TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Christmas Eve. ' . Visitors in town, Holidays begun. Church to-morrow. Russian Bailors in town. Tarawera left for South. Tasteful shop decorations. Excursions for Boxing Day. No Stab to-morrow or Saturday. Yacht Mapu has gone down South. The death is announced of the Bishop O Angers. ■ . f The Duke of Devonshire will be buried at Ederisor on Saturday. A new 4-ton yacht, the Constance, has been launched by 0. Bailey. The Progressist members of the German Reichstag have become united. Morley'e Devon port bus time-table will be suspended during the holidays. Thirty-five labourers lost their lives in a terrible-snowstorm in the Abruzzo district] (Italy). A German committee for ensuring peace ' by means of arbitration has been formed in. Berlin. The Christchurch Tailors' Union has decided to send £20 to the tailors on strike ato Sydney. ■ . The barque Essex sailed for New 1 York ■' to-day with a cargo of sil bales flax and ~" 3,805 cases grain. <■' Water consumers are reminded that half- ■ ■"■ yearly accounts now due require to be paid • before the 31st inst. Martin's Parnell 'buses will not run tomorrow, nor between the hours of 11 a.m. ' and 7 p.m. on Boxing Day. Osman Digna asserts that the Mahdists are massing in the Soudan, and will attempt to reconquer Tokar. .-"■'■' Mr Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Capetown, ' wae thrown from his horse, and sustained a' fracture of the collarbone. Haddon Chambers' play, •• The Hon. Herbert," has been produced at the';Vaude- : ville (London) with great success. ' * *-'" "Hipppna's" selections for the A.R.C. races on Saturday will be fouud in our Christmas amusements article. ' Jacobs, the Calcutta jeweller who was charged with defrauding the Nizam of Hyderabad, has been acquitted. A fire took place at the Junction Mill, Paeroa, yesterday, destroying the hall and small cottage, besides a quantity of flax. The passenger steamer Abyssinia, belonging to the Guion Company, was burnt) to the water's edge in the Atlantic. No lives were lost. Diphtheria of a malignant type is raging in South Hungary, and in several villages the whole of the children have succumbed to the disease. Dr. J. W. Bardsley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be translated to the see of Carlisle, rendered .vacant by the death of Dr. Harvey Goodwin. Eight soldiers of the Russian Imperial Guard have been' sentenced to death for decoying citizens into the St. Petersburg barracks and murdering them. Sir E. C. N. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, will read a paper on the re--BOUTC6S of the colonies at a meeting in London of the Society of Arts in March. The propoaal to quarry the Broken Hill Proprietary mine (N.S.W.) down to the two hundred-feet level is most adversely criticised by mining authorities in San Francisco. Sir Thomas Brookes will be the Unionist) and Mr Wadsn the Liberal, candidate ~ for Rossendale, rendered vacant by Lord Hartington's accession to.the Dukedom of Devonshire. The ''Ottawa Citizen, , ' the leading Canadian Conservative organ, condemns the dismissal of the Merrier Government, and states that such acts by provincial Governors jeopardise the Dominion. His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Crowther) and Mr P. A. Phillips (Town Clerk) paid an official visit to the Russian warship to-day, and were courteously received by the commander and officers. The inquest held on the body of the boy Craig, drowned by falling into a well at) Epsom, resulted in a verdict of "Accidental death." A rider was added requesting Major George to cover the well. Mr C. Napier Bell, Midland Railway engineer, leaves Greymouth for Hqbarb by the Mararoa to attend the meeting of the Australasian Science Association as president of the section of Engineering and Architecture. The manager of the Costley Home acknowledges Christmas copies of the " Illustrated London News," "Graphic," " Black and White," "Holly Leaves," and "New Zealand Graphic," for use of the inmates, from Mrs Digby Tonks. For the convenience of picnic parties and visitors to Auckland who desire to be photographed, Tuctle's stndio will be open on Boxing Day, from 7.30 a.m. This evening the show-room .will be thrown ppen to the public. In our advertising columns will be found the announcements about the Revd. W. J. Mayers and his eight musical boys. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday night in Sb. James' Hall at 8 p.m. Oα Wednesday they will appear in the Choral Hall. At Ruapuke (Raglan), Mrs Swarm, while digging in her garden, unearthed a tin box containing eighty sovereigns. "'The'mon'6y is supposed to have been hidden there by the late Captain Swahn, who was known ibo have a large amount of gold in his;p|§ea- . sion prior to his death. '. ' ' *" ' ' We are requested by Mra Pricfc to remind • those ladies who have kindly promised to help at the Costley Home entertainment) that it takes place on Tuesday, the 29th of December, at 4.30 o'clock. It will be necessary that all contributions should be sent to the Home as soon after 3 o'clock as possible. The House Steward of the Hospital thanks the St. James's Sunday-echool (Mangei-e Bridge) for gift of" chairs, picture books and Christmas cards; Mise Lush (North Shore), for illustrated papers and old linen ; St. Mary's Church (Parnell), and St. Luke's Church (Remuera), for flowers for use of patients. Ab the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr Justice Williams refused a rule nisi in the divorce case Sacott v. Sacotb and Winton, the husband's petition. In Winton V; Winton, the wife's petition, a decree was granted. The case of Scott v. the National Mortgage and Agency Company and others wae mentioned in Chambers, when an order for the discovery of documents prayed for by Scotb was granted.