TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 191, 13 August 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Dripping Bkies.

Streets muddy again. Farmers planting crops. The worab of the winter has passed. S.s. Rotokino arrived from the South. Mysterious child murder ab Melbourne, S.s. Flora from the South this afternoon. The tourist traffic at Rofcorua is quiet jusb now.

Terrible tragedy reported from Masefield. England.

Double suicide reported from Cordabalie (N.S.W.).

The Hon. E. Mitchelson returns bo Wellington next Monday. Inquest proceeding ab Sydney on the victims of the Catberthun disaster.

The invention of the typewriter has given employment to half a million women.

It is estimated that £20,000,000 wa» apont-in England alone in charity in 1894.

On this day, 1874, the Provincial Govern* menfr system was abolished in ISew Zen» land.

Frederick Villiers, war correspondentani* artist, now in Australia, visits Auckland Bhortly.

To-morrow Mr Justice Conolly will have served six years as Judge of the Supreme Court of New. Zealand.

. Inspector Hickson has returned to Auckland from a.visit of inspection bo the Coramandel police district).

Dr. Ramsay, of Melbourne, lately appointed to the Auckland Hospital Staff, will be here on Wednesday. Tha number of police in England ia as 1 to every 730 inhabitants, 1 to 923 in Scotland, and 1 to 341 in Ireland.

It is estimated thab two years are required for the Gulf water to travel from Florida to the coasb of Norway. fifty thousand New York public school boys have banded themselves together Co form an Anti-Cigarette League. It) ia Btated that rnosb of 5,000 horses shipped from America to Europe recently were intended for slaughter as food. The number of women employed afc the collieries in South Staffordshire, England, has fallen since 1875 from 1,221 to 166.

Tha noted barque Royal Tar, which conveyed the unlucky "New Australia" emigrants to Paraguay, has arrived here from Newcastle.

To clear . the war indemnity demanded by Japan, fche Chinese would need to pay £13 a minute night and day, during tha next five years.

The ship. Wolverene, which was formerly a well-known British warship, has beea bought by Mr George Niccol, shipbuilder, of the North Shore.

A Perth -(Scotland) man has gob 20 days' imprisonment for thrashing bis wife with a kitchen fender bearing the touching legend, " Home, sweet home."

The , business people of Oninemutu, Rotorua, are petitioning the Governmenb to take up from the Maoris the ground leases they are subjected to. Sines the last attack on his life, Signor Crispi has constantly worn under his shirfa a light, but solid, coal of mail. So a Genoese newspaper declares.

Mr F. VV. Tbomaa, of Auckland, has successfully passed his examination for the commißßion of sublieutenant in the Devonpore Naval Volunteer Corps.

Among the Hottentots, when a widow wishes to marry again, ehe muafc cut off the joint of a linger and present ib to her new husband on the wedding day." . Many victors to the Auckland Public Library are reading Japanese Works and dictionaries with a vieiy.to getting a knowledge of Japan and its language.

Road-making contracts on the Te Toko Road, between Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, are being arranged with the natives by Mr 0. YY. Jiurethouae, district road engineer.

The Government continue to purchase land around Rotoruaj.and ib is anticipated that before'long there will be comparatively little land left in Maori hands around the Rotorua district.

Mr H. Mitchell! surveyor, has completed an important survey of 60,000 acres in the Roborua district, the land''being in the vicinity of Lakes Rotoiti, Rofcoma, and Roboehu, owned by the Arawa natives.

News has been received of the death of Mr Glaves, who was ono of Stanley's junior officers in Africa. He han completed aa important journey in Africa, and died at a mission station near Matadi, on the Ocmga. Sir John Gorsb (ah old ex-New Zsa* lander) is not a novice in cycling, bud clubland in London was a little startled on Monday to see Sir Herberb Maxwell and Sir John Gorst arrive together ou bicycles in Pall Mall.

Scotch joke : 'Arry (on a Northern bour, with Cocfcney pronunciation)—" Then I'll 'aye a bottle oi aile." Hostess of the Village Inn—"lie, sir! We'yo nane in the hoose, but castor ile or paraffin. Wad ony o' them dae, sir ?"

Last evening the members of the Female Court Chisman, Ancient Order of Foresters, paid an official visit to Court City of Auckland, A.O.F. There was a large attendance of the brethren to receive the visitors, and after business the evening was devoted to harmony. • ••■

The two Thames banks purchased gold as follows from the undermentioned districts, during the month of July :—Thamea Borough, 1,356'0z 16dwts ; Thames County, 2;0760z lldw.te ;,ohinemuri County, 2090z 12dwts; Piako County, 3oz 3dwt; Coromandel County, lOdwta ; total. '3.6460z 12dwts.

Yesterday afternoon ten Auckland men (all married' except one) were chosen by ballot out of sixteen for co-operative road work in the flotorua and Galatea districts. All the married men have to sign a document agreeing to half of their wages being retained by fche Government to be paid over to their wives and families.

__ A settler named James Murray, belonging to YVaiuku, is missing. Ho left Mr Dromgool'a Sawmill, four miles from VVaiuku, on Tuesday evening last, to attend a Masonic meeting at Waiuku, aud has not been seen since. Search parties hava been oub for two or three days, bub have sa far found nothing.of Murray. Lasb evening the monthly inspection of the Ponßonby Naval Artillery was held at) tha Drill-shed, when there was an excellent} muster of about fifty. Lieutenant-Com-mander Graham was in command, and Lieutenant-Colonel Goring inspected tha Corps. After inspection the officers pub the company through a course of infantry dril>.

The monthly meeting of the Royal Black Preceptory No. 149, Grand Royal Black Chapter of Ireland, was held last evening in, the. Protestant; Hall, Newton, when a considerable amounb of business was done. It beitig the anniversary of the relief of Derry, the members entertained choir friends at a social aher the Preceptorv was closed. \ ■

Mrs Mona Caird, the well-known wriber on marriage questions, is one of the most iamihar figures at English literary functions. She .is still young, and a very handsome woman, with features of the most regular type. Her large blue evea and dark brown hair point clearly to her Inch extraction, though she is English by birth, being a native of the Isle of Wight, and her father was Scotch.