TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 145, 20 June 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Frisco raail gone. »• Monowai passed through. 1β., ; Interesting Parliamentry news.' Interesting football matches this' af'BJ noon. j>l Direct steamer Morayshire will be shortly from London. ; « Kew programme at Hugo's Buffafc Minstrels to-night. i Thie day 1837 Queen Victoria succeeded to the Crown of England. The Federal Convention cost the colony of South Australia £I,IGO. Canon Legs>e, of London, has been appointed Bishop of Lichfield. Rev. Thos. Spurgeon closes his mission ab Ponsonby Baptist Church to-morrow. The Austrian Govornment is coalescing with the German Liberal section of the Reichsratb.

A serious earthquake has occurred afe Sarajns, in Bosnia. A number of buildings were damaged. The Portuguese Governor of Mozambique has resigned. He will be succeeded by Senhor Andrada.

Sir J. Strangway and Sir A. Blythe will be appointed South Australian Governors of the Imperial Institute. Tho s.s. Taupo takes hence about) 140.000 ft of timber down to Fiji, in consequence of the recant big fire at Suva. The Australian Auxiliary Squadron will visit New Zealand ports as soon as possible after arrival in Australian waters from Home.

The English Federation League intend to. accept Lord Salisbury's challenge to formulate a scheme for the federation of the Empire. The French Chamber of Deputies have approved of the reduction of duties under the new tariff, which will come into operation on July 10th. A commission of Cardinals will henceforth administer the Papal property ad Rome owing to irregularities in the management during the past. ■ The Tipperary police have levied on Dillon and O'Brien's sureties, whose recognisances were estreated when those gentlemen escaped to America. A special meeting of the Parnell Diefcricb Football Club is called tor Monday evening next in tha Oddfellows' Hall, when every member is requested to attend. Premier Abbott, of Canada, has announced that the policy of the New Government will strictly follow the lines laid down by Sir J. Macdonald.

The Russian Government is appointing special agents at seaports to prevent merchants defrauding British buyers of wheat as to quality and quantity. Professor Sterling's new form of Australian marsupial was exhibited at the Royal Society, London, on Thursday, and pronounced to be a remarkable mammal.

Special sermons will be preached tomorrow at St. Patrick's Cathedral, by the Rev. Father MeKenna, of New Plymouth, and the Rev. Father Mulvihill, Hawera.

"Death from natural causes" was the verdicb returned yesterday at the inquest on the body of the late John Murphy, who dropped dead in Waketield-street on Thursday.

• The new Portugueso budgeb proposes drastic reforms. The staff is to be reduced, anS the construction of costly works suspended. Ib also creates monopolies in matches and alcohol.

Rioting at Fournier, France, where several people were shot by troop 3at the beginning of last month, is being renewed. The workmen are displaying aerious hostility to the authorities. Captain Chapman, late roaster of the American ship Joseph H. Scammel, recently wrecked on the Victorian coast, is a passenger from Sydney on board the R.M.b, Monowai for San Francisco.

The last of the evangelistic services wm held last night at St. Andrew's, when Rev. T. F. Koberteon gave a very earnest address on the "Transfiguration on the Mount,'' which was listened to with great) attention by the audience. The late Harry Hawks, waterman, who died a couple of days ago, was one of the oldest identities of the port of Auckland. He had plied his calling here for over forty years, and took,parb in the first Auckland regatta Jn the early " forties." Of a total of £127,000 subscribed towards the Plan of Campaign, ib is stated thab £3,000 is unaccounted for.. Twenty thousand was granted to tenants, £45,000 wenfc in fees to lawyers and barristers, and £40,000 was epenfc in New Tipperary.

The New South Wales Government are insisting on erecting a gaol on Lord Howe Island, against the wishes of tho people o£ that secluded islet, and now that it has been thrust on thepeaceableislanders, it is presumed that opportunities will be made to provide it with occupants. At the annual meeting in London of the shareholders of the New Oriental Bank a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum was declared. In their report, the directors admitted that the bank had losb the sum of £20,000 over the Gatling Gun Company, and there wei-e possible losses of £80,000 in Melbourne and £70,000 in Singapore. Tho general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand ab Dunedia has received a cable advice thab the directors '■ intend recommending ab tho annual meeting thab the sum of,, £1 IQs,,, pat .. share be called up, amounting bo £150.000, to replace a similar amount transferred from the capital to the special reserve fund in order to provide for a considerable loss arising from the fire ab Mudlay and Co.'s, Dunedin, last year, and also contingent depreciation in securities ab other points.