TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Athletic championships.

Rain at Christchurch. Labour riots in Lisbon. Sir Morell Mackenzie dead. Ruapebu and Tongariro active. Increased thermal activity at Taupo. Treaty of Waitangi was signed' this day

Native blackmail continues vexatious ab Rotorua.

Meeting of fruit-growers ab Chamber of Commerce this afternoon.

A labour crisis has occurred in Lisbon, and bakers' shops have been pillaged by the mob.

Change of programme ab " Brighb Lights " performance in Opera House thia evening. StroDg efforts are being made to secure Monsignor Gilbert as successor to Cardinal Manning. Frozen meat from the River Plate is selling freely in Paris, but only a few days' supplies are available.

Both Legislative Chambers of Portugal have refused to discuss a proposition that the colonies should be sold.

Twenty-eight thousand tons of sugar were exported from Queensland during the last six months of the year just ended. i Mr John Pearce, the well-known licensee of the Alexandra Hotel, Chapel-street, is dead, aged 55. His funeral took place at Purewa Cemetery this afternoon. The s.s. Eider, the wrecked German liner, was not insured. The £300,000 worth of specie which she had on board when she struck has been saved from the wreck.

On the question of the number of hours that should contribute a day's work, a plebiscite of German printers showed thab 14,000 were for nine hours, and 1,332 for the present system of longer hours. Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for Clare, who recently returned to England from a tour through the Australian colonies, declared in the couise of a speech in Dublin that nob mora than fifty people in those colonies eided with tbe Parnellites.

The Wanganui Meat Freezing Company have resumed operations in preparation for the arrival of the Tyser liner chartered steamship Indramayo, which is expected ab Wanganui in a few days. There are something like 12,000 carcases ready, killing operations going on at the rate of 500 per day.

The Western Australian loan Is regarded with indifference in London, bub thab it> will be successfully floated is looked upon as almost certain. The Government of the colony wished to apply for half a million, but the bank declined to take the matter ia hand with that sum.

Mr Walter Bentley and his dramatic company produced the famous rjsychological play, " The Bells," at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, lasb night, before a very large audience. The performance was a great success. , The acting was excellent, and the piece was well mounted.

At last night's meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council a com* munication was' read from the Premier, simply acknowledging the receipt of the Council's resolution re the appointments to the Legislative Council. Mr Ballance expressed no opinion whatever regarding tha resolution.

The annual New South Wales stock report shows that; up to Ist January last the following increases in the number of head of stock in the colony had taken place as compared with the year ending Ist January, 1891: —Horses, 15,000; cattle, 103,000; sheep, Bad weather and rabbits had considerably interfered with lambing, which was 68 per cent.

The claims made by the natives at Parakino (Wanganui) are, with two exceptions, the same as those .made by them ab the meeting at Otorohanga, and practically conceded by the Native Minister. The Hon. Mr Cadman does not attach any im-_ portance to the meeting at Parakino, because ib was got up for tbe purposes of agitation, at the instance of Major Kemp. Owing to the wet weather the Temper* ance Demonstration arranged for yesterday at the Botanical Reserve at Nelson had to be postponed. The rain has cleared, and the weather, promises to be fine to-day, when the principal attractions are the Volunteer review of all the volunteers in the district and a bowling contesb between the Nelson and Wellington Bowl- \ ing Clubs. A section of the natives ab Mokaa are disputing Mr Joshua Jones' right to a lease of land there. Jones has been putting in, piles for the foundation of a bouse be is going to erect, and the natives have pulled them up. Inspector Pardy has left New Plymouth for Mokau in the s.s. Rowena to inquire into the affair, and haß nob returned. No news of any disturbance has reached the police in New Plymouth. i

Don'tcher know ? What article of daily consumption is pioduced solely by bachelors ? Give it up. Why, Arthur Nathan's Ceylon tea, of course. Grown by tho Single He's (Cingalese).—(Advt.)

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