TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 44, 21 February 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Queen's weather. Yacht Club picnic to-day. Lord Onslow is at Tauranga. Edwin says it's going to rain. Fighting going on in Soudan. Tug Awliina left for Newcastle. Richmond arrived from Islands. Taupo due irorn Fiji to-morrow, Queensland shearers mean light. The fleet will be here in a few weeks. Egyptian troops have captured Tokar. Rumoured fear of war in Afghanistan. New South Wales wheat harvest is short. Shipping dispute is getting' more serious. Hot discussionab Yacht Clubmeeting last night. "Fun: the Bristol" still draws splendid houses. Lady Scott left Hobarb yesterday for Wellington. Meeting re bridge across Waitemata nexS Wednesday. Hon. R. Seddon visited Mokau coal fields on Thursday. Fine muster of yachts in the harbour this afternoon. To-morrow is the 159 th anniversary of Washington's birthday. The death is announced at Home of the Earl of Beauchamp, aged 61. The Governor and party will arrive here on Monday night from Te Aroha. Friends of missing Kakanui crew wanb another search made by Hinemoa. Several French passengers from Tahiti arrived here by the s.s. Richmond lasb night. The Devonport Ferry Co. have the p.s. Eagle in dock fitting her up for the towing service. Island oranges in town again. The Richmond brought; up the first of the season from Tahiti. Newton Band perform on Queen-streeb Wharf to-night in aid of Huntly mining disaster fund. Natal has been granted responsible government, but Zuzuland is to remain under Imperial control. William Murphy, miner, broke his leg at Waiheke a few days ago while at manganese diggings, and has been admitted to the Hospital. Archbishop Carr, of Victoria, and Bishop Higgins, of Sydney, are now ab Wellington. They come on to Auckland next week. Meeting in Exchange Building on Monday afternoon next re introduction of Cassell's gold and silver extracting process into Now Zealand. Mr James Knox, conductor of St. Benedict's choir, Newton, has left for Dunedin, being shifted to that branch of the Union Bank of Australasia. The other night on the coast the steersman of the s.s. Wellington nearly got a severe black eye from a flying fish leaping aboard and striking him in the face. The Marquis of Londonderry has evicted 600 families from his estate at Sicksworth, and this action will probably cause a strike throughout; the entire coalfields in Burham. An Imperial Trade League for the protection of the preferential inter-British trade has been formed in London, and tho movement has received strong support in Canada. Messrs McKenzie, Blake, McDowell, and; other prominent members of the Liberal: party in Canada retire from tha election,; as they refuse to support the anti-British; policy. Detective Chrystal arrested a man named William Smith yesterday, on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretences from Henry Hewin, grocer. He is remanded for a week. A meeting has been held in Newfoundland in support of'the demand for the ratification by Great Britain of the reciprocity treaty between Newfoundland aud tho United States. A London firm has offered to take up £100,000 of the South Australian loan immediately, and bhe balance in June, ab the minimum at; which the loan was placed, on condition that interest is paid from the dato of issue. A grand vocal instrumental concert is to be held in St. James's Hal!, Wellingtonstreet, on Thursday, March 12th, by the music pupils of Mr J. H. Phillpot, assisted by some friends. Further particulars will be announced later on. The "Pall Mall Gazette" accuses Sir H. Savory,the Lord Mayor of London, of gross, plagiarism ot a sermon by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeoti in an address which ho recently delivered to the Young Men's Christian Institute for apprentices, artisans, etc. Tha Lord Mayor denies the charges. The comedian Toole has been sending more presents home from Australasia. He sent a Maoriland sheep and lamb with bia compliments to tiie London Lyceum, but somehow the animals were delivered wrong. Henry Irving got the lamb, and Miss Terry the sheep. The R.M.s. Aorangi from London left Hobarb for Wellington ab five o'clock yesterday afternoon. She brings J. 7 passengers for Australian ports and 57 for NewZealand. Lady Scott (wife of Admiral Scott) and party joined the Aorangi ab Hobart and are booked for Wellington. The official estimate cf wheat yield for the colony of New South .Wales i 54,300,000 bushels, which gives an average of 11-17 bushels per acre, , Af_ e _rdeducting, seed re* quirements only 3,725,000 bushels remain for home consumption, while the quantity required is 7,700,000 bushels. At the wool sales at Melbourne yesterday there was brisk competition. Good qualities are firm, and inferior sorts weak. American representatives are making large purchases, while the English are acting with reserve. Medium to good greasy merino broughb Bj;d to lOd per lb; ordinary cold-water washed merino, Is 2d to la 2^d; gooa scoured merino, Is 4^d. The Executive Committee of the Canterbury Employers' Association at Christ* clmrch have approved of the suggestion of the Wellington Association to hold a conference of Employers' Associations to discuss matters affecting the interests oi employers generally, tho time and place to be left to the Wellington Association. From one of our Irish /exchanges : — " Lady Dunlo appeared last woek in Dublin as Venus in the burlesque of ' Orpheus' A live donkey was included in the cast, and the moment the poor brute made his iirst appearance a roaring voice from the gods called out, ' Three rattling cheers tc Lord Dunlo !'" Harvest thanksgiving services will be held to-morrow in all the Wesleyan churches in the Manukau circuit:—Otahuhu : At 11 a.m., Mr Beaumont; 6.3G p.m., Rev. J. S. Rishworth. Onehunga: At 11 a.m., Rev. J. S. Rishworth'; 6.30 p.m., Mr C. Bycroft. Mangero: At 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Mr Stone. Woodsides Afternoop, Mr C. Bycroft; at 7 p.m., Ms Evans. Flat Bush :. At 3, Rev. J. S. Rishworth ; 7 p.m., Mr Foster. Our Waikato correspondent writes: { notice the Committee have met and fixed on the day for the military sports, and it is to be hoped when the programme is issued it will contain the amount or trophy for each event, so that the squads or sections intend competing wiil know what they are going for ; for unless this is done I do not think the country corps will be largely represented. .-»_ • .■<«_. . •.* -i- ■ » .. -» v ■'"' ■'••» ■■■■'