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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 29 March 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Market Day. • .; Rain ab last. ■ V Cricket to-morrow. -V ' The.direcb steamer Aotea has arrived from London. ;Y Last night of " La Cigale " ab the Opera V House to-night. Tho next sitting of the Courb of Appeal is fixed for the 22nd of April. . f Detective Grace has recovered some mora of the coins stolen from the Museum. Animated discussion on the half-hoHdajr at the City Council yesterday evening.: Fifth carnival of the North Shore Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club to-morrow. The Burns Club held their opening concert yesterday evening in the Masonic HalL v The big guns which were sent Home to be rehooped are on their way back to tho colony. - A Russian colonel has been sentenced to eight years' transportation for selling mili-, ' tary secrets. .:- '"'■-"-.--'.■':''■,'. rY! ; : '-vY- ''■((': The annual meeting of the St. Alban'a Literary Society took place lasb night at > Mount Roskill. ~.-.* Works for exhibition will be received by . the Secrebaryof the Society of Arts■ to-day and to-morrow. - The question of the water, supply for the , *: :■:•■■; city is seriously engaging the attention of. the authorities. ' . ; '. V • '• — A service of^ song entitled " Promoted,"* . was given in the Mount Ed6n Baptist .Church yesterday evening. * The English cricketers are playing.the final match of the tour to-day at Adelaide with the South Australian eleven. Major Elliot, private secretary to Lord^ . Glasgow, left ■; Auckland for Wellington yesterday afternoon by the Gairloch.. . Two young men were arrested in Wei-' lington lasb nighb in connection with the system of extensive forgeries of tram-car tickets. ''.'""'" ' "- Four boys were arrested in Newton yesterday afternoon on a charge of stealing > r books from Mr Edwin Guilford's _hop, ' Pitt-street. . .'.*. ■ Tha motion requesting the Mayor, to * declare Wednesday a half-holiday until further notice, -was carried at theWity . Council's meeting by 10 to 8. ."*■ > .-The period for the election of Boards of Conciliation under the Industrial Concilia- *''-' tion and Arbitration Act, 1894, has been extended till the 2nd of May. Adelina Patti has a unique fan; a fan with vellum leaves decorated with gold;, • <'■, On the leaves several European sovereigns v have written sentiments /over their auto-:' graphs. ■-, ' * There was a large audience in the City V Hall last nighb, when the Bishop of MelauY . esia delivered his lecture. This evening ' the Bishop preaches in All SaintsYPon- y, ■sbnby. . : ' . .- ■/■ ■- : ■> Mr C. Hood Williams, of ChrUtchurch, - - >' whose son was seriously injured in an acc-Y': dent on the Switchback Railway some* '■'■■ months ago, is suing the proprietors for. ;, £2,000 damages. - -. ;At St. .Patrick's Cathedral to-morrow morning at "8 o'clock,; His Lordship, Dr. Luck will ordain Mr. Buckley.to the priest- \ i hood. The muß.c will be rendered by pro- X fessional artistes. -..-•• --."■--,• The rainfall, ab the principal-centres lasb ' month.was as. follows.:—Auckland, 220 - inches; Wollineton, 5*32; Christcburcly' 1*21; -Dunedin, L 3*99.,The mpatr-inJfellaS—^ ,3_;inches-,we--o' lrtSgis-: ■ —: j terod. Last nighb at Wellington, ..Lieutenanb-v J Colonel Newell (31£ years' service), Major Messenger (304 years' service), and Captain Coleman (20J years' service), were presented • with long-service medals by Mrs Seddon.