TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 150, 25 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather beautiful. Talmage ovabed.* Rival steamers [n port. More trouble in Corea. Colliery disaster in Wales. A war tax'iu bhe Transvaal Supreme Courb sitting continues. Steamship collision in the Atlantic. Immense audience fco hear Talmage. Parnell beab North Shore ab football. Borough Council meobings'.o-mght. S.s. Richmond arrived from fche Islands. Miss Freda Maraden's concerb to-night. . Tain-age on " The School of Scandal" fconighb. A Brazilian rebel ex-president has beon executed. Steamers Mararoa and Tasmania in from fche South. Tbe Wesfcporb coal exporb last vtreekr-jrwu! 4,150 tons. Another royal dukeleb! Duchess of York has a aon. News from Rarotonga by the steamer Richmond. Special meeting of bhe Harbour Board tomorrow re sewage. *' King "Tawhiao is at Kihikihi, Waikato, lamenting over Rewi. Popular orchestral and chamber concert at Sb. James's Hall to-night. Grafton aud Newfcon footballers vie- '. torions ab Pobter's on Saturday. j A cash box, containing £49, has been 1 stolen from the Middleton Hotel, Kaiapoi. ' A good many hats, shoos and umbrellas j wenb astray afc Dr. Talmage's sermon IttiUfi nighb. .__i__|_Kp • Thirty shillings was the houso at Wtjjj^. Australian theatre recently. Perhaps t^To^ record. «i|- * Mission yacht Southern Cross is expected back here from Norfolk Island in a fortnight. Hundreds of natives ore assembling at Kihikihi fco tangi over ,Rowi Maniapoto's remains, Tha Greymouth coal oxporb for lasb week was 3,090 tons; and bho timber exporb, 62,550 ft. During '93, Sydney Mint bought 171,097 ounces N.S.W. gold, or 26,838 ounces mora than in '92. Singers are reminded of the practice ia Wesley Hall this evening, to prepare for Roy. L. M. Isitb's mission. A young man named Arbhur Batohelor has been committed ior trial at Dunedin, for stealing £10 from an hotel. Tho Mount Eden Rifle Range has been placed at the disposal of the captain of • H.M.B. Wallaroo for rifle practice for the warship's crew. The Melbourne Salvation Army has senb oub a sacred minstrel troupe, 12 men in red trousers, as well as shirts, called the Metamorphoses. . Lasb evening Mr W. Draffin gavo a fcheosophical address entitled " Tho Religion of the Future " in the Choral Hall, to a large and interested audience. Persons supplied with city water *»re reminded that the consumers'rate must ba paid on or before the 30th insb. If the supply is cub off the fee for turning on is 10s. T. P. O'Connor remarks thab Paula Tattqueray's suicide in fche new play is " the last word of indictment agair.... the. crsW and murderous i-equality of our sexual code." ' 7 A Maori named Pero, formerly of the Waikabo, died on Saturday _#tbe native settlement near Lake Takapuna, aged 7. years. He had lived at Takapuna tor the last fifty years. The Rev. Scott West conducted thedual funeral service ab Waikomiti on Saturday afternoon over the remains of Messrs Lusher and Kennedy, tbe victims of the recent fatal accidenb. Mr A. G. S. Ha wee, late British Consul ab Tahiti, arrivod here early to-day from the Islands by tho s.s. Richmond. He baa been appointed Counsul-General and Commissioner for Hawaii. Oub of 23 cases seb down for bearing at tho Supreme Court criminal sittings this quarter, Detective Chrystal had charge of 18, in all of which, except the fortunetelling case, he was successful. ....'■' On Saturday the Rev. Dr, Talmage and Mr R. S. Smythe lunched with Colonel and Mrs Burton at Takapuna, Major and Mra Goring having been invited to meet the celebrated preacher. In the afternoon Bishop Cowie called on Dr. Talmage. With Premier Dibbs, the police, and the bank managers all now constantly carrying revolvers (says a Sydney paper), New Soubh Waleß is in a fairer way than ever to reach the rational regime of shoot-as-shoot-can—with a proportional enlargement of private graveyards. . Among tbe passengers per Richmond, which arrived today from Tahiti, is Mr A. G. S. Hawo, late H.B.M. Consul at thab port. Mr Hawe has been appointed Coueul General and Commissioner for. Hawaii und intends leaving for thab port by the first steamer that leaves Auckland for Honolulu. TheNgatimaniapoto aud Waikato natives are assembling in large numbers ab Kihikihi, Waikato, in order to take part in the big tangi over the deceased chief Rewi Manga Maniapoto. The tangi will not begin properly till tomorrow. On Saturday Tawhiao's followers, to the number of 200, arrived ab Kihikihi from Paraweraj near Orakau. Says a Sydney paper:—" The greab thirst ab Coolgardie is daily deepening and widening, aud wanb of waber has driven many outside prospectors back to the centres. Tales of less gold and more duffers are coming through. And, more than ever, it is plain that men without money bad better tie millstones round their necks and cast themselves into a swamp than go to Coolgardie." Mrs Wolstenholme, an "advanced" Sydney schoolmistress, complains that schoolgirls bbink of marriage, to the neglect of grammar and bhe globes. If a girl of 14 hasn't settled the colour of her husband's moustache and docided thab lie must be "eomothing in a bank," she isn't fit to ba an Australian female. And then ifc'e ten to '-. oao (s'iya a ecu .emporary), tbat she grows f up find ___..rric. a butcher ! .'■■■ Labouch6re: "The carious fchiDg connected with these creatures is that never yab has a man been found who, according to hie own showing, wanted to,foe either a BferoDtsfc or a Knighb. Tl.s.y always explain that tbey personally dielike the prefix of ■Sir' to tbeir names,'bub their wives were so desirous to bo *My L»dy' tbab they have had to sacrifice their own feelings on the altar of connubial affection."