TABLE-TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE-TALK.

Another perfecb day. . On the ball again. Parliament opens next Thuriday. Auckland Journalists' Initlfcuto meetd to-night. Another case of typhoid has occurred ab Onehunga, Pakuranga Hunb Club met to-day att , Papatoitol t Crisis in Morocco. The Powers to onita to suppress ifc. $ Large batch of members leaving for tha session on Monday. The Bonapartists in France are considering an appeal to the people. A " ghost" is making periodical visits att a certain place in Ashburton. ■ The Rev. W. Morley speaks most highly oi the hospitality of Adelaide. Beanie Doyle did not seem to take with the Wellington musical people. ' ~ A benefit will be given to Mr Charles Faning in the Opera House to-night. , MrC. H. Hinman will preach in the St. George's Hall to-morrow evening at 7. ; -.-.-,' The English "Financial News " believes in the Victorian Credit Foncier scheme; The Free Public Library is to be closed fora short time for stocktaking and repairs- .' ' : ..„ (a i .■.- It is said that there is nobbing in the laws of New Zealand which forbids cremation o£ the dead. ■ . The Agentß-General are going to'interview Sir W. Harcourt concerning the Death ' • duties. /;'■ • , :■ ■.: • ■ ■-.., V Monowai arrived from Sydney this ■ morn- V ing, and left lor San Francisco in the ;X afternoon. ■>'■■'■ • - a.!• Maori obstruction case proceeding at the,i Supreme Court to-day. Likely to occupy { Borne time. ■■ : < ->i ■ Among the passengers for Apia, by the > mail Bteamer to-day, was Mr LloydQsborne, ) the journalist. , , *1 New Zealand Natives' Association meeb on Wednesday next to confirm the constitution aud elecb officers. The credit balance in connection with the Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting at Dunedin ia £15 19s. • ■ The Capo Colony Colonial Treasurer says that in tho eyes of capitalists the Capo is the most solid colony of all. A contemporary says that/the General Wesleyan Conference cost the Connexion nearly 10s a minute for banter and chaff. ; "A Remarkable Trial" will be the sub- ? ject of a special meeting at the Salvation Army Barracks on Sunday night at 7 p.m. " Gold in payable quantities is almost ab our very doors," says the " Western Star." People too lazy to pick it up, we suppose. The question of licensing porters cama up at the meeting of the Finance and Legal •• Committee of the Harbour Board yesterday. ■ ■ : ■■i?:'';;v|i- ' Large nnmber of entries already received for Suburban Poultry Fanciers' Club Shaw: Entries posted from Wellington and Giaborne. T. H. Anaon, an old settler, formerly Chairman of the Wellington Education Board, died on Thursday night from pleurisy. Mr R. M. Smythe and his son, who are managing the Rev. Dr. Talmage's tour in the colony, arrived in Auckland by tha Mono wai. .' Mr. W, G^Gunnpldihas removed his Marble Freestone Works to a more convenient yard in Pompallier Terrace, PoneonbyJXoad. . ■ • Mr*Eugster hae given offence to some of our young athletes by saying that Christian Endeavourers should nob be members o£ football clubs. : The Rev. W. Morley, President of tha ;; Australasian Methodist 'Wesleyan Conference, arrived in Auckland by the Monowai to-day. A number of roughs lately broke into the Makui Hotel, Forty-mile Bash, when tha licensee was absent, and "ran the show" t0..,^ their own satisfaction. Mr Mansfield has presented the Alex-andra-street Primitive Methodist Church with a very superior 8-day clock, which was hung last evening. The Rev. W. Morley, President of tha Wesleyan General Conference, preaches in the Graf ton Road Wesleyan Church on Sunday morning at 11.' The first of a series of concerts to be* given under the "direction of Miss Clarieo Brabazon and S. Adams, takes place on Monday in St. James's Hall. Oculists say that the use of the typewriter is harmful to the eyes, the strain on the vision caused by following the letters over the keyboard being very great. The Dunedin police captured yesterday evening three young men ■ whom they declare to be connected with the petty thieving so prevalenb during the pasb month. John Evans, of Christchurch, was fined £5 yesterday, for driving a traction engine along a road without having men travelling - in front and rear of the engine to prevent! accidents. > Attention is drawn in out advertisemenb columns to the programme of .the Mount Eden . Volunteer Fire Brigade concert. It is one of unusual excellence, Composing songs from some of our very best vocalists. His Lordship the Bishop of Melanesia will preach in All Saints' Church to-morrow morning, in. St. Mary's- (Parnell) in th* evening, and will address the children of St. Matthew's Church in the afternoon. Mr John Fuller, of popular concert fame, has now found his way to Dunedin, where he is a favourite. "Little Johnny,"; the ; Dunedin "Times" Eaye, could hold hia owa with any singer yet heard in the Otago ' capital. Mr Hulme, accountant in Messrs Cqok and Gray's Auckland office, has been transferred to a similar position in their Chriefcchurch branch, and Mr Archdale Tayler, formerly with Messrs Wm. McArthur and Co., takes his place here. Encouraging reports were received in Sydney from the New Hebrides on June 7 with regard to the trade of the group. The settlers have had a good season, and, as a result, are sending big shipments ofv produce to the Sydney market. • At the Mount Eden Congregational Church a course of lectures and entertainments is to be given on alternate Monday nights, particulars of which will be found amongst tbe Church notices, the firsti lecture commencing next Monday. A licensed and authorised surveyor who was recently taxed with a shrinkage of measurement in land which he had surveyed twenty years ago explained that it was due to " a well-known scientific fact that the globe was shrinking all over." During one recent week nob less than " 47 babios, ranging from two weeks to three months old, wore deserted by their mothera in New York city. Tokens of affection left on their children indicated that they were deserted because of want A Napier paper says that during tha progress of a game of football there its seemed as if Pandemonium had broken loose, as there were a number of tho spectators who evidently thought it highly edifying to screech and yell at the top- of their voices, and. continually incited thoir favourites among the players with -crieß of ■ " Down him," " Sib onAia chaet," andauch. like. ■'■ ■ ' ■, i; if •• :• • ■.: ■ : : Sale of unredeemed pledges at Eaam and' Arthnr'B Mart on Monday next at 11, frome Hl Noapegen'fl Loaa lOffififc'•Tis«^ lifijt\jji, lawti ■ '>■ - * ifTOW';w?37%\ 'SIUJ' ■ . ■ ':; ■■'■■; vSft