TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 268, 11 November 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Government holiday. Thinga are worse and worse in Turkey. Wellington cattle show opens on Thursday next. i'ausb Family open ia the Opera HootC to-night. Lord Salisbury ridicules' the EubsoChinese Treaty. Wellington obearves the Prince of Wales* birthday to-day. Osculator again to the fore at) Flemington on Saturday. Three youths were drowned in Sydney harbour yesterday. The Ponsonby Bowling Club'a season was opened on Saturday. ■ A fierce north-wesb gale was blowing in Wellington yesterday. The Hon. E. Blake ia ab present at Rofcorua with hia son. A.conspiracy to dethrone the Snlfean of Turkey ia gaining gronnd. Zimmerman, the cycliafe, did the half-mile in tmin 2 l-ssec on Saturday. Owing to indisposition Canon Caldor did not preach ab AH Saints' yeeterday. A sum of £6.604 passed through the bobalisabor on Saturday ab Ellerslie. Annual meeting of the auxiliary of th» London Missionary Society to-night. **vDamage to the extent of £50,000 b»a been caused by a grenb-firo ab Coolgardie. Alexandra-street Sunday-school anniversary was celebrated in the Choral Hall yesterday. Wellington beat Canterbury in the interprovincial match played in the Empire City ob Saturday. ; ~ The Amateur Opera Clnb closejkjiheir " Mikado " season on Saturday after'^wißti successful run. ' '^81| Sacred tableaux and concerb in St.Thomas's Schoolroom, Union - etreefe, taniphb and to-morrow. Wesbporb exported 5,772 tons of coal during last week and Greymouth 1,907 tons and 148,400 feeb of timber. There was a large assemblage &b tho opening of the West End Lawn Tennis Club's grounds on Saturday. Troub fishing season in the Auckland di«> tricb opens or. Friday next, and licencei can be obtained at fche Museum. | In tho sweeps take shooting match fired by the "A" Volunteer Battery, Serge&nb H. Doughty made the bop score. The fortnightly meeting of the Sir George Grey Statue Fund committee takes place ab the Municipal Buildings to-night. The land tax and graduated land tax is payable ab the office of the Commissioner of Taxei, Wellington, on the 26th inst. The acceptances for the Amateur Athletic Carnival en Saturday next are very good* and an excellent day's eporb is promised.! The lecture on " Our Missionary Ships" by the Rev. J. King in the Bereaford Congregational Church on Saturday was largely attended. Tho police havo now in their possession a purse of money which someone has lost. 16 will be returned to the owner on applying ab the station. Ab the Oddfellows' sport* in Nelson on Saturday, in tho pole jump Ft. Hunter broke the New Zealand amateur r«cord'by an inch and a-half, accomplishing 10 feefe 6£ inches. The Chrißtchurch Progreasive Liberal Association has passed resolutions condemning the presenb method of selecting the members of bbo executive, and *la6..few naej»feei'« of the LegTolative Council. , 1 ' We are requested to ifcate thafe the sale of household furniture at the residence of tbs late Mr William Greenwood, Epsom, will take place to-morrow, as previously announced, p.nd is nob postponed, as advertised in Saturday's Star. "Brett's Almanac" for 1896 is now in the press. Secretaries of Masonic, friendly, educational, musical, literary, scientific and other organisations are requested bo send to the Star Office a list of their officers for publication in the official and local directory.