TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mail day. 'Frisco mail gono. Another downpour. Alameda gone to SydiK.* Monowai loft for America. Cricket season nearly over. Football season opens soon. "Joan of Arc " on Monday night., S.s. Wairarapa went South today. Last night of " Carmen up to Data.1 The Governor has left for Wellington. Last four nights of the Gaiety season. Gaiety Company drawing good house?. Fire in Arney Road Renmera, this inori ing. Complaints of Efceorage passengers on fch-j Monowai. Sir J. B. Thurston, Governor of Fiji, has returned here from Sydney. Lively meeting re the Ohura settlement scheme yesterday afternoon. There are nearly 300 passengers for San Francisco on the Monowai. M. Leon Driver, pianist, left here to-day for San Francisco by the Monowai. R.M.s. Monowai's freighting from Sydney fov 'Frisco includes some £10,000 in gold specie Mrs C. H. Haines and Misa Isaaca re-_ turned here from Sydney by the Monowai last nicrht. TbaK.M.B. Monowai has 2,400 tons of coal on board, to carry her to Sau Francisco and back. The Wellington Hall (Theatre Royal) Company has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, par annum. The Executive meeting to decide Scott's fate will be held in Wellington not later thaa Tuesday next. Otago public bodies are again agitating for extension of the Otago Central to the end of the 72nd mile. The Wellington Woollen Factory directors have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum. Isew Vancouver lino of mail steamers will call only at Brishane, Sydney, Honolulu, and Victoria (8.C.), leaving New Zealand out altogether. Mr F. C. Basaett announces that he will resume his Elementary Dancing Class about the 28th, also his Saturday afternoon Juvonile Class. The Onohunga Literary and Debating Union announces in another column its first meeting for Monday next, at the Lodgeroom of the Public Hall. Gas and coke consumers.are reminded that Tuesday next, 25th inst., is the last day upon which any discount can be allowed on their accounts. The British warships Royal Arthur and Temeraire, both very large battle-ships, are expected at Honolulu shortly from England on bhoir way tc Esquimault (8.C.). The Auckland Caledonian Society an. nounce a grand Jacobite concert and Scottish entertainment, to be held in Abbott's Opera Houso, on Friday 28tb instant. King and Company, Christchurch, have completed on behalf of the trustees of the late J. M. Watt, the sale of the Washdyka Meat Preserving and Boiling-down Work? to a syndicate. At the Ohura settlement meeting yesterday, Mr Lawry, M.H.R., stigmatised certain statements of the Ohura Settlement Committee regarding him us " cowardly and contemptible." Mr Bourne, late headmaster of the Auckland Grammar School, wont South today by the Wairarapa, accompanied by Mrs Bourne, to take the headmastership of the Christchurch Grammar School. Mr F. Lawry, M.H.R.. will address his conetituents at Parnoll in six weeks' time, and challenges the Ohura Valley Settlement Association Committee to meet him and disprove his statements regarding the Ohura block. The Alexandra-street Primitive Mothodis* Church celebrates its anniversary tomorrow. Rev. W. Lea will praach in the. morning nnd the pastor, the Rev. J. Guy. in the evening. The usual soiree will br held on Tuesday. It is said that the native owners of th». Ohura Valley block aro oppossd to selling it to the Government, owing to the way is. in which they had been treated in connection with tha purchase of another block near the Ohura, a large sum of money hay ing been paid to the wrong persons. The chiof steward of the steamer Ohau, John Angel, died suddenly on Monday night when tho vessel was at Chatham Islands. An inquest was not considered necessary, and the body wa3 interred ab Whangaroa Harbour on Tuesday. Deceased was a married man, and his horna was near Dunedin. Mr Wilson Hursthouse, Govornmenb surveyor, at Te Kuiti, recently explored a considerable portion of the Ohura River (which is a tributary of the Wnnganui), in a canoe, in order to ascertain the be?t line for a road on the proposed track to Stratford from Waikato, and also to see the nature of the country. Ho says it is excellant land. The committee of the band contest, to be held in Christchurch on November 91.h, 10th, and 11th, has decided that the h'rsfe prize shall be £100: the second. £50; third, £30; fourth, £20; fifth, £10 ; and sixth, £5. It is expected that the special prize list will be large, as it is believed thab English firms will assist the committea with prizes for solo playing.