TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Issue 210, 3 September 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Scnehixe ags,iu. • .» Sunday hailstorms. Snowfall yesterday. Phonoinonai weather. \ : '■ " ; Greabfire in Sydney. ' * ;.;" Sydaey mail anived. Supreme Court opened. " Fira in Newfecm laßfe-nighb,. , Criminal seßßion 8 proceeding. „ Auckland footballers .^af'ece'bedl. "?.vVS Auckland Institute meets to-nighk, A fireman was kilted at a Sydney fire. : ;'; S.B. Rotomah&ua arrivfcilffrom Sydney. Full account of tb^Samesn war arriy^c*- gf The weather broke the record yesterday. £ ■ ' '~:■ '■; 1.-::'-\ '~'■■■ • ' '; ' '■'- < Grattan Riggs is back in Ancfclj^*'* again..'.;. ..'..- ■ . . -* ' ' ,- V Suburban Borough Councils m\ night. . ■ "■ -';', . ' "■' >? l >" A large ship is ashore on.the Vi coast " {' .-*"" v^" Mr Faller'a concerb in 6Kp City Hall V, night. <&!s*. Taranaki footballer! bean New South Waleß. ■ ■ ... |. : , ' . ■ ~, ■ Scow fell throughout Now Zealand yesterday. : ' ,-■■■' \ ,' • ;■',■■:■,. * . To bo overpolUe is to.be rude.—Japanese proverb. -■. : Football under difficulties at Potter's, on Saturday. '.- _■"' ~, ■' ,• " ■.. ...■. .; : . t. ■ Tho football season practically closed last, Saturday.. ■ . :■,. . .;■ ",.' , : ;' ''....,. ■■. -.'•' Eleven Sydney ebowaways were *' run ! in " to-day. j The Belle Cole Concerb Company went South to-tiny. .' ife /Auckland had.a taste of the Sootherd; Alt) 8 yesterday. V;r--- <• ' . fj!» Cbinese "ehindy" in Wellington .'m Saturday night. Westport coal exporb for the laßb week v yraa 3,?00 tone. , , Some men are bo cowardly they won't fieht themselves. An incipient fire occurred in tboAuck* l»nd Hospital yesterday. Rival steamers Tasmania and Kctomahana from Sydney to-day. , ,j V^ i Mrs Endean is going to fight the Graf tor. ward for the City Council. -, Pollard's Lilipctian Opera Company opens on Wednesday night. / Mr J. J. Holland will stand for a second |f term as Mayor of Auckland. < A hail storm drove the footballers off the " ground, at Epsom on Saturday. Motto for the warm weather—Where indolence i« bliss 'tis fplly to arise. Thirty-five wrecks took , place on the New Zealand coast during the paefc year. 1A winter's tale,' as the churchwarden ; said when the pauper asked for some coald. Auckland "barrackers" were, unusually • £ silent after the football match on Satm-da'rrf-; . Judge :Name? Prisoner.1: Smith; Occu-i pabion.? Lockemith. Officer, lock-smith • up. . '< , Mr R. Thompson says that the Salvation : Army has ;driven several Maoris iht'c .lunatic asylums. .' ■ ' The natives at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, are enforcing the increased charge of 2s 6d fiaidh fdr tduriStl seeing the geysere. ' L\V.y?erey:6U;.SvaWfchati : Noah unders.tqod,^ ■ ■ all aboiit ole'ctrldit'y*?' 'No \ did 'he?' ' Ararat' - - ■■ ' '_ ' . ■ The Vfaikatu iCitiglte natives ■intend_"?6P"i elect a new: "kiing,*'^at"Maiih'gakawa, rielV"I" Cambridge, ■ shdrtly, in i Bucceesib'n .tb Tawhino. . -i ■. v; ..';,' .:". '•:^ l- : Judge Gruffey: • What pasf?ed between yourself and the complainant?' O'Brien: * I think,., cor, a half-dozen bricks and a piece of pavin'stone.' ;' ■ ~ Evening services for Presyterians in the Arch Hill district were inaugurated last evening in the Arch Hill Public Hall by the Revl R. Sommerville. -! Writs for the election of members of tfyp Anglican General Synod, which meets afc Nelson in February, have been issued, rijjr turnable on December 31. ■ '•. ,IDr., Dawfion, honorary surgeon to the Auckland Fire Brigade, was presented with a long,service medal, bars and certificate, on Saturday night. ■ A Maori Parliament is to bo held afa Rotorua a,t Christmas time. . Ib is intended to sib three months and to discuss all nativeV" grievances and proposed iogislation. : .; An English mail, via Brindisi, dated London, July 20, and consisting of oiip hundred bags, was received here yesterday by the B.s. Rotomahana, from Sydney. j , The Young Doctor: ' Just think ! Six of my patients recovered this week.' TK Old Doctor: • It's your own Ifaulb. my You spend too much time at the club.'Nsfw^ v. Studentus : 'Toting Herman has a euifc pf clothes for; every day in the week.' , Studentum:' 'I never seen him wear bub one.,' Studentus : 'Yes, that's the suit.' *' I'm nob against a man having a glass pf beev when he really requires it, bub some of ■ ybu ,go linto the hotels tdo often.'I—-Mr ' Nortbcrof,bj S.M., at tho Police Court to-, d»yAt a meeting of shareholders in the Mok> > h|nui Coal Company the directors were empowered to sell the property.: It is under!" stood that several inquiries have been mails about it. The sum of £75 was paid by tho Governmentf.fe»'•the;'ttqfafflfc |b i hif' WalkPo^S-* lasb month,'for- rabbits destroyed. Six thousand rabbitskins were brought in from the " King " country by the Maoris. M Air C; JS. eon of Colonel: Rqbertef has been elected second HeuieriaVb of 'i&B Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers. The ICompsny has invited Captain W. Steele to accept the honorary captaincy of the corps. \ Special anniversary services wore held in • the Devonporb Presbyterisjir'tJh'tfi'c'li.vester. t a?' The^aervices^ere conducted*Bf^*^ A Revs. Mr Fergusrj n aad Mr Hudson. /The , annual soiree »in'd concerb will take ojace on Thursday ey| 3n ing.- J :" Thaitappj{ over tHe deceased MaMKinp, lawJuao,/ » still going on at'PArawerS, Waikato.) The body will be removed to , P^JJSWiawa shortly, and' will then be iov ; jterred at the ancieafc. Ma»ri burying.place i on the Taupiri Range, onwhe VVaikato. The fire ab Hellaby'/esfcablishmenb on Friday nighb showedythe necessity for o telephone being laid ow to the Nowton Fire Brigade Station. Ojvners of private tele' phonqs.do not care ajooub being rung up in the middle of the nighb and asked to idGiiyer a meesaflfo ab the Fire Brigado Station. / " TFie'-tailo V makes the man," if he is a good tailor ?»nd everybody is agreed tha,b Mr Fpwlds' new cutter is a great successi Give him a trial.—(Advt.) *° " Reliable" Teas aro good stock, M every grocer knows. They sell rapidly because the public appreciate a good article. ~(Advt.) ?