TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 87, 11 April 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Clear and crisp. , Picnics to-morrow. i,M Splendid holiday weather, Sportsmen off to the country* ! Country volunteers in town. ■ Waikato excurßionß_tp>morrow.' » , Volunteers go into camp to-night. \ Taranaki ironsand to the fore again. British are advancing through Chitral. Japanese have seized a British steamer. Big-gun firing at the forts on Saturday. 1 ' Good Friday church services to-morrow. H.M.s. Lizard leave"! for Fiji nexb week. Fatal accident in a.Soubhland gravel pit, * I Pheasant-shooting season opens on May 7 7; Ist. nA- naval officer haa disappeared in Syd« ney., ■ Auc&'and cricketers played Hawke's Bay to-day. "• a,. .' '"■■/'■--'■-■J'i'- '-*' 7v., /7 Yachts leave tonight for, their ■'Easter, ; V cruising:\ . , ■■- Shootjng season for native game opens to-morrow. , H.M.s. Rapid is expected here from Australia soon. Art Exhibition attracting numerous*-' visitors daily. lf Some American libraries are. burning V.VI Oscar Wilde. ~ Sir George Grey will be 83 yearj. of age next Sunday. Auckland cricket team had a rough trip down to Napier. , The Hon. P. S.Solomon, Q.e.,M.L.0.r,' -' of Fiji, is dead. , , Good pigeon and duck shooting expected in the country. . Peace between China and Japan s ßeema to he agreed on at last. ' Nine volunteer companies go ifitocainp at Devonport to-night. v Several local crickeb .teams off to "the country for the holidays, a Sir Thos. Fowell-Buxton is the new Go* , '.-<: vernor of South Australia. '" T. Roberts broke the world's record for the 440 yds hurdles in, the Domain last evening. 7 YYf Parliamentary expedition «expected- to arrive at Te Kuiti from Stratford on Satur* , day.- .. '.:, ~.,.-. , -. t a . Capt. Rueeell, ab Ghristchurchlastnight, alleged that the Government had no surplus ab all. - ; - • Wanganui and Hawke's; Bay, "according to Mr Bragato, viticulturisb expert* ara splendid grape-growing districts..: '_ '. ;' The waxworks exhibition in Queen-street, opposito tho Savings Bank,'continues to attract large numbers of visitors daily. The1 Auckland Acclimatisation Society will shortly stock'the streams in the Upper Waipa districb and ab Oborohanga with trout. The Waipa County Council has resolved to recommend the Government to alter the name of the Alexandra township, to r "Pirongia." ■ ;. The'usual May meeting; of ,the. Maori King's Kauhanganui or 'Parliament will ba held ab Maungakawa, : near . Cambridge,: next month. ■'■•. ... i . 7 '/:-_ ' < The sittings of,the various Assessment Courts in the counties of Eden- and Manukau will occupy Mr R. S. Bush,'.S.M., until well on-in next month., \ V Y-^Y Romeo Bragato, the vinegrowing'experb ;who has gone through the colony, considerthat New Zealandrmay,yeo prpve ; bh.e best* country in the;.world for producing champagne. ■' * \j ' Mr Homed Bragato, viticalburisfe expert, left for tbe Sooth to-day hy the* s.s. Mahinapua, from.Onehunga.., Ho will visib the 7 Government 7/eYpliiihao^piljMc^yahiyj Waverley..'■'•' .J.,:' . ..■■.. -■/./•, J '-. •-.-- A whaleboat crew from the St. George's Rowing Club will spend their holidays on '-^ the Waipa River, embarking on the VVaipa ab Ngaruawahia and rowing upas far. aa Alexandra. * '" .».-.- ---• Auckland school boys-are making good progress in military drill underjthe Herman- ; _~ & enb Force instructors,, and are getting well < /.J up'in the ordinary squad and company V movements. '* A party of North Shore sportsmen intend going up to Alexandra and. Pirongia for duck and pigeon shooting, and'-will coma down the Waipa and Waikato Rivers by. canoe as far as Mercor. ; •'<***'. The two aix-inch Armstrong gunß from Fort Takapuna, which wero>sent'to Eng» land to be strengthened by'being"; chase ■ hopped (strengthening the, gun with iron bands), are now on their way back to Auck« I land by direct Bteamer from Londonl ; ' Mormonism is making considerable headway amongst tho Maoris.-•• Tha Mormon elders and bishop in the Bay of Islands recently -baptised .and created two Maori priests. "Over 1 150 natives from various parts, including Hawke's Bay, participated in the festivities and rites. -. ~,_,...-... ■____»■-.-__--i»_--—— menaaamn