TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 5 September 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Pleasant sunshine. ; Supreme Court proceeding, Cogiils' Minstrels crowded. Stak Summary on Thursday. Who is to be Native Minister? S.s. Waihora arrived from Sydney." S.s. Tarawera for Sydney to-night. Cogiils' programme better every nigbfc. Misses Albu farewell on Thursday night.1 M. Ulemonceau defeated in the French elections. There are 20,000 artisans unemployed in. England. Last night of present programme of Co* gills' Minstrels. Kaieer William has again been Bpeechify* ing to his army. Auckland Women's Franchise League mot this afternoon. Band of Hope meeting ab Pitb-sbreefl Wesleyan Church to-night). Auckland churches are successfully ra* ducing their building dobte. The Now ton C.C. meets this evening to elect officers for the ensuing year. The Ponsonby Baptist Church baa just) reduced its dobb from £500 to £380. Tho Republican party in France have greatly gained by the recenb elections. Auckland Savings Bank's deposits are now considerably exceeding withdrawals. Another sensational fight with outlaws in the United States—"Olb Kentucky" thia time. Special new Auckland views prepared for the mail number of " Graphic " issued tomorrow. Special meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board this afternoon re receiving of cargo on the wharves. Yesterday the deposits of money with the Auckland Savings Bank exceeded the with* drawals by £7,600. Decree nisi for dissolution of marriage granted at the Supreme Court in the divorce case of Bush v. Bush. The R.M.s. Mariposa, now on her way from Sydney to Auckland, has over £76,000 gold specie on board for San Francisco. It has been decided to hold a concert in Auckland on the 9th October in connection with tho Old Colonists' Reunion anniversary. Last week tbo Baptist Tabornaclo, Auckland, completed the raising of £300, which it is intended to make up to £500 in reduction of the church debt. The superintendent of the Pitt-streeb Wesleyan circuit has propounded a schema for wiping off the circuit debb and also for attacking the trust debb of St. John'a Vf esleyan Church, Ponsonby. Messrs W. Avenoll, R. H. Duder, S. C. Macky, R. H. McOallum and R. Wynyard have been nominated to fill three vacancies on the Devonport Borough Council. The poll takes place on the 15th insb. A Reuter telegram of a voyage of the a,s« Dunottar Castle from Natal to London, states that the steamer passed through six miles of floating locusts, which covered the sea like weed as far as the eye could reach. At a meeting of the delegates of swim* ming clubs at Christchurch, last night, ib was resolved thab ib is inadvisable ab the present time to transfer the headquarters of the Swimming Association from Auckland to Wellington. The senseless rush on the Auckland Saving's Bank is, of course, still the topis of conversation. A splendid feature of tha Bcene by Mr Darby Ryan will appear in the "Graphic" to-morrow. Those who wantt copies for sending Home should coma early. The new Spanish warship Reina Regenfea made 215 knots on her trial trip, and two cruisers, built lately by the Armstrongs, af> Elswick, in England, for the Argentine Republic, showed great speed, the 25 de Maio making 221 and the 9 de Julio 226 knots. The ex-New South Wales warship Wolverene (formerly a British corvette) was sold ab auction at Sydney on tbo 25th ult., by Messrs Fraser and Co., for £2,200, Mr Peter Ellison being the purchaser. Sha will probably be converted into a sailing merchant vessel. The directors of the Kaitangata (Okago) Railway and Coal Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 174 P^ cent, per annum, passed a sum of £500 to be distributed amongst the miners, and carried forward £2,826 to nexb year, after writing off a liberal Bum for depreciation of mine and plant. Notwithstanding the steam trade on tha East Coast, the locally-owned schooners Awanui, Waiapu, aud Gisborne, owned by Captain Skinner, still do a very prosperous business in coastal trading. The clipper schooner Awanui lefb here lasb night for East Coast ports with one of the largosb cargoes yet shipped from Auckland in ,'t vessel of her size. The sittings of the Hokitika Supreme Court commenced yesterday, before Mr Justice Denuiston. There were only two criminal cases, one of arson and one of perjury. The grand jury took an unusually long time in bringing in bills. Both accused were acquitted—Mrs Hayes of arson, and Mitchell of perjury. The officers of the Auckland Baptisfj Tabernacle, on Saturday, presented Mr F. Battley with an enlarged photograph of himself with a silver plata affixed recording the fact that the momento was presented by the Tabernacle officers to Mr Battley in recognition of his 25 years services as a, deacon. Pastor Blaikie made the presentation, and Messrs R. B. Shalders and S. H. Matthews also spoko in congratulatory terms. A wricer gives a pleasant account of tho Bulgarian Sobranje, or Parliament. The members are mostly small farmers, to whom the daily salary of thirteen shillings is an object, and those who are not presenb to say "Tuka" (Here) at roll-call in the morning forfeit their day's wage. No special sanctity attaches to the Chamber, and when Parliament is not sitting it ia willingly leb oub by a frugal Government aa a theatre. The Sunday drinkers at Cardiff have again turned the flank of the prohibitionists. As shebeen after shebeen was dug out, they meet openly in public space, subscribe and buy casks of beer at the nearest wholesale store. Then they drink—long, deep, and without rebuke. For the law holds thab they constitute a club. On a recenb Sunday (says a Home paper) there were 500 people " boozing " in the open on one spot. During the recenb passage of the ship Metropolis, from Rio to Newcastle, on the 6th ult., when in lab, 49deg 40min south and long. 106deg easb, an iceberg1 fully 300 ft in length was sighted about half-a mile distant. It was very fantastic in shape, and remarkably beautiful in appearance. The ice rose perpendicularly bo an elevation of about 30ft, and then cub away quito horizontally. From each of three corners a magnificent spire rose to an altitude ia one instance of about 300 ft. The " Northern Advecate " (Whangarei' says:—"Messrs Rathbone and McWil^ Hams, the latter a prospector, have gone oub to Puhipuhi to further prospect tha Santa Claus ground to locate if possible the cinnabar lode which is believed to exist there. If the reporb of McWilliams is o f a favourable nature it is understood that money will be forthcoming to thoroughly prospect the ground. Alluvial cinnabar is found in the creeks on the Santa Claua in considerable quantities, bub co far tha lode has nofe been discovered,."