TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 240, 9 October 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail arrived. Dredger gone at last. R.M.s. Alameda to-night. " La Mascotte" still running. Outward 'Frisco mail to-morrow. Mariposa had a splendid passage. Ship Waitangi arrived from London. Aquatic gala on tho Lake to-moirow. " King ,: Tawhiao was in town to-day. Ship Waitangi's boatswain lost at sea. Auckland contractors and builders meeft to-night. -,!.^. The City Council aro calling for tenders for a dray. Association football match, Auckland v. Wellington, to-morrow. The United States gunboat York.own has been ordered to Chili. Sells Brothers' big circus is coming over to Australia next mailboat. The University College Council meets on Monday, October 12, ab 3.15 p.m. Dredger No. 121 on leaving for Melbourne last, nighb was fare welled by a big crowd. The London lightermen, yielding to pressure, have given way and joined the strike. The Newton Band will have a promenade concert to-morrow evening on the Ponsonby Road. A portion of the Canadian lumbermen who wenb out on striko have returned to work, tho masters having conceded shorter hours. Morley's brake will leave the North Shore to-morrow on bhe arrival of the 1 p.m. steamer from town for the regatta at the Lake. Crowds assemble nightly at St. Bonaventura's Hall, Parnell, to witness ths display of useful and fancy work in aid of the Convent funds. The Pakuranga hounds meet at the North Shore to-morrow, when a drag will ba laid to Lake Takapuna. Members of the Hunt Club leave town at 1 o'clock. Messrs S. Y. Collins and R. Hobbs presided at tho Police Court this morning. One inebriate, George White, was fined £5, or 14 days' hard labour in default.' The Holy Coat of Treves will- not be walled up again as was formerly done when the period of exhibition has passed, bub will bo placed in the Cathedral Treasury. The Kamo coal mine will commence work shortly. The part of the workings where this creep has been noticed is a long way distant from the present position whore the coal is being obtained. The railway engineers arrived at Whangarei on Saturday last, and have proceeded to the Hikurangi-Kamo line, to make oub the working sections to enable the Government to ask for tenders. Mr Gladstone, in a letter to the London " Press," predicts the early reunion of the Presbyterian bodies, and also of the Baptists and Congregationalists, but thinks it will be difficult to include the Methodists. The Bank of England directors entirely deny Sir Thos. Mclhvraith's (Queensland) charges. A letter has been written to Mr Garriek, Agent-General, demanding that Sir Thos. Mcllwraith should make a public denial. Pastor J. D. Gilmoro will deliver an interesting lecture on Tuesday evening nexb in the Ponsonby Baptist Church, tbe subject being, "From Britain to Brighter Britain.". Instrumental and vocal music will form pleasing iteni3 in tho evonitig's programme. Huntly has refused to take part in a football match, Upper against Lower Waikato to-jnorrow, giving: as excuse that tho miners are working three shifts ; but a match will como off, nevertheless, for the benefit of Mrs Sibbin, and a large attendance is expected. Mr Bishop, the Resident Magistrate and Warden, held a sitting in Whangarei yesterday of this Courb. The attendance was very numerous. The Court is held ab present in the flour mill score, Cameronstreet, the new Court House being in course of erection. Since Mr W. H. Smith's donth it has been made public thab when the Baring crisis was imminent he ofiered Mr Liddordale, governor of the Bank of England, a hundred thousand pounds of hisownmonoy if money could avert a crisis. The odor was, however, declined. The Mayor of Dunedin has received intimation from the Minister of Public Works that work for 200 unemployed will be provided on the Otago Central in a few days, and he, with the city and suburban members were asked to pick the men, giving preference to those married. Our Whangarei correspondent -writes :— " It is understood that Mr Robert Thompson, M.H.R., has become a member of the Auckland Waste Lands Board. The appointment will be hailed wibh satisfaction as a great advantage to the North, as he is so well acquainted with the requirements of the places and people." The colony's immigration and emirrrntion returns for September show the arrivals to be 93S persons, while 1,238 departed. Tho arrivals were : From the United Kingdom, 190 ; New South Wales, 435 ; Victoria, 226 ; Tasmania, 30 ; other places. 57. The departures were : To the United Kingdom, 62; Queensland. 3; New South Wales, 801 ; Victoria, 208; Tasmania, 87; other places, 91. The Christ's College Sports at Christchurch yesterday were very well attended. The Governor was present, and distributed prizes to the winners. The Old Boys' Challenge Cup was won by F. J. P_olleston with 15 points, to J. Murphy's 12, second. Rolleston won tho cup given by the old boys in the North Island for the Quartermile Race. D. T. Watson, with two yards handicap, won the Old Boys' Race", 200 yards. At the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show yesterday, in merinos, only R. D. McLean, Royse, and Anderson, Melbourne and Hatuma stations, showed. The first-named all but swept the board of prizes. In long wools competition was very keen, a large proportion coming from beyond the provincial district. The Hon._M. Holmes took two champion cup 3 tor Lincolns, and a number of first prizes. Sheep bred by J. Reid, bub exhibited by local owners, were also highly successful. In Romney Marsh. R. Harding beat all competitors. In Shropshires, several importations from Scotland by tho North British Hawke's Bay Freezing Company, and J. and W. Wilson, of Hawera, took most of the prizes. There were no Leicester, Cotswolds, or South Downs. The long wool pens were a greab feature of the show.