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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 47, 25 February 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bright, cool weather. Tarawera arrived from Sydney to-day. Complaints of orchard robbing in Ponsonby. • • .■-. ' ■",;■• Auckland athletes return to-morrow from Napier. ' , ; : -.. . . . "Ransom" at the Opera House this evening. , ■ ' r The Prince of Wales is suffering from a severe chill. - -~ > , ■■■■,-. ~ ■„■<.-'■■ The yacht Mohican defeated the Bonita on Saturday. . . , ..„'-■ r The Auckland athletics victorious at the Championahip Meeting at Napier. ; A report ia current that gold has been found in the Cambridge district.- ' r ■ The Clan-na-Gael Society id Ireland are threatening some of the Irish members. Captain Fairchild has almost recovered from the accident he met with a mouth i *g°? ' • ■ ■ .' ■ '■■■ ■■ \ ' R. Neill made the fine score of 90 runs on Saturday for Auckland C.C. against Gordon. News has been received of the death in London of Dr. Maunsell, ft, former resident ofDunedin. , ■■-■'■ ;;:;..,_,.,;;,;.,; The German Reichstag has voted seven million marks for the construction of four new cruisers. • - :: : (j Mr Zoeller, traveller for Messrs Seegneiy Langguth and Co., left for New York by the barque AHco. ■■■'•• • • '•*,'■ ; The famous actor, Henry Irving, is: serfously ill. He is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. The export of coal products from Greymouth for last week was 1,216 tons, and , timber 102,000 feefc. . ': ; , - X •The elephant is a very bad-behaved ' animal. He turns up hiß nose at every- ; thing that is given him to,eat. > > The Marquis of Dufferin 1 asserts that.ra* labion3 between France and England were never more friendly than at present. A California widow, just before commit-' > tiug suicide, wrote to a friend that ** it: riearJy killed her to leave her poor 'children." The;coal export for the week from. We'sbportwas :—2,454-tons Weatporb Coal Com- W pany, 933 tons Cardiff Company. Total, ■ 3,387 tons. -. ■ "■' ■ " *',% The ■ • Hinemoa returned ; to Lytteltqn yesterday, from the Southern islands, where ']'■ aho has been cruising with His. Excellency f the Governor and party. ■ ' • , Dr.J. M. Tweed, eon-in-law of the late , Hon. John Martin,* and well known ;).&"> racing circles, died at Ashburton on Satur- T • day of congestion of the lungs. -" .• ■ The New South Wales team of swimmerti arrived by the Tarawera from Sydney,'e» .; route for the New Zealand Swimming ,' ■Championship in Ghristchurch. ■■■':,:■■ , A festival choral society was formed ato Wellington with the Governor as patron. Sir Robert Stout and Mr, W. Ti Qlasgow Vice-Presidents, and Mr Robt. Parker conductor. ■ ~ A brute was recently charged with feed ing his child on a raw cabbaga for three weeks. \ The cabbage had the beat of ; the brucein. ■•• this matter, it had a heart, the brute had none.—••Fun." : • ! • • ■ ' Professor Falb's 'weather 'prophecies -foe;. this year are;of■ anything but a cheerful : nature. According to his prognostications ■ 1895 is to be one-of the worat -years we ha'v©: ; ■had for some time.:..■■• '•■..•( ; ;< : Mr Lawrence Grace, Land Purchasd Coin- . missionary wilT bje^at ,Kawhia^Jp p .'njjii»ojr£t& . the" puvchaae of over 30,000 a'erea in Ahe ■■•".■' district:-1 The land isriphlimestoneicountry;. — and includes souie hot springs. .< '' ' The Defence Department is about: to call for renders for the purchase of 2,000, rifles and carbines, with bayonets and scab- i\ bardet complete-,'left on its hands by the adoption of the Martini-Henry rifle., .;,. V '.■{■>• The female brain commences to decline in weight after the age of thirty", the mala .','-. not until ten years later. Another injuß-'Jj tice. Surely some association could b©' formed to-reverse the order of things. , \ Mr W. H. Montgomery,1 M.H.R., for. Ellesmere, addressed his constituents afc Akaroa on Friday night. He epokeiti'; support of the Government "policy; 'an;i Ireceived a vote of thanks arid confidence.,' i On Saturday night Messrs W. G. ' Russell and VV. W., Collins, M.H.R.'p, addressed a large open air meeting a,b Christcburch. A motion was carried in favour of the States right to the' anearnejl increment. The window curtains' in a room in Mr/ Craig's Belgrade boarding house, Lower Symonds-street,' took fire last night. Thfi - flames were- quickly extinguished, butt lit the meantime the firebells bad rung out ■ and the Brigade, had set out for the scene of the supposed conflagration. : '■.■■■y- •■■