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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 28 March 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bbihjaxt weather.- ■ . . No Bigns of rain yet. . \ Lord Roßebery's health is improving. , Newfoundland is on the eve of bank='■ Fruit is selling ab Taoranga for next to nothing. ■ • s: v Opening concert) of the Burns Club thia 'evening. ■;' ■- ■■■ , . ■■■ ,-■.■ ■■• , ' . Opera House filled lasb night, to witness "La Cigala." San Francisco mail sbeamer Maripo.-'n arrives to day. Hone Hoko arrived in Auckland yosfcor"day from Rofcorua. • Nswmarkeb ia beginning to fear a lack of water if fche dry weather continues. Bonolib concerfi.aad dance, in tho Public Hall, Panmure, to-morrow evening. Limelighb lecture by the Bishop of ? -Melanesia in the City Hall bhia evening. - 'V - The Bishop of Melanesia preached in St. v Paul's Church yesterday on mission work. ' ' The terms said to be offered; by JLi Hung Chang to the Japanese appear bo bo very liberal. The Opera Company's cricket team play a return match with the Licensed Victuallers to-day. ■■• : ■■ . .. ; , .The Gaiety Company are among, the passengers for Sydney by the Mariposa t from' Frisco. ' , '", ' An arrest was made last night, in connoc- ■ tion with the M useum robbery, and some of " the coins recovered. , ■■> ■ . Tho London ."Daily. Telegraph " insists ' thab tho reformß in Armenia shall be carried',; ; oub under English officials. ?• The QuGQn'e favourite.Englishicomppser ] ■,-■ is Sir Arthur Sullivan, and her favourite song is "The Loat Chord." Tbo fifth annual 'carnival of the Norfch ■ ■: ■ Shore Amabeur Athletic and Cycle"Club takes place on Saturday nexb. /A; return cricket match between fcho Opera Company and the Gordon C.C. ,\\s,i be played to-morrow aftornonn. r" '■"■■' The ballotting for certain. Crown lands for which application has been made will bake place at the Crown Lands Office. When bhe Devonporti Torpedo Company meb for instrucbion in the' Drill-shed laatf night, ib was as tho "Devonporb Naval Artillery," the new name they have'assumed. The Secretary of the Auckland Sociotj of Artß is busy completing preparations for ■;■ the anbual;exhibition. Pictures vvill be re- * ceived ab the Choral Hall to-morrow and on c Saturday. (Ths proposed ball in connection with th» Society of Arts Exhibition promises to be f a big success. 'Ib will be a • plain dreßS : ■ • ball, and nob a calico one, as,ab firab contemplated. • Ibis stated bhab the Queen has,taken the ; greatest interest: in. «the Anglo-Australian ,; . crickeb matches, and,that'constant tele- . j ', grama have been received by.her on the: . subject of bab.and ball.1 t ,\ . •The : business ■ manager, for-the-Opora . Company, Mr. W. Hughes, left for Sydney ....... by the Tarawera yesterday. ThejCompany •. , leave for the other side on Tuesday night) I after bhe final performance. Laßb evening the quarterly meeting of , .thq Auckland branch of the. Hibernian Society was held in the Catholic Institute,. ; when the prizes won at the sport's in tho , Domain 'on {St. Patrick's Day wore pioaehted <o tlio winners. PK- Kmpresia ot Russia is ho fonJ vi ewimming Mint she is having conefcrueto i Li fchu VVinbor Palace in Sb. Potcrebnrg ;t lnr^a swimming tmUi of white marble. I' i^- f tid that Her Majesty in also passionately Umd of English sports and exercise. . iLady Florence:- Dixie .has become president of the Association Football Club for v •■■■..• Ladies recently organised in North London. : The practice of the Club is conducted'in' privaDe,. but the ladies, who; are moab .■••'' enthusiastic, intend very shortly.' to invite • the public to attend. "One. of the unfortunate Wellingtonians r who followed the " propheb " Eugene :bn < /.■;: Africa about sixvmonths> ago in' order to escape tlio tidal, wave which he. declared" would overwhelm this colony.has returned. - r She tells a very sadebory of how. tho dupoa v . ,were led into the interior of 'Africa aud left) penniless.