TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Welcome rain. , • ";J Kowalski concerb at the-Opera-House to* ■'.''■ night. ' i,' . ; '. ''i' The circus opens to-night, ab the corner J of Ponsonby the Savings Bank. ■ Captain Scbulfcz, Customs - ofEcer "a.'•".' Hapaii, and family \wero. passengers by "the Wainui. . ~ The Ponsonby-.Baptist Sunday-school held its annual festival,ab Motion's .dill on, New Year's Day.., ' " _;; Sb. David's Presbyterian Sabbath'school;'. held their annual ' picnic, at Campbell's Avenue, Epsom, on New Year's Day. ;' An old man named-George VVadsworth died in bhe ChristchurchvHospital from the effects of Rough on Rats taken while he was drunk. •". . . ' •_, . " , .;■; All those poisoned atPahiatua are re- .- ported to be doing well. The report that >■•■,-, the child of Mr Naylor hadsuccumbed.is •>. not correct. . ■ . , ■

A cricket match between dairymen over 30 and those under bhab age was played in the Domain on Saturday, in which =!the seniors won. - *

Frederick Lindsay C. Flint,; has .been arrested ab Paeroa, charged with tha larceny of a pair of'boots, valued. ab.2os, t bhe property of Frank Jones. -. A man named Macpy,- tyorking on "j the Kamo and Hikurangi railway section No. 5, has sustained a .compound fracture'6f-the arm and of the leg at the knee-joint.

Tho annual picnic of the Pitt-streeb Wesleyan congregation" ' at Motuihi on Saturday passed off motab successfully, and ■■ the party returned to town at .7 p.m. ': Mr George Didsbury, the Government '$ printer, has been granted six weeks' leave of absence for the benefit of his health,,and , intends to spend the time at Rotorua. *

Miss Fanny O'Dowd, daughter.of "Mr. . Francis O'Dowd, of the Caledonia Hote'ly •»,: Symondsrstreet, died somewhat suddenly' yesterday, ab the early age of 22 years. . The first church parade of the North' Canterbury Fire Brigades took place-"a....... the Cathedral yestgrd_y Afternoon. Four - brigades were represented.. ,The Bishop, preached. * Tom Bussr, the Melbourne cyclist, has been presented with'a gold sovereign box by members of the Pioneer Bicycle Club, Christchurch.' Ho announced his intention of competing there next year. X. ., The body of Higman, the Salvationist '" captain drowned ab Port Chalmers, was buried ab Addington. Six hundred Sal-' vationists attended the funeral, which ;was conducted by Colonel Bailey. .*■•■'

The usual procession of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Patrick's Cathedral last evening was augmented by thirty-two of the seamen headed by an officer' from' H.M.s. Tauranga now inport.

Tho wife of Charles Bunting, of Waite- ■ kauri, was seized with- serious vomiting J and Weeding whilst out riding- on New Year's morning:. Oh returning home sho was prematurely delivered of a son, and • shortly afterwards .died,'' '. '■ ";":

The Rev- W_ J. Mayers, deputation*; secretary from Dr. Barnardo's Homes, held services yesterday at Grafton RoadWea-.'■•'. ■'. leyan, the V.M.C.A. Rooms, the Taber-j • nacle, and the City Hall. Mr Mayers now ' ! proceeds to the Waikaio. ~ Mr Jas. Elynn, treasurer of -the 1.N.F., •'., has received a letter from Dublin, .ac- ; knowledging the receipt' of £51 145,-thab ; -. amount being the proceeds of a le. given by Mr J. D. Cox, M.P., in this cityj"**"' in aid of the Evicted Tenants' Fund., • . Ab Denniston on Saturday evening-a i banquet was given to the' Governor by the ' Westport Coal Company, and was a great . success. The Governor and party returned i to Westport at ten p.m. and. received ad . t dresses. They left on Sunday mdrningby l J coach for Reef ton e_ route to Kumara, ac -," companied by Messrs Seddon and Reeves.

A Mammoth Shilling's-wORTH.-4Brett'a r Auckland Almanac and D.iary con-prises 246 pages of closely-printed matter, including comprehensive diary, statistical tables,/ and a descriptive account of the Auckland provincial district.' _','; .'■'■• ~.'"''