TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 107, 8 May 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mining business brisk.

Union Parliament meets to-night. Combined circuses ab tbe Agricultural Hall.

Mr Alf. Law ton's Company at tbe Opera House.

Mr W. R. Wills died ab Otahuhu thia morning. There are now ten cases of typhoid in the Thames Hospital. Football season opens to-morrow, when Cup matches commence. Mr J. F. Logan leaves for London via Sydney on Tuesday next. Mr G. A. Buttle, the well-known sharebroker, is back from the South.

Mr Albert Bruce appointed Town Clerk at) tha Thames Borough Council.

Limelight enberfcainmeab ab the Sailors' Hall, Lower Albert-street, to-night. "'•'.,

Tbe students of bbc Thames School of Mines presented Mr Park with a pans of sovereigns last night.

The Legal Committee of tho City Council ara to negotiate with tbe Harbour Board for tbe purchase of Freeman's Bay reclamation. Mr James Russell was entertained at a dinnor laab evening by tbe members of tha Northern Club prior to bis departure for London.

Ib is stated tbab Messrs Jaeger and Parker are aboub to start a boiling-down establishment ia the neighbourhood of Hamilton.

The Wanganui athlete, A. H. Holder, will attempt to lower tbe world's record for 440 yds hurdles at Hawke's Bay Amateur Athletic Club Sports to-morrow.

Host Kerr, of the Criterion Hotal, Cambridge, and a friend in two days bagged fifty-five head, viz., 16£ brace of pheasants, 1 brace of quail, 16 hares, and 4 rabbits. The Very Rev. Father Leniban, who baa been to Dunedin in connection with tha consecration of Bishop Verdon, reborns home in the Takapuna bo-morrow night. His Excellency tha Governor, the Countess of Glasgow, and the viceregal party did nob attend the Orchestral Union's concert lasb night, owing to the death of Mrs Menteath.

Mr Bi«s, the New Zealand delegata to the Australasian Rowing Conference, lefb for Sydney by theMararoa yesterday afternoon. He will use every endeavour to hare next year's intercolonial contest rowed in New Zealand.

Thomaß Jackson, a gnmdigger, residing at Birkenhead, was resting himself against one of the piles on tha Queen-street Wharf yesterday afternoon and slipped and ■ fell over into the sea. Two men named Georga and Alfred Wheeler rescued him.

An inquest was held yesterday at tha Roberb Burna Hotel, by Dr. Phileon. coroner, on the body of an infant named Ethel Brown, aged ewo months, boarded out under the Infants' Life Protection Act with Mrs Condron, Cook-street. The jary, retnrned a verdict to tbe effect that tha deceased died from convulsions.

An obelisk to be erected over the grave of the late. Mr Richard Arthur, in tha Symonds-streetGemetery, ha* been executed by Mr Wm. Parkinson, of Victoria-street. Ib is of marble, on a bluestone base, and bears the following inscription : —"In memoriam. Richard Arthur, died July 9,! 1895, aged 59 years. 'He being dead yeb speaketh.' Erected by the officer*, teachers, and scholars who were in bha Pibb-streeb Wesleyan Sunday School during che twenty years the deceased waa ibe superintendent." /

Courb Bros, are cheaper than any other house in Auckland, and the public know in. All wool colonial blankets, large size, for 9s lid the pair, cheapest thing in Auckland, —(Advt.)

Court Bros, are the largest importers (direct from the mill) of Crewdson's calicos, 32-inch 3a 4d the dozen ; 36-in 3s lOd bhe dozen. We supply the trade. Courb Brps. -(Advb.)

Blanket week ab Smith and Caughey's, the centre tables de-joted to the 'Special sale of blankets, prices extremely1, low, every colour, size and price.—(Advb.)