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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 224, 19 September 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Skies clouded. .More showers. , . » Spring flowerß oub. Great battle in Corea. 7 Chinese routed by Japs. Greab doings ab Taupiri. Tawhiao's tangi proceeding. Lasb night of Pollard's Lilipubians, A fatal riot is reported from Ireland. Ship Waimate arrived from Glasgow. Cheap money schema debated in the} House. Li Hung Chang is reporbed bo bava suicided, ' Very large gathering ab bhe Christian Endeavour Convention. Fortnightly meetings of the Board ot Education are to be resumed. In. its Sydney branch, one small insurants office employs 20 female clerks. Auckland Christian Endeavour Convention has passed a resolution protesting against Sunday trams. Annual meetings of the Parnell, Wanderers and Belmont Cricket Clubs will bq hold to-night. Up to date this year Sydney Minb haa turned oub 1,949,000 sovereigns, and received 595,4770z gold. Thirty tons of slates arrived here lasb nighb from Glasgow, by tho ship Waimate, for St. Paul's new church. Governor Norman retires from official life ab the expiration of his presenb berm in Queensland. The blunb and unassuming old soldier is genuinely popular.—Sydney paper. I Ab the lantern service to-night in the' Foreatera' Hall, Mr Geo. Alldridge will lee* j lure on "Where God's thunderbolts have struck." ■ ■. The Women's Political League have passed a vote of thanks to the editor of the Star fer his editorial rclativo to a Sunday tram service. A woman detected of stealing flowers from bhe Wellingbon cemetery, waa fined £5, tbe Magistrate remarking that he intended to pub a stop to the practice. Mr Roberb Mason, of the Auckland Gas Company's Office, was presented by tbJa BtafT on Monday with an electro-plated teapot and case of spoons aud sugar tongs en bhe occasion of his approaching marriage. The "Music, Song and Story " entertainment, which was bo be given lasb evening in aid of the funds of tbe St. Androw'S Suuday-school, was postponed, owing to tbe severity of tho weather, till Friday week. A telegram has been received ab Adelaide stating that the ship Champion, which was. loaded wibh wheat from Soubh Australia, has arrived in London. The voyage occupied 185 days. Feara were felb thab the ship was loss. Mrs Ellen 'O'Neill, who died lately ab Tumub, New South Wales, aged 104 years, had lived, at Tumub for 35 years, and belonged to a family noted for- longevity— her father having died at 100 years, a sister at 104,' and a brother within a year of tha century., ;X >...'. A football match between Wiseman and Allen's saddlers takes place on Thursday afternoon at Ellerslie. The following will. reprosenb Wiseman's: —Sainby, Jackson*, F. Wiseman, Freeney, Spiers, ; Conjway,. -Laing, Loggie, Leslie^ Rob; Bruce, Taylor, Bain, Easdajei Boon, Adams. * A considerable industry is, it ia stated, springing up in Sydnoy in the: i&aking;..« r . nee&l.ewWd pipes. This is owing, to some extent* to the scarcity of briarwood. Tho noodlewood tree grows pretty freely in the N.S. W. western district, and as much ac £2 10s per ton is obtained for it. At a'meeting of members o.f tha Sydney Womanhood Suflrago League, lately, it waa urged thab there should be some establish-■ menb for bhe training of domestic servants. Many were of the opinion also thab domestics should have a distinguishing dress, after the style of hospital nurses. Amongst those who lefb Auckland to bry bheir forbunes ab Cooigardie, was Mr A. A. Hough, solicitor. A nobice appears elsewhere of the dissolution of partnership of the legal firm of Batbley and Hough, of this city. Mr Babtley will carry on bhe business in his own name ab the officoß, Vulcan Lane. b Captain Hood, formerly of the schooner Rifleman, in which Te Kooti escaped to New Zealand from the Chatham Islands in 1868, is ab presenb in Auckland. Ab tha bime of Te Kooti's escape he was tied up and lefb ab bhe Chathams, while the natives ran away with his ship. He went up to Waikato to-day. The Turkish Department of Public Works has ordered bhe immediate repair of the old aqueducts of Solomon in Jerusalem. These aqueducts will bring the Water to bhe ciby from the fountains of Arroul. A tunnel is to be built 3,750 metres long, and is bo.cosb £80,000. The aqueduct was still in working order in the time of Christ. When Madame Belle Cole was in Auckland she accepted a song written specially for her by Mr G. A. Paque, L.A.M. The great contralto expressed bhe opinion bhab the song was a beautiful one, and well written, and added thab she would sing ib during her nexb bour in England. Tha song is entitled, " 1 Saw Thee Weep," the words being by Lord Byron. The Fijian and general Island word for beef is bulimakau, and it is derived from the English words bull and cew. The firsb; cattle landed in Fiji caused great consternation amongst bhe. natives, '!. vYbab are those ?" said one to a sailor.' '* That's » bull," replied the sailor. " Whab did you call it," said another native. " That's a cow," said another sailor. Thus the words bull and cow became bulimakau. ««Wahanui, formerly Premier to the lately-deceased King Tawhiao, is an enormously broad, stoub man, who weighs 22st, and can on occasion eat 61b of mutton aba meal. Wahanui's brother, the Ngabi- > maniapoto chief Kahu, was even bigger than his branier relative, and literally as strong as a horse." So says a contemporary. Wahauui, however, has " thinned down " a lob of lace. Elaborate preparations have been made for tbe annual fancy dress ball in connec- < tion with the Dorothy socials, to be held in bhe Choral Hall on Friday nighb next. Tbe Committee have worked early and late to bring the ball to a successful issue, and their efforts promise to be crowned with success. The ball opens ab 8.15 with a grand march by limelight. Mr Marriage's band provides the danco music. Trama leave the Three Lamps for the Choral Hall at 7 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. Spectators will be admitted ab one shilling. The wreck of the steamer Cawarra, ab Newcastle, upon the site of which tbe Colonist Btranded (as stated by cable), occurred on Thursday, July 12, 1866. The Cawarra belonging to the A.S.N. Company, left Sydney for Brisbane, but owing to the bad weather, the captain decided to seek shelter in the Newcastle Harbour. She struck'on the bar in a gale and wenb to pieces. < Within sighb ot, thousands on shore, 100 poor creatures, including bhe commander (Captain Chatfield) and 24 passengers, were lost. One of the crew only—a man named Hedges—survived. For Breakfast, for Dinner, for Supper, for Tea. "-ReliableTea "always. W&VH Ewl.Bfeft, 1§