TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fine weather still continue* Outward' Frisco mail to-day. Cricket season drawing to a close. Mr Gladstone is reported to be ailing. Last day of the Chrysanthemum Show. Bessio Doyle's concert on Monday even* faffCircus opens on the reclamation ground to-night. Alameda arrived from Sydney yesterday evening. Miss Amy Vaughan's Company at the City Hall to-night. Mr Isitt came down strongly on Dr. Bakewell last night. All the district football clubs are practicing this afternoon. Anniversary services in the Devonport Wesloyan Church to-morrow. Mr H. M. Smeeton's new trade price Hah ia issued in to-day's Stab as a circular. - St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church annual soiree in Choral Hall on Thursday, 26th. Trotting horse in saddle v. ditto in buggy at Potter's Paddock this afternoon. Entries for the sports in aid of the Garrett fund close to-nighb in the British Hotel. Trouble between the French and English ab Sierra Leone. Probably a trumpery quarrel. Rev. L. M. Isibfa, Presidenb of bhe New Zealand Alliance, spoke in the City Hall last night. A successful concert was held in the Nortbcote Hall last night in aid of the Loftue fund. Mr T. Russell's examination in connection with the Loan and Mercantile in the cablegrams. A desperate fight between a band of outlaws and a posse of marshals is reported from Oklahoma, United State?. Lord Salisbury thinks that if the House, of Lords were made elective the lower chamber would lose its supremacy. The Choral Society's performance of " Elijah " at the Choral Hall on Tuesday evening promises to be a very successful one. A warrant has boon issued at Hawera for the arrest of James Bailees cattle dealer, ,^ on the charge of being an absconding bankJlp rupb. Br*"1 Tho Mutual Agency Company, DunedinJ? has declared-^ interim-dividend for tio%-half-year ab the rate of 8 per cent, per annum. « At the Chmtchurch Police Court yesterday, Frederick Marland Hadfield was committed for trial oh two charges of forgery. A society for the wqsflhip of the Devil exists in Paris, and is eara to be responsible for systematic sacrilege in the French churches. Lady Glasgow loaves for England this afternoon by the Alameda. Her Ladyship expects to be back in the colony in September. The marriage of the Grand Duke of, Hesse and Princess Victoria of Ooburg is reported to have been of a very brilliant character. , ' The Woodside people have started a Mutual Improvement Association, which will meet once every fortnight during tho - winter months. Theaction brought by FergUßon asrainsb . Wrighb, in which the former claims £500 damages for unskilful treatment, is boing tried at Westport. , ■ Hostilities are anticipated in the Trarfsvaal between the Namaquas and tl.ie -Bechuans, owing to the former hiving massacred 70 of the latter. The Kaitangata Belief Fund Committee has decided to granb £1 a week to the woman whose husband was killed . while working in the coal mine at Kurou, North Otago. * , An important measure, the Evicted Tenants Bill, dealing with Irish tenants . who have been evicted since 1879, has been introduced into the House of Commons hj Mr John Morley. Lord Salisbury thinks that the English Government should leave the Representation Bill alone and give their attention to the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor. Cunning Salisbury ! The British Minister ab the Hague baa been instructed bo impress strongly upon the Dutch Governmenb the necessity of compensating; Captain Carpenter of tho Costa Rica Packet. At St. Benedict's to-morrow Mr John Fuller will sing on offertory by Moorab, and in the evening Millard's "Grand M .'»/?• nificat"and Gounod's **O Salutaris " will be pung by the choir. The Auckland Fruitgrowers' Union has decided thab a conference of delegates from the varioua Fruitgrowers' Associations ia the Auckland province shall be held in Auckland early in June. , Mr Mueller, the Commissioner of Crowa Lands, who has been busy inspecting Crown lands in the neighbourhood of Opotiki, Waiotahi and Ohiwa, left Opotiki " for Auckland yesterday evening. Mr Bristow, one of bbc directors in the ' Loan and Mercantile, who said in his examination thab he bad trusted his seniors on the Board, was told by the Judge thas he had shown too much confidence in the directors and managers. Mr*Beddon has informed tho Mayor of Christchurch re the unemployed in that) city that the Governmenb is doing its best) to meeb the unemployed difficulty, bnt thab any expenditure must be in connection witb reproductive work only. The roads in the Cheviot Estate are to be proceeded witb, and will absorb thirty or forty of the mosb pressing cases in the Christchurch district. Miss Lizzie Wyllie who, for,a number of years, has played the harmonium in the " Presbyterian Church, Otahuhu, was presented on last Tuesday evening with a silver egg-stand, hot water kettle, crueb, and butter cooler by the congregation. • The Rev. D. J. Steele made the presentation and testified to bhe pleasure it gave him. Miss Wyllie is shortly bo be married. 't« Messrs Esam and Arthur hold a sale of * unredeemed pledgee on Monday next ab 11 a.<m. from the London Loan Office. Rushbrook and Co. allow 5 per cenb. (Is in the £) off all cash purchases of 20s and v p wards. —(Ad vt.) 200 21s Ulsters for 5s lid.—P. B. Darby. —(Advt.)