TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 235, 2 October 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

1 Cool mornings. ' Rival steamers in. ' • ■>.£&■. f S.B. Ovalau arrived from Fiji. <■'■ > Military sensation in Germany. < • -. 1 Mararoa and EHnganjite from Sydney. ' Women's Political League mob this after* r ripon.- . ' • n .: ' . i Large.numbers of passengers arrived froan, • Australia.The German, Kaiser is playing some , "freaks."" ; ' ' •" "The Czar is almost a skeleton,"— j Cablegram. . ..■■•"._..' . , ) The Hon. Shrimski, M.L.C.,jB in Auckland for a change of air. . . ! . .;.. The Rev.; L. M. Isitfc, •:■ of temperance fame, is back in Auckland. . :'♦- t Direcb steamer Otarama baa been in . collision in the English Channel. : ;Lady. Whitmore U in town at presents ) having arrived here from Gisbomo.. .■;% ,;■__ i; t Rosa Bonheur was a dressmaker's appreni tice when she was a girl 0f.16 years. , < . -.;Mr 6. S. Kissling is being asked to > stand for, the Darnell Borough Mayoralty. . J ■ H.M.S. Royalist has been bombarding to : murderous natives of Malayta, Solomon ■ Islands. : : > ~, ■ ; . : ~y ;- ..: . ~: , < ■ ..,. '._s,','■ ; A meeting of the Bootmakers' Union ; called for last evening lapsed for want of a quorum.. , Auckland-owned racehorses successful aft the• Hawke's Bay Jockey.Club Meeting i yesterday.- ■'>,>.<t r-:■.-■'* •. ■■■ ■■■'• -■ J. ■:*.:■ J.. ■• . [Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid ! Board wrangled for a weary three hours yesterday,afternoon.l -■-..., . ; : , ; r Lord!;Sudeley,:>yho has been visiting Coolgardie, arrived here from Australia lasß nigbb by the,3.s. Mararbn. , , TheiTakapuna Wharf will now be erected, the Harbour Board haying approved of the local guarantee for the approach.' .: ',:d: ■ '•">■ The Treasurer.of the Scripture Gift Aseociation -makes: the usual annual appeal i for subscriptions and donations.,' !> ■ -willr Bolleston haa had very commodious cattlo Bale-yards erected at Hikurangi, and the first sale take place nexb week. • ■~ The R.M.S. Alameda, which.left Sydney yesterday for Auckland, has on board £100,000 in specie for San Francisco. The Auckland* University College Calendar; is published at a great lose. .So eaid Bishop Cotvie at yesterday's meeting. 1• '' <'■ ■■ *■• •- » - ■•* " The ReV. R. B. De Wolf, special Coia^ missioner for fcho British and Foreign BibW Society, has arrived here from England vie Auatralia. ; r • ' ' - A petition to the Legislative Counci.' against the -Ad vances to Settlers Bill W being signed- by settlers and others !al Wharigarei.-^'1 ; •■ '.-' ;•• . -■ - ';'' "' ':■ The block Treferred to,i.n our noticeof the native lands coming before the Whangarei Land Court, ehould read as Mangakahia, not Mangakapua as printed, ri "< ' > "James .Hunt, the discoverer of'the famed Thames goldfield; where he made" over'£loo^ooo, is now^ in search'"of auothef fortune in West Australia^'' /' ' ! , : . A The fifth dance in connection with the Remuera'Social^- Unions plaice on Thursday evening ria£b. A 'bus leaves tho! D.S.C. corner ab.7.30 for Remiiera. f -M■■■ } -Nine naughty niggers who-wouldn't do a?' their chiefs told them id Fiji have been cent to goal for six months;' Such are. the ad-' vantagee of the feudal system in the South' Pacific. Captain Burgess, Chief Harbourmastar, w,hb;retires'/from -i.he.eervicerbfCttte-AujiiE^". lah'dTHarbpu'r "Board-at tbftend oi this year* •is Lab bii' three; tiaOatbriS' leave "61" absence/ ••"■ •'■', -■■■.'■' "'■ ' There is 'a •' fair demand for land at Whangareii' and several places have ot> late changed hands ;there 'ab Hatiefactory' rates. There are/now very few first-class1 farms for'sale in- tlio district! , :' ; - A public meeting called'for lasft evening' in the Wesley Hall1' to consider the neV Licensing Bill, collapsed owing to the einalV attendance. Subsequently., a meeting of temperance workers was held. , An ingenious toy called* a musical hoop has been patented by Messrs Vaile 8r05.,: and is iikely to be in great demand by' young people, being so constructed asto keep a bell ringing all the time the hoop is being trundled. " ' Mr E. O. Weaver, of Whangarei, is addihganbther vinery to his*already extensive area uncler' V:glass.. He has done exceod' ingly well with his grapes during the past,jand requires another glass house bo enable; him to keep pace with the demands. ' Both the sons of Mr Henry ' Irviag have now finally abandoned their intention of seeking any other profession than the; stage, and the two young men have now' started on a term of hard work •in the* English provinces in different companies. ' King Behanzin, of Dahomey, isdescribed' as a good-looking man, 55 years old, with' extremely white hair. He is almost unable to walk, as he' has been carried by at-' tendants the greater part of hia life. Fifty' wives have accompanied him into captivity. . / " - •/ '"■ ' ■'■ ■ ' "'■'' There are counterfeit two-shilling pieces-, in circulation, according to a correspondent' from Tuakau, who writes: "I have had' two counterfeit coins of this sorb lately, and in fubure will test every one before taking, and would advise others to do the same." ■- - ' ■ " [:'-\;\[ ''-':''■ Lebty Lind has four sisters among the daieirig f WIS Bf tHe1 LbndSfl Itlge, an' 9, though their family name is Rudge, they are known to the public as Millie Hylton, Lydia Rudge, Fanny Dangle and Adelaida Aster—-tb* last asaumed in ,honbur of WUliam Waldorf Astof. A request has been made to the Whangarei County Council, asking them tar endeavour to get the Telegraph Department bo connect the iNgunguru coal mines with Whangarei. At present there is only a biweekly mail, and the want of better communication is urgent. The members i of: the Fox Memorial Juvenile Temple held their usual weekly meeting in the Alexandra-streeb schoolroom; last night, when Bro. R. Crabb, Grand Lodge lecturer, and , Bro. Leßoy,! D.D.G.C.T., paid an official visit to the Temple and gave addresees. , Our Wbangarei correapondent writeß us ; "The weather has been.very bad lately for planting, operations, and settlers have had great difficulty in getting their crops put in. In several localities they have nob as j yet been able to get anything sown and are bow waiting till weather settles.". | Sir Wilfrid Lawson, who has introdnced into Parliament a bill providing that when the Queen confers any title hereafter, the reasons therefor shall be officially stated to and be approved by, Parliament,"lias a baronetcy that is said to have been boughs by one of his ancestors for £2,000 cash. One of the beet known figures in .Paris ie Madame Yoer, who, upon the death of her husband, a reporter; for the French press, took up his work, and has conducted it with marked enterprise. In her rounds she is accompanied by a great white poodle called " Tho, Doctor," who permits no one to trifle-with his mistrese., ~'.," A plain and fancy dress ball, under the auspices of the Victorian Quadrille Assembly, "will be held ab Dovouporfc tomorrow evening, and should, judging from the preparations being made by the Committee and those who Save been invited to attend, prove to be one of the most succeed ful yeb held this season. Dancing is to commence paactaftUy at eight o'clock.