TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 190, 10 August 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mail day. Monowai left for 'Frisco. Another society scandal in England. Mora details of the Catfcerthun wreck. The s.s. Anglian left) for Sydney to-day. Financial debate continued in the House. Football match, Auckland v. Wanganui. Disastrous collapse of a building in New York. Forty lives lost) ia a collision on the Atlantic. H.M.s. Pylades leaves for the South Sea Islands nexb week. McCullough's amendments to the Mining Act have been rejected. Mr Hiscocks is forming an orchestral class and a singing class. Still more mining properties are to be placed on the London market. Mr R. Crabb will speak at the Helping Hand Mission on Sunday morning. Hope has been abandoned for those missing in the wrec&of the Catterthun. A notice of importance to the ladies of Onehnnga and Remuera is inserted by Miss Forbes. There are now nearly 900 subscribers to the lending branch of the Auckland Free Public Library. Tho totalisator and every other gamble musb go! -The Auckland Union Parliament has spoken ! Mr V. B.Trapp, of the Kanfi Timber Company, arrived here early this morning from Sydney, in the R.M.e. Monowai. The Maritana social, held in St. George's Hall last evening, proved an unqualified success, fully 85 couples being present. The co-operative work parties road making in the Urewera Country are in good health, and are working well in all weathers. The Permanent Force at Te Whaiti, Urewera Country, are building a largo store ab Te Whaiti for Mr Best, the storekeeper. Mr Harry Rickards, the well-known theatrical proprietor, is a passenger for San Francisco by the R. M.s. Monowai from Sydney. The Wharekaeraupunga is the attractive name of a new mining claim near tha Waihi. How will they pronounce it in London? A deputation of the Employers' Association yesterday waited upon Mr Button, M.H R., respecting some of the Bills now before Pariiamenb. Sergeant Lyons and the detachment of Wellington constables (5) arrived here veeterday afternoon from the Urewera Country via Rotorua. Mr Smith, a drowned passenger of the Catterthun, was formerly navigating lieutenant of the ex warship Wolverene, now in Auckland Harbour. Boring operations ara going on at the Western Springs, under the Cifcy Engineer's. supervision, to ascertain what water may lie between the scoria bed and the clay. Captain Russell will move in the House of Representatives that the Colonial Treasurer be requested to withdraw tha proposed alterations in Customs duties. News from New Caledonia states that parb of the wreck of a vessel unknown was washed on the Isle of Pines. Ib comprised the roof of a deckhouse, and also I bulwarks and rails. J The Loyal Parnell Lodge of Oddfellpwg, ;M.U., A.D., will celebrate their thirtyseventh anniversary with a social to be held in St. Bonaventure's Hall, Parnell, on WedI nesday, August 14th. - , The Welle3ley-sbreeb, school cadet corps was taken over to-day by the officer commanding the Auckland district as a.volunteer rifle corps. The boys will.be drilled by:Sergeant-Major.Carpenter.'." ..' ■' '_;; . Ab the City Barracks of the Salvation Army to-morrow,: receptioha will be held by Captain and Mrs Tilbrook (formerly Ensign Gunnion, well known in connection ; with rescue work in Auckland). Thenewyachb which Mr R. Logan, of the North Shore, is to build for a Wellington Syndicate, is to compete during the coming season at the Lyttelton Regatta as well as at the Wellington Regatta. Sergeant Lyons and the Wellington constables who have been engaged on road making ab Te Whaiti, arrived by last evening's train. Constable McCormick, one of bhe Wellington men, will remain for duty in Auckland. Constable Butler has been lefb to do despatch duty between Galatea and; Rotorua, in connection with the Government working parties in the Urewera Country, owing bo Constable Kavanagh, of Rotorua, being on tho sick lisb. Australian brandy would appear to be steadily obtaining an Old World reputation, ac, id addition to having a tender accepted by tho British War Office, a late cable announces thab Joshua's Boomerang Brandy has been awarded a gold modal at Amsterdam.' A man named James Edward Loveritta was admitted to the Auckland Hospital last night, suffering from a broken leg, fractured in three places, caused through a fall from his horse near St. John's College. It is stated to. be doubtful whether his leg can be saved, ° News has been received ab Sydney from the New Hebrides thab the trader Pfieffer, reported as drowned, was really murdered by tbe natives of Aoba. Pfieffer had quarrelled with the natives, one of whom knocked him down with a club, and another native cut his head off with a knife. H.M.s. Goldfinch and the French warship Scorff went to inquire into the matter. * A European war would be a calamity, aa it might stop the supply of Cavour Cigars. 8 for Is 3d.—(Advt.)