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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 18 January 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Strong breezes. Wind and dust). Sydney mail arrived. N.S.VV. cricketers arrived. Intercolonial crickeb to-morrow. S.a. Talune arrived from Sydney. Precedent.—lgnorance up to date. Steamer Taviuni arrived from Fiji. Khedive of Egypt will visit London. The Payne Family are at the Kaipara. S.B. Upolu left for Tonga and Samoa. Another "row" in the New South Wales Parliament. i Auckland Annual Regatta entries close on Saturday night. The swimming carnival in Auckland was very successful financially. N.S.W. members of Parliament hare been using bad language again. Crops of vrheab and oats are reported to be turning out well in the country. Excellent weather for harvesting is being experienced in the country districts. The "Bible Christians" and "Christian Disciples "are quarrelling at Dunedin. Meadham (N.S.W.) has won the IOOYds Swimming Championship of Now Zealand. Another case of poisoning, which nearly 1 proved fatal, occurred at Newmarket last night. Mr Farquhar Gray, ono of the pioneer settlers of Wairarapa, died on Tuesday night. " The character of a nation is not to be learned trom its fine folks."—Sir Walter Scotb. The Government s.s. Hinemoa has taken down fifty lunatics trom Auckland to Wei- , lington. The stranded ship Jessie Roadman is still in the same position at the Chatham Islands. "I'll wring thab d d scoundrel's neck !" is the latest tit-bit from the N.S.W. Parliament. The maize crop in the Bay of Plenty promises to be very abundant, should fine weather continue. At the big revival meeting: " Won't you come and be saved, brother ?" " No; I'm a reporter." "Oh ! beg pardon." The Nelson Acclimatisation Society has fixed the December shooting season, openiDg February 17, closing March 31. The valuations'for the six wards of the City of Auckland show an increase of £4,105 for the current year compared with 1893-94. A celebrated Maori female tohunga, or medicine woman, from the East Coaub, is now carrying on a big " practice " at Otaki (Wellington). The ketch Elsie returned here from Norfolk Island this morning. ThS Revs. J. Palmer and R. B. Comins, of the Melanosian Mission Staff, arrived by her. At the Dunedin City Council meeting ib was mentioned thab Mr Gilruth, the Government expert, had found in a dairy which supplied milk to the city a cow with cancer on the teats. Two hundred and fifty packages of produce from Auckland, and 2,650 packages trom Taranaki, were brought by the Takapuna to Wellington for transhipment to 8.3. Rimutaka. The Northern Territory "Times " (Australia) says the once-extensive local herds of builalo are now all bub extinct. Government has been urged to prohibit further shootin tr during next season. The female franchise—a woman's reason. —At the recent general election, a lady objected to vote for a certain candidate because he spoke familiarly of her husband as "Jim " when conversing with her. Hia proper name was Mister. The habitues of the Auckland Free Library newspaper reading room were plunged into Cimmerian darkness last night about nine o'clock throught the gas going out, trom some unexplained cause. The second meter was brought into requisition, and the jets were re-lighted rery shortly. A man named Christopher Considine was found lying in a helpless condition on No. 2 Jetty by Constable Sfcanyer, who took' him up in a trap to the office of the Charitable Aid Board. The Chairman and several members of the Board saw him, and decided to send him to tho Coetley Home at Epsom. A conference took place at Dunedin yesterday, between a deputation from the Universioy Council thab waited on the Hospital Trustees re the non-appoinbment of medical school lecturer to the medical staff. The matter was referred to a Committee, and it is understood that the difficulty will be gob over A coroner's inquesb was held at Whan* garei yesterday in connection with the de« atruction by fire of a gum store at Hukerenui on January 6, belonging to Mr W. M. Clark. The jury returned a verdict to the effect -that there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. The building and contents were insured in tba North German office for £330. Sb Benedict's Church was crowded yesterday morning on the occasion of the marriage of Mr Jamea Lowry and Miss Kate Lorrigan. Misses A. C. and C. Lorrigan, sisters of the bride, were bridesmaids, her brother Mr F. Lorrigan being besb man, assisted by Mr Long. The " Wedding March " was performed by M.r Faulkner, the blind organist. A large number of Waikato natives recently assembled at Ngaruawahia, on the Waikato, and erected a post and wire fence around the octagon in the centre of tho township which was formerly a Maori burying ground, and in which the remains of the first Maori "King," Potatau te Wherowhero, were buried, bub afterwards removed. The natives say that thero are the remains of some 40 Maoris still buried in the reserve.