TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 247, 17 October 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Enjoyable weather. Races at Elleralie. Caulfield Cup to-day. Sir Henry Parkcs resigns. - Russian loan is subscribed. Crisis in New South Wales.' Parnellites will fight the Cliurcb, ~-- " Pirates of Penzance " successful. S.s. Richmond due from the Islands. General Booth arrives next Tuesday. Bicycle season opened this afternoon. Balfour leads the House of Commons. Yachting men yetting ■~ their -, craft ,yin order. Local rowing clubs now have crews-oub training. Church parade of the -Victoria.Rifles to* morrow morning. - ■ Miss Vaughan's Amazon at-the City Hall to-night. , Sunday evening service in the ;City Hall 'at 3 p.m. Open to all. - The special meetings -.of' the' Sundayschool Union commence this evening. , Trial trip of the new river steamer Paeroa took place in the harbour this afternoon. Mrs Bernard Beere proposes to make a theatrical tour of Australia in the spring. Legal proceedings are to be taken with' cut further notice for recovery of city rates now due and unpaid. The anniversary services at St. Luke's to-morrow promise to be of an unusually attractive character. The annual report of the New' Zealand. Amateur Eovri__- Association shows that2s clubs are now affiliated. The annual Christmas tree in aid of Sb, "Patrick's Presbytery building fund .will be bold on December Ist and 2nd. Five hundred Russian students'who took part in the recent outbreak againsb tha Czar a. Kiev have been arrested. Tho Wellington Trades Council havo carried a resolution inviting the Premier to address a public meeting in that city. The Czarina lias contributed twenty million roubles to the fund now being 1 raised for the famine stricken people of Russia. Tho Ark ol Eden Lodge will celebrate their anniversary with a toa and conceit on Tuesday next in Eden Kail, Summerstreet. The Rev. IT. J. Lewis will lecture at tho Newton Congregational Church to-morrow evening en " The Pope's Encyclical on cho Babour Question." Yachtsmen are notified in another column that tho annual general meeting of the Auckland Yacht Club will bo hold on Tuesday evening next. The French Consul at Alexandria is resisting the decree issued by the Khedive of Egypt directing the inspection of stockheld by druggists. • Mr Ben I'iUctt lias expressed approval of tho British employers' scheme wibh regard to labour, providing- that the suggested pensions are made retrospective. A Commission, consisting of delegates froiii the four countries interested in ths Pamir plateau, Central Asia, will probably proceed there for the purpose of dclimibing the various spheres. Tho Rev. Mr Diggens, who a few months ago accepted the incutnbency of Roslyn, 'Dunedin, lias received an offer of a living in Enrdand, which he has accepted, and has scut in his resignation. A pian named Everard, who was accused in Sydney of systematic criminal assaulton female?, which mystified tho police for some considerable time, has been found ■fmilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for :Tife. . A very old colonial resident has just died in the person of Mrs Mary Poynfcon, of Lake Takapuna. aged 70. She arrived ab ITokianga in 1820 with her husband, and was probably longer in the colony than any other European woman. In our advertising columns, Mr W. Earla publishes his new cash price list of groceries, etc. He states that having purchased large stocks of flour prior to tho recent advance in price, ho can sell the same for cash at mill rates. If tho Salonica route is adopted as an alternative route for the Indian and Australian mails, the English Postal Department will insist on a saving of time and cost in transit, and expect tho service to carry the mails at cost price. An advertisement in another column invites all temperance workers to meet Sir Wm. Fox at the V.M.C.A. Rooms on Monday evening next ab 7.30, to arrange for tha free distribution of 5,000 copies of the "Prohibitionist •' in Auckland and suburbs. To • morrow (Sunday) afternoon ;tbo steamer Eagle will leave the Ferry ; Teo at 2.30 on her usual excursion to St. I.elier's Bay. She will remain at ths Bay until 4.-15, thus allowing excursionists time for a ramble on shore, eventually arriving in town about 5.M0. A meeting o_ the Committee appointed ab Wellington to take steps to form a North island Dairy Association was held yesterday, when" it was decided, owing to tho small number of satisfactory replies to the circulars sent out since the last meetiug, nob to proceed wibh the formation of an. association, but ro join the Middle Island, Association. • The meeting in London of the shareholders of the Bank of South Australia was , very animated. Mr Babbage declared that the local directors wero useless, and he characterised the whole management as thoroughly,bad. Another shareholder complained that" four of tho directors of the Bank only held 50 shares each. , Mr Peter Howe, M.P., ami Mr .Tamos Miller, formerly directors of the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee* Company, who were arrested ab Sydney on the 29th ult., at the instance oi' tho Crown, or; a charge of conspiracy to defraud in connection with wan-actions of the Company, have been committed j'or trial.