TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 178, 29 July 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wikd and rain; Uor'-easterly gale. No importanb foobball to-day. Anotstier Deeming case in England. Fiee fight in the House of Commons. Government) propose to rate native lands* Disorderly scene in the Imperial Parlia< moat. Dynamite outrage on an Australian sbeitnor. Wet night of "Skipped by the Light of thslloon." %c Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society hastoauinod operations. A'" tierce melee " is what the cable calls a fighb in the House of Commons. Home Rule Bill has passed through the committee of the House of Commons. Tho Austrian warship Saida is now a fortnight out) from Sydney for Auckland. Native lands in the King Country will be exempt from the proposed rating of native lands. M;H.R. O'Connor Bays that " politi-' ciaa" is a term of contempt in New Zea- I land. v Mr Field-Wolridge will locture on " London" on Tuesday night in the Parnell Hall. The Mayor of Auckland, Mr W. Crowther, iaerpected back here from Wellington nexb Tuesday. A Theosophical lecture is to be given in thoChoral Hall to-morrow evening by Mr Dwffin. The Kauri Gumfields Commissioners will aibia Auckland at the Crown Lands Office next Monday week. < Barney Donovan, the well-known and ' clever boxer, ia commencing a class for teaching Belf-defence. Tonight, the Rev. Mr Johnson, of tha Helping Hand Mission, will speak ab tho Ufiiou Free Church. The Auckland butchers' assistants decided lasb nighb to petition Parliament ia favour of the Saturday half-holiday. "Milky White" and "Living Models," two very amusing pieces, will be produced at the Opera House on Monday night,

The Avon Road Board (Christchurch) has decided to provide work for a number of tha unemployed at the rate of 5s per day. Tbe annual foreign mission meeting in connection with the Auckland Presbytery will be held in St. James's Hall next Wednesday evening. Tbe Eden electors, according to the chairman of last night's meeting of tha Edon electors, want an angel to represent them in Parliament.

The captain and officers of the Spanish, training ship Nautilus (now at Lyttelton) were entertained at a ball by the citizens of Christchurch last night.

The Dorothy Quadrille Assembly held its usual fortnightly social in St. George's Hall last evening, when about 50 couples were present, and a very enjoyable evening was spent.

The first prize in the Poultry Association's art union (a large oil painting by Mr C. Blomfield) was won by Mesßrs Champtaloup and Cooper, and the second by a settler at Pukekohe.

The Rev. Mr Davidson of Free St. Mary's, Edinburgh, is at present on a visib to this cifcy. -He will occupy the pulpit next Sabbath morning at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Kemuera.

Lasb week a 16-month-old childfif Mr W. H. Cope, of Kaitaia, in the North, was accidentally scalded to death by pulling a bu'iiket of boiling water over himself. Tha child lingered for '24 hours, dying in convulsions.

Mr H. J. Pither, who was victor in tha cycling trials at Lancaster Park (Christchurch) yesterday, will go to Timaru to meet Hall, the winner to form one of the team of New Zealand cyclists to be sent to Australia.

At the New Plymouth' Police Court yesterday, Wallath, the "highwayman," was committed for trial. He was then charged with burglary in entering the premises of the, :>New Zealand Clothing Factory, and was remanded till to-day. The lecal agent for the Government Labour Bureau has been unable to let the whole of the contracts for the felling of 1,000 acres of bush on the Oxford-Rotorua line; All tho skilled bushmen in the province are fully employed. The Rev. Mr Davidson, of Free St. Mary's, Edinburgh, is ab present on a visit to this city. He will occupy the pulpit to-morrow morning ab St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Remuera, and in tha evening ab St. David's Church. He will also; address St. David's Sunday-school ia the afternoon.

We are requested to draw attention to Mr J. Tonson Garlick'e announcement ia another column of a very extensive furniture sale commencing on Monday next, unexceptional advantages being offend to the public in order to close partnership accounts. A rare chance for young people about to be married. Bail was applied for at Wellington yesterday on behalf of the woman Caroline McGovorn, accused of malpractice on Isabella Gurman. Inspector Fender objected on the ground that the case was one of the very worst kind, and said that Gurman had nearly lost her "life/ "Bail was eventually granted, two sureties of £100 and the accused in tha same amount.

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