TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 168, 16 July 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail gone. y _ '■ Pleasant weather. ; > ■ "" . ' ■ Mariposal passed through... . .- " ■ Madame Goldenstedt""_arewelled. " Football matches this afternoon. S.s. Ovalau has left iifere for Fiji.: Mount Etna is iv active eruption. : Auckland Poultry Show'closes to-night.' Idaho (U.S.) is iv a." state of rebellion..' 8 Mr Gladstone's return to power expected.; " Reign of terror" prevails in Idaho (U.S.). ,*,:. .... Labour troubles irvldaho (U.S.) are becoming more intehs-.. . Lord Salisbury will-wail, for an adverse vote before resigning' '" 'Miss Otic Chew, of; Auckland, has been seriously ill in London.; ■• • Madame Goldensfedt leaves here; for ", Australia early next week. ''' '-"£_- influx of intending gumdigge-8 is expected here from Australia. An Argentine torpedo - catcher has founded off.the coast of Uruguay. ,"Th*.Shazello Cpmpanywill be back hera .ffdth FijHn about six weeks'time." ' 'Fifty-two • passengers arrived here lasb evening from Sydney by the Mariposa. ' The Auckland Savage Club h'bld a meeting at thel Club-rdbm, Princes-street, this evening.'. ■- ■ '*--.- , Mr; W. H. Thorp, of Clevedon, Wairoa South, fell down stairs in his house recently and was seriously injured. ■''Mr C. Vo9s» -^ptpr and ventriloquist,' tak^es a farewell benefit in the City Hall oa Wednesday, tho 27th inst. * Sunday evening service ab 8 o'clock in the City Hall, open to all. Strangers'and visitors cordially invited. " There are now six .travelling opera and dramatic, companies in West)' Australia,; ahd all are "dbirig good business. 'A largVnumber of Austrians arrived here from Sydney lasb evening by; tha Mariposa to go gumdiggihg in the country. General H. Duryea, of a New York commercial house, is on the Mariposa, returniugto America*fr6m a trip to Australia. • 'Two days after the R.M.s. Monowai lefb . here on her last trip, to San Francisco no less.thah 15 'stowaways were discovered. ' Infanticide is increasing, to an alarming extent in ;Sydney.Lapt w.ek four cases " wero brought under the notice ,of tho; police.* _„ ''"' ■■'~-.'• ''.-■■; : '■'''■ :; The Hon. A. J. Cadman has informed the Ohinemuri County Council that the rate of subsidi-s to local bodies will hot be:reduced this year. ,"..'.' "'' ** .' '* ' ""- Miss Virgie Earle, late, of Rice's "Evangeline ".Operetta. Company, isl pa the R.M.s. Mariposa,',.returning to .'Frisco from Sydney. . *'..- ■■■'■'■"■".■'■'■'■)'' The Rev. Mr Chew announces thab another of '.his; Bpecial discourses will be, de« livered ;at the Beresford-strcre. Congregational Church to-morrow evening.' ' The Otago Harbour "Board, will request! * the' Governmenb-to vote a sum for extending; the .wharf at Port Chalmers under the ■'s cphtrol of the Railway Cpmmissiohers. . '""'■-' Major Calhoun,' of the U.S. Army, has arrived here-from San Francisco on a ' - special mission,'., being' accredited by tha U.S. Government to inquire into various colonial questions of interest to the American people, y ; The Rev. C. .W. Browning has left London'by' the R.M.s. Doric, to join; the Melanesian Mission staff. . The Melanesian Mission'"*-ch-bner,' 'Southern'"Cross, " will * ' avyait his arrvial here, about the first week of next ynjantlx. ■ _•; y _. . * - .".'' The ship Minister, from Rio, was, granted pratique: at"■"-Newcastle latejy.. During the stay of the vessel at Rio, tha .s tie ward "and two seamen were stricken with yellow foyer. Thoy were removed .from the ship toi the hospital, but all three, died. ■ There are now #60,781 sheep in Waikato, including62,9lo in the Whakatane County,'"' which was, originally, part of the Napier sheep district.'.. This .is. a hot increase of 85,202 upon the" number of laat year, in addition to the Whakatane flocks. Since the year 1886' sheep have increased in the district frbih 97,000 to' the above Dumber. VAb' a* meebing of the Geraldirie Counby c Council:'(Canterbury), the Council placed on record its appreciation of.the valuable services rendered'to' the colony by the late Sir; Harry > Atkinson, and .the deep feeling pf regreb'.at'his death, and aym- . pathy and condolence with Lady Atkinson and family in their bereavemonb. The Otago Harbour Board have passed a resolution .urging on the Government tha speedy prosecution of the Otago Central railway as far as Ewenburn. , Aba special meeting of the Trados and Labour Council, it was resolved bo call a meeting of Unionists and the public generally wibh ■ a view to urging oh the rapid , prosecution of work on the Otago Central railway:. .' At a meeting of the Otago Harbour Board yesterday .the. Chairman of the Finance Committee reported that bhe position of the . Board, for the half-year showed an improvement of £2,045, as compared with the same period of last * year*.y. The' general imports showed an increase of 500 tons, and the bransshipments4oo tons^ The great falling off had been in coal and timber. Honey statistics indicate the number of ■■' ' whab ':■.' the ■■'■■. early English : lexicographer^ Nicholas Bailey, calls ''mansions for bees." The hives are estimated .-r-G-eece,'-30,000 ; Denmark, ,90,000;: Ru.sia, '110,000; Belgium, : 200,000.: Netherlands,, 240,000; France, 950,000; Germany, 1,450,000;' Austria, 1,558,000. -In the United States.: .2.800,000 bees produce 61,000,0001b of honey, y- _ •■ 'An interesting announcement was.made a short time since -in several of the scientific papers, t both at Home and abroad, of the settled purpose pf the Chinese:to pub down a complete plant for the manufacture of iron and:steel, comprising two large blast, furnaces, and a rolling mill, with all;the necessary appliances to produce plates, bars, rails, etc., of either steel or iron, -the very latest types of Bessemer and Siemens-' Martin plant being included. The value of the trade of China for the past year rose from 214,000,000 taels in 1890 to 234,000,000 taels, which is the highest total ever recorded. The customs revenue for 1891, 23,518,021 taels, which is the largest on record, shows an increase over that of 1890 of 1,521,795 tiiels. The' great'developmenb in the volume of foreign trade during .the year called for the em"ployment of a niuch larger amount of tonnage than during 1890. The entries from foreign ports in 1891 were 3,476, aggregating 3,377,495 tons against 3,114 vessels of 5.9.-.092 tons in 1890. The grand total of, . entries and clearances at the treaty port custom hope was 27,710.789 tons., C. G. Laurie's Eucalyptus Tablets are the greatest cure and preventative of colds yeb known. r-(Advb.) ■' John L. Wilson, 267, Queen-sbreefc-notifies Saturday evening purchasers that he will offer this evening some very special bargains in crockery and glass.—(Advt.)