TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 124, 25 May 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Gbeat holiday making yesterday. Football to-day. Oscar Wilde's case has been adjourned. The Grammar School re-opens on Jmutbe 2nd. Mr Birch's third popular concert oa Monday. The Richmond leaves for Tahiti on Mon* day nigh.. The yacht Volunteer is cruising to Mahurangi. A large mining company is to be started at Hokitika. Tho Ameer of Afghanistan's son is now in England. The Eden Terrace Assessment Court safe all day yesterday. ' . The races at the North Shore were well patronised yesterday. Three big football matches were played in Dunedin yesterday. The weather to the South was most) favourable for the holiday. The p.e. Eagle makes an excursion ta Lake Takapuna to-morrow afternoon. G. .Dudley, won the bicycle road race between Papakur/j and Parnell yesterday. A sum of £5,205 passed through this' totalisator at the North Shore races yesterday. The Emperor of China attributes the result of the war to corrupb officers and rebel troops. Parnell v. Newton; Ponsonby v. City and Suburbs,?. Grafton at Potter's Paddock this afternoon. Accounts received of the New Australian, settlement show that the scheme has been> a. hopeless failure. A dividend of £73 17s was paid on the Hack Race at the Wanganui Jockey Club's Winter.Mooting yesterday. S.ir H. Parkes' motion of censure on the New South Wales Government has been defeated by a large majority. Tho Ten Mile Bicycle Championship which took place in Sydney yesterday resulted in a win for O'Brien in 25min 16 2-sth sec. ; " In the opinion of Thomas A. Edison all newspapers will eventually be set up by a combination of the phonograph and typewriting machine. Ib is estimated 7,000 people were on the Takapuna . Racecourse yesterday. The Devonporo Ferry Company issued exactly 5,000 through tickets. ' There was a very large audience at the Opera House last night when Mr Darrell staged ■'Life for Life." The same piece is repeated to-night and on Monday. There are a large number of unemployed in. Dunedin, and the Knights of Labour there have telegraphed to the Premier asking that they should be given work. The children of the Auckland Bands of Hope held their annual Quel's Birthday gathering yesterday evening in the Choral Hall and meet again in the same place tonight, A eeries of Sunday evenine limelight lantern lectures is announced in our advertismenb column to be given iu\ the Masonic -Hall, Newton, by Mr Charlea Cooper. Last night the s.s. Mahinapua was. floated off the mud bank in the Manukau Harbour; where she grounded on Wednesday nighb, - and early this morning she left for, New Plymouth and Wellington. Intending students of the Auckland Technical School''iviio have nob enrolled themselves are .requested to do so. thujJL evening, when tho Secretary" will be,in a®* tendance ab tho office, Rutland-street,' from' - 7 to 9 o'clock.