TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 142, 15 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Beilliant weather. ; Football to-morrow. . " « Alarming crisis in Morocco.' ' : '.» Monowai from Sydney, to-day. • '; Who is to be Spaaker this eesaion 1 The King of Corea has fled to Japan. . Diphtheria Is prevalent in Southland. Terrible distress prevails $b present id 'Sicily. , . :V". .. . ~-.;, . !-; > ■ ■•; The hounds meet ab Papatoitoi to-' motrow. Sir Maurice O'Rorke left for Wellington yesterday. ■■' . . ::> 1 " .'» ■ ..■ . "''" Mr Fuller is Ringing " Geraldine" in Christcburch. ' ' *■ The British Government have senb a ■'war*; ship to Morocco...' ' Bishops Julius and Mules. left for tha South yesterday. . ~ ? The Boerß are advancing on the insuwi gent chiet Malabact. ■ • "j Maori obstruction cast proceeding at the Supremo Courb to-day. [- , ;.!'-..■ There is a desire to have the quarantine charges at Motuihi reduced. ■ St. John's Wesleyan Church, Onehunga, was broken into last Sunday. - >.'; The English soldiers are now being affected by the plague in China. The Newmarket Borough Council have \ settled on a sits for their swimming bath. .; "An Evening' with Mendelssohn" ab ; Devonporfc Congregational Church to-night. ; Important meeting of the Chamber of ,1' Commerce and the Railway League yeater-1 day.:, .','■ ■ s ;•■'■ ;..■•),' ;:i•. V: '■]■■••' : ;? & A Chicago dentist advertised • choice of 160 World's Fair views with every tooth he pulla. ■" ' - • I The motion to adjourn the House of Conr-I mons on Derby: Day was negatived by ,85' votes. , '.* ' '\ ■■," ' "..',' [.',i ' A movement is on foon to have'some] alteration ia the ■ constitution' of the Bar- ;i hour Board. y ■ < : SrV Russia in Asia contains 5,000,000 equaroi miles of land suitable for pastoral and agri- ' cultural purposes. ; • " .\ The seven colonies, of Australia do an annual bußinesß of. £121,000,0094 and hava 10,000 miles of railway., ' 3 ' ~ 1-' The chief difference between' a boy andu bonneb is that one becomes a man and the other becbmesa woman. °■ , * . r Mr W. M. Collins, one of the member* for Chriatehureh, was entertained last nighfe at a complimentary social. .■ -i, . ■ ' The jury failing to come to an agree* ment in Mrs McCallum's c&s.e, were discharged at midnight yesterday. ' In the Supreme Court, Wellington,'W. H. Harris, charged with having forged and *\ uttered a promissory note, was acquitted. The Siamese mandarin who shot the French militia inspector Grosgurinj bat been sentenced to twenty yeara* imprison* . ment. \ ■ '- * > -.-," ''• '■_ '■■ /. ■ Mr E;; Withy will lecture on Monday next in the Auckland Institute on' " The Economic Effects Of. Various Land . Tenures." '• ■-•-■-: . ■;■:■■■". ;!-'"''"/■■. ,'f A sudden death took place at Farnell yesterday, when Mr Alex. Tait, an old man of 75, a blacksmith by trade, died; ab his residence. : ' '•'': v, '■■■ y':-'.^" \-,;J. The Hinemoa, with the Governor and party on board, 'arrived ab - Wellingtoa from Onehunga about half-past four yesterday afternoon. The meteorological returns for May give ~ J the rainfall as follows:—Auckland,^ *8 inches; } Wellington, 43; Christchurch,, '* s'l ; Dunedin, 4*2. . . ■■■."■ ' c' ' Mr A: R. Guinness was presented with a testimonial and a purse of a hundred sovereigns "ab Greymouth yesterday before leaving for .Parliament: ' " The periodic struggle'for the Sunday opening of picture galleries has been renewed in London, and this time it bida fair to meet with success^ . ' \,. Mre'Neill, Iris"pector of Factories for tha - North Island, leaves for Wellington 6a Monday next after completing her inspec-. tion of the factories here. ■ A good many women of wealth and fashion who have much correspondence'ara getting into the way of employing privata secretaries more and more. , ■ Yesterday evening Mrs Ryan, of Farnell. sustained so severe injuries through falling; down stairs that she died about twenty minutes after the accident. ■■ ' The volunteer movement is not dead. A new company of artillery is now in course of formation by Mr H. Parker, who used to be lieutenant in the Auckland Navals., An appeal is made to the public on behalf \ of Mrs McComish, who has been, left with;« large family in very straightened circumBtances by the death of her husband Boma time ago. : % The Medical Superintendent : of ' the Lunatic Asylum desires to return thanks to v MrH. B. Morton, for 0, quantity of periodicals given for the use of patients in the in< stitution. 5 .■; ~ . ; A notice appears in the '•« Gazette " ap« poinbing H. Maxwell and T. Phtipota factory inspectors at Dunedin and Reeftbn, ?M and Grace Neill. at Auckland, Onehunga,* andGisborno. , ' • ? , There is a feeling at Home that the Go*; vernmentshould not subsidise the Canadian- ■ Australian steamers and the Pacific cable unless the coldnies share in the cost of tha Imperial Navy. > " _, The Duke of Devonshire fears that democratic financiers will nob be content) Until they have compelled heirs to estates to pay duties amounting to ten or twelve yeara* income. We should not wonder ! An important discovery has been madfl at Castel-Trosin of a post-Roman necropo- . lis of at least 150 tombs, whose contents far Burpasß in abundance and richness any Bimilar finds hitherto made on Italian soil. The Cambridge Borough Council hay« prepared a draft of a Bill to be introduced into the Legislature giving Councils tha limited right of contract between; tha Borough Councils and individual council' lore.' " '"', \ ■,;; The Russian Government has decided that henceforth all American insurance companies doing business, in the empire mußt divide their profits with the insured after the policies have been in effect) four years. The firsb of the winter excursions to the. South Sea Islands takes place on July 4th, when the Union Steamship Company's b.b. Taviuni will leave Auckland for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, returning to tbia port ia 28 days.. , v ~ . J\, ' In our report of the concert given or Tuesday by tbo Church of Christ choir, we inadvertently omitted to mention the very valuable services rendered by Miss Lester, whose accompanying both 'instra-> menbaliets and singers lefb nothing to be desired. Sale of unredeemed pledges ab Eeam anol Arthur's Mart on Monday next at 11, from Mr L. H. Neumegen'a Loan Office, Via. toria-streeb.