TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 187, 9 August 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather improving. Waikato floods subsiding. Star Summary to-morrow. 'Frisco mail arrives on Saturday.' S.s. Taluno for Sydney to-nighb. Second Albu concert this evening. The Waikato River is now slowly falling,? " Bread ia the right divine of man."—Sb, Just. Laßb nigEt of the Gourlay-Walton Com* pany. Austrian warship Saida lefb for bhd Islands. Free fights in bhe Socialist Congress in Switzerland. Landslips on the Rotorua railway Una are reported. _ Groab damage has been done in the Waw? kato by the floods. One mile amateur skating championship ab the Rink to-night. Mr Shera, M.H.R., has gob the Maori women the franchise, Kapai te wahine ! The "ono-man-one-roll" clause in tha Ele'otoral Bill has been passed in the House. The Waipa River ab Ngaruawahia (Waikato) was yesterday three inches higher than ib waß in 1875. The adjourned meeting of the local branch of the Irish National Federation is to be held to-morrow evening. There are 176 passengers for New Zea« land on board the s.s. Ruahino, from London, due here next Sunday. There seemß to be now no probability of the report on tha "rival routes" being laid before Parliament this session. The floods on the Lower Waikato hava converted the low-lying country near Mercer into " a wide waste of waters." The Misses Albu have kindly promised to give a concert to-morrow afternoon ta the pabients ab the Whau Lunatic Asylum. Ab the recent examination of the Richmond Road Public School, Mrs Rooney, tha head teacher of the school, passed 95 per Julius, of Christchurch, arrives here next Sunday from s London by tha New Zealand Shipping Company s steamer. Ruahine. The imports of Taranaki have increased by 20 per cent, during the year, and the land alienated last year was double thab oJ the previous year. , , The Governmenb have been pressed to appoinb an official grader in flax in vv eUingboo, his services to be paid, by the * laxmillers' Association. . . Lasb evening, Dr. Knight, of Ponsonby, continued in All Saints' schoolroom tha series of lectures on nursing and Ambuian work commenced lasb year. John Anderson, stoker, 40 years married, with seven children, dropp »* *Bei while working as stoker ab the " dead. Gasworks yesterday, heart diaea "unem» bhe cause of death. 8e DeinS The adjourned sitting of th „ . Lands Court will be held at Wha* Augusb 16bh, when judgment in .^I!",°« block (on which tha Wairua £ 11= »™ situated) will be given. J!auß are The Waikato floods have « 0() h ... m uck to everyone. The ete amer £th lower.portion of the river has been d . very brisk business on accou nt o{th(J way line being blockedDr. Simons died at his resi dencQ ab Kama on Friday morning lasb. g e haß nob beea well for some time past. He was an old residonb and was much esteemed. He was buried at Kamo on Sunday. In th United States patriotism is taughft in the achoolp. The children have to say every day in their lives : " I give my head. my heart, my hand to my country—ona country, one language, one flag." At the Masterton District Court the other day a bankrupt was asked by his lawyer if he were anxious to get his discharge. '• Yes, to peb shnb of you," was the unex* peeked renly, which convulsed the Court. Our Whangarei correspondent wires us s —The measles are still with us. The young people in nearly every family in Whungarei and districts have suffered mora or lesß, and also several of the older mem* berp. Work has been discontinued by the Cinnabar Prospectors' Association in the Whangarei district, owing to the unusually web weather. It is proposed to resume operations when the weather gobs mora settled. Our Whangarei correspondent writes:—< Ib is hoped that the Gum Commissioners' representations will aid the efforts of the Northern members in getting the Government to metal the main north road throughout. In reference to bhe appointment of a swimming instructor for the public schools, the Board of Education yesterday agreed to invite Mr St. Clair to attend tbe next} Committee meeting of the Board, and explain the proposed scheme. The ladies' gallery in New South Walee Assembly (says a Sydney paper) does aa much to stop business as any other cause Several members continually talk ab the women, and nothing will chub them up | while there is a petticoat in the House. Mr Merrick has inspected the Puhipuhi Prospectors' mine and other properties there, which are under offer to English capital. He is reporting to bis principals in England by letter instead of by cable aa originally intended, and expects a reply by cable about the middle of September. A sale of suburban allotments at Ngongotaha took place ab Rotorua yesterday. Mr Malfroy officiated as-auctioneer in M* Mueller's absence. Nearly all the sections offered were sold at a considerable advance on the upset prices, which promises well for the approaching sale of the main township. This day 1863 the British ship Queen of Beauty arrived at Auckland from England. Mr R. Farrell, now City Councillor, was a passenger by her, there beiDg some 400 passengers in all by the ship. When off Rio de Janeiro on the voyage she was overhauled by the American Confederate cruiser Alabama. At a meeting held last nighb at Dunedin, convened by the Dunedin Women's Franchise League, it was resolved, "That whereas half of the adult population are excluded from participating in tho existing laws they are compelled to obey, this meeting declares, its conviction they should be enfranchised without delay." "f According to our Whangarei correspondent, the Salvationists are having a revival ab Whangarei, and have large attendances. The Colonel, Captain, and Staff-Lieutenanb are down from Auckland. Ib is rumoured that they intend to purchase a Bite and erecb a commodious barracks in the neap future in Whangarei. The Oxford-Rotorua railway works are very much behind hand owing bo the wed weather. Both contractors for bhe sections from Mamaku to Rotorua have been delayed, and are now over their contraoh • time. The contractor for the last section; has only got in three days' work during the past fortnight owing to the rain. This is how an up-to-date Yankee advertises his erring spouse :—" My wife Anna Maria has either run away or been stolen. I promise to break the head of anyone who brings her back bo me. As to giving her credit, any tradesman may do so if he likes, bub as I have never paid my own debts ib is nob ab all probable bhab I shaH pay heri."