TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 83, 6 April 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Rain in the nighb. > _* Society of Arts Exhibition open daily. ', Blookers is the best of all cocoas.—(Advt.| V Popular concert ia tho City Hall to* , night. •.; . 1 ■ Londonderry mine shares have had k ■ severe fall. Newmarket Fishing Club goes fishing ■ this afternoon. ■..;■'* Golfers are competing to-day for the ft President's silver cleek. . The Cook Straitv cable will be laid nexb week or the week after. All the local bodies are feeling bhe pinch ' of Charitable Aid Board. Mr- Oohn Fuller's first, concerb of tha = season on Monday next. . \ The " Napier News "isto ba worked on t the co-operative principle. The p.s. Eagle will ran to Lake Takapuna to-morrow afternoon. 1 Arrangements for the Easter encamp* j ment are being'completed. ; Five directors of the Liberator Company ■ have been committed for trial. - .: British bayonets and machine guns. i ore* '. ing their way through Chitral. , Larere numbors of Australians are coming j over to New Zealand at present. . , J The 'Melanesian Mission yachb left for.. g Norfolk Island yesterday afternoon. ...... The Oscar Wilde v. Queenebury libel I action verdict went for the defendant). ■ ■' A* volunteer "band will play sacred music f ! in the Albert-Park to-mori-ow afternoon; V I A notice to ladies re evening classes ia > inserted in another column by Miaa Forbes. ' The Oddfellows' " Premier " concert fbn;! '7 Wednesday next promises to be a greab > success. , ' ' ■ '; • VVoolley's Commercial Hotel at Wan- *• ganui was partially destroyed by fire yesterday evening. « V ,-■'.■.'.'. Tlie Whangarei Tennis Club: have made j several entries for the Easter Tournament at Mount Eden. ; *'* ■ "-.-V V The number of passengers carried over * the Whangarei-Hikurangi railway during '. March was 3,780. V The s.s. Vivid leaves at 11 o'clock to- ; morrow, morning on an excursion to tbe '■ head of the harbour. * , ' The Minister of' Lands is on his way. to V Napier from Wellington, stopping Ab several places en route. *' - Some 60 live sheep: are to be; sent to ..'; London by tho Morayshire by* Murray, _ Roberts, and Co., of Dunedin. • .* ; The railway authorities have made ! special arrangements for excursions *to the .- country during the' Easter holidayßY ' Stainer's sacred cantata "Tho Cruci--..;... fixion;" will be performed at St. Sepulchre's *■-, Church to-morrow afternoon at 3.30. ' ■ V A meeting of the Auckland.Swimming . Club takes place on Monday evening next - at 7.30, at the Harbour Board OfficesY , The school children from the Waikato \\ who were in town yesterday had a very * pleasant visit and went home delighted.; * The Railway Department have arranged " an excursion by rail to iHikurangi for Whs-; _t.. ogarei school children on Easter Monday. The New.market School children give a (- concerb nexb .Wednesday evening. VAn _~ attractive programme has been prepared. Tbeoutputoficoalfrom Hikurangi," for ■ the month ending; March, was 2,622 tons. ' The number of parcel stamps sold was 710. . The North Shore:.'• Amateur Atblebic Club have asked a wellknown cyclist for an ; - !s explanation of his riding'at their sports laslr week. , _. •;•' ;. _ _ , .... , , Considerable; damage,was" done to '.the . premises occupied by Mr D.- -Geary, _ tailor in Victoria-street, las. night through a fire. -. The race: to decide'"^tb'e-.^Oyda'ah-ateur *-^ hurdles championshirYbf Abckland^ill Be J''"". decided at 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon next. - _.•■ , ' .-. :■-':..'. . The Public Works Department are erect*;'"' ing a siding to connect the mine now being, . opened up, by f Matthews and party, at t . Hikurangi. .. -~.■■■ , The Bishop pf held a confirmar»: ■**-■'.-: tion service at Christ Church, WbangareiY. on Sunday, March 31st, when nine candiY dates were confirmed. '•■■'./ 'i'iJ/i J/7 The material for. the Cook Strait cable ,1b,.. on board the Aotea from London, and the cable steamer Terranora will begin takingit onboard next week. " Members and intenders of the Auckland. Catholic Literary and Debating Society, ate ■• requested in another column to meeb ab St. Patrick's Hall on Tuesday nexb at 8 p.m. The final match of . the Men's, Handicap - 7, Doubles will be played off between Messrs' > Stevenson and Pollen and Messrs Denniston. and Rich this afternoon, weather permitting. - 77/ ■;,- /■:,■ • . The new postmaster for Whangarei, Mr Nicholas, arrived here on Thursday, and; has now taken over his duties from Mr Greatbatch, who has been acting postmaster. '■;.-. ." . Ibia understood thab the names of the Revs. Hewitson and Macrae will be sub. mitted to Knox Church, Dunedin, for the election of , a minister. Both are of Melbourne. , >- Mr Peter Mason, of Waikiekie, died ou April 4th very suddenly. He was digging J\ in his garden when he became faint, wenb into the house, and died within a quarter of an hour. ■-• The, Governmenb haa arranged a very \ extensive scheme for the absorption of the ~ unemployed labour throughout tbe colony which it is anticipated! will proyeYpf '}/■■■•'-' immense service.'"" r "*" -•■_?■»-•■ r The Alexandra-sbreeb Church Anniversary will be celebrated to-morrow. The preachers for the- day are Reya.* Nixon* v Lawry, and: Mann." Special singing will b& rendered at each service. ■ "Messrs T. Varnom and. Son issuta through the Stae to-day, a circular intimating to their customers and the public I the arrival ot tbier winber goods. Every department is replete with seasonable stock. The Wellington officials of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company presented their former manager, Mr J, C. Hanna, who has recently returned to the regular staff of the Bank- with a gold watch and chaia yesterday. - ' - ' Mr Fi *W. ■Greenwood, who has been evangelising during tbe'laat five months lithe Northern part of the province, has returned to town, and takes up his work again to-morrow nighb at the Chriatians* Meeting- House, corner of Cook and Hob-son-streets, when he lectures on 'the '" Sabbath Question," as advertised.