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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i Football. Weather enjoyable. Big tangi over Rewi. Parliament) proceeding. , Talmage likes Auckland. Supreme Court civil sessions. Mrs McCallum V not guilby." Fortune-telling case dismissed. Talmage preaches to-morrow night. Pigeon and Canary Show in Newton. "Talmage—nob in mournful numbers. * Direct steamer Mamari goes South fcaday. Two men sentenced to death for murdei at Sydney. ' No Australian knight has been sent) to prison, thus far. Funeral of tfie late Messrs Lusher and Kennedy to-day. 11 Accidental death " . verdict in r« the recent explosion. t « ** The Alexander 'Newton survivors are ab the Sailors' Home. - ■ , Rival steamers will be here from the "South on Monday. ~ m ■ Talmage finds his Auckland audiences very quick-witted. Mission schooner Southern Cross eails for Norfolk Island to-day. 'Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, sails for Norfolk Island to-day. The late chief Rewi Maniapoto was aboub 73 years of age when he died. | Mr Draffin will lecture to-morrow evening in the Choral Hall on " The Religion of tbo Future." Talmage's last two lectures ; Monday, '•School of Scandal;" Tuesday, "House-; hunting." Kong Sing, eon of a Chinese storekeeper at lnverell (N.S.W.), is articled Clerk to a Sydney lawyer. Old Re wi, who has gone to the happy hunting-grounds, saved Mr James Macky's life in the Waikato in 1873. N.S.W. ex-Premier Parkes is opposed to capital punishment ; also to flogging. Premier Dibbs has jusb announced that no also is opposed to capital punishment. In Japan (says a Melbourne paper) you buy a dress by weight. Many frugalminded Melbourne women appear to have gone to Japan for their evening dresses. * , The most popular man in Queensland at the present time is, beyond cavil, Governor Norman, who has the happy knack of making himself agreeable to all classes. An ex-bank manager advertises pathetically in the "Melbourne Age" that he, can do anything in the clerical line and wants a job; wages no objoct, appetite email. To-morrow there will be special devotions in the evening ab St. John the Baptist's Church, Parnell, ab which the Bishop's secretary, Rev. Father Purbon, 0.5.8., will preach. > Ab Newton East School yesterday afternoon, a highly-esteemed teacher was presented with an elegant dressing case of Morocco leather, handsomely moan ted with ■ : silver. Mr Herbert Jones will give his dioramio lecture on "Sights and Scenes, Men and Schemes of Australia, the Land of Tepsyturveydom " at St. Mary's Parish Hall, Parnell, on Tuesday next. , To-morrow morning at nine o'clock, a steamer will leave the ferry tee for'Motatapu,- and after landing passengetSr^iU proceed to one of the popular fishing grounds, returning to Mofeutapu in the, evening. A big run on ab B.ushb.rofk's eale.-v (Advb.) _f\ ; ■ • * *W