TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Storms and floods,

Wet in the South. Lord Onslow weather-bound. Heavy rain here last evening. Another New York horror. Milton was born this day 1608. Manapouri arrived from South. Groat loss of property in Otago; Stratford route meeting to-mghb. Wainui arrived from South Sea Islands; Presbyterian General Assembly to-nighv, Madame Goldenstedts concert next Tuesday.

Another Australian bank has gone " broke."

Blaino does nob want to be United States President.

Count DeLauney, Italian Ambassador to Germany, has died of influenza in Berlin.

The Jesuits will elect a Vicar-General in place of tho lato Father Anderledy in May.

Pybup, the levanting stockbroker, was sentenced to four years' hard labour at Brisbane.

The agitation by the London Socialis.sin favour of free speech has been abandoned for the present.

The treatment of Chili by the United Stat6s has alienated the Central and South American Republics.

The question of impeaching Senhor Carvalho, of Portugal, has been referred to a committee in Lisbon.

Mr Morley, in tho course of a speech in England, severely criticised Mr Chamberlain's pension scheme.

The articles for the sculling match between Stanbury and Sullivan will be signed at Sydney in a fortnight.

Dr. Menzies has resigned the office of resident physician at the Auckland Hospital. He is going back to Napier. Tho special excursion to Northcote arranged by the Devorfporb Ferry Company for last evening had to be postponed owing to the wet weather.

The rioters at Xeres (Spain), who v/oro condemned to death, will be executed on Wednesday. The workmen's societies intend to suspend work on that day.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Lidderdalo (Governor of the Bank of England), and the Rothschilds, are in favour of introducing geld coinage in Austria gradually.

The Rev. J. Watkina, from Tonga, and the Rev. Mr Crossby, from Vavau," in the same group, arrived in town this morning by the Island stoamer Wainui, each being on a brief viait to Auckland.

Influenza is very severe in Port Albert. Many are affected, and a few dangerously. Dr. Mountaine, of Maungaturoto, is now in the district. Most of the members of several families are laid up.

All tho Ministers are in Wellington except the Postmaster-General, who is Eaid to be on his way there. The Kon. Mr McKenzie will visit Taranaki towards tho end of fche present month, or th 9 beginning of next; he also proposes to visit Te Aroha, Hamilton, and tho Waikato towns before the end of the recess.

Mr Robert Comer (Thames) has received tho following telegram from the manager in charge of tho coal prospecting: party at VVaitakaruru :—" Cub good coal. Into id cix feet. Shaft down 63 feet. Splendid quality." This is the third seam of coal met with whilst sinking tho shaft —tho firet) being 13 feet thick, the 6econu 3 fest.

The schoolmaster's residence at Rotorua was burned to the ground on Saturday night. Most of the furniture was saved through the efforts of Messrs Bussey and Croker, who wero early on the scene, and would have extinguished the fire altogether had water bean procurable. The fire originated in an outhouse. Tho house was built by the Education Department twelve months '»£o at a cost of £315. An inquiry took place yesterday.

The adjourned meeting of the Trade and Labour Council, which was to have taken place on Thursday last, is to be held in the Wesley Hall on Wednesday evening, lObh. inst. The city and suburban members of Parliament and several Ministers are cxpocted to address the meeting, and Mr Bust will read a paper on "Labour Organisations, their origin, past progress, and future prospects," All classes of male and female labour are cordially invited, whether organised or otherwise.

Our Hamilton correspondent says:—" Ivlr J. McNiool put up a record on Saturday, I think, at his horse sale (a special one too by the way). A mob of horses had been brought over from Gisborne way ; a rather nondescript lob certainly they were, and bidding was mighty dull. None could be gold singly, and in the end a sporting offer was made and accepted by the vendor, a gentleman present purchasing the lob (21 in number) at seven shillings each, or seven guineas for the let, and he afterwards added atiotkertothemobafctheuriceofhalf a-crown. I leave it to you readers to imagine the class of horses they were. When I heard of this sale I must say that I wondered how tho animals had been como by, but on inquiry I was credibly informed that they only cosb live shillings a head at Poverty Bay, co that) there was not much loss on them after all."