TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 290, 7 December 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Holidays coming. Dem Pedro is dead. Picnics on the tapis. The Czar has infiuonza. Sir F. Whitaker buried. Civil war raging in China. Many visitors to warships. ■ Last two nights of Bland Holb. Numerous attractions for Xmas. ' Still more Canadian corruption. , " The Golden Ladder " to-night. ' The Duke of Devonshire is seriously ill. i New York millionaire nearly dynamited. I Anothor English theatrical cause celebre. American pork in bulk will be admitted', free into 1 ranee. Amateur Rowing Association t Regatta next Saturday. ■= 6 Sfc. Thomas' Church concert in Catholio Institute to-night. Tom Sullivan has. issued * his /.eoullins , .= : v manifesto to Sfcanbury. .:: .»'''VγThe Czar'of Russia ia sufforing .from a' '•"-•-'■ slieht attack of influenza. ' r . * ' Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-GeneraUfor New Zealand, has arrived in London. From January, 1885, to August of lasb year, 4S men-o'-war visited Auckland. On December sth, 575,0000z of'silver were exported from New York to Europe Ifc is believed in Berlin that Emm Paeba will be reinstated in his former position in Wadelai. ■ ; v ,y. - . The strike at Stoney Creojf (West -i contract is still unsettled. "A'-llie quieib'oa "'V' tho ground. ■ ' . .;,»■' jv* The death is announced of nier, Paris, President of the International League of Peace. George Harrington (44) was committed for trial ab Dunedin for forgery for- £5 on. the National Bank. News reached Zanzibar that Emm Pasha has reached Lake iNyanza, where he was welcomed by 9,000 natives. - The legal advisers of the Duke of Orleans allege that Armstrong can ouly proceed in the Dublin Courts for crim. con. Sir Arthur R. Cowell Stepney, M.P. for Carmarthen, who was returned a§ a Gladstone Liberal, has turned Unionist. Mr C. T. Ritchie, the President of the j London Local Government Board; is eufferI ing from a severe attack of influenza. Sir J. Fergusson includes naval pen- • jsioners in his scheme for employment of servico reserve mon as rural postmen. It is expected that a second commission will bo appointed to control the distribution of the relief in the famine districts ia ' Russia. Capt. Kane, formerly of H.M.s. Calliope, has been appointed to the position of flag - captain on board H.M.s. Clanwilliam, at) Portsmouth. . • £ Miss Florence St. JohD, the actress, is - suing for a divorce in London. .Herhueband admits the charges of adultery, bub ■ denies cruelty. Thore is no improvement in the health of Sir Arthur Blyth, Agent-General for South: Australia in London, and hid condition is rejjardod as critical. The opinion is expressed in London that if the recent failures in MelKourne do nobaffect the larger concerns they will really have a beneficial efiect. , Residents in Minneapolis, a city of Minnesota (U.S.), propose to send to Russia fifty" thousand "barrels of flour, foe 'distribution among the starving peasantry. ,; - Mr,. A. P. Bradley, Secretary of the Canadian Railway Department, has been dismissed from his position, owing to charges of having defrauded be,ing preferred againsb him. Mr Whitoley King, Secrotary of the New South Wales Pastoralists , Union, has left Sydney for New Zealand in connection with the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia. Tug Chancellor of the British Exchequer proposes that when the issue of pound notes by the Bank of England reaches fifty millions, any additional issue shall be based on gold only. An announcement in our advertising columns notifies that Messrs Cobb and Co.'s livery and baib stables are now, open ab Devonporb, and thab all descriptions of ■ vehicles, besides saddle-horses, are on hire at moderate rates. The County Bourke Permanent lnvosbment Society, of Melbourne, resumes business to-day, satisfactory arrangements having been made with the depositors. Ib iB expected that all the other societies will, re-open in a few days. The privileges in connection with the South Auckland Racing Club's meeting were sold on Saturday, and brought the following prices:—Booth, £38; temperance booth, £8 10s; horse paddock, £5 15s; gates, £72; and cards, £15. Total, £138. Mi- Brodie Hoare, in a letter to the "Times," contends thab Mr Goschen'a pound note scheme offers singularly infinitesimal advantages, and will tend to diminish the effective power of the rate of . interest and to draw gold into the country. At the inquest at Hamilton on the body of McPherson, killed by the fall of a tree, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. It-.was proved- by the evidence that deceased was a fair bushman and understood his work, bub the tree was a curious one to fell. A concert will be given this evening in the Catholic Institute, Wellington-street, . ia aid of the choir of St. Thomas's Church. A good programmo has been prepared, which will consist of cantata, in which 5C children will sing, and a miscellaneous concert by well-known vocalists. Two deaths, which the natives attribute to witchcraft, have occurred at Mangatautori (Waikato) during tbe laeb fow days. One is of a woman named Takere, tho other of an.' old and loyal chief of the Ngatihaua tribe, Rihia ,to Kansc, who did the Government good service in troublous times. Monday, the Ist of December, was another day of settling at Kihikihi with tho King Country natives for the rabbit skin bonus by the Government, and even a larger number of skins were settled for than for the month of October, 24,000 skins being brought in, for which a sum of about £300 was paid. The yachting season was opened ab Wellington on Saturday afternoon with great e jfot. The weather was all that could bedesired, as a light southerly breeze was blowing. A large number of yachts took part in the manceuvres,and the rescue competitions for first, second, and third class yachts created deal of interest. The cricket match, Cambridge v. Tuhikaramea (Association match), was played on Saturday. The former won by an innings and 50 runs. -For Cambridge, Cheesemaii pade double figures, scoring 14 in the firab things. For Tuhikaramea, W. Livingstono (32), S. Reid (21), Lang (17), (J. •Alexander (11), and Byes (20) were highest scorers. The cricket match, Hamilton v. Paterangi (Association game),was played en Saturday. Hamilton in their first innings made 117. gowning (63), Ewen (12), and Smith (11), being the highest scorers. Pateraugi ia their firso innings made 34, and 71 in tho . . • ?ecoiid. F. Bowdeu made 25, and G. tfpwden made 12. The match was won by •ttatnilton by an innings and 12 runs. Other remedies may relieve—X. D.C. aJ one effects a pennant cure. All chemists. -(Advb.)