TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 30, 5 February 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Terhible disaster. Taupo for Fiji to-night. Steamer Kakanui missing. New York has 50,000 negroes. Chilian rebellion is nearly over. Members back from Wellington. Amateur Athletic Sports to-morrow. Last three nights of Harvey Minstrels. Crresus, the Koman, had £200,000,000. Eyraud guillotined at Paris yesterday. Arabi Pasha is slowly dying in Ceylon. Two new steamers for Union Company.

Treaty of Waitangi signed this day 1840. Macquaries sealing party were not starr" ing. Supposed to have foundered with all hands. Sir George Grey visited Mokoia Island yesterday.

Lyttelton Harbour Board have a surplus of £26,554.

Fine day'a sport expected in Domain to-morrow.

Barque Sharpshooter arrived ab Sydney nearly sinking. One-half the people born die before the age of sixteen.

The Shetland Islands are the stormiest spot in the world.

The largest waves are to be fcund off the Cap 6of Good Hope.

Maine (U.S.) has a Jerusalem, a Damascus, a Smyrna, and an Egypt. The wealth of the United States is now computed afe $64,000,000,000.

There are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible scattered throughout the world. Forty-three Popes reigned during the building of St. Peter's Cathedral. "Onslow" high-pressure gas lamp is being tried on Queen-streot Wharf. Ovalau and Apolimaare the names of the Union Company's new Island steamers. Well-steamer proposed for fishing on Auckland coast for Melbourne market.

Sir George Grey attends a Maori meeting in the Tama-fce-Kapua, Rotorua, to-night.

A Calico Syndicate, with a capital of £5,000,000, is being established in London. Steamers with an aggregate of 450,300 tons are lying idle in the ports ot Greab Britain.

Eugene Frawley died at Christchurch from the effects of a cart accident at St. Albans.

Lord Salisbury has refused to permit Arabi Pasha, now in exile in Ceylon, to return to Egypt. The Hon. Mr Cadman, Native Minister, will accompany His Excellency the Governor on his overland trip through the North Island.

The Canadian Government intend to appeal to the country on trade policy, and after the elections are over will send a delegation to Washington. The sentence of death pasaed at Paris on Eyraud for the murder of the processserver GouffiS was not commuted. Eyraud was executed yesterday.

Information lias been received thab Valparaiso has been retaken by the President's troops, who defeated the insurgents. The country is now reported to be qu^et.

Mr Justice North, in the Chancery division at London, has decided that the Dock Companies have power to compel shipowners to discharge their own vessels. O'Connor, who was injured on Fallon'a contract, is suffering from a broken wrist and a severe shaking. Ho is getting on well. He fell 70 feet, and had a wonderful escape.

The House Steward of the Hospital thanks .Mrs McKenzio Fraser, of Mount) Eden, for a gift of several copies of the Melbourne " Southern Cross," for use of patients. The New Zealand Government have decided to be represented at the Postal Conference, shortly to be held in Australia, and the Postmaster-General will, if possible, go over.

In the House of Commons the Right Hon. Mr Lowther has given notice to move thab it is essential that immediate steps be taken to effect prompt preferential fiscal relations with the colonies.

The funeral of the late Mr C. Bradlaugh was attended by labour delegates from the principal towns. Mr Morley was also present, besides many other members of the House of Commons.

A barn belonging to W. D. Soper, Garsfcon, Southland, was burnt on Tuesday night, with about £40 worth of uninsured plant. The barn was insured for £100 iv the South British ofEco.

The Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association will telegraph to the Government, requesting them to at onco prohibit the importation of fruit from the colonies and districts infected with the codlin moth.

Mr Win. Hay is about to have several houses removed from Hardinge-3treet by contract, and anrounces through our columns that this is a good opportunity for those who want any kind of building material.

Messrs W. L. Murdoch and Dr. Barrett, two of the last Australian cricket team, have been selected in an All England team which proposes to make a tour of the United Kingdom. . Murdoch is the cap- •. ■ v '■■■if /umsw/. -■'■■■•■" " '*>■' v "rb has. "been; decided to explore Jtsasß 3 Straits, with a view to discover the supposed uncharted rocks op v/hich the ship Carlisle wa« wfedked some three or four months ago, arid for that purpose H. M.c. Dart will be shortly employed. The Manawatu George railway line will probably not be opened till February 16th. The railway authorities wish to make sura that the recent slip is secure, and are unwilling to risk a premature opening merely to close the line again with its attendant inconvenience to travellers.

The Government is willing to grant licenses to officers of the Salvation Army to solemnise marriages on the presentation of certificates signed by 24 persons that the officer making the application for license is their minister. If necessary, the law will be amended to enable this to be done.

At an inquest on the fire at Anderson's store, Taranaki-street, Wellington, on the night of the 19th of January, the jury returned an open verdict, and added a rider that the circumstances were suspicious; also that they were of opinion that the stock was over-insured, and that the insurance companies should exercise more care in accepting risks.

The Hon. W. Copley, Commissioner of Lands for South Australia, has arrived in Christchurch from South Canterbury, having visited the village settlements en route. He considers most of the settlers to be of a desirable class, and thinks that if located near where employment is obtainable, such settlements will enable'suitable men to form comfortable homes.

In the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday an appeal case of some importance came before Mr Justice Williams. Robert Nichot? son, travelling draper, was fined by the Resident Magistrate at Cromwell, fot carrying on the business of a hawker without a license, contrary to the by-laws of the borough. The appellant admitted taking orders for goods and dolivering these after, but was careful to sell only by sample. As tho case is of considerable importance bhe Judge took.time to consider his decision, .