TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 158, 7 July 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

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Two warships in porfc. Te Aaau left for the South to-day. S.s. Wsihora for Sydney this evening:.

Mr George Fowlda will conto»b the City Beab. .... ' .'

S.s. Gorinna for Rarotonga and Tahiti today. ■■"•-, Star Monthly Summary published on Thursday. H.M.s. Goldfiich leare* here fce-morre«r for Rarotonga. The Aucklaad Institute is in need of an increase of members. ' ■ , ;

Mail ateamer Monowai left) Sydney for Auckland latb evening. * ■

A shocking accident to a factory girl ii reported from Chriatcburcb. . ■ ■ ..

The death is announced of Mr J. S. Maniline, of Petone, aged 82.

A fund is being started at Duwedin for the benefit of Mrs J. G. Ward and family.

The mysterious tragedy am Pomahaka, Obago, promises to ba tiia coming seneatibn.: .':■■'.•• ' ' ' /'-1:>:'•:';> f'::

There ia a good deal of sicknesftifcß presenb amongst the natives at Kawbia Harbour. -r

PoHßonby School Committee election was discussed again at the Board of Eduqation to-day. A conference on *• Juvenile Immorality " is to be lyjid to-morrow evening at tho Municipal Buildings. It is reported from Rarobonga that the coffee crop this season will be abort is comparison with last year's. ■ :, A pigeoa flying race from Danevirke to Wellington was won by A. Smith* Blua Fire. Time, 3br lmin 4sec. Cr

It is »aid that the Legislative Conncil Reform Bill will provide, . among other things, for opening the Council to women.

Professor White will read a paper at the Women's Liberal League to-night, in the Wesley Hall, upon " Womea's luflueisce ia the World."

John Graham, Chairman of the Taieri County Council, will be a candidate for Taieri in the Opposition interests abjihe general election. *■•

At the Chrißtcbnrch Police Court to-day, Henry Cashmere, a lad of fifteen, was committed for trial on a charge of setting fire to St. Aloysins Hall. . ,

Meetings of the unemployed have boon held in Chriafcchurch for Borne day« past. Yesterday seven ty-fivemea gave in their names as being oub of work.

Major Elliott left for Wellingisen last evening by the s.s. Takapuna from On«----hunga. ,- He had boen up Norfeh ab Ceak'i whaling station, Whangamnmo.

A substantial atone bridge, IS feet loner, has been erected over a creek aft the entrance to the Whauwhau Valley, Whangarei, by the Kensington Town Board.

At the inquest on the body of William Marshall, 'gumdiggerV found in t'ha Domain, the evidence showed that) death was caused by want of nourishment and expoaure.

A man named Anderson has beoa drowned ab Dunedin. He left Lumiden the worse of liquor. He had only been air months in New Zealand. He leaves a wife and a young child. • :' "•"

The Wellington Exhibition Space Committee have decided to recommend cUafe arrangements bo made for 5,000 feet additional, and that no applications be received after the'3ls«.. ■ ....y; ~... ■„'/■. ':'''i'v&i^v ■

: A lnrge whals S& feeb long .was stranded near Haribari, Kawhia Harbour, 'recently, b.ivinv evidently bepn previously harpoonad. Mr Hugh McKeazia w»b the 'diecpverer of the whale; bat a number of the local Maoris threafcensd him and took posaeasisa of the whale themselves. ' ■

The Wellington Liberal and Electoral League, afc a large meeting, last nighb, passed a resolution in favour of the Administration of which Mr Seddon ia Premier, and decided to select three candidates for the city, one of whom, aa Buggee ted by the Trades Council, shall be » bonafi.de working man.