TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 143, 18 June 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Fklsco mail arrived. S|ak Summary to-day. Eliciting elections in Sydney. Severe fighting again in Chili. HsM.s. Curacoa left for Sydney. Ohtward '"Frisco mail on Saturday. Very severe snowstorms in Europe. Russian spies arrested by Austria. Caledonian Society's social this evening. Emperor of China ie profcectingforeignera . The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is ceasing. I Disabled steamer Pukaki arrived from Bnssell. Regent of Manipur 13 now on trial in Calottes. N4w National Bank for the Argentine 13 proposed. Population of England and Wales is 29,0(10,000. Passing vessels will now be signalled frompussoll. Bilrns Club Highland Assembly dance this evening. Thje O'Gorrnan Mahon, M.P. for Carlow, is do|d at Home. SifH. Loch opened Parliament at Capotowqon Tuesday. Tc-day is the 76th anniversary of tho Battle of Waterloo. Now South Wale 3 elections were carried by tiie labour party. R.Jl.s. Alameda made a good trip from 'Fri# to Auckland. Queen Natalie is suffering from nervous prostiration in Vienna, Thjj Rothschilds have withdrawn a million in gold from Russia to Paris. Tenders are invited by tho City Council for drainage works in Dundonald-street. The Bishop of Lincoln's caso has been adjourned to July 2, in the London Courts. . Ne\v Zealand Shipping Company have ordered a splendid new 6,100-tou mail steamer. J. ]L. Sullivan will pass through here next jmonth by the K.M.e. Mariposa from San Irabcisco. Hafry Rickards, tho well-known theatrical, i|on board the K.M.s. Alameda from 'Frisqp for Sydney. Thf.Rev. T. P." Hewlett held service r.b Kuaojunu on Sunday last, and at Mercury Bay ibe Sunday before. MrfW. McCullough. of this city, has been asked to contest Te Aroba electorate against Sir Walter Buller. Th§ Hon. J. Abbott has formed a Cabinet in Canada. WrC'hapleau, whorefnsed|at first has since consented to join. lease of the City Market house, large rink, yard, etc., will be sold by auction tomorrow at A. Aitken's auction marb, Greystreet| > The Royal Geographical Society of London hjis awarded the founders medal to the Director of the Geographical Survey of New Zealand. Nef s from Kihikihi, AVaikato, says :—■ " Tatjlriao was here on a visit to Rewi Ngatttnaniapoto last week, at the residence of thellatter in Kihikihi." The fourth annual meeting of the Jubilee Kind^garten,.will be hold at the institution, Jligh-streeb, to-morrow afternoon, ab 3 o'clcjck. Sir William Fox will preeide. Captain F. R. Webb, Dhe local manager for Jlesers Arnold, Cheney and Co., of New returned to Auckland to-day by the RM.B. Aiameda from Sun Francisco. . Great Barrier Island is having a forfcpi ;ht's mission work from the Rev. J. Hg,se| en. He got there on Wednesday nigh* rom Kuaotunu. Good weather for him S) far. Tht City Council notify that all water consu aers' rates falling due on the 30th of the present month require to be paid before that c ite, Supplies unpaid after that date will b liable to be cub o!F. On he petition of Mr Edward Seagar, , who ii a creditor for £70. Wr Justice Richmond made an order at Wellington yesterday for the winding up ot the New Zealand 1 hbimoay Company. A wrnian named Fanny Roscoe was yeaterdaj, at Wellington, sentenced to three tnontH' imprisonment on a charge of stealing a ottlo of arsenic with which it was stated she intended to destroy herself. A c; ble message from London to-day contains me valuable information that " The Queerwhas accepted a hamper of New Zealand frozen game." Our plain duty now is to cabje to Her Majesty thanking her for accepting the samo ! Ths road from the Poro-o-tarao tunnel (King| Country) to Taumaranui is being pushed on by Mr C. Hursthouse and Mr Wriglft, Government engineers, and, when finishep, will connect the two ends of tho greablforthern line. ThejSalvation Army, Newton, are holding their second anniversary tea on Friday next W the Foresters' Hall. The after meeting will bo led by Adjutant Bishop and officer! from surrounding corps, and tha Quintqtte Family will sing. Thei Hospital Trustees at Dunediu yesafter a lengthy discussion, appointed the chairman, Mr-P- Miller, and Dr, Batch<llor delegates to proceed to Wellington anil explain the positien and the views of the trustees in regard to tho new hospital, to the'Govornmenr. The! plague ot lamps is the breaking of that is unnecessary—there are chsmneys that do nob break. They are madeiiof tough glass, which costs more than common glass, but not so much more as to rriake it impossible to sell them at the usual>(retail price. They are called tho " Coronet " and so.d by E. Porter and Co., Qc'«et&treet, and at their retail branches. -(Aclyt.)