TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A bainy day. Fillie' Circas to-night. Italy ia purchasing ri*»* Waihora due from Sydney, The Governor is at Gisborne. Honors-for da Lesaepa cabled. Servia is mobilising her reserve!. Welcome fall in the temperature. Admiral Gama is fatally wounded. Labour riots in New South Wales. The " Imperial idea " gains in force. Rich gold find in Corrgong,Victoria. The Payne Family are in Wellington. Trade is dull in Wellington at presen*. Antwerp wool sales opened, prices low. Another burglary—silver watches stole* Farewell performance at the Oper* House. • .. _ Congregational Conference procepdin£ to-day. > " The First Female Telegraph Operator, . The Presbyterian General Assembly notf sitting. , An electric match has been invented feS smokers. ■ , . Full particulars of the Gazelle wreck i« this issue. x " Fatal explosion in email arms factory is England. Victoria's brandy is praised Jjiy the war office experts. Wild barley ie abundant in various parts of Canterbury. .;■';. The Khedive objectify? being bnrlesqued in "Don Juan." V f Parliamentary warfare raging, Lords versus Commons. '• >i' ?' 5 V:. Bad weather tor the Matsfcana Agricultural Show to-day. Watchmakers' picnic party got back from Motuihi aC midnight. Cricket match New Zealand v. New South Wales proceeding. . • "News Front, the Islands—Mining at|. New Caledonia," on page 3. The frozen meat trade shows signs of spreading in the Old Country. Wairarapa harvest has not been ,be abundant this year as formerly. The Sydney " Bulletin's" translation ot M.L.C. is most likely a capitalist. Sir Augustus Harris never spends le«C than £15,000 on one of his pantomimes. The authorities are enforcing the law foj the destruction of rabbits in Wairarapa. Certain Maoris of Rotorua are making s collection of the ancient laws, of their race. Men are coming into town from the trumfielda owing to the low price obtainable foi g»um. " The Church and Character Moulding " ab the Congregational Union meeting last' night. Daring the past eight years Pafaiatua has only made claims for fire insurance to the amount of £710e. ' ' ~' Cardinal Moran, ib is said, strongly favours private charity, and objects to tnc public frea breakfast. The English musical papers Have favour* ably reviewed Mr Webbe'a new work be "Pianoforte Playing." .Circus was well patronised yesterday evening, the new programme being at especially attractive one. ,'■ . "> Easter camps for the volunteers in the various provincial districts are recommended by Colonel Fox. ■The Baven«birrnß • (Dunedfnj- Anglican Church Committee have elected a number of ladies members of the vestryy, Oold discovery ab Day leaf of d reef, Viebdrla'. ' Vm illWß'ltW'^M'*'^md«V weight of the precious metal in two hours. The Auckland Provinqial Agricultural! Association will meet to-morrow to discuss the closing of Motuibi quarantine station. Mr R. C. Carr advertises for sale by auction at noon to-morrow a large number, of properties without reserve, also, two, pianos. It.is very probable that the Government will make use of the convict labour at their, disposal in opening up road* in inaccessible districts. It is alleged by a contemporary that the English Government intend to prevent the Salvation 'Army using military titles. The poor Salvationists! The tax imposed on women for wearing troupers by the French Government ranges from £2 to £2 Bs, but all women are not given this privilege. The Rev. S. F. Prior delivered an ad* dress in the Pitt-streeb Wesleyan School' room yesterday evening on "Tests of Christ's Preciousness." An American paper says :—" England annexed the Gilbert Islands in 1892. The United States ougbb to have annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1893." * The man Ellis who attempted to commit suicide ab the Thames the other day, has been committed for trial ab the next sit* tings of the Supreme Court. The aluminium wedding is the latest idea in wedding festivities. It originated in Germany, and is to come between the gold and silver anniversaries. General Chesney advocates the formation of a Council of the Empire, in which the Premiers of the different colonies and some of their colleagues would have a seat. One hundred and fourteen new scholars have been admitted to the Auckland College and Grammar School since the institution reopened on Tuesday; 71 of these are boys, and 43 girls. : I ~ rMf J. Quinlin has been elected Preti* dent and Mr S. C. Brown Vice-President of the Bootmakers' Federal Council in Dunedin. Mr Nagel waa made Secretary and Mr G, Rv Da vie Treasurer; ■ * Lord Khutsford thinks* very 'wisely that the power of reservation which the Imperial Government possesses should bo abolished in the case of small alterations in the constitution of the colonies. At the half-yearly meeting of the Melbourne Tramway Company no profit and loss account was produced, but a statement) was read showing a falling off in the receipts of £32,591 for the last six months. The case against' Mrs Ellis, who was alleged to have taken poison at the Thames along with her husband, was dismissed. The doctor was not prepared to Bay that she had been Buffering from narcotic poisoning. Ab the meeting of the Executive of the Auckland Poultry, Pigeon, Canary and Dog Association, the date of the next Show was discussed, but nothing definite will be decided till the Executive receives advices from the Southern Associations. The Women's Franchise League of Otago has resolved to promote a petition, signed by women only, in favour of raising the age of consent to 16 years, and to ask the Social Reform Association and other organisations to promote a similar petition signed by men. Christchurcb "Truth" says that the portrait of Mrs Yates, Mayor of Onehunga, in the "Review of Reviews," was apparently taken when that lady was in the ace of signing a warrant for the committal of the recalcitrant Councillors to the Tower of London, and adds, "If the likeness be a good one, Mayor Yates is an official wa should not care to offend."