TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 228, 26 September 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Electors Register, Register, Register, Register, Register, Register. Eolls close in a fortnight. Rough weather on the coast. Choral Society's concert to-night. Auckland Harbour Board met to-day.. Another Anarchist outrago in Madrid.;. Auckland Crown Lands Board mot to* day.

"My Jack" again ab the Opera Housa to-night.

The late Mr W. H. Levin, of Wellington, left a fortune of £230,000.

Ib is understood a medical assistant is to be appointed to tho Seacliffe Asylum.

Tho Railway Bill passed the second reading in the Legislative Council last night.

Mr Farine, of the Otago Labour Bureau, will Bond 30 unemployed to the Otago Central.

The barquonbine Ocean Ranger, from tlio Bluff to Lyttelton, had to jettison her deck cargo in a gale.

The mail steamer Alameda loffa San Francisco for Auckland on Friday last, and is due here on October 13th.

Christian Endeavour annual Convention will be held in the Baptist Tabernacle this evoning and to-morrow evening. The Government Liquor Bill, which provides for total prohibition on a three-fifths majority, has now passed both Houses.

Germany will now have a bigger standing army than ever. This is due to tho Roichsrath nob sitting down on the tax.

Tho lowest tender for the construction oE the Devonport waterworks is £3,894 (Nelson and Co.). Tho engineer's estimate was £4,600.

" One of do penalties ob greatness," said Uncle Eben, "inter be specially conspicuous ebery time yer makes er fool ob yersolf."

There are, according to the lasb census, 130,654 adulb females in New Zealand. There are aboiib 37,000 loss women than men in the colony.

Mormoniem has taken a considerable hold among the Maoris, the latest statistics showing bho socb to have 3,176 members in this colony, of whom but 232 are Euro-

peans. In the Wellington Magistrate's Courb yesterday, Mr Martin, Resident Magistrate, ordered a man named Noble, who gavo evidence in a civil case, to bo prosecuted for nerjury. France has decided to take possession of all tho islands in the Gulf of Siani. Queer how things turn out. Great Ccesar wrote about all Gaul and now all Gaul has become a great seizer.

The Auckland Harbour Board's big dredgo, No. 121, will shortly be in possession of tho Board again, after her Victorian charter. There is plenty ot work for her to do in Auckland Harbour

The premises of Scotb Bros., Manor Place (Dunedin), were broken into between Saturday and Monday morning, and 301b of tobacco stolen. Tho burglara, who picked out the aide lock, could not geb into the office.

Tho Wanganui case against N. Rickelben, for alleged arson, concluded laßt evening. His Worship (Mr H. W. Brabant) committed the accused for trial, as although there was no dirocb evidence against her, he considered there was enough to go to a jury.

A fire broke oub in the new premises of Scott and Wilson, Venetian blind makers, St. Andrew-street, Dunedin. The premises were nearly gutted. The stock was insured for £350 in tho Victoria, and the building tor £300 in the National. Th» insurance fully covers the loss.

Tho Whangarei paper, the "Northern Advocate," eaj's:—"So far the fruit outlook for the coming; season is poor. Owing to tho exceptionally mild winter, fruit trees had hardly shod their leaves when the fruib buds burst, and consequently the treea having had no rest, a very poor fruit season will result).1'

Four of the Salvationists serving sentence for breaches of the Milton by-lawa wera liberated yesterday, and were received with great demonstration. In tha evening the local corps paraded the streets, the procession being headed by four men dressed in imitation of the prison garb. Tho Army are now sending a lassie to Milton.

In the first series of competitions to select Wellington competitors for tho New South Wales Rifle Association's Meeting, Volunteer Arthur Ballinger, tho present! champion shot of Now Zealand, finished third, beiug four points behind his brother, who made 89 out of possible 100 at 500 and 600 yards, ten shots each range.