TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Rain threatening. Last five nights of the circus. Lobengula haa died of smallpox. Auckland Institute meets to-night, Cape Colony is to annex PondolandL * *. Cricket matches in the Domain on SabtH««| day. Change of programme ab the circus to« nighb. Col. Pab Boyle returns from Roborua on Wednesday. ~*. London the centre of the Anarchist outrages in Europe. Five hundred persons are adrift on an tea floe in the Gulf of Finland, The Government of Cape Colony is taking steps to annex Pondoland. Five intercolonial sailing vessels arrived in port yesterday and to-day. Auckland Liberal Association meets tonight for election of officers. News of a victory by the Brazilian troops over the insurgents is to hand. An unpopular Russian colonel has been shob dead by one of his officers. The Auckland Harbour Board will elect their Chairman for the year to-morrow. Tho seventeenth year of Scripture Gift Association terminates on Mond^y next In the billiard match of 7,000 up, Peall beab Memtnotb, the Victorian, by 15 points. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce will hold their annual meeting on Thursday next. The rifle team from H. M.s. Curacoa d»* feated the Ponsonby Navals by sevon points. The Pukekohe Show on Saturday wa» patronised by an unusually large number of people. Four fires took place in different parts of tho city and suburbs yesterday and this morning. . The coal export from Greymoubh, for tha week was 2301 tons, and the timber export 158,127 ft. " ■ 1 England has afc last awakened fco fcb«| necessity of dealing stringently with tha Anarchists. Mr Valentine, the dairy expert, ia coming North to inspect the Taranaki and Auckland districts. Wellington carried off the banner ab tha New Zealand Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting. Cricket match New South WaleßV. North Island of New Zealand proceeding to-day ab Wellington. • .',-,- F. E. Creamer, of Auckland, came in first in the threa miles walking championship at Dunedin. The Now South Wales cricketers scored a fine victory over the New Zealanders, winning by 160 runs. M One firm in London has advancofjl £150,000 during last season for Taraoaki butter and cheese. " ■ Mr Gladstone is reported to be^ blind of one eye and suffering from an incipient cataract in the other. Mrs Bahnson, of musical fame, has been manned to Mr A. Mallinsoo, organist of the St. Kilda Cathedral, St. Kilda. , : MrGlassey. the ex-leader of the labour party in the Queensland Parliament, ia now travelling among the Southern lakes. :"■*.■ The coal export from Weßtporb for the week is 8,155 tons, the largest Quantity ever shipped from Westport in one week. •/ A miner, named Joseph Mcßeady, hs.B TSeenkUlißd *tr Hokifika by ti^tgmm the tunnel in which he was workißKJpvjipfr way. . . •■ .. ■•.v'."" Thirfcy-nine men were killed and June wounded by the bursting of a, sleam Dipe on board the cruiser Brandenberg, ab\ Kiel. ' .. ■■'■; i\ Yellow fever is epidemic among the warships and merchantmen stationed at Rip de Janeiro. Rio has always bad a repute 4 tion for yellow jack. ■ ; At Coolgardie, a rich reef has been nig. ' covered in a publican's back yard. But even if) is nothinc to the reef which was \ found in his front bar. ' \ ' > Brougb and Boucicaulb open in' the Opera House on Friday next. The Company is spoken of ss the second Comedy Company in the world. ;, His Excellency the Governor, Lady Glasgow, their family and suite were present at the morning and evening services in St. Paul's yesterday. Ab St. Benedict's yesterday, an excellent! rendering of Gounod's " Messe Solennelle " was given by the choir. Solos were ably interpreted by Miss Lbrrigan, Messrs Fuller, Thomson and others. The Manukau (Wellington) School Committee, which had a dispute with the beadmaster of the school over the question of whether the children should be allowed to pub their horses in the school paddock or not, has resigned. r> '