TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 139, 14 June 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Premier ovated. 'Frisco mail to-morrow. Fillis 1 circus has arrived. Stak Summary to-morrow. Excellont speech by Mr Seddon. S.s. Tarawera arrived from Sydney. Ballance Memorial meeting to-night. Very large gathering at the City Hall. M.H.R.'b leave for Wellington nexbMon.) day. Fillis' circus and menagerie opens toy night. The Premier speaks ab Hamilton t(K night). The Premier left for the Waikato this, morning.. People's Popular Concert in the City Hall to-night. Very full report of the Premier's speech in this irsuo. Two thousand people in the City Hall last night. Mr Sexton, MJ 7. : has withdrawn his resignation. Limelight lecbure to-morrow evening in the V.M.C.A. The Hon. Mr Seddon leaves here fot Wellington to-morrow. The E.M.s. Mariposa is now on her way across to Auckland from Sydney. The South Australian Ministry hard beea defeated on a surprise motion. » Natives are said to be dying by hundreds from dysentery in the New Hebrides. A vote of confidence in the Government! was passed by the Auckland citizens last) night. Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.R., has gona up to the Kaipara to address his constituents. Sir Francis Dillon Bell arrives liera from Sydney on Friday by the R.M.B. Mariposa. At auction at Dunedin yestevday 100 share?! of the Colonial Bank were disposed of at 35s 4d. Mr J. M. Shera, M.H.R., and Mr W. J. Napier, could not obtain a hearing ab the City Hall last night. Sir George will have the privilege of say« ing " the Jasb word " before the Parliamentary session begins. The Parnell Assemblies hold their second social of the season, in the St. Bonaventura Hall on Friday evening. Mr Duncan McFarland of Christchurcb has accepted an invitation to contest tha Ashley seat at the next election. Very stormy weather ab sea was experieiiced by the brigantine Gleaner, which arrived here last evening from Noumea. The S.P. Tarawora, from Sydney last evening, brought 64 bags of mails, including an English mail bearing date of May sth. Before leaving Auckland for the Wai< kato, the Hon. R. J. Seddon was phobo. graphed by Mr C. H. Clemens, of Tuttlo'a studio.

Gold bullion rained a* £10,400 was shipped from Auckland to Sydney by the Bank of New Zealand per the s.a. Kototnahanu last evening. A third bowling- club has been started in Wellington with a membergfoip of upwards of one hundred. The new green will ba situated at Newtown. Is this a record ? This morning the proprietor of Tutble'e photographic studio photographed the Hon. R. J* Seddon in four positions in seven minutes. Ad the Thames, Mr Tennyson Smith formed a prohibition league with a member* ship of 121, instituted a Good Templet Lodge and took over 200 pledges. At an inquest on a very old resident) afe Havelock (Ilawke'e Bay), named Roberta Batty, who dropped dead on Monday, a verdict of accidental death was-returned. At the annual meeting of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency ComDany ab Dunedin the reporb, declaring: a dividend of 12^ P"r cent, and a bonus of 2J percent,, was carried. Madame Antoinette Sterling, the celebrated English coutralto singer, will open a short season in Auckland next Tuesday week. Mr L. J. Lohr, her manager, is now in Auckland. Captain Short, of Karotonga, who is be« lieved to be lost afc sea in the vicinity of the Hervey Group, South Sea Islands, is a son of Captain G. H. Short, of the -Auckland schooner Sarah Pile. The finances of the Hutb (Wellington)1 County Council being in an unsatisfactory condition owing to damage by floods, the Council hava decided to resort to the tollgate system within the boundary of tho county. It has been found ab Wellington bhab type-writing machines are not suitable for telegraph operators at receiving instra* monts, and that the operators are unable to take down by (-.he machines nearly as fash as when using the pencil. A deputation waited on the Mayor of Christchurch on Tuesday and represented that great hardships wore experienced by a number of men with families who 'wera unable to gee work, The Mayor at oaea telegraphed to the Minister for Labour asking if anything could be done for tha men. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court-, commenced ab Napier yesterday. la his charge to the grand jury the Chief Justice dwelb mainly on the charge of rape against James Roidy, a Woodville man, oa his two grandchildren, aged 6 and 7-J. The jury returned a true bill in thab and all other cases. William Dawson, a medical I man, pleaded guilty to forging the name of the Hon. J. D. Ormond to two cheque^ Numerous previous convictions being proved, a sentence cf five yoars' penal eerhide was passed. All Night Pharmacy, corner Victoria and Hobeon-sts.—Cooper, late Hudson.—(Adv.J Notwithstanding tho great competitioa amongst Teadealers, the public should insist upon having Arthur Nathan's Reliable Blends; they are the beat.—(Advb.). 84 Jusb opened, a line of gents' mackintoshes with large capes, from the celebrabed manufaeburers, Charles Macintosh and Co,, of London, all guaranteed ; also men's and boys' clothing of superior quality at reasonable ' pricee. — Goo. Fowlds, Victoria Arcade.—(Advt.)