TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

foLi farewelling. | Boating Beacon opened. Bowling Beason opened to-day, , Summer weather is approaching. Hunt Club races at Ellerslie to-day. Bicycle road race took place this afterjcon.

British troops and the " Chins " will fiehb ihorfcly. 8

Lord Glasgow remains here for aboub a feeklonger. ! Lord Carrington may ba the nexb vice* py of India.

Museum new annexe is to be opened nexfi Saturday evening. 'Lord Glasgow and party were at tha itces at Ellerslie to-day. The Governor and party attended Foil's concert in the Opera House last evening. JProfeesor Carrollo's annual athletic car* nival at the Opera House this evening. "Juno" tobacco agency has been transferred to Messrs Carr, Johnston and Co. . About 100 cases under the Electoral Acb sill come before the R.M, Courb on Monday next.

Miss Snazelle will sing the aria •' I Know Ibab My Redeemer Liveth " at Sb. Paul's to-morrow night.

The New assembly of the Knights of Labour are called to meet on Monday at the Sb. George's Hall.

The s.s. Mararoa, which left Wellington for Sydney yesterday, took 113 passengers, of whom 74 booked there.

An old settler named Michael Quinn, who arrived at Wellington in 1842, died there on Thursday night, aged 81.

A meeting of the Auckland Liberal As* sociation will be held on Monday evening at the Rooms, High-street, ab 8 o'clock.

The Governor's " triumphal arch" in Lower Queen-street is to stand till Monday next. The city fathers are excessively proud of it. The delegates to the Stock Conference, to open at Wellington in the Parliamentary Buildingß on Tuesday, were to arrive, there to-day.

Gas and coke consumers are reminded that Tuesday the 26th instant is the last day upon which any discount can be allowed ou their accounts.

The Mayor of the Thames (Mr James Renehaw) has decided to convene a meat' ing for Monday evening next, to discuss the Shops and Shop Assistants Act. Mr W. H. Jude, the eminent organist! and composer, will preside at the organ in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (lower Symonda-street) during the morning eervice to-morrow.

The Rev. Charles K. Currey of the Pro. testant Episcopal Church, U.S.A., is advertised to deliver a lecture on " Church of England Ritualism," in St. James' Hall on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. Mr E. Whitaker (son of the late Sir F. Whitaker), who left here some time back for South Africa, has returned to tha colony. He has arrived at Wellington from the Cape by the S.s. lonic.

Mr Tbos. Mitchell, milkman, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday suffering from, a broken leg. He was thrown from his trap near, Mount Eden, and one of the wheels fractured his thigh.

Two young men named Thomas Palmer and James Folks were committed for trial at Wellington yesterday on a charge oE violently assaulting and robbing John George Duhig, Bchool teacher, of Blenheim.

The Roalyn (Dunedin) Borough Council have adoptad a report' of their Financa Committee, recommending the levying1 of a fate of 3d in the £, to bring before tho ratepayers plainly the coat of charitabla aid.

Special attention is called to the trada sale of English boots and shoes to be held by Messrs Gabriel-Lewis and Co. on Thursday next. The lines comprire a largo assortment of new styles for the present season,

The Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Show on October 26 and 27 promises to ba a great success, provided the evenb is favoured with fine weather. Special train fares are announced, Entries number closo on 600.

Hospital Sunday, which was instituted in Auckland with such great success lasb year by the united Friendly Societies, will be observed this year on tho 13th of next month, and the City Hall will be tha scene of the gathering, i Lasb evening a rehearsal of the Anglican Diocesan choir was held in St. Mary's Church, Parnell, Mr A. Towsey conducting, in preparation for the Diocosan Synod festival service, which is to be holil in tha Chorai Hall ou the 4th prox.

A concert by the Ladies' Part Song Club will be held in Sb. Sepulchre's schoolroom on Monday, 24th. This is the first appearance of this club, and judging, from tha members of which it is formed, we shall hope to hear good things of it in the future. To-morrow afternoon H.M.s, Ringarooms, will be open for public inspection, to which the ferry steamers will run ab short intervals, the first steamer leaving at 1.30. The Eagle will run to Sb. Helier's Bay, leaving at 2.30, returning from the Bay ab 5 o'clock.

Aba meeting convened by the Mayor oE Christchurch for the purpose of forming a Central Committee to raise funds for a Btatue to Sir 11. Atkinson in Christ* church it was decided that the local bodies should eend in whatever funds will ba raised in the respective districts. The anniversary services of the Newmarkeb Wesleyan Church will be commenced to-morrow, when sermons will ba Siven by Revs. S. J. Serpell, G. D.Cox, W. Lee. Special music at each service. Tha tea and public meeting will be held on Tuesday evening. The South Dunedin branch of the Liberal Association have paseed a resolution that while the Association are in favour of the unicameral system, the Governmenb should be congratulated on the selection of members for the Council and their recognition of the rights of labour re- ; presentafcivea. The Wellington "Post " last night points out .that the fourth section of tho Payment of Members' Bill provides that payment only begins from the date on which a member takes bis seat, consequently the new Legislative Councillor! will be unable to draw an honorarium until Parliament meets. It adds that the discovery has caused some surprise. The Band of Hope Union musical and elocutionary contest, which commences on Monday uext, in the Foresters' Hall, Newton, promises to be very Bucceesful. Nearly 150 competitors will take part in tho various sections, and each evening's programme is so arranged aa to form an interesting entertainment. Owing to tha number ot competitors the contesb will occupy every evening but Wednesday. There will be a concert and tableaux at St. George's Hall on Tuesday night. Tho tableaux will be " The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," "The Three Old Maida of Lea," "You Dirty Boy," "Private and Confidential," "Group of Nations." Tho concert will be an attractive parb of tho programme. A stall of needlework will bo well furnished with things, useful and artisftif and a cup of coffee, etc., during the interval should assist people living evet| ab some distance bo decide on going. The Babua in Albert-street will be o!oseo\ on Monday, from 8 ftiDl,, for sjwjlng.^*