TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 104, 4 May 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Splendid weather. Beautiful Sunday. Public Trust scandals. Bootmakers still on strike. Serious Paris anarchist riots. Rowdy "May Day " in Europe, Licensing elections on Wednesday.' Madame Patey is coming to Auckland. Large native meeting at Maungakawa. All Saints' concert, Ponsonby, to-night. Parnell Shakspere Club meets this even* ingSara Bernhardt has left 'Frisco for Auckland. Hons. Messrs Cadman and Seddon in town. Influenza is rapidly spreading throughoufl England. St. Benedict's concert in the Foresters' Hall to-night. Annual meeting of the Regatta Club on Thursday night. One hundred thousand American workmen are on strike. Auckland Harbour Board are calling fop tenders for pilot service. Queen Natalie refuses to leave Servia until her son attains his majority. Professor Tyndall has had a relapse according to a London cable message. At Dunedin on Saturday afternoon a heavy rainfall stopped all outdoor sports. Sir Charles Dilke disbelieves that tha Australian colonies will Bpeedily adoph federation. Paul Tuhaere, the well-known native chief of Orakei, is at presenb laid up with chest complaint and gout. A crisis has occurred in the Austrian Cabinet over the school question, and tha resignation of the Ministry is expected. By the collapse of a bridge at Norwood (England), on Friday, six carriages of tha Brighton train were wrecked, and twolva persons injured. Madame Patey, the celebrated contralto, intends paying a visit to New Zealand, and leaves Sydney for Auckland on the 18tU instant in R.M.g. Mariposa. The London Shipping Federation has ceased supplying meals to their employees, and have informed the permanent handa that they are certain of two months' work, Messrs Tringham and McKenzie's flaxmill at Kahautara near Featherston, was destroyed by fire on Saturday. There was no insurance, and the loss is estimated ab £1.000. Heated parleying is taking place between M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, and the Turkish Porte owing to the stoppage ab the Dardanelles of veisels flying the Russian mercantile flag. Dr. Canaris, the illusionist performer of sleight-of-hand tricks, will be taken down to the Kuaotunu goldfields by Mr P. Doran. He returns on Friday and will perform again on Saturday. Dr. Schnabel, a leading German metallurgist, will leave London for New South Wales in July next for the purpose of advising the Broken Hill Company on tha proper treatment of refractory ores. In the Canadian Dominion Parliament on Friday, Mr Laurier, one of tho leading members of the Opposition, moved an amendment to the address in reply in favour of free trade.with the United States. An excellent musical programme is to be presented this evening in the Foresters' Hall,' Newton, in aid of St. Benedict's Church fund, and there should be a very good attendance. Tho price of admission is only one shilling. There is considerable excitement in silver mining in New South Wales owing to further rich finds. Centrals and all stock at Broken Hill are moving upwards. The latest quotations are: Centrals, £6; South, £5 14s ; Block 10, £14 16s. Mr Justin McCarthy has convened a meeting of the anti-Parnell members of tha Irish party at the House of Commons for to-day, to consider what action should be taken for the release of the Irish Land League funds deposited with banks in Paris. Sir Charles Tupper and the Australian Agents-General had a conference at London on Saturday with Mr Goschen and Lord Knutsford, on the question of the investment of trust funds. The latter said there was every prospecb of a satisfactory adjustment. One hundred thousand men throughout the United States have gone on strike for eight hours. Ten thousand miners at Illinois, and the carpenters and builders in Pittsburg, have gone pub on strike, demanding the adoption of the eight hours system. The Australian Squadron will sail very shortly. The vessels have now their full complements. The following is the list of Captains : — Wallaroo, Captain Anthony Kingßcote; Mildura, W. C. Karslake; Katoomba, A. K. Bickford ; Boomerang, Lieut - Commander Fenton ; Karrakatta, Captain Scullard. All Saints' musical and dramatic entertainment to be given in All Saints' School this Monday evening at 7.30 promises to be a capital one. The programme is both varied and interesting. These gatherings at All Saints' are very popular and large audiences attend on the occasion. The price is only Is. In the House of Commons on Friday, Mr Howard. Vincent asked whether, in view of the treaties with foreign States which precluded preferential fiscal arrangements with t_e Australian colonies, the Governmenb would devise some other scheme with regard to the exchange of their respective products? Sir James Fergusson replied that Ministers were keeping the matter in view. The Mission Hall, Freeman's Bay, was filled to the doors on Friday evening, when the Young Crusaders gave their monthly entertainment. The juvenile choir is certainly a greab attraction, their sweet and correct singing being a prominent feature. Solos, duet, recitations, and a capital address by Mr G. H. Douglas filled in the programme, and eleven pledges were secured at the close, making one hundred and seventy taken in five public meetings— a good record indeed.