TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Rain wanted. . " New Boy " farewell to-night. ' ' V"-. v . * The Crown Prince of Siam is dead. J- • i;Much wanted rain has fallen in th*" ' South. - •; •-. - . * ■'. /' A big strike in the English building trade is feared. Annual meeting of the Blind Institute on ' Thursday, firab. t ~„ ■ All the seaside resorts are crowded with holiday-makers. • « S.s. Tasmania arrived from the Soubh on • Sunday evening. Caledonian-Society's dinner at the United. Service to-night. Trouble threatened bebween GreaJ* ■ Britain and Venezuela. The thermometer registered 80 degrees - in the shade yesterday. . , • Auckland Naval Artillery crew won tha . boat race on Saturday. Mr John Grice, of Waikato, is leaving ! for England this week. Narrow escape from a vory large fire ab ; Parnell yesterday morning. Meeting of butchers this evening to arrange about their annual picnic.' Dr. McGregor, Inspector of Hospitals V and Asylums, is now in Auckland. Serious case of eticking-up reported to y ' have occurred on Saturday evening. .'• *-.". Mrs'D-affin lectured, in tho Choral H*ll !.i V yesterday evening on Re-Incarnation. ;Y "I/i, Look oub for the Grammar School illus- J. tfatod article in Wednesday's '* Graphic." • United Cricket Club defeated Parnell on Saturday and Gordon defeated Auckland.} The Rotorua Maoris intend to give a > I , haka in Auckland during this week or next. ' Mr G. G. Stead, of Canterbury, and V family have left on a trip for the "Hot* Lakes, ■ ,-.-,., ~",". ,*.'....,-,- " ■-..' The large number of Sunday excursions Mkyesterday were well patronised by the Wm public., ■....-:-■'. :-/."- . '^'^mi/ •.The delegates to the chess tournamenb %^ at Wellington were entertained on Satur- * day evening. .---><-'; ■-'.■• •■•-...-. An avalanche in Franco, has demolished ,' portion of a village, and occasioned the loss V of fifteen lives. • ■ •' .'•*.' One hundred Topeka (Kansas) women pyjM have signed a pledge* committing them to , wear Turkish trousers. - • -~ Mr C. Hudson, late disbriqb traffic m&ha-. ...Y' ger, lefb for the South to day to assume hia -IF new duties in Wellington. :, , ',; The shareholders of the Bank of New ; W Zoaland have been advised by their counsel ' that they cannot'resist tbe call: The arrangements for regular services ! J. beinc held at Rotorua are found to be much appreciated in the district. *'''". Turkey .3 appealing to the Powers against the demands,of Britain and Russia ;, in connection with the outrages in Armenia. ! The rumour that the Colonial Treasurer,8 ji/7/7 Mr J. G; Ward, intends to visit the old *> " .' country is persistently circulated, in Wellington. _ ■ -.;• J- ■'■ '''";"■' '"'• - /■/ ■//■ « ■: ..' ■The coal exporb frori? Greymouth for the ! week was 2,374 tons, and of timber 86,140': V V feeb,. and- from • Wesbporb the coal exporb !*- ':g? : . for the samo period was 2,265 tons. :; ' V.V- ~\-. 'The motion to. increase the salary of the 1 | Devonporb Town Clerk; from .£l2O to £140 "■'; V; per annum will be broughb up at the meet- ''J I. ing of the Borough Council to-night.,-•■' " \Y • -,:A Magistrate suggests that in thf future .V the police should besupplied ./ith;:j»b-to- a* graphic apparatus, so that thoy might be / able to take snapshots' v of intoxicated persons. ' ■' ' ' '• The Maori King, which arrived in Wellington yesterday from Melbourne, has •.-■ ' another shipment of ■ thirty live bullocks on board for London, They are much superior ' 7 : to the first lot; '~, ■ -''• <, iM The Inspector of Factories,' Mr Far- _: r guson, visited several commercial premises . " on Saturday, and found in the case of three; f firms the employees were working after ono o'clock in contravention of the Act. The Government it is said has offered V V the Arawas a trip from Rotorua to Aucjc-Y land, the chiefs being granted free passes, • and the ordinary members of the tribe a return excursion ticket for ,'- lOai The * natives are likely to avail themselves of the offer. • • •.- ' *V A paper ,in Arizona had 'to go into : bankruptcy. The notice* thab was posted' on bhe door was aB follows :—" This paper h is not busted; it owes the people thirty-Bix ' thousand dollars, the people owe ,ib fifty- . V,,' five thousand dollars, chiefly in subscrip-> \''' tions; ib is bhe people who are bustedi'* ' ] 'Ab the adjourned inquesb ab Christchurch •,- : on the body of Mrs Selina Russell, found in the Avon-river on Thursday morning, the '";"'- ---jury returned a verdict thab the deceased^^Y died from syncope of the 'heart,-, aadja^^^f.^^ a rider to the effecb thab thereji^fm'- i_ijfij|Yj necessity for a public morgue foi^lK_f__<.... *^JJ tion of such cases.. • ''■ ""'^*l_Pr!'^-&<-^-1. " Do you know, Mr Robbing, la-SaiwayjE delighted when you ask me to thjf suppdf''-''' room?" " Aw—thank you, Miss HeavytK —awf'jy kind of you <to say so, I'm eual* "Oh, nob ab all; bub you are bo mutataller than the run of young-men one meellL jn society, you can reach over them to'thSfcll B alads, and so quickly, too," V, The "Times," in recording Mr M'Cal-, mont'B fortune, remarks thab this is pro- '™ bably the largest for.une now ab the free * disposition of any person in Great Britain ; bub thab is, the "Spectator" fancies, ao, V, inaccuracy. Lord Iveagh (Guinne^a)'mnetr-' have more, which he could at 'a day's. ''■-■■' notice put on a table, the Ovenstone. fortune has not been wasted, and there is atf least ono bf the diamond monopolists who ■ possesses as much. ' •