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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather unsettled. Riflemen coming homei' Crisis in Egypt averted. ■" More news of Waikato floods. A. Ballinger won the rifle belt;. Railway accident in the Waikato. Serious inundations up"the country. England has made Egypt to "back down." ' " •, German warship Bussard will be docked shortly. ' '* A goods train partially wrecked on fcha Waikato line. Costley training Institution subscribers meet this evening. Hon. Mr Cadman leaves for the Bay of Plenty to-morrow. Another cricketer has dropped dead, thia time at Woodville. " Green Lanes of England " again at the Opera House to-night. Auckland Burns Club holds its usual meeting this evening. The Waikato River was 13fb above its or-, dmary level yesterday. \: " Johnny, give me a proverb." " Ampu* tation is the thief of legs." The island of Motiti, Bay of Plenty, was auctioned in Auckland to-day. The Government have the purchase of the Opuatia Block, near Waiuku, in hand. About Christmas time one is apt to ex-> claim, how time flies—and the money ! You can never depend on proverbs. Ona says silence is golden; another saya money talks. The " King Country " train, stuck up al Otorohanga by the floods, baa been released. Two very interesting articles extracted from Sydney files are published on page 3 of this issue. A large cargo of wool is about to be despatched hence to London by the barqua North brook. . A lamp-post at the corner of Cook and Albert-streets was broken last evening by a bolting horse. The Puniu River, Waikato, was 30fb above ita ordinary level yesterday, through the heavy rains. An extract from the latest book on etiquette: "Nothing excusea impoliteness but a bad toothache." The Earl of Burford leaves here for Sydney by next steamer, on his return trip tc England from the colony. Mrs Cooper Oakeley, a prominent Theo« sophical lecturer, is to leave London shortly on a visit to the Australasian colonies. The U.S.S. Company's s.s. Tarawera left Dunedin yesterday for the West Coast! Sounds, with 110 excursionists, mosb of whom were tourists. A telegram from Dunedin states that tha men who were supposed to be lost) in tha bush at Catlin's (Otago), turned up yesterday, after two days in the bush. This year the Auckland Freezing Company expect to send away from Auckland to London 25,000 to 30,000 carcases frozen sheep and lambs, and next year more. At a short sitting of the Native Lands Court in Auckland yesterday, Judge Voo Stunner adjourned three applications for the partition of the Orakei land block to Helensville. The House Steward of the Hospital desires to thank tho officers of H.M.b. Katoomba and tho Town Clark for a gift oE illustrated and other papers ; and Mr H. B. Russell for a gift of lemons for use in that institution. Major Harris, of Pukekohe, has urged the Hon. Mr Cadman to get the Minister of Lands to put on the estimates next session a sum of £150 for a road from Buckland Station, on the Waikato Railway, to tho Razorback South Road. At the inquest at Nelson on the body of William Tregcr, who evidently hanged himself, the jury returned a verdict "Thafj death had been caused by the dislocation of the man's neck, but that there was not evidence to show how the injury bad been inflicted." The Hon. Mr Cadman has been detained in town through the non-arrival from ;tba upper Waikato of three Government native officers, who were to accompany him to tha Eaßt Coast and the Urewera country—. Messrs Elliott, Sheridan, and Wilkinson—, who are detained by the floods on the railway line. The "Kumara (West Coast) Times" announces the marriage at that town of Mr A. Brandon-Cremer, manager of the Amy Vaughan-Cowan Pantomime Company, to Miss A. Wyniard, of Auckland. Both tha parties are well-known to erstwhile patrons of the Vaughan Company at the Uity Hall, in Auckland. Major Harris, of Pukekohe, yesterday aeked the Hon. Mr Cadman to urge tha Government to take over the main roads of tho Pukekohe district, where the burden was too heavy for the settlers. Mr Cadman says the proposal could not be entertained, as it practically meant taking over, tha main roads of the colony; 'v,,. Last year there were fcrty-eighf) bankruptcies in Wellington. The assets filed amounted to £11,047 (inclusive of £5,324 secured to creditors), the amount realised by the Official Assignee being £3,099. The liabilities filed, excluding amounts secured to creditors, were £24,198. Tha sum of £1,869 was paid in dividends.