TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

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Colonel North it dead. Cecil Rhodes offers to resign. Orchestral Union concert to-night. Church Congress concludes to-night. Flora arrived from the South to-day. " My Sweetheart " at the Foresters' Hall tonight. Three circuses combined at the Agricultural Hall.

Captain Preston, A.P.C., is back from Dargaville.

Auckland athletes farewell Mr J. F. Logan to-nighb. Mr Alf Lawfcon'a Company at the Opera House to-night.

Auckland Rugby Football Annual publishod to-morrow.

Opening entertainment of the season of Burns Club to-night.

The new programme ab the Opera Houbo last night was well received.

Major Elliot was a passenger to Welling ton by the s.s. Mahinapua to-day.

The Mayor of Auckland has banked £1,334 63 to tho credit of the Brunaer relief fund.

The remains of tbo late Mrs Menteath were taken to Wellington to-day in the 8.8. Mahinapua.

Mr A. E. G. Rhodes has consented to become a candidate for Pareora, Cantorbury, at the next general election.

New Zealnnd has given abbot £50,000,000 of gold to the world so far, and is scarcely prospected yet.—" British Colonist."

The annual meeting of subscribers of tho Jubilee Institute for the Blind, takes place on Tuesday next at Mr Ft A. White's office at 2 p.m.

The N.S.W. Public Service Association is now an accomplished fact. The Association has been formed largely on the lines of the Mew Zealand Association.

At the annual meeting of the Maunfc Wellington Road Board dissatisfaction was ex* pressed at tho large demand of £98 lis 41 made and paid for hospital and charitable aid.

Census returns for Auckland show an increase in every division of the. district excepb in the borough of Onehunga. There is also a small decrease in Pukekohe, and a few other portions south of Auckland in Manukau county.

The Rev. T. F. Robertson left for Christchurch today. He is one of the deputation appointed, by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to confer with the deputies of the Otago Church in regard to a union between the t—o Churches.

Visitor: Who do you take after, Bobby,' your papa or your mamma ?—Bobby Jones : That depends. When aunt Sarah's here ma says I take after her folks, and when uncle Silas Jones is here ma says I am a regular Jones. They're both r-r-rich 1 •.'

The " Pahiafcua Herald " states that Mr W. Wrigley, of Kaikairiki, has an eleven-year-old son who nan take his dog, run in a sheep out of a 150-acre paddock, kill it, and dress it fit for any butcher's shop in New Zealand, all well within the hour.

Canadian Healing Oil overcomes with equal oertainty swelling of the neck, inflammation of the muscles and stiffness of the joints, lameness and crick in the back, tumours, piles, dysentery, and a variety" of other painful and harassing disorders. Ie may be taken inwardly with vtar much safety as it is applied outwardly.—(Advt.) . : ~*■,, *.. rv v. *:*.» _<*» #**»i •'■•;■'»:'- Blanket week at Smith arid Caughey'a,' the centre tables devoted to the; special sale of, blarikots^ priOMve^tremei^, low, every colour, size and price.—(Adyt.j;