TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 248, 19 October 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Island vessels arrived. S.s. Richmond in port. General Booth to-morrow. The Czar will visit Germany. 5.3. Poherua arrived from Fiji. G'Naroo won the Caultield Cup, Rudyard Kipling in Wellington? Auckland Institute meets to-night. Turkey ia fortifying the Dardanelles. Yachb Club annual meeting bo-morrow. 'Rev. C. H. Spurgeon's health is ioiprovEight Hours' Demonstration Committee moats bo-nighb. Sir H. Parkes may betas aew JN.b. VV. Agent-General. . " Princess Ida" social ia Ts«teia Hall tomorrow evening. New steamer Paeroa lias had a very successful trial trip. Special meeting Star of Auckland Oddfollows' Lodge tins evening. Scottish concert in St. George's Hall, Nowton, to-morrow evening. Tl?e expulsion of Jews from the southern districts of Russia has been stopped. The reported wreck of a steamer off Newfoundland with a large loss of life turns oufr to be a hoax. The Dowager Marchioness of Ailesbury, relict of the third Earl of Ailesbury, ia dead, aged 77. Mr "JT. Lawry, M.H.R., intends to postpone his address to the electors till Wednesday week. The Taranaki Iron and Petroleum Company, with a capital of £125,000 has beeo registered in London. ( A heavy gale and snow storm have been experienced in the Cooma district, New South Wales, and much damage has been done. The War Office■ claims the sum of £3,000 from the Liverpool Dock Companies for assistance rendered during the strike lasb year. A split has taken place in the Cabinet oLthe Argentine Republic, and General Roca, Minister of the Interior, has resigned. The "Courier" of Hanover has this advertisement: "For Sale —A piano of superior quality, played upon ior some time by a Baron." The London "Economist" advises the Premier of New Zealand to exchange "New Plymouth harbour bonds for New Zealand four por cents., which are cheap. Owing to the presence of welchers in the paddock at Caulfieid races, Victoria, on Saturday, a large number of backers of winning horses were loib lamenting. A meeting of ratepayers at Hasby (England), by a larere majority, decided to oppose General Booth's proposal to build a Salvation Home orir'ths Thames Embankment. • The President of the London Architectural Association has agreed to arbitrate ia the carpenters' dispute. Already one hundred firms have conceded the demands of the men. ' It has been ascertained in London from a superficial examination tb.at the E.M.S. Paramatta's frozen mutton from Australia is in fair condition, and that only a few of the carcases were soft. Whalebone at present fetches £2,875 a ton in America. Out of this the whalers, the men who actually catch the whales, receive bub the merest trifle, the lion's share going to the capitalists. ■The Imperial Government are awaiting a report from Captain Younghusband before coming to any decision as to ths action they will take with regard to the delimitation of the Pamir plateau. The glassworkers who wont on strike in Paris have bean prosecuted for a breach of contract, and each of them fined £4. It is estimated that the loss to the employers while the men are on strike is 12s 6d per day. A syndicate of London financiers is shipping a large quantity of gold to the Argentine Republic, where stocks are recovering, consequent on the new Bank Bill having been passed by both the Senate and Chamber. A twelve-roomed house, the property of Mr Leslie, wag destroyed by tire at Oamaru on Saturday morning. The house was insured for £400 in fche South British, and the furniture for £100 in the NorwichUnion. San Salvador's navy—one whole steamer abou,t eighty feet long—lately left San Francisco for home, after underling extensive repairs and shipping a new gun or two. A new deck was pub in her, and in addition to the two old brass guns she carried, she took three Gatlings. An almost unbearable stench is at present caused by the defective nature , of the Queen-street eewer mouth, nb the head of the Queen-street wharf. Owing to the drain not beinc: carried far enough out to sea, the filth of. the sower is deposited in the stone "apron," and at low tide the smell is something unendurable. A ship laden with 360,000 worth of Now Ens-laud mm left Boston (U.S.) lately, for the usual destination for nuch cargoes—the " Dark Continent." From July 1, 1890, to the corresponding- data in 1891, the exports of this sorb from Boston to ports in Africa were 1,018,591 gallons, valued at $1,223,889. "Did you ever meet a real pirate?" asked a young lady. "Yes," replied the old sailor, "many, in Christian England." interesting ! £)\d thoy keep picturesque, crews and swift-sailing..; vessels?" "No. They kept "seaman's boardinghouses, and the boarding-houses kepb them." All yachtsmen are requested to attend, the meeting of the Auckland Yacht Club to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, and make it thoroughly representative. Tho business bo be brought forward is to receive the annual report and statement of accounts, elecb officers, and make arrangements for the opening of tho season and the annual picnic. News from Rarotonga says that when tho new 3 was interpreted' to the Aibubakians that England and Russia were likely' to fight over the Dardanelles question, a number of the natives waibod upon Mr Moss and told him they were prepared to raise 200 or 300 men to' proceed to Turkey to uphold their new mother (Quaen Victoria). Mr F. J. Moss, British Resident at Rarotonga, recently returned by tha s.s. Richmond to R&rotonga from Aitutaki. Among other matters he got th' 3 natives to form a Municipal Council, and also to appoint a judge, to administer local laws. Theso laws were gone through and properly revised, and are now in somewhat better working shape. Tho Methodist Conference at Chicago closed its sittings on Thursday, consequent on the continued disorder arising out) of the offensive remarks of Mr H. J. Atkinson, M.P.. for Beaton, England. Mr Atkinson is tha member who, shortly before the prorogation of the British Parliament, was suspended for a week for disrespect to tho Speaker. A meeting of working men at Groymouth on Saturday carried a resolution unanimously requesting the Harbour Board to reconsider their decision regarding calling for tenders for the extension south of the breakwater, and instead offer the work at schedule rates to parties of working men in stated quantities, that being the policy the Government of tho day is carrying out on public works or to carry out the work by day labour.