TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 209, 4 September 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Civil session.. Moro burglarios! I 'Frisco mail this week. Albu concert to-night. Homo Rulers jubilant. Home Rule Bill passed. Supreme Court proceeding*. Gladstane ovated by tbo Liberals. ' Outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday. Cholera raging seriously in Europe, Supremo Court criminal sessions over. 1 " Ladies' night "at the Albu concert to., ' night. Four burglaries took place in Auckland last night. The House of Lords will reject tbe Home : Rule Bill. Auckland footballers beat Taranaki by 4 ; points to 2. The railways of America employ ovor ' 2,000,000 men. E.M.B. Monowai arrives from San Fran- ( cisco next Friday. Great enthusiasm over the passing of thfl Irish Home Rule Bill, i "The English worship the costly, and i term it) the beautiful."—Mill. ' The coal export from Westport for the week ended Saturday was 6,300 tons. The coal export for the week from Grey- ■ mouth was 1,507 tons ; timber do,, 5,676 feet. A splendid programme has been ar« ranged for the Blisses Albu's concert tonight. Mrs Amelia Matson again seeks election to the Parnell Borough Council. Women's rights! The Misses Albu leave hero for San Francisco next Saturday by the R.M.s. Mariposa. ' Tho most expensive Legislature in the world is that of France, which costs annually ' £720,000. It is stated that 400 peers in the House of Lords will vote against the Home Rule Bill and only 40 for it. , Melbourne, always prone to " blow" about something, is now being lured on to . speak arrogantly of its fogs. The new goods Bhed now boing built on the Queen-street Wharf will be tho largesb and most complete yet constructed by the Harbour Board, • Sir John Horschel says that if a solid cylinder of ice, 45 miles in diameter and 200,000 miles lone-, were plunged end firsb j into the sun, it would melt in a second of time. A special meeting of the Auckland Harj bour Board will be held to-morrow after- [ noon, in order to consider the question of ! receiving and delivering of cargo on tha ' Auckland wharves. : An English mail (dated July 21st), via Suez, arrived hero on Saturday afternoon : by way of Sydney and the South, being 1 brought into tho Manukau from New Ply- . mouth by the s.s.'Gair.ocli. Constable Donovan arrived in Auckland ' from Coromandel last evening with a prisoner named Michael Smith, sentenced ', by the localJ.P.'s to six months'imprisoni ment for the larceny of a scade. Tho firing of the first riiio match for ■ choice of Auckland representatives for the 1 New South Wales Rifle Meeting, which was ; to have been fired at the Mount Eden ■ Range on Saturday, had to be postponed 1 on account of the bad weather. An explosion of gas occurred last nigh-' ' at the Working Men's Club in Darby- ■ street, but no damago was done. It waa • found that rats had gnawed through this . gas pipe leading to tho hall lamp, this causing a leakage when the meter waa ; turned on. An indignation meeting of the citizens : of Blenheim was held in tho local Salvatioa ■ Army barracks yestorday afternoon, to pro- ' test against the conviction of Captain Kerr, of the Salvation Army, for an infringement ', of the Milton borough by-laws, and a resolution in accordance with tho objoct of the ■ meeting was unanimously carried, It is proposed to make a presentation tc Miss Stuart, chief officer of the Telephone Exchange, upon her retirement from .lift service and aproaching marriage. Mist Stuart has beou connected with this De' partment from its initiation in Auckland, and has been invariably distinguished for ; her courtesy and attention to her duties. Yesterday afternoon the Sunday-school anniversary of the Church of Christ waj-'r' celobratod by a special Bervics in the Forosters' Hall, there being a large congregation. The Rev. A. H. ; Collins addressed tho children, and special, hymns were sung by them, under the direction of Mr C. B. King. There was a good attendance at the firs, of a course of ten lectures on scienco given at tho Auckland University College rooms, by Professor Brown, on Saturday morning. The course is being given with special re- : ferenco to teachers preparing for tho E and D certificates of tho Education Department, and the first 'lecture was very interesting aud instructive. AtS.. Benedict's Roman Catholic Church yestorday morning there was a large congregation at High Mass. The choir, under the Rev. Dr. Egan'a conductorsh'p. sang Weber's Mass in G, Mr John Fuller ta_'«a^, fc the tenor .oloa. At the offertory, Mr Pullet "*" Bant* Murphy's " Avo Verutn," and also 1 with Dr. Egan, Neville Barnetb's " C * Salutaris." j Blessed Spain, where the lawyers are or strike! sighs the Manitoba "FreePres_." Could nothing in the heavens above, or on 1 tho earth beneath, or in the waters under • tho earth persuade or incense the lawyers of Canada to follow their example ? If they were to go out on strike and stay thero for a generation or so wo would be the most fortunate people alivo. The Argentine La Plata or the River Plate, as it is miscellaneously termed, bids fair to be no mean rival to New Zealand in ' both tho meat export and the grain trade. The shipment of grain in large steamerß ha. become a big industry that quite rivals the biggest efforts of California. Duiing the mouth of April last alone 25steamers carrying over 300,000 quarters or 2,400,005 i bushels of wheat, cloared from tho River Plate. The shorter distance by sea to London or Liverpool makes the River Plate a formidable rival to these colonies. At a meeting of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, tho following questions were agreed upon for discussion at tho council meeting at Nelson, in January next:—-{1) That the principle of freedom of classification bo again affirmed; (2) that drawing be madea class Bubject; (3) that tho Council again approach the New Zealand University to ' ask for the restoring of tho former concesj sions re degrees; (4) thai: a Court of Appeal i for teachers be established ; (5) that the Government pay on tho working average. . lb is no fiction to say that thousands of ) people drink Arthur Nathan's "Reliable • Teas. Tlioirsuperior quality, combined ivith ■ their moderate prico, have placed them ab the top of the tree.—(Advt.) i 0