TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 3 January 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Upol. left for Fiji last nighb.

The Chess Congress at Wanganui ia stt___ proceeding;

The alarm of fire yosterday afternoon waa tho result of a boyish prank. New South Wales cricketers arrive in Auckland to-morrow evening.

The Tivoli Musical Comedy Company perform to-night in the City Hall. The interest of tbe hour centres in tha position of affairs in the Transvaal.

The Waitaia mine, Kuaotunu;' haa been taken over by Edinburgh purchasers. Tho New Year holidays have passed over unattended by any serious accident. Installation of officers of the Star o* Auckland Lodge, 1.0.0. F., this evening. Our cricketers aro not a little elated witti their victory over the New South Waler men.

The s.s. Stella carried away a portion oi Pine Island jetty yesterday, but no one waa injured.

Tho Devonport Wesleyan Sunday-school held its annual pi-lie at Lake Takapuna yesterday. i «j_J "' Last night of "A Life of Pleasure " ab tbe Opera House? "A Woman's Revenge" to-morrow evening. ' Mr -McDonald, 'of Rang iora, celebrated his hundredth birthday on Now Year's Eve. He is in perfect health.

Dr. Bakewell delivers hia lecture on "Venezuela and the Venezuelans" in the Devonport Public Hall to-night. Dr. Jameson's advance on Johannesburg is condemned on all hands as an indiscreet move calculated to complicate matters.

The New Zealand athletes have upheld tbe honour of the colony at the Australasian Championship Meeting at Christchurch.

A cable message has been received thab ono of the leases at Coolgardie, belonging to the Pecone Syndicate, haa been sold for £5,500.

A driver of one of the Tramway Company's 'buses fell from his scab in a fainb yesterday and injured his head somewhat seriously.

Sir James Hector, tho Hon. George McLean, and Mr E. P. Houghton, of tha Union S.S. Company, are ab presenb in Auckland,

The town is settling down to work onco more. The holidays are pronounced to have been the pieaaantesb we havo had for a long time. v The Hon. Mr Cadman intends to address hi 3 Waikato constituents before be leaves for Wellington. Ho is at present aboub to visit Whangarei.

Cap r. Fail-child, of the Hinemoa, intends to make a careful examination of the spot where tho Wellington struck some submerged object on New Year's Day.

Mr G. McGregor, of the engineering departmenb of the Union Steamship Company, has been appointed foreman of tha engineering staff of Messrs Luko and Co. (Limited).

A sum of £11,109 passed through tha totalisator ab Ellerslie yesterday. Altogether, during: the three days of tbe Racing ;. Club's mooting, £31,709 were invested in J tha same way. The thermometer registered 78 degrees j in the shade in Wellington on Sunday ~-,. j last. This is the highest poinb ib haa^'j touched this summer. Auckland can . d© B -fl£ V good deal better than that. D. Cooke, secretary of i^yjCX -Jo "'■■'-'■"' '-§$ Cricket Club, Dunedin, fell I™** :p tamed concussion oi the brain. Ib s^ e s.>. believed he is in serious danger. ~ Ab the Otago Rifle meeting the, p, aggregate prize was won by McGregor *-' the Oamaru R.C., with a score _ ' Nimmo, of Oamaru, was second, with [ A and Tonkin, of the Duoedin Engine ' ' scored 258. v ||j Hia Excellency the Governor and fam • ■ start on an extended cruise-in bhe Hinem* '' this evening. They intend to viai.b Chris . ~ church and Dunedin and to tour rh , . ■Southern lakes. .It is expected they wii. :|B be back in Auckland aboub the end ol «; February. 1 ■« Start tho new year by mending your .li ways (paths). Tar, sand, ground-shell, fl concrete, etc., George Rhodes, builder, n Custom-street West.—(Advt.) "■> |

Buy preserving jars and fruits wibh expert advice as to processing ab the Auckland Fruit Depot and Orchard Agency, Sb.orb- , land-.treet.—(Adv..) "'».,