TABLE TALE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 93, 21 April 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALE.

■Fkisco mail arrived. Alatneda passed through. Suicide on the mail steamer. New bill at the Opera House. " Carmen up to Data " to-night. Monowai from Sydney to-night. The Belgian labour crisis is over. Few passengers by R.M.s. Alameda. IAlameda'a time from 'Frisco was 19 day£ 19 hours. ?■. Mr George Didsbury, Government, printer, is dead. •; The Governor leaves for Wellington to-V; morrow by the s.s. Hinemoa. M. Leon Driver, pianist, leaves for America to-morrow per mail steamer. Austrians are still flocking across horn Australia to the Auckland gumfields. Waitemata Boating Club special meeting this evening in the Shakespear Hotel. Mr A. McLeod opens a night school at the Newton East School on Monday next. The "court mourning" for old King George of Tonga will be ended on the sth of May. The Otahuhu brass band held their first monthly dance last night in the public hall, Otahuhu. The Alliance Association Football Club hold a practice match to-morrow in the outer Domain. Scott's death sentence will be considered by the Governor in Council at Wellington early next week. Plaintiffs in Bennett's New North Road contract cases are requested to communicate with Messrs Devore and Cooper. The Public Works Department is about to lay off the proposed line for a future line of railway through the Cheviot Estate. While with a wild cattle hunting party at Mount White, Canterbury, E. Chapman, of Springbank, was accidentally shot in tho thigh with a carbine. Lord and Lady Glasgow will visit Melbourne in order to see the Melbourne Cup, They will be the guests of Lord and Lady Hopetoun in Victoria. Dr. Konderdine again paid hia library rate of £2 Is 3d into Court yesterday by way of protest against the Public Library being open to the public on Sundaya. Wellington exhibitors at the Auckland Kennel Club Show write to express sincere thanks for the way in which their dogs were treated at the late show held in Auckland. The provisions of the Colonial Probates Act, passed by the Imperial Parliamenb last year, have been applied to New Zealand. The full text of the Act is published in the Gazette. It is suggested that the numerous fine,lakes in the Waikato district—covering many hundreds of acres—should be stocked with acclimatised fish. Catfish, tench, pike, or German carp are suggested. The Mayor of Auckland has received a* letter from Messrs Abbot and White, Opotiki, enclosing a cheque for £8 18s, as the second and final amount collected by them for the Queensland Relief Fund. The Rev. Mr Collins, pastor of the Ponsonby Baptist Church, has arrived ati Wellington by the s.s. Kaikoura from England. He is expected to arrive here in time to take at least one of the Sunday services. On the 21sfa inst., the young King ofTonga, George Taufaahau was installed] faka-Tonga —Tonga faabion—at Nukualofa. The ceremony of drinking Tcava was performed by the King and chiefs with greab solemnity. A private Bill is to be introduced intc Parliament noxt session in regard to the will of the late Hon. W. Robinson, its object being to create five separate trusts of the shares of bis daughter in his real and residuary estate. The Minister of Lands has been advised that a largo store and stables on the Cheviot Estate have been destroyed by fire.' The buildings burnt were only recently insured for £500, and came into possession of Government yesterday. The St. Albans' Young Men's Literary Class began its new Bession last evening in the school-house, Mount Roskill Road, when the president, Mr Ewington, delivered an amusing and instructive lecture on " Scenes in Clerical Life." Eighty-two persona were present. / There are still a few odd amounts coming in from the country districts, to which lists were sent on account of the New Hebrides relief fund. The Committee acknowledge receipt of £6 from Cambridge (per Rev. W. Evans), and £1 from A.B. (Mangawhare) per Rev. R. Scott West. A Sydney paper says : " A gigantic unemployed trouble looms in Victoria to keep Premier Patterson warm through the winter. An unsympathetic Government may presently be forced to do at least as much for its unemployed as it does for ita criminala." The cricket match between the Grammar School and Belmonb teams, which decides the second junior championship, will be concluded to-morrow afternoon on the Domain ground. The present position of the game is :—Belmonfc, Ist innings, 67 ; Grammar School, 69 for 9 wickets. The Poverty Bay Farmers' Co-operatir Association has just completed its firs year of business on an extensive seals. The directors in their report state that after having materially reduced the cosd of goods to consumers during tho year, the net profib is equal to thirty-five per cent, upon the average capital employed, and the business of the Association has steadily increased. The directors propose a dividend of 10 per cent., and the creation of a reserve fund. Lasb evening a sale of work was held in Waite's Hall, Mount Eden, by the Ladies 1 Guild of St. Barnabas' Church Mount Eden, in aid of the Church funds. There was a good attendance. A conversazione was held after the sale. Miss Claries Brabazon played a number of pianoforte selections. Miss Edith Jcnea sang "My Laddie and I," and Mr Brabazon sang "A Warrior Bold." Mr Jour^m contributed an amusing reading. H.M.s. Rapid, Captain Sir Henry 0. Ogle, arrived at Nukualofa (Tonga) from Sydney and Fiji on the Bth inst. The. young king of Tonga, George Taufaahau, paid a visit to tho Rapid on the 11th inst., being received with every honor. Tho yards of the warship were manned and a royal salute of twenty-one guns was fired. From Tonga the Rapid goes to Fiji and the Gilbert Islands. The Hope of Auckland Tent (LO.R.) last nighb held the first of a series of " harmony nights" in the lodge room, Foresters' Hal!, Karangahape Road, and it was well attended. Mr J. G. Carr, D.S. presided. An excellent programme of songa and recitations was gone through, contributed by Mrs Moody, Misses Grindrod, and Oliphant, and Meears Brookes, Hood Moody, Frith, Ward, Scale and Cook. It is proposed to hold the next harmony night in a month's time.