TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 252, 24 October 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Si'nod proceeding. Another Brazilian battle. Harbour Board meb to-day. More aboub the Aldia case. The Matabele war promises to be a sharp one. Auckland Board of Education meb today. The Aldia case has been sbill farther adjourned. Annual meeting of the Auckland Yacht) Club this evening. Mr S. Adaoiß' pupils' annual concert) at Opera House to-nigbs. Concert and plain and fancy dress ball at Avondale Hall to-night. Another splendid concerb was given last evenbg by the Palmer-Beaumont Com* pany. . Miss Scotb'a fancy dress ball in the Choral Hall last) evening was & great) success. The Palmer-Beaumont Company giro another concerb at the City Hall on Thura« day evening. ■ " Found drowned " was the verdicb returned at the inquesb on the victims of the boating accident. The Water Police are making a further search for the bodies of Miss Baillie and John Baillie, drowned at the Whan Creek. The 11. M.B. Mariposa left San Francisco on Friday afternoon last, for Auckland. She is due here on Thursday, November 9. ' The Rev. P. Walsh made some interesting suggestions as to public ferneries at the meeting of the Auckland Institute lasd evening. The young man John Baillie, who was drowned last week in the fatal boating accident ab the Wlmu Creek, leaves a widow and eight children. Mr J. Walker, florist) and bird fancier, opens his new premises in Queen-street, opposite the new *• Herald" office, tomorrow, with a splendid show of pot plants, poultry, etc. At the Sydenham and Sb. Albana Borough Councils, Christchurch, last night, motions were passed urging the Government to give effect to Colonel Fox's report) upon the volunteer forces. The total number of telephone sub* scribers at the end of September was 3,921, being an increase of 48, for two months, of. which Auckland contributed 12; Napier, 9 ; Wellington. 13 ; and Invercargill, 10. At the meeting of the Auckland Institute last evening, a fine photograph of tha total eclipse of the sun of April, 1893, presented by Sir George Grey to the Institute, was shown by means of limelight on a screen. Ab the meeting of the Auckland Institute last evening, a rare Maori curio in the shape of an old stone flute or koauau, carved from some white stone found in the Lower Waikato district, was exhibited. These " flutes •' were usually made by the ancien& Maori from bone or wood. Aba meeting of the Auckland Institute last evening a short paper on the breeding; habits of the bittern or matuku,by Mr P. E. Cheal, was read. The paper was accompanied by a nest of bittern's eggs, which. Mr Cheal bad lately found while surveying between the Piako and Waitoa Rivers. Ladies, retain your favours for those shopa that observes weekly half holiday.—(Adv6.)