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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 14 July 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Edwin's rain has come. Mr Spurgeon is rather bettor. Disastrous floods in Australia. S.s. Rotokino in from Sydney. Dillon will lead the anti-Parnellites. Mr Stead defends the Prince of Wales... Australia was discovered this day 1606.' Southern flour is going to South America.' Outward English Mail on Saturday next ; - Star MontblySummary will be published on Thursday next. It is estimated that there are nearly' forty thousand people out of work in Vie-: toria. Tho Rsv. Mark Guy Pearse in the City Hall to-night on "Somo Other Old Folka at Home." Very large quantities of grain havo.. arrived hero from the South during the last 1 few days. A meeting of the Epiphany Church con-. gregation will be hold in the Nixon-streel) Schoolroom to-morrow evening. The Whangarei Masonic Hall contract 19 ' taken by an Auckland tradesman. It is to be of brick ; a very neat structure. Mr I-cilly of the Thames is about to take . charge of the Prospectors' Battery at Pubipuhi. He is well spoken of by the mining ' people. A notification from Professor Pond, which appears in our advertisement' columns, will be found of interest to students. The R.M.s. Alameda left Sydney yesterday for Auckland. Dutch and Stephenson, tho scullers, are passengers by her to America. Tom Sullivan, the rising young oarsman . ! of Auckland, writes over from Sydney to the effect .hat he will visit Auckland in two or three weeks' time. The New South Wales Railway Commissioners have made arrangements to introduce the zone system for the carriage of. parcels next month. The question occupying the mining , interest in Whangarei just now is, what became of that silver ? Did it escape by ' ! the kilns or the tailings ? Heavy rains have fallen up country in Mew South Wales, and Wagga is again in- ! undated. Railway communication with ' Melbourne is interrupted. ! Huddart, Parker and Co. (opposition ,■ line of steamers to the Union Company)' have reduced fares between Sydney and Hobart to 20s saloon and 10s steerage. Bishop Luck, of Auckland, has arrived a. Rome, and is expected to go to England' in a few weeks in search of clergy suitable to assist in the extension of his Maori mis--sion. The German doctors who have been engaged in experiments with cancer injectedcancer lymph into fifty pauper patients at; Berlin, but they allege with the latter's con-i sent. "When are the Government going to have plans out of the new Court House V people ask. The official mind is surely equal to the task of plans and specifications in all' thesemonths.—(Whangarei correspondent.) What an advantage to have a newspaper of your own. One hon; gentleman who runs a newspaper is able to read of himself, that his " speech was so vigorous that ih drove the Opposition as a body out of tha Houso." At the sitting of the Supreme [Conrfc in Bankruptcy at Dunedin, Justice Williams refused to grant orders of discharge in two cases, because there was rid proof of noticof having been given to absentee creditors. Tho Supreme Court jury at Wellington could not agree in the Coleman Phillips case after they had been sent back, and tha Chief Justice ordered them to be discharged in preference to locking them up all night. It is not known whether tha Crown will abandon the prosecution. The committee of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association hava decided to request Sir John Hall and Hon. J. T. Peacock to consult the Wellington A. and P. Association concerning the reduction of railway rates on stock for shows, and to assist them in any movement in thab direction. The works of the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse will be on sale at all his meetings. Thesa books have attained a very great popular-? ity all over tho English-speaking world, - and no doubt Auckland citizens will not ba behind other places in availing themselves of the chance of securing copies. The Atlas and Belford Mills at Timaru have received an order to supply 1,100 tons of flour through Reynolds and Co. Dunedin, for South American markets. This is the largest order in one line thab has ever been received at Timaru. A vessel has been specially chartered to take the flour away next week. A meeting of the County Council is to be held on Wednesday at which it is proposed to cut down the travelling allowance made to councillors to half the amount what they now draw. This is meroly cheese paring. The notice of motion is made by a country member, Mr Ormandy of the Mangapai.— (Whansarei correspondent.) At a meeting of the Dunedin Orange In« stitution.a resolution was passed, "That tha Private Schools Bill introduced by Mr G. Hutchison is destructive of the best principles of tho present education system, and contrary to the wishes of the majority of the electors of the colony, and steps should bo taken to prevent its becoming law." At a meeting of the Dunedin Prohibition League it was decided to support a petition in opposition to the various Bills sought to be brought before Parliament antagonistic to the principles contained in Mr Joyce's Bill, and extend tho franchise in licensing matters to persons of either sex over 21 who have resided in a licensing district for six months. In our advertising columns will be found particulars of an interesting series of entertainments in connection with St.. Luke's Church, Remuera. " A Visit to Roma and Pompeii," by Mr Peacock, to-morrow, followed by Professor Thomas' lecture in August, and a Scotch concert in September, should, at the nominal price charged, attract good audiences. Last evening a seven-roomed house and shop in Victoria - street, Christchurch, owned by Mrs Greenaway, and occupied by H. Gainsford and Sons, seedsmen, was burned down. The fire started upstairs, but the cause is not known. The building was insured for £200 in the National. Tha furniture and stock, very little of which was saved, was insured in the Union for £300. Mr Chas. G. Clark, who for thirty-sir years occupied the position of shipping reporter of the Melbourne " Age," was banquetted in Melbourne the other day by many leading members of the shipping community, on his retiring from that position. Mr Clark, in reply to the toast of tha evening, explained that he had been connected with "The Age" for close on 36 years, and he had now retired on a pension through the kindness of the proprietary. A feature worth: noting is Arthur Nathan's Teas come direct from the importer to the public. You can get thena anywhere at 2s and 2s 6d per lb,—(Advt.) Smith and Caughey are now clearing a large lot of real Guipure Curtains, greatly. reduced gjjcQß, jfrom.lQa 9d per pjur.— '■-' : ' ■ ■"■■} ■■■■■■: