TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

OVEECAST. Monowai in early. Queen's Birthday to-morrow. "Graphic " published to-day. Race 3at Takapuna to-morrow. English and American mail arrived. '. Queensland is finding a market for its silk. Mr Gee'a concert at the City Hall tonight. The Albert Park is now being overhauled for the spring. The body of tho late Edmund Yatea is to be cremated. Sketches of the football matches in today's " Graphic." Bicycle road race from Fapakura to Parnell to-morrow. Team of Auckland footballers leave for Thames this evening. Alarm in the United States over the de> dine of the gold reserve. Friday next is the last date on which diacount will be allowed on gas accounts. Mr Samuel Vaile has issued a pamphlet on " Railways and Social Conditions." Two million people were presenfa at the; opening of tho Manchester Ship Canal. Benefit football match at Thames tomorrow in aid of Mr '• Barlow " Madigan. Queensland cedar is reported by the experts to be suitable for making cigar boxes. ;( A consignment of opossums has been re- ■ ceivod by the Otago Acclimatisation j Society. »i It has been decided to have the Oce- '■ hunga Springs analysed and the ground j enclosed. :] The footpaths in the suburbs are being I put into a state of repair against the com-1 ing winter. \\ Cool stores are being erected in Glasgow and colonial producers are invited to ship ' to the Clyde. ; The Athenaeum Debating Society inefa lasb nighb and discussed the abolition of the House of Lords. Miss Rachel Frank, a young Californian, will be the first woman rabbi ever ordained in the Hebrew Cliurcb. The Committee of the Kennel Club has decided to hold thier annual show on the 28th and 29th September. At the time of the Ashanti War, Lord Wolseley had to pay down £25 for every £100 insured on his life. A feu de joie will be fired in Princes* street to-morrow morning, in honour ot Her Majesty's Birthday. The New South Wales Colonial Treasurer is opposed to the views of the Premier ot Victoria upon intercolonial duties. England's Volunteer force of 240,000 it maintained at a cost of under £809,000 8 year—less than £4 a head. An entire dress of jet fringe is a new idea which will shortly be seen upon one of the actresses at a principal theatre. The General Committee of the Dunedin City Council recommend the passing of the Mayor's motion to establish abattoirs. , A social re-union in connection with the, loianthe Social Re-union will be held on Friday-night next in St. George's Hall. Among the historical relics at the Columbian Exhibition is a tobacco pips formerly belonging to Miles Stamjish. Coxey, Brown and Jones have been sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment! for forcing an entrance into the Capitol. His Excellency Lord Glasgow will preside at the Band of Hope Union annual gathering in the Choral Hall on Friday. A special train will run to-morrow to Pukekohe, where the South Franklin Mounted Rifles will hold their annual sports. . London cabowners have appealed to the Home Secretary for protection agaiitsb terrorism by members of the Cabmen's Union. Cricket match to decide the Second Junior Championship between the RollerMills and Belmont teams in the Domain to-morrow. This evening the Fanning and Mooney Minstrel Company repeat yesterday's programme, and to-morrow evening a new ouc will be presented. The meeting of those interented in the formation of a New Zealand Natives' Aaao« ciafeion will be held to-night in tha V.M.C.A. Rooms. A new compressed air refrigerating machine has been invented by Mr McGill, of Petone, and is said to be superior to anything now in use. To-morrow being the Queen's birthday f the usual fortnightly meeting of the Auckland branch of the Irish National Federation will nob be held. Notice is given by advertisement that all horses and cattle trespassing on the Devonport Domain will be impounded and tha owners thereof prosecuted. /'• The headmaster of the Wellesley-street; School states that the recent regulation ra corporal punishment interfered with tha discipline of the school. _ At the meeting of the Auckland Prohibition League lasb night regret was expressed that an effort was being made to eecura eleven o'clock licenses. Professor Henry Morley, whose death we lately chronicled, had a varied professional career, having been physician, schoolmaster and journalist by turns. A petition is now being largely signed air Onehunga praying the Central Board of Health to interfere in connection with th« sanitary condition of the place. The Wellington Benevolent Trustees Society has ascertained that many of the men receiving relief are stewards and sailors, who have lefb their ships. The Colonial Treasurer is in Dunodin on his way to attend the marriage of Miss MeKenzie, daughter of the Minister of Lands. The Premier will also be present. An attempt is being made at Christchurch to quash the conviction in the casa of Curran, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment lately for vagrancy. Large attendance of the general public at the meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council yesterday evening, but a clearance was made before business commenced. Private letters from the Riviera state that Mrs Langtry has been fairly successful at tho tables. Her rule is to play three nights a week ; her fortune is the cue to others. A persOß advertises that he is trying to organise a syndicate of gentlemen to pun down £100 each, with which he proposes to go to Monte Carlo and win £200 a day for them. The Southland Acclimatisation Society is protesting against the introduction of tha English wood pigeon, and the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has decided not to introduce the bird. Mr Aldridge will continue his illustrated lectures on " The Lite and Times of Moses " iv the Foresters' Hal', Nowton, the subject forthia evening being1 "The Fcrty Years Wandering and the Death of Mose9.'' A wrilor in a Sydney paper suggests a means of paying off debts on churches by means of several insurance policies for small sums taken out and assigned to tha church by well disposed members of tha congregation. When the applications for the position of headmaster of the Parnell School were under consideration at the Board of Education yesterday, Mr Luke spoke at great length on the powers of School Committees, - and the eauality as shown in the Govern^ ment regulations of Dl and C 2 classifies* tione.