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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 91, 19 April 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather damp. Very heavy downpour. Winter overcoats in use. Manapouri loft for Sydney Star summary tomorrow. Desperate riots in Belgium. 'Frisco mail arrives on Friday. " Fauat Up to Date " laughable. 5.3. Richmond for the Island to-nighb. " Carmen up to Data " on Friday nigbfc. Two more nights of "Faust Up To Date." A big tangi is taking place over Te Kooti at Ohiwa. Te Kooti died from asthma and probably too much waipiro. Canada wants the colonies to join in the Vancouver mail service. Sir Patrick Buckley, Colonial Secretary, has arrived here from Rotorua. Mr John Fairburn, J.P., of Otabuhu, is lying dangerously ill of heart disease. Tasao B. Hall commences practice tomorrow, at Merlin House, Hobson-sbreefc. Lady Glasgow and party paid a visit to the Star printing establishment yesterday afternoon. The Minister of Lands will address hia constituents at Wellington towards the end of the month. It is probable that the Hon. W, P. Reeves will be in Auckland shortly, and will give a public address. A boy named Albert Martin, aged 18, died suddenly in the street at Oamaru yesterday. An inquest was to be held today. " Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-ay," as Bung and danced by Miss Alice Learner in " Fausb Up To Date " is a very attractive performance. Three stacks of threshed grain have been destroyed by fire near Oamaru during the past week in one locality, and incendiarism is suspected. Forty tourists left Rotorua for Auckland and elsewhere on Monday last. The tourist traffic ab the Hob Lakes has been fairly satisfactory of late. The following Otago mining returns are announced :—Roxburgh, 71oz 15dwt amalgam for twenty days; Island Block Extended, 88oz for the week. At Napier yesterday the Hon. J. D. Ormond was again elected chairman of the Education Board, a position which he baa held since the passing of the Act. Aba lecture nob long ago, a scientist uttered the following passage:—"All along the untrodden paths of the past we discern the footprints of an unseen hand." A lad named F. Hunb, when playing in a football match on Saturday, at Hamilton, broke his leffa arm above the elbow. Hia injury wa3 atbended to by Dr. Brewis. A snake of a venomous variety wag landed in a case of bananas at Napier yesterday, and was found and killed when the case was unpacked in a fruiterer's shop. "Sans Deo" is the way a Chicago compositor preferred to set up " Lavs Deo " in a programme of church music. Nobody in Chicago noticed the difference, of course. The Government have just bought from Mr Todd, of Otahuhu, a section near the public school at Otahuhu, forthe purpose of building a police-station and court house. A deaf and dumb book canvasser has been turned on at Birmingham. Such is the relief at seeing a book-peddler without hearing; him that this man is fairly coining money. " Damphoolery " is the latest word which has crept into the American newspaper leading articles. It is nob graceful and does not rhyme readily, bat it has its good point. At the draughts match ab Dunedin last night three games were played. Tho scores are now equal, Foreman having won one game, while the other two were drawn. The proprietor and editor of the Charleston " Herald " (WesD Coast), Mr P. Kitson, died yesterday of paralysis after a short illness. He leaves a widow and five children. A large body of men—friends and adherents of the Salvation Army, at Hamilton—were engaged on Monday in excavating the site fur the new army barracks, ab Hamilton. Subscription ligfcs have been opened in Hamilton on behalf of the widow of the late Mr Clarke, Inspector of Permanenb Way, who lately lost his life by drowning in the Waikato. In the war between Te Kooti and the Governmenb forces from 1868 to 1871 in the Auckland province, upwards of 600 Europeans and natives (friendly and hostile Maoris) were killed. "And behold the man, clothed with linen, which bad the ink-horn by his side reported the matter, saying, etc., etc.," (Ezekiel ix., 2). Evidently there were reporters even in those days. Is church union really so very far off after all ? Last night a " jaynial" Roman Catholic Father presided over a meeting of Presbyterian ministers, Anglican doctors, and others in the V.M.C.A. Rooms. Ten thousand more people died than were born in France last year. The trouble seems to be not on accounb of a high deathrate, bub a low birth-rate. This is a rather startling record for a thrifty people. On an average rain falls in London on 182 days each year, and every two days fog puts 25,000 people in this metropolis in a bed of illness. Whafa is needed is special legislation to deal with the weather. Sir Patrick Buckley will leave again for Wellington shortly in order to attend a meeting of the Cabinet which is to bo held immediately on his return to consider the death sentence on Alexander Scott. Te Kooti, jusb deceased in the Bay of Plenbly, was in the old days one of the hands on board a trading schooner running between Poverty Bay and Auckland, before toe war on tho East Coast broke out. Mr J. C. McLeod, of Opotiki, is well on the way to becoming a centenarian. He lately celebrated hi 3 ninety-first birthday. He remembers -distinctly the news of tha babtle of Waterloo reaching Scotland in 1815. The Agricultural Department has decided to establish an Agricultural Museum ab tha head office in Wellington for the display of samples of seeds and anything else of interesc to those concerned in the industry. Even Conservative farmers in South Australian country districts begin to ask (saya an Australian contemporary) : What is the use of a Governor ? " Get a rubber-stamp official signature instead," ia the lateeb suggestion. Mr George Patterson, gum merchant, of Kaikohe, Bay of Islands, has Bent forward valuable collections of kauri gum specimens, | consisting of 2,000 pieces, to the Chicago i Exhibition. Mr Patterson will visit the I World's Fair in September. They are agitating at iasb for a single, name to take the place of "tho United Kingdom of Greab Britain and Ireland " Erjg3cotireland or Calbriterinia are comprehensive names, but clumsy. A contemporary would vote for McEngireland. If, as has happened, Gladstone can get in tho Commonß, on a straight vote a majority of 47 favouring the release of the Irish dynamiters, he can easily win on any phase of the Irish question* No better test from a Tory standpoint^oukUa invented.