TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 212, 6 September 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Premier is ill. 'Frisco mail due on Friday. Terrible mortality from cholera, Interprovincial football to-morrow. Outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday. Supreme Court civil sessions procoeiing. Next Italian concert on Thursday evening next. The London " Sun " eulogises Sir George Grey. Italian singers created greab furore lasb night. " Famine " again at the Opera House to* night. New Zealand taking precautions againsb cholera. Another disastrous fire has occurred in Russia. S.s. Upolu has left here for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. English Comic Opera Company opena here next week. Ship Oawaru has arrived ab. London safely from Picton. A British chip has been losb in the Atlantic with all hands. The " Guelph Fund " has been spent in the German secret service. Committee on the "rival routes" will sit at Wellington shortly. "The Gondoliers" at Abbott's Opera House next Thursday week. Thecxporb of coal products from Greymouth last week was 5,442 tons. Band of Hope Union action song enter* tainment at the City Hall this evening. Lodge Ara, 348, 1.C., last evening voted £100 for a jubilee commemoration fund. The B.M.s. Alameda left Sydney lasb evening for Auckland and San Francisco. The Canterbury Football Team went on a fishing excursion down the harbour today. Auckland Choral Society's third orchestral concert of the season next Thursday evening. Bands were not allowed to play through though the streets in Limerick (Ireland) during the general election. The American barque Mary Hasbrouck, hence to New York, takes away from Auckland about 500 tons of kauri gum. The benefit concert) tendered to Mra Edmonds by Miss Scott resulted in tba amount of £13 3s 2d being realised on her behalf. The Government offer a reward of £250 for the identification of the gun found ab the scene of the Lora Gorge murder, Invercargill. Article I. in the Nicaraguan Articles of War: " Any man who speaks against tha Government will be shot." It's straight, anyhow. One hundred thousand francs is the estimate of the loss sustained by tbe French Mission through the recent raid in Uganda (Central Africa). A Treasure Ship.—The Alameda t from Sydney for San Francisco, has £100,000 worth of specie aboard from Australia for the United States. The cook at the Auckland Hospital Nurses' Home has resigned her "appointment " owing to it being hinted to her tbab her cooking was not quite " Friuch." The Dobsou-Kennedy Dramatic Company returned from Whangarei last night by the b.b. Wellington, after a northern season. The Company now go up the Kaipara. Duncan McDonald, of Hokitika, Supreme Court crier, and a very old resident, fell dead in the street opposite the Court yard yesterday of heart disease.

Spring weather at Whangarei, roads drying up, early potatoes being planted; large sale of stock at Kamo.on Wednesday next, 400 head of stores from the North. A special meeting of all the Auckland school teachers is to be held on Saturday next in order to discusa the salary schema now before the Auckland Board of Education.

The apostle of the Japanese lepers, Father Teafceviudo, recently fell a victim to the disease, and died at the Leper Hospital, Gotemba. He is succeeded by Father Vigroux.

A prisoner named John Brockbank, sentenced to a month's gaol for being drunk and disorderly, was brought down here trom Whangarei last night by the s.s. Wellington. Special mail number of New Zealand " Graphic," with views of Auckland, North Shore, Parnell and magnificent frontispiece, "A New Zealand Beauty," ready to-morrow.

" English as she is spoke " at the Auckland Charitable Aid Board. " 'Ow is yer legs?" was the somewhat personal query put to an ancient pauper up before the Board yesterday afternoon. SirGeo. R. Dibbs, Premier of N.S.W., and Sir Matthew Davies, Speaker of the Legislative Council ot Victoria, will pass through here on Friday next by the H.M.s. Mariposa from San Francisco for Sydney. The Supreme Court, HokiMka, was occupied all day yesterday with the Conlon poisoning case. The case has nob yeb concluded. The evidenoe was similar to that adduced at the magisterial investigation.

The "Northern Advocate" states in reference to the Prospectors' Company, Puhijiuhi, that two more 2d calls will" liquidate all the debts of the Company, and they will then have their claim and battery free of debt.

The meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday afternoon was the shortest on record, only lasting two hours and a-quarter. Some of the members aro beginning to realise that "silenceis golden." The Maoris ab Aorangi (Palmerstoa North) have been holding meetings for a week for the purpose of making arrangements for Te Kooti's visit to thab district in the summer. A large number came from Waikato and Wanganui districts.

The Miniater of Public Works has replied to the request from the Mayor of Dunedin to employ men oub of work on the Otago Contral, thab it is unreasonable to ask the Government to pub men on work at which they cannot be profitably employed.

Blowing their own trumpets ! Tha Chairman of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board announced yesterday afternoon that •• no Board in the colony had shown more energy and ability in the carrying out of hospital and charitable relief work than the Auckland Board." At a_ meeting of shop assistants at Dunedin, it was decided to recommend the striking out of the clause making it compulsory to provide sitting accommodation for female assistants; also, that the haltholiday be made uniform for all trades. With these alterations, it was resolved bo petition the Council to pass the Bill., Sophia Jones, 16 years of age, servant at the Heathcote Arms Hotel) Chriatchurch, was arrested on suspicion of being tha mother of the new-born infant whose body was found in the Heathcote. She was brought up ato the Resident Magistrate's Court, and remanded to, Friday. The inquest on the child has been adjourned for a week. No evidence has yeb been offered in the case. i «.