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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 223, 20 September 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK, Spring weather. Jewish holiday. Hob summer predicted. „ City Hall concert to-night. Woman is now a political power. Downpour ceased—till to-morrow. Women's Franchise League jubilant). Trade in Rio de Janoiro is paralysed. Happiness is all more or less homemade S.s. Wairarapa leaves for Sydney to-day-To-day is the Jewish day of Atonement. Dirocb steamer Indrainayo due from London. Women are registering as electors already. Thcro are about 6,000 female electors in Auckland. " New Zealand expects every woman to do her duty." Auckland Women's Franchise Leagua meb this afternoon. Bishop Paterson was murdered in Melanesia this day 1871. Don't go security for a man who lets his gato swing on one bingo. Annual meeting of the Auckland Crickeb Association this ovening. Demands are made in England for the abolition of the Ilouso of Lords. It is a groat pity it is not aa difficult to borrow trouble as it is to borrow money. When a man's dollars have gone to tho doga that's the time he has to whistle for them. The local branch of the Irish National Federation meats iti St. Patrick's Hall tomorrow evening. Tho man who knows it all is generally the man who accumulates the leasb as a result of hia knowledge. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce has passed a final protest against the Government Railway Bill. There is many a wife hungering for an occasional word of approval who will be buried in a rosewood casket. Belle: " Would you call Blanche a beauty?" Jack: "Not unless I thought she was likely to overhear me." The Auckland Harbour Board has "shelved" the question of receiving and delivering cargo on the wharves. "Jack Brown and his sister Emily are twins, aren't they 2" "They are now, bub they won't be when Jack's thirty." Three pearlshell divers at Thursday Island were reported as having been paralysed lately, but all recovered. A Jersey City paper, speaking of an accident, says : " One man was killed, and the other had hi 3 head severed from his body." Tho tenth annual meeting of tho Anglican Home Mission on Friday at 8 p.m. in St. Matthew's Schoolhouse, admission free. There are people in this world who never attempt to reach the top of the greased pole of success, because they canuot ascend in elevators, "Patriotism" by the Rev. J. Bates ah tho Home Mission meeting on Friday, and " Sketches of Home Mission Work " by the Roy. I. Richards. The nurses in the Christchurch hospitals have adopted an out-door uniform similar to that in use by the nurses in the larga London hospitals. One great benefit—" What have you really learned in college, Harry, that is useful to you ?" " I learned that I don'D know how to play poker." " How did Fred come to got so horribly round-shouldered ?" "He isn't; ho humpa hitneelf that v/ay because he likes to look like an athletic bicyclist." A public meeting of citizens will be held at Wellington to-morrow to consider what stops should be taken to perpotuato tha memory of the late Mr W. li. Lovin. " You look sweet enough to eat." said Josh Sassafras to his best girl, on Sunday afternoon. " You just wait till suppertimo and you'll see me eat," was her reply. The special meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board which was to have been held last night to consider the new bylaws, has been adjourned until next Tuesday. < Messrs Kimber, Powles, McTavish and Stuart have been elected Wellington members of the Provisional Council of tho Institute of Accountants. The Institute will be registered as soon as possible. The Government intend setting aside Resolution Island, on tho Wost Coast, as a reserve for native fauna, and it is understood a curator will be appointed, the Otago Acclimatisation Society having offered £60 j towards the cost of a house. Major Somerville, Chairman of the New Zealand Rifle Association, has received a sheet programme of the Victorian Rifle Meeting, which opens on November 25th. The prize list has been framed on a liberal scale, and it is expected a large number of New Zoalanders will attend. Regarding Christian work in Japan, it is stated that after thirty years of missionary work thero are bub 100,000 Christians in Japan, divided into 44,812 Roman Catholics, 35,534 Protestants and 20,325 of the Greek Church. The Protestants of Japan do nob aggregate 1 per cent, of tho population. A serious outbreak of measles has occurred at Thursday Island (Q.) amongsb the crews of the various pearling boats. The disease was brought by a Rotumah man from the south. There are now eight ca.3Q3 on Friday Island quarantine station. Three cases are isolated at the local gaol. Several other cases are reported from the boats. Further details of tho disastrous flood ab Tungchow, China, lately arrived at Sydney. It is said that almost without warning the waters of the Peiho rose like a wall and swept) right over the city, the inhabitants being forced to take refuge on the roofs of high buildings, in the tops of trees, and on the city wall?. Aa the result of a recenb visit to England and Scotland, Mr Salmon, M.L.A., of Victoria, has forwarded a reporb to the Victorian Premier on the fisheries of Great Britain. Ho recommends that the Victorian Government should hire or purchase a stcaia vessel, and fit it out as a trawler, hiring it out to a company of men for Bix or twelve months. Tho Government should be urged to give a bonus for trawled fish sold in the markeb for twelve months. The funeral of the late Rev. William Moore at Sydney last week, closed the long and honoured career of a man whose name will be associated with the founding of Christianity in the South Seas. Mr Moore was one of the earliest Fijian missionaries, and, while he was a man of great simplicity of character, exhibited heroism and decision in trying times, aa were those of the early days of mission ontorpriso in tho islands. Mr Moore went to Fiji in 1850, aud laboured for many years in the islands. The steamer Archer, of tho Circular Saw line, arrived at Sydney, from the South Sea Islands a few days ago. This vessel usually calls at from forty to fifty islands during her three months' cruise-ono of the mo3t interesting voyages made by a Sydney-owned merchantman. During the Archer's voyage she visited tho Ringsmill Group, over which a sky like brass and without a cloud in it as large as a man'a hand haa made life unbearable for two years past. Not a drop of rain has fallen upon the parched Kingsmills for nearly thirty months—a drought unparalleled in tho history of its inhabitants. *