TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 138, 13 June 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Premier speaks to-night, Politics in the air. 'Frisco mail on Thursday. Parliament opens next week. Fillis' Circus opena to-morrow. Board of Education met to-day. S.s. Tarawera from Sydney to-day. Outward 'Frisco mail next Saturday. Terrible efcory of cannibalism in Siberia. Sir George Groy speaks on Friday night.,Preparations in progress for the elections^ Numerous deputations to the Premier txK: day. S.B. Rotomahana for Sydney this even^ ing. Fatal revolt of convicts in Egypt is, cabled. Deputation re Auckland Domain to the Preiuier to-day. First frost of tho season in Waikato on Sunday morning;. Snow fell in Hamilton on Saturday morning about 11 a.m. Mail number of "Graphic" to-morroWi Special attractions. R.M.B. Monowai arrives here from San Francisco this weak. ' Shaw-Savill stenmer Mamari lefo tG-uay for the Soubh aud London. Extonsjivo horse sale at Hamilton Yards on Thursday the 15th inst. ' The Premier is to speak at the Volunteer Hall, Hamilton, this week. Measles started in Hamilton. Tiro odnlia laid low. Infiu6uza provalcnt. Mr R. Thompson, M.H.R., arrived hers this morning from Whangarei. Plain words from the Premier at tha Liberal Association rooms lest night. Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.R., addrosses his constituents at Eaukapakapa to-morrow evening. Sacrod Heart Church concert io tbo Cctholic Institute (Wellington-street) thia evening. The Premier made an excellent speech at the Liberal Association's rooma lasti evening. 160 portraits of well-known Aucklandem in tho "Graphic," mail number, to« morrow. Tho Government has decided to declare the 4th August as Arbor Bey throughout the colony. Mr Fiald-Wolrige lectures to-night ab Otahuhu upon the " Historical Buildings of London." The steamer Taviani arrives here from Napier to-morrow morning with Fillia 1 Circus and Henageria. The Melanesian Mission schooner South* crn Gross is due hero from the Pacific Islands about the let prox. The Anckland Bchooner Jessia Niccol arrived hero from Rarotonga to-day, after a long South Sea Island cruise. Tho Spanish warship Nautilus is nob coming to Aucklaud as was expected, but; has left Sydney for Colombo. The Mayor of Wellington will entertain the Admiral asd His Excolkacy the Govarnor ab the Wellington Club to-morrow. Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.R., received a vote of thanks and appreciation of his Earvices from the Dovouporb electors lasts uight. Tha Waikato River haß riaen several feeb duriDg the last week aud is now still rising slowly. With fine ttsathor it will go do wo vnpidly. Fanning work in tho Waikato has been almost aba standstill owing to bad weather. Thrashing operations are all behind hand. i There are now 70,000 acres of land in fcha heart of tho " King Country" purchased outright by the Government and available for settlement. Yesterday afternoon the Hon. Mr Seddoo. had 3n interview of considerable duration with Sir George Grey, M.E.R., ab tha Northern C!nb. 150 pure bnd shebp went to Sydney pa* s.s. Rotoo&haua, from Waikato, to-day. Messrs G. W. Sere and J. J. Barugh ac« companies them. Mv Jackson Palme; intends standing for Waitamafca ab nsxt elections, bub Devonpor!) and the vicinity will Chen he out ol his constituency. The Hospital House Steward desires (bhrough our columns) to thaak Mra Laird, of Grafton Road, for a parcel of old linen for uae in the institution. The death of Mr John Blackman wab dua to natural causes,and no inquest was necessary. Tha funeral took placo this after* noon, ab the Purewa cemetery. The Parncll social in the Bonaventura Hall, Pavnell, has been postponed until the evening of Wednesday, 21ab inst a owing to alterations going on in the hall. The North Shore, Northcote, Birkea« head and neighbourhood are now in the electorate of Eden, having been cub otf from tho Waitemata constituency. A petition from the women of Wairarapa, Masterton, and Eketahuna districts haa been received in Wellington for presentation to Parliament. Sir John Hall is to bQ asked to present this. The Public Works Departmenb at Wellington is advised that Mr Robert Wilson, general manager of the Midland Railway Company, lefb London for New Zealand on tho 18th of May, and ia due about the ond of the mouth. A verdict of fifteen guineas and Cuaba was given by the Resident Magistrate ab Dunedin against Captain Groy and the Andenon's Bay Ferry Company for running into and damaging tha yacht Ripple lying at her moorings. Mr W. G. Garravd was conspicuous ainongtt the serried ranks of "deputations " waiting to interview the Premier aft the Government Buildings yesterday aDd to-day. Mr Garrard has net yet gob Lsa military service land scrip. Rarotonga and the other islands in tha Hervcy Group, as well ca Maoaluki, Penrhyn Island aud Pukapoka (Danger Island) are td bo called ab by the bavquentine Cuthona, which siiila from Auckland this week on an Island trading cruise. There aro a large number of petitions for extension of tho franchise to women still out, and it is necessary they should bo at onco returned to tin Auckland Committee, who will forward them to Wellington for presentation ab tho ensuing session of Parliament The directors in Edinburgh of thQ Colonial Investment Company have ap. pointed the Hon W. D. Stewarb end Mr G. B. Reed (Dunedin) to (succeed tho late Mr R. Dob&on in the management and windiag-up of the Company's busineßS iv the colony. Owing to the contiensd prevalence of meamlea in tho Newton school district tha re-opening of the Newton East and Newton West school, which was to have taken placa on Monday, baa been postponed for another week. The schools will i>open on Monday next, the 19th inat&nb. CbrisfcchuicLi "Truth" having pnfe. Hashed statements and reprinted articles from Australian papeve attacking thQ bona fides of Professor Riebard, a medical electrician at present m Christchurch, the latter made a challenge by tho terms of which he was fco forfeit £1,000 in the ovfmt of the chargea inado befiig 3ubst*»ntiated, "Truth " to forfeit £100 should it fail to establish its case. The paper took up tha challenge yesterday, and ab his meobiug itisft night Richard stated that his ot&ke would bo forthcoming to-day.