Zealand, has arrived in Australia. United Co-operative Association meet tonight to elect officers at 8 o'clock in the Victoria Arcade. Large canoe being constructed at> Maungatawhiri Valley by natives for Mercer Regatta. The Tuesday half-holiday in Hamilton ie bursting up. Yesterday about one-third of the shops were open. " What makes Jackson look so awful sober this morning ?" " Because he was so awful drunk last night." Volunteers are notified that until further ordered no firing will be allowed on the range before 6 a.m. daily. Intelligence is to hand at London that the Venezuelan Government has seized the British barque Lydia Peschan. " But why do you want to marry her?" '• Because I love her." "My dear fellow, that's an excuse, not a reason." A man has been severely injured at Hall's flax mill, Raglan. His arm was badly torn in a cog-wheel of the machinery. There is growing discontent in London with the system of dock charges which came into operation on Monday. j It is a wise man who can remember ter days after a great deed was done that it wa<» his wife and not himself who did it. Berlino, the Belgian leader, had ruents with slavers on the Congo. He' killed thirty-four and released one thousand slavers. Sir Maurice O'Rorke will probably be one of the Commissioners to inquire into the charges in connection with the Auckland Hospital. The young man who makes a favourable impression upon a fair maiden is in an anomalous position. That is to say, he haa made a hit with a miss. The London market is lukewarm over the . South Australian loan, and the banks coneider that a minimum of 98 might suffice for the proposed Victoripn loan. The United States Supreme Court haa decided to hear the Canadian appeal against the seizure of the sealers carrying, on their calling in the Behring Sea. Little brother (bedtime) : " Why don'b you take your stockings off?" Little sister! (whose mother buys the cheap black kind) : " Tβ dob all of 'em off 'at will come off." The German South-weet African Company, with a capital of £1,000,000, has re-' ceived a charter for the purpose of exploiting the German teiritory in South-wesfr Africa. The Victorian Government has decided to restrict the transmission of letters under the 2|d rate, to the United Kingdom until< after the Postal Congress, which opens at) Vienna in May. The members of the " A " Battery are; warned to attend an inspection parade for to-morrow evenine at 7.30 in the Drill-shed.' According to the announcement no leave is granted for this parade. The miners. working at Carbon Hill, Alabama (U.S.), have driven out the negroes working there. The latter stubbornly resisted, and in the struggle seventeen of their number were killed. A ballot of members (Jf the Canterbury Railway Society on the question of affiliation, with the Maritime Council resulted in. ai-majority in-favea* of withdrawal frora connection with that body. . Parnell ratepayers are notified that summonses' will ibe;s.is&wed-fou4he' j .r6eovery of; all unpaid rates without further notice or delay. Also that defaulters' names will not appear in the burgess roll for 1891-2. The French Supreme Council, which decided in favour of recognising the colonial trading companies, also recommend thatr they be permitted to employ convicts at the French penal settlements in tha Pacific. Yesterday a settler named Donley found the body of J. H. Hernall, who was drownedj while attempting to cross the Hurunu« (Canterbury) a few weeks back. It was discovered 16 milee below where he waa drowned. Signor Crispi (Italy) on Monday ten* dered his resignation, which was accepted. The French press is jubilant at the defeat* of Signor Crispi, which is regarded as an indication of the probable failure of the Triple Alliance. At the Sydney wool sales yesterday there was vigorous competition, with good* market, and prices decidedly firm. Good greasy soits sold at 9Jd per lb ; good washed fetched to Is ; and good average scoured to Is 3d. The Spanish elections have resulted in a great victory for the Government. Among the defeated candidates is the author of the Universal Suffrage Bill, which was by the Congress in March last?, almost without oppoHition, and ratified by the Senate two months later. The Wellington City Council' 3 drainage proposals were further discussed at a public? meeting of th<; ratepayers last evening, preeided over by the Mayor. A resolution wai carried that every effort be made to secure , sufficient rates to carry the loan with which, to carry outbbe work. Yesterday a draper named Henry Le». mercier, residing in Gloucester-streeb East, Christchurch, died from the effects of ao overdose of chloral. Hp had t<-.sen a sufferer from sleeplessness" for a considerable time, and had been in the habit of taking chloral as a remedy. He was 45 years old and warned.