TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 179, 31 July 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Basking inquiry proceeding.

S.s. Poherua arrived from Fiji. Te Anao. left for the South today. ** A Gaiety Girl " on Monday night. Mr Justice Conolly left for Gisborn.. to-day. More debating on the no - confidence motion.

Thet-iea v. Auckland football match tomorrow. .■■'"■

The Tailoresses' Fancy Fais ia doing, splendid business. .

The betting fraternity are going to shift from Vulcan Lane.

During the past fortnight) tho City Council issued 23 building permits.

The coat of Sb. Masthew's new stone church is to be not less than £20,000. Mr Alberb Lucas farewells in " The *' Bella " at the Opera House to-night).

Steamer Corinna is now .expected here from her first cruise to the Eastern Pacitic.

St. JMat'thow's people have decided to send to London tor plana for their new church. ■•"..'■-'■'■■'•

Mr RYS. Bush, S.M., returned from WhaDgarei by the s,_. Wellington laefc evening. ' The death is announced of JMr» John MclJonald, of Wairoa South, who arrivbd in Now Zealand in the year 1859.

Vaile and Sons want the City Council to buy the Surrey Hills Estate of 250 or 300 acres for recreation purposes.for the city.

The Sb. Paul's Church Literary and Debating Society solemnly decided lasb evening that the Chinese are "desirable colonists J" j

The Rev. L. Fitzgerald, Mr J. C. Firth, ( and Mr J. C. Hanna, left.for Welliagton from Onehunga bythee... Mahinapuayesterday afternoon.

. A notification in tbe Gazette offers a bonus of £200 for the discovery and workin__ within the colony of deposits of marketable mineral manure.

The Mikado is the religious head of the Japanese as well as their ruler. His place is hereditary, and ib has been filled by membora of his family for more than 2,500

years. The Ponaonby Bapbisb Mutual Improvement; Society has decided, after due debate, thab " the improvement of machinery daring: the past .fifty years has been beneficial to the community ab large."

If all the .tobacco used in the British Empire last year were rolled into a rope an inch in diameter, ib would form a snakelike roll which, following tho. liaes of ths equator, would go thirty times round the earth. . .