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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 75, 29 March 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunshine again. - Premier leaves Auckland to-night. Mr Fred. Ireland will be buried hero t£> day. Miss Bessie Doyle's concert in the Choral . Hall to-night. The new Canadian Tariff is favourable to Great Britain. A big house ad Mr Gee's popular concert yesterday evening. The Melbourne hospital is overcrowded with typhoid patients. - Auckland Sestet Ctub give their first) concert to-morrow night. • Arresb of students and Anarchists a<» Odessa and Sb. Petersburg. Sir Roberb Stoub lefb for Eotorua to-day i to take a course of the baths. The criminal sittings of the Supremo Court will be resumed on Monday. No language, can express the feeling! of a mute who steps on a tack in the dark. A debate on a want-of-confidenoe motion is now proceeding in the Sydney Parliament. Auckland's display ab the Wellington Regatta yesterday was disappointing after Picton. Sir Walter Buller has liberated the birds recently imported by him from the Old Country. Rev. Isitt ib coming North shortly to' argue the temperance question with Dr. .-: Bake well. H A very interesting article on " Russia "by j Count! Tolstoi appears in this week's \ "Graphic." f The number of Echools in the Wellington n district has been increased by seven during j the past year. J The manufacture of dynamite will pro-1 bably be made a State monopoly. Thank A the Anarchists. - ;,' The Pitt-streeb Wesleyan Sunday-school celebrated its thirty-second anniversary. yesterday evening. They have had an almost unprecedented epell of dry weather in the Manawatu district this summer and autumn. The Victorian Government is going to reduce the rate of interest on deposits ia the Savings Bank to 3 per cent. There aro 307 teachers in the employment of the Wellington Education Board, and 12,254 children on the books. At a meeting of 20,000 Ulstermen a resolution was passed declaring, thab they would never submit to Home Rule. Mr Low, the Government Produce Agent, thinks New Zealand might* easily geb her butter into tha South African market. Our weekly "commercial article and the report of the half-yearly i meeting of tha Colonial Bank are published on page It is estimated that the production of " Madame Favarfc " will cost the Amateur Opera Company between £600 and £/00. The Sydney " Daily Telegraph " is introducing type-setting machines. In America and England bhese machines are extensively used. The City Council invite applications for the position of Inspector of Vehicles and Traffic. Applications received till April 12fch. i Mr Justice Conolly sits in Chambers tomorrow to transact business which has accumulated during his absence in Gie* borne. lb is said that there .are evidences of groat carelessness in Wellington in the making up of the rolls for tho lato licensing elections. •' . : ;';.., ,'; ,:.,V"i;" 1"' 'Chrysanthemum growers arejealously fostering their flowers; against"lßei coming i show. The exhibition promisea to be an ■, exfetileMOrie. ■' ' ;■ :P.y-i r ■'~'■;;" The rehearsals of "Madame I'avart" by the Amateur Opera Company give promise that the piece will be the most successful ever staged by the amateurs. The Mararoa was delayed in the stream some ten minutes yesterday through having to put ashore a cecbleman who " didn't know the steamer had started." Mr Seddon promises that the Governmenb will give £1,000 towards the extension of the District Hospital if the Aucklanders will contribute a similar amount. Admiral Colomb hints thab British taxpayers will nob consent to take increased obligations of naval protection for the ' colonies while these virtually pay nothing. The Grandjury, the common jury, and the witnesses in the Supreme Court cases which were postponed ab the last' sitting, are notified to be in atendance ab the Court at 10 a.m. on Monday next. A number of young women were charged under the new by-law at Wellington yesterday, with keeping disorderly houses. They "were convicted, but discharged as the cases were the fir&b under the new by-law.