TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 195, 16 August 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Clotfded skies. Yellow fever is raging in Cuba. Auckland Chamber of Mines formed. Great; Mercury mine, Kuaotunu, sold. Auckland footballers meeb Hawke's Bai to-morrow. Weather in the VYaikafco continues cold and wintry. Ib is unlawful fco take oysters on tha Great Barrier Island. Waihi is going ahead ! A new cemetery * was opened there yesterday. Goaaip puts, two and two together and makes whatever sum it desires. Theology isn't religion any more than a fashion-plate is a suit of clothes. There is more manliness in earning a loaf of bread than in accenting a millionaire's pie. .■■:' The Government are pushing on thff completion of native land purchases 'in the King Country. . ■ : The colonial mails which lefb Auckland on July 13th by the Mariposa arrived in London on. Wednesday afternoon, due date. After the 31sb of July, 1895, the number of licenses to use the totalisator issued by the, Colonial Secretary shall nob exceed 156. 'A"man named C. Rawlinga, a fainter, fell off a coach'ab Waihi, Upper Thames, yeaday, and had his righo arm broken below the elbow. . Mr John Wall, of Taranaki, who was drowned in the harbour yesterday,' was a ' brother-in-law of Mr Searing H. Matthews, of Auckland. Two hundred designs were received for the new issue of postage stamps. A Board of Experts to^ consider them begins its sittings on Monday. Plate-laying is about to commence on the on the North Island. Trunk Railway from the Mokau section towards the north end of the Ppro-o-Tarao Tunnel, on Government road works in the vicinity. The settlers in the Mahurangi are complaining loudlyof the very bad state of tha public roads in their district, which," they say, ara simply "mud tracks." Block VI., Awaroa, near the Opuatia Block, between the Waikato and Raglan, is being laid oub for a epecial settlement on the alternative system for men The Governor will be unable to opoa tha Christchurch Exhibition on August 29bb, as he cannob absent himself from Wellington during the session' of the General Assembly. A party of surveyors are oub near Otorohanga. King Country, surveying for a special settlement, aud another party are out on the Alexandra-Kawhia Road on similar work. Verdict Already In.—"Did you bay that piano or hire it?" said Fosdick to Gaskett. "We have it on trial." "Then I think you will have no difficulty whatever in finding it euilty." Ab present there are about thirty men employed on the co-operative system on the western bank of the Waikato forming the road through the bush from Tuakau to Opuatia and Raglan. Mr £-* B- vv«ghb, Government Districtr Road Engineer, ia reporting to the Government as to the desirability of either erecbing abridge or placing a good punb across bhe Waikato Rivefab Tuakau. _ Te Korowhiti. and Te Marunui Rawiri, Kotorua native chiefs; together with five "t'r,OTOr&-chiefs,lefcr-9 1 otbrua":ye8terd3y for -• Wellington, via Taupo, in order to confer with the Government re the Urewera dispute and other native land matters. Mr i?"t G" Tanner» wao for some yeara past has conducted a storekeeping and accommodation house business ab Te Kuibi, ' "King" Country, with success, has aqld out to a Taamanian gentleman, and is embarking in a new buainees. The x ßteamer Doric will soon bo pub upon the docks in Belfasb, and after a thorough renovating be brought to San Francisco for the run between that porb and the Orient s in competition with the Canadian and Northern Pacific steamers. The following' advertisement recently appeared in a Texas paper:—" Wanted—.A firsb minister for the Trinity Church ia D Must be robust, and not orer 35 years old. Thoroughly sober candidates ' only need apply to Elder W.G., in An old man named Chris Casey, while putting a truck on the tramway line at tha Crown mine, Karangahake, yesterday, meb with an accident, resulting in a severe fracture of the right arm, and also of bhree ribs besides some^ severe cuts and bruises. He is being attended to by Dr. Forbes. „_ On Wednasday at Whanaaroa harbour, Capt. Farquhar, of the s.s. Clansman, visited the spot where the ship Boyd was sunk by the Maoris in 1809, and saw the ship's timbers lying about below. They made an interesting discovery of two cannon balls embedded in the mud. Captain Webber, formerly conimander of the mail-steamer Zealandia, which ran between 'Frisco and Auckland, ia now in San Francisco. It is claimed that he has been intrusted with the taßk of reorganising the Chinese navy. He has been empowered with the authority, ib ia said, to purchase ships and contract) fcr the construction of new ones. An inquesb was held ab Mount Eden gaol yesterday on the body of the Maori prisoner Panga ts Whareanaki. Dr. Philsen made& post mortem, and found that the heart) weighed 21oz, and was twice its natural ' size. A verdic-t was returned of " Death from heart disease." Deceaeed belonged to the Ngatiwhakaue tribe, and live£ at Roborua. He was serving a sentence of five years for rape on a girl ab Rotorua, bub denied the charge.