TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 213, 6 September 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Spring- weather, Alameda from Sydney to-day. Outward 'Frisco mail to-morrow. S.s. Otarama arrived trom London? Waitemata County Council met) to-day,' Auckland footballers return home this evening. Supremo Courb Criminal sessions still proceeding. Frozen Meat Conference is proceeding afc Wellington. Auckland-Taranaki football match ended •'- ---in a drawn game. : •' Miles of mountain ranges are on fire in New South Wales. House of Representatives has paid a high tribute to Sir George Grey. Professor Davis' clover entertainment lithe Opera House again this evening. W Another caso of new books has arrived ■■'■* by che s.s. Tongariro for the Free Library. New South Wales back-country residents have been "fighting the fl-mes day and nighb." Persons are warned not to take dogs into the Albert Park, as they are liable to ba ." shot or destroyed. / '\ ,; Mr F. Lawry is moving the Government to release the Dilworth bequest from tly £l£,uoo stamp duty. '$ Mr Hone Heke, M.H.R., paid a war/, v tribute of praise to Sir (Jeorge Grey d-t behalf of the Maori race. Ratepayers are reminded that all rates unpaid six months from due date bear enforcedly 10 per cent additional. The Frozen Meat Conference at Wellington deprecates '"any attempt to establish a frozen meat monopoly in New Zea- | land." Mr VV. B. White, Hon. Lieutenant in the City Rifles, is aboub to bake over the command of the Victoria Rifles Volunteer -•: Corps. * '; Mr Massey, M.H.R., wants to know 5 whab inquiries have been made regarding ~-'"'" the reported destruction of nativo birds on % the Little Barrier Island. * \ Many anxious inquiries as to the probable " success or obherwiee of mining speculations, were made ab Prof. Davis' clairvoyance entertainment laßb niehb. The Bishop of Auckland intends to ap- ~ point the Rev. Mr Bradbury, at present ab • % Tauranga, to bhe charge of the Huiibly Church of England district, extending -.»»'-_ from Churchill bo Pakete. . -. . . ■■ * " His remarkable career had been cradled in absolute monarchy, developed in the autocratic government of the colony, and coming to an end when government had reached its widesb development."— Captain Russell on Sir George Grey. Last evening a social gathering of members and parishioners of St. Paul's Anglican - Church was held in Mrs Sowerby's new '-''J hall, Symonds-streeb, and was very enjoy- *^ able. Aboub two hundred and fifty people •*% were presenb, and a musical propramme waß contributed by members of the choir and other friends. : '