TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weathek sultry. Princo Albert buried. Sydney steamer arrived. Swimming; sports very successful. Wingate and Co. are opening again. Governor will leave Auckland February 23rd. The death is announced of Sir John Hay, aged 75. Last wool sale of the season will take place on February 27fch. Half-holiday, luncheon, and address to the Governor decided upon. Subscriptions in Auckland for aid to the Russian refugees now total £200. A proposal has been made to remove the Ironworks from Onehunga to Taranaki. Minute guns were fired afc Sydney laab evening in memory of the Duke of Clarence. Rev. Mr McCallum has proved thai Italian and French prunes can be grown here. General mourning was observed ab Adelaide yesterday. Minute guns wero fired and bells tolled. The weather in South Australia is extremely hob, the thermometer registering 110 in the shade. Mr F. J. Moss, British Resident at Rarotonga, is ab present in Wellington, prepariDg a report upon the Hervey Group. An extensive sale of Crown lands in Queensland is advertised in the English papers at an upseb price of 10s per acre. Mr Kitson lectured on "The Phonetic Representation of Language" ab the Phonographic Society meeting lasb night. Licenses to sell kerosene and other dangerous goods expire on 31st January, and musb be renewed on or before thai date. Apply City Council. Offences returns for the Chrisfcchurcb. and North Otago district for 1891 show thab during the year 2,761 offences were reported and 2,507 persons apprehended. The body of a :'prematurely-bon» infanb was found in Oriental Bay, Wellington, yesterday afternoon by some children. Ib had been washed up to the high-water mark. The Sydney police profess to have received information about Bell and Davies, who levanted in a yacht with thirty thousand sovereigns, which will probably reaulb in some decisive action. Bankers and others declare thab the success which the New South Wales Treasury bills have met with is owing to the fact that they happened to be offered ab a time when the money market was exceptibnably favourable. The passengers and crew of the wrecked steamor John Elder were saved. Amongsb those on board were Chilian refugees, who were aided to get away by Mr Egan, the United States Minister, and whom the Esmeralda was sent to arrest. Lasb night two cottages belonging to Mr 3 McSwigon, in Nursery Road, Lin wood, Christchurch, were burned down. They wero insured for £230 in the Liverpool, London and Globe Office. Mrs McSwigon lived in one, and her furniture, most of which is destroyed, waa. insured in the same office for £50. Other remedies may relieve—X.D.C. alone affects a permanent cure. All chemists. -(Advfc.)