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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 145, 19 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wbathbr improved. Big steamers in port. Supreme Courb proceeding. Ruahino arrived from London. \ S.b. Mamari arrived from London. Auckland Harbour Board met to-day. Captain Edwin explains away the gale. Eighty-soven passengers arrived hero from London this morning by the b.b. Ruahine. Mr McKerrow, Chief Commissioner of Railways, is expected back here from Rofcorua this afternoon. The Rev. W. Morley, President of the Australasian Wesleyao Conference, speaks enthusiastically of the oratory of Dr. Talmage. The business of the Onehunga Borough Council last evening was disposed of before nine o'clock, and the meeting was unusually harmonious. ' Deputations from the Ministers' Association and the V.M.C.A. will go on board bh& Alameda to welcome the Rev. Dr. Talmage on his arrival. Miss Tyers, who has been a nurse in the Hamilton Hospital, has lefb for Taranaki, having been appointed matron of tha Hawera Hospital. The Onehunga people are inquiring' whether the Talmage. lectures will be over in time for the ten o'clock train, We believe they will be. An old identity—Mrs Macfarlane, relict of the late Thos. Macfarlane—is dead, aged 83. The deceased lady, whose husband waß for many years Trustee in Bankruptcy in Auckland, leaves a grown-up family. Mr Harris, railway stationmaster at Auckland, has received three months' leave ot absence on fall pay previous to leaving . the railway service finally. Mr Stevenson, of Ashburton, is to succeed Mr Harris. On Saturday morning a farewell communion service will be held in St. Mary's Cathedral Church prior to the departure of Bishop Wilson and the members of the Melanosian Mission for the Western Pacific by the Southern Cross. Mr A. V. Macdonald, who is to have charge of the Auckland and Newmarket railway sections, arrives here from the South this week. Immediately on his arrival Mr Jackson, Superintendent at) the Newmarket Railway Workshops, will leave for the South. A Rhine jewel, said to be the largest stone of the sort found in the world, is on view in Mr Kohn's jeweller's window, Queen-street, set in a brooch. Tha stone, which is three-quarters of an inch in diameter, is clear as crystal, and closely resembles a diamond. A squad of recruits belonging to the "A" Battery of Artillery Volunteers, under the command of Lieut. Lipscombe, were put through a useful course of infantry drill at the Drill-shed last evening by Sergt.-Major Scully. Squads from the Victoria and City Rifles were also drilled. In the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday, Louis Rother, of Wellington, sued Samtnan and Gusteds, of Bremen, claiming £1,190 commission on the sale of the firm's goods in New Zealand. Defendants were not represented. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £1,091 and costs. A bicyclists' case was heard before the Court ab luvercargill, yesterday, Miss Mason, driver of a vehicle overturned, suing Newbitt, Wilds,- yand Lithtrow in the Supreme Court for £200 damages. A nonsuit, was entered in Wesbitb's- case, be having ridden pasb the horse before ib shied. A special jury, after a ehorb deliberation, found for the other defendants. Ab the quarterly meeting of Court City of Auckland, No. 3,9.8 A.0.F., in the Foresters' Hall, Newton, last evening, the following officers were elected for the ensu, ing half-year:—C.R., Brother J. J. Jenkins; S.C.R., Brother Pelham; S.W., Brother Constable; J.W., Brother Sruerdon ; 5.8., Brother Millbank; J. 8., Brother Weir; auditor, Brother James Smith (re-elected); delegates to districb meeting, Brothers Jenkins, Carlaw and Smith. Refreshes the weary, A boon to the hard-worker, A solace to all. 4 " Reliable Tea." (Advb.) A suit of pure all-wool New Zealand tweed, made to measure by our own staff of first-class workmen at 52s 6d, cash prices. —Smith and Caughey.— (Advt.).