TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 297, 14 December 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Beautif.i. weather. Influenza rife in the South. Another Soudan war is expected. Waihora for Sydney this evening. Waikomiti poisoning case still proceed, ing. Academy of Arts' Exhibition is still open. Work on the Nicaragua Canal may ba re* aumed. H.M.s. Goldfinch has left Wellington for Auckland. Sir George Grey is benefitting consider' ably by hia visit to Rotorua. The Hon. A. J. Cadman is expected hers from Wellington before Christmas. " The Land of the Living" will be repeated at the Opera House this evening,, Owing to tho prevalence of influenza, tha Kensington School, Dunedin, was closed yesterday. < i Mr C. F. Goldie, who has several good' pictures in the Academy of Art Exhibition, intends going to Paris to study art. The Auckland College and Grammar School distribution of prizes will take place at the Opera House at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Influenza is very prevalent in Blenheim, there being many cases in town. ■ Ono young man died of influenza on Saturday. Mr E. Reynolds, the local cyclist, goes South to represent Auckland at the Cyclists Championship Meeting, to-morrow. Messrs Wilson and Clayton will offer for sale Rev. J. D. Gilmore's household furniture and effects at Curraß-street tomorrow. Mr Alfred Nathan and Mrs Nathan, of the firm of L. D. Nathan and Co., returne d to Auckland by the s.s. Tarawera fro-m Sydney la.-t evening, after an absence <of two years. An address is announced to be given 'tomorrow evening, by Mr Buckland. on •' 7l"ha Legislation of tho Past Session," in the Rooms of the National Association, 123, Queen-street. A horse attached to a buggy containing two young ladies bolted yesterday ira tha Mount Albert district, while coming in to town from Avondale, bub was pulled up after Borne trouble, before any damage was done. On Friday night the management of tha Holloway Dramatic Company will tender Miss Alice and Miss Constance Deorwyn a joint benefit in the evergreeui drama "East Lynne," which will be produced by special request. The Dunbar-Berkeley Dramatic Company, including Mr C. J. S. Palmer, visib Hamilton on Friday and Saturday next, playing "My Sweetheart." Tbe Company is an exceptionally good one, acid bhe country people are promised a treat,, Mr Thos. Bell, the pioneer settler on Sunday Island, Kermadec Group, writes us asking for a good receipt for curing Angora goat skins, so as to make tb.em soft and pliable without injuring the hair. Ha purposes sending some to Auckland. Peter Antonio, an Assyrian hawker, who left Hobarfa lately, was found in tho Apsly River, near Bothwell, Tasmania, with two bullet wounds in his neck. Ho bad about 100 sovereigns in Mb possession when he left Hobart. It is believed to be a case of murder. The Bluff Harbour Board, yesterday, reBolved to reduce all charges on goods and shipping by 10 per cent., beginning on tho Ist of January, The remission"' will ba w equal to £1,200 a year, and a-.cornmitfceo recommended that a further, reduction should be considered twelv_ taonsjsihance. The Board has at present about" £6,000 per annum clear for expenditure on works. Boys' suitß are a speciality with Smith and Caughey. Immense assortment and Bterling value.—(Advt.)