TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 56, 7 March 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mercer Regatta. —Celensville races to-day. There is talk of a new Yacht Club. Mercer train left with a great crowd. Lively meeting of Yacht Club last night). The Governor went to Mercer this morning.

H.M.S. Orlando open to-morrow afternoon. Bridget O'Brien, Esq., is a decided •« hit." Federation Convention has adjourned till Monday. A. Upton is champion swimmer of the Grammar School. Harvest thanksgiving services ab St. Haul's to-morrow. " Belshazzar's Feast" at the Tabernacle oh Wednesday next. Cricket match Press v. Stage at North Shove this afternoon. Two of the men injured by fcheguncotton explosion are dead. An old identity, the late Mr Richard Tnckcr, was buried yesterday. tLarge attendance and good music at the At- Exhibition last evening. Captain Best, harbour-master at Russell, and his assistants are to be dismissed. Three thousand five hundred non-union-ists are being employed at the London decks. The Despatch will run frequent trips te H;M.». Orlando and Curacoa to-morrow afternoon. Verdict of poisoning herself with phosphorous at the inquest on Emma Lilian Whittingham. " Sir, that ia a very bad cough of yours." "True, sir, but you will excuse me—it's the best I've got!" Fearing a revival of city bear rumours, large blocks of securities are being thrown on tjie London market, The Ray. Wm. Morley delivers an addroek at the City Hull on Sunday evening, service commencing ab 8 p.m. The Board of Education think that the Minister should nob bother them with newjpaper criticisms of the system. An entertainment and dance in the old 1 schoolroom, Panmure, on Easter Monday night in aid of the church funds. The American Consul at Honolulu has threatened to land a body of marines to prevent bloodshed in the evont o£ a revo"ubion breaking out. AiLy ttolbon petition asking the Governor to commute the Flanagans' sentenco has; been forwarded to the Minister of Justice. It bears 495 signatures. In consequence of a northerly' breeze making the water too lumpy at the town end of the harbour, the Welliagton annual regatta is to be hold to-day at Petone." Official intimation has been received in London to the effect that the New Zealahd Government declines, to send exhibits to tho Mining Exhibition to be held at Sydenham. The proposals of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club for a New Zealand Yachting Association were considered by the local Club last evening, and were referred to a Committee of seven. The half-yearly report of the Canterbury Tramway Company shows an improving business, the half-year's working resulting in-'credit of £4,437* whioh bar bcen-ap-' plied to the roduction of indebtedness. Aball will be given in the Lorne-streeb Hallion \Vsdnesday next by the city and suburban fire brigades for the purpose of raising funds to defray expenses in connec-: bion with the Fire Brigades' Conference. «Ui, a meeting of the Council of the Oamaru Acclimatisation Society, ib was decided, owing to the scarcity of game, bo ask bhe Government not to albsr the opening of the season to an earlier date than let April. The following are the current quotations forthe princi pal silvermining shares: Broken Hill Proprietary, £10 16s ; British, £2 12s;' Central, £4 S2s ; South, £4 4s ; Block 1, £6 10s ; Blocl 10, £13 17s ; Junction, £1! 17s.

The full programme of the sports in connection with the drapers' picnic will be found in another parb of this issue. Mr Buckland has granted the use of his beauti-' fill paddock, and the sports will be held as was the general wish ab the Tamaki. lb is understood that the Minister of Lands has offered the position of Chief of the Stock Department for the colony to J. D. Ritchie, Mount Royal, Waikouaiti, who his accepted bhe positien. It is understood tftat radical changes in the Stock Departnienfc are intended to be carried oub. An election of a Councillor for bho borough of Parnell will bo taken on Wednesday nexb. The nominations receivedby Capbain Thomas are: Arbhur Wright, nominated by J. Friar Clarke and George; Raynes ; and Henry Schofield, nominated by James Gilmour and William Griffiths, v An anonymous pamphlet has been issuett' to the elecbors of Foresb of Dean. lb states that bhe woman Fanny, who was concerned in the Dilke-Crawford divorce case, has been four_d, and that she acquits Sir Charles Dilke of the accusation of having committed idultery with her. She also denies having seen Mrs Crawford at Dilke's residence. s' l To-morrow afternoon the Eajjle will run her usual Sunday afternoon excursion to It Holier's Bay and round the islands ID. ihe Gulf, leafing the ferry tea at 2.30 and Sb. Helier'a at 5.15. The ferry steamers will rnnduring-the afternoon to the war.hipvbhe firsb steamer leaving the ferry tea ab 1.30. The Women's Christian Temperance Union at Christctmrch received a deputa Hon from the Knights of Labour, with whose work the President of the Union expressed sympathy. In the afternobn a meeting of women, in support of franchise and other objects ot tha W.C.T.U., was held. Arrangements havo now been completed for carrying out the restoration of the Christchurch Cathedral spire. The necessary contracts will ab once bei let. Ihe whole cost, which is considerably in exj cess of that originally contemplated, will be borne by, the families of the late R. Heaton Rhodes and George Rhodes. The Native Land Laws Commission, consisting of .Messrs Rees and Carroll, 'M H R 'a, and Mr J. Mackay, entered practically on their duties at Gisborne yes- ' terday, when Messrs E. J. Harris, DeLau- ' tour, and Wi Per. expressed their views on the present state of tho law, and their ideas as to the amendments necessary.