TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 308, 30 December 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Tomoeeow is the lasb day of 1895.

Tasmania leaves for the South this after* noon. The Post Office will be closed on No* Year's Day. ' 5 ' •• A Lifo of Pleasure " ab the Opera Hous* this evening. Serious loss of life through a panic in * Baltimore theatre.

Another greab slaughter of Armenians fay the Turks is reported. The financial crisis in the United State* is ab present very acute. Mr George Hutchison, M.H.R^ ia goinff home to England on a trip. •/'.■

Cases of larceny from meat safeß are re--ported in the Epsom district. The Eatoomba arrived from Napier yesterday to dock here for cleaning* : J The Tennis Championship Tournament} was finished ab Wellington on Saturday. ■

The Eden and Epsom Lawn Tennis Tournament was continued on Saturday.

Auctioneers licenses must bo taken out ab the Ciby Council offices to-day oc to-mor-row. ; ' f. New South Wales cricketers defeated the Wellingbonians on Saturday by 226 runs.

A good many yachtsmen intend visiting the regatta ab Waiheke on Ne\r Year's Day.

The old people ab the Coebley Home were entertained on Saturday afternoon by the ladies of Remuora.

Mr J. C. Hauna, manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, arrived in Auckland oo Saturday. A sum of £3,836 was passed bhrough'fehe tofcalisator in 10a tickets at the Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday. There is a prospecb of trouble in the Transvaal, and forts are being erected ab Pretoria and Johannesburg.

Mr Kirby Redgmenb Andrews, an old Auckland citizen, died at his residence, Albert-street, yesterday, aged 71.

One or two Birkenhead strawberry growers have ssnb fruit to Wellington this season and realised handsome profits.

The colonies furnished several compefeitors for tha £1,000 prize offered by the "Statist" newspaper for the best essay on a scheme of Imperial Customs union. The M.U. Oddfellows have received permission from Messrs Reid Bros, to hold their premier picnic a(j Mobubapu on February 15bh, 1896. Tenders for band are returnable by Friday nexb. Two horse accidents occurred in ParnelJL^jjp on Saturday afternoon, a rider being eomawhai! seriously injured in one case, and ia the other a horse so much hurt fchab ib will probably have to be destroyed. The Kingite Maoris ab Parawera, a Maori Eetfclemenfe near Orakau, in tha Waikato, held high festival at Christmastime. They followed the example of their European neigbours, and gave a big feasb of pork, potatoes and biscuits to their friends on Christmas Day.