TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 259, 29 October 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather gpMdid.' Summer dret ses out. Crickeb mi|c hes to-day. Eumours ftf' ear in Samoa. , Boating soae )n fairly opened. V.R.C. Deti y was run to-day. Hod, Mr Kei yes speaks to-nighb, Melbourne i >up will be ran next Tuosday. . m Snazellelo bho Choral Hall on Monday nighb. . ;,■,, H.M.g. Rjnf arooma leaves for Samoa this afternoon. :■, M Lord Glasge »; opens the Museum new annexe to-njgl t The Hon. M • Reoves leaves for Wellington on Mondji; morning. Mr Snazelle will sing at St. Matthew's Church to-moi row evening. Auckland t rangemen turn out) to-mor-row to celebra o the sth of November. Mr W. H.*J ide will preside at the organ at St. Paul'a.ip rening service to-morrow. Newton Congregational Sunday-school anniversary so vices to-morrow in the Choral Hall. HJ A meeting of retail traders to consider the weekly half-holiday is to be held in the V.M.C.A. Rooms at 10 a.m. on Monday. The canvass of retail shops re the weekly half-holiday!has resulted:—76 shops for Wednesday" haif-holiday ,• 75 for Saturday, i The Rev. ;F. G. Evans, from To Aroha, will deliver an address at the Sunday evening evangelistic service in. the City Hall. Tin Pepane and Taki Hotere Rawhiti, charged with cattle-stealing in the north, have been committed for trial by the Kawakawa Bench. There are now nearly 600 names on the Old Colonistß' roll being compiled by Mr J. J. Craig.. The list will be closed on Monday evening. Star summary on Thursday will contain full accounts of the Old Colonists' gathering, the Governor's reception, and general news of interest. 'The "At Home " advertised to be held in the Young Men's Christian Association next Friday, 4th November, is postponed till a later date. . The Band of Hope contesb concludes this evening in the Foresters' Hall, when tha * popular dialogue contest will no doubt attract a good audience. TheEllerslie School Committee gave a unanimous vote last night in favour of Mr H. Wilding as candidate for the vacant soab on the Board of Education. / The tailore|Bes' log question will be considered on Ttesday at the Harbour Board Office by .the! Employers' Association and theclothing manufacturers. The new Ahckland Regatta Committee is composed of (ten members of the general public, six members of the Yacht Club, aud six .'of .the Rotvjne Association. The Coromandel gold mine, Coromandel, . was flooded/out on Thursday night. The <i= miners had a narrow escape from drown- , ing, having sbroken into the Pa mine old workings. X The juvenile dance in connection with ( Pousonby <f F At Home," which , waß heldlast evening in the Ponsonby Hall, was attended iSplbout 90 couples, the affair being most successful. j Mr G. Jl. Hill, Queen-street, announces a !larce,p|lchTße of saddlery? of all kinds, stable requisites, etc., at a considerable dis- . count/aijid, jt-higji he is offering at a special reduction from usual prices. .jjgjj : • The Auckland baripentine Jessie, from Long Island to the Bluff, guano-laden, called at Hokitika yesterday short of water aiid provisions. The crew were in sore straits fpr want of water. ■The Ark of Eden Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will celebrate its112 th anniversary in the Eden Hall, on Tuesday, November Ist. Songs will be given by Messrs Menzies, Rowe, Ellis, Miles,! Misses Grindrod, Moncur, and other friends. . At tha meeting of the Irish National Federation on Thursday night last), the Hon. Mr McCullough was included in the resolution moved by the President having reference to<the recent appointments from Auckland to the Legislative Council. To-morrow afternoon the Devon porb Ferry Company will despatch one of their popular steamers to St. Helier's Bay. The steamer will leave the ferry tee at 2.30, remaining at the Bay till 5 o'clock, thus allowing excursionists time for a ramble on shore. . . It will be Been by our ad vertißing columns that the Presbyterians are holding a conference on Monday to discuss the all important question of " The relation of the Church to present day amusements." There should be a good attendance and a spirited discussion. At the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Jubilee Convalescent Fund, in Dunedin, the report showed that 26 persons had been assisted. The expenses had been slightly over £38. A suggestion that some men should.bo appointed members of the committee was disapproved of, as being against the constitution undor which tha fund was established. Wilson's Portland Cement equals the besb imported, and is used by the Government. A trial aolicited. Hydraulic, shell, and Roche lime, sand, etc., sold.—J. Wilson and Co.—(Advt.) That feeling of weariness so often experienced rusulfcs from a sluggish condition of the blood. Ayer's Sarsaparilla strong. t hens and invigorates the system. It is a highly concentrated extract and economical to use.—(Advb.)