TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 26 February 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

-. m Wintry weather. Bolivia is invading Brazil. Sudden fall in the temperature. Larrikins are molesting Blenheim. Mr George Holdship ib now in Welling* Twenty-five Anarchists expelled from Nice. Melbourne ie to be lighted with elecbri* Crowded house to witness " The Village' Priest." . ._. A revision of the Victorian tariff ia probable. , . Anarchist; Club discovered in Copenhagen. Naval and Military Association meet tonight. ' . It has been raining lately in mosb parts of the South. . ' ; '■ Fashionable gathering ab the Polo Sporta on Snturday. The brewers are nob going to have a picnic alter all. • .... Tram drivers are being supplied with caps and numbers. About 2,(100 names have been -truck off the Hokibika roll. . Sunday concerts are to be stopped in New South Wales. .'■.'*_ Concert in St. James's Hall in aid ol Marist Bros. School. Texture beat Falconer in the final round of the Waterloo Cup. • _ _ Sixteen persons in the colony adjudged bankrupt last week. Violent demonstrations againsb the' Anarchists in England. A new system of delivering frozen meat in London is being tried. The Society of Art's Exhibition will be opened by Lady Glasgow. More New Australia emigrants have arrived safely at Monte Video. Miners are leaving tbe New South Wales mining districts for Coolgardie. The whole town is high in praise of the Brough and Boucicault Company. The sittings of the Postal Conference are expected to commence on March sth. Aboub 2,000 claims for enrolment on the Wellington City roll have been received. 2,339 tons of coal and 60,000 feet of timber were exported from Greymouth lasb week. ; " Wanted a carb load of wives for South Dakota "is an advertisement in an Ameri-' can paper. The English masses, in spite of all th flirt \ misery, will have nothing to do with the Aharch'l.te. The Brazilian President's chances seem on the wane. The national police are deserting him. Mr J. C. Hanna, manager of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, goes South today. A man in Melbourne has been fined £5 for exhibiting a phonograph which narrated an indecent story. The New South Wales " Hansard " costs £6,559 annually. And whab brash the publication must conbain. The Spanish Governmenb are going to compete with South Australia in the retailing of wines in London. The Westporb Coal Company exported 2,926 tons of coal and tho Mokihinui Com* party 1,078 tons for the week. ■ •<■ '■• Ib is said that there are 500 women in : ■Sydney working 14 hours a fofriti?%WSo:. of from ls 4d to 2s per diem,' - ' .7. ,*; Mr Valentine, the dairy expert left Wei-' lington on Saturday for Hawke's [&*% Napier, New Plymouth, and Auckland. ' No high enthusiasm should be permitted to waste itself in mere froth and _pray. The end of rational emotion is better con* duct. The House of Commons is not likely to accept the Parish Councils Bill, even after the Lords have agreed to abandon most of their amendments. Close on £1,000 have beon subscribed by the Melbour_i.es towards the expenses of Mr Speight's costs in his libel action againsb the "Age." Sir Maurice O'Rorke was in Wellington on Saturday, with the intention of proceeding to Dunedin, bub was unable to leave owing to the weather. ' A warrant has been issued iv Hobart for the arrest of Steele, for alleged defalcations. Steele is believed to have left in the Tarawera for New Zealand. A considerable number of people assembled to say farewell to the Fillis circus troupe on Saturday night. Fillis wenb to Sydney by the Waihora. Now South Wales is negotiating with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce for the inauguration of a direct trade between Australia and Manchester via the canal. The Gaelic service in Sb. Andrew's yesterday was fairly attended. Great interesb was manifested by those present in the Rev. J. M. Fraser's remarks on the duties of Christians. The President of the Seventh Day Ad* ventists of New Zealand is now in Auck* land. Lasb evening he preached in the Surrey Hills and intends to give another address on Tuesday night. Mr W. S. Furby, Officer in Charge of the Auckland Telegraph Department, has returned from a visit to Europe. He sayAustralia was in bad odour ab home bub New Zealand was well spoken of. The officers of bhe* Auckland Volunteer? in the district, with all the officers of-.fchft districb staff are invited to meet the officers in command of the district on Thursday, at 7.30, to make arrangements for the Easter encampment. , ', 7 '.'"■ At St. Benedict's yesberday, Mr John Fuller and Miss Lorrigan gave an excellent rendering of Capocci's *' Bone Pastor.,? The choir sang Haydn's " First Mass "at the morning service, and rendered excel* lent music at vespers; Mrs Mary Anne Senescal, a childless widow of 90 years, died on Saturday ab Devonport. Deceased sustained a bad accident on the evening of the 15th ult.^ through her nightdress taking fire, and she seems never to have recovered from tbe I shock. j Grey town correspondent of Wairarapa " Daily " has tbe following :—" We have some really beautiful girlß in Greytown; lovely roses still * pining on their virgin , stems,' but mates for them all are nob bo be | found, and they are likely to pine. Ibs a I fine place for nice young fellows, for naturi ally being scarce they are very highly : appreciated and made much of."