TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 202, 27 August 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Veky mild weather.

Our footballsra again defeated. Taranaki beat Auckland by 16 to nil. Te Anau went) South this afternoon. S.s. Anglian from Sydney this evening. Steamer. Fultala due from Calcutta to* day. British bluejackets have boon landed a; Zanzibar. Pollard's Opera Company has gone U» the .Thames.- ..-."' . Taranaki and Wellington footballers re* turned home to-day. Mr, Justice Conolly sab in banco at th; Supreme Court today. Another sensational murder is reported from New South Wales.

Auckland Ladies' Liederkranz concert iv the Opera House to-night. "East Lynne " at the Opera Hoaae tomorrow and Saturday evenings. The Taranaki footballers are now agreed to be the beat team in'the colony.

A squabble took place in the House laife ni^htrover tho Maungatautari deeds.

The Rev. L. M. lsitfc arrivoa in Auckland next week to commence a prohibition campaign. : There were between 5,000 and 6,000 people at the football match a& Fototer'a Paddock yesterday.

An English mail, dated July 17th, via Suez, will anive from Sydney by the s.e. Anglian this evening-. '. ■

The direcb steamer lonic has arrived afc Wellington from London. She brought several passengers tor Auckland.

The Auckland. Board of Education ha* decided to offer £40 for a section for the playground at Te Awamutu School.

The . " Trilby " Company will leave Wellington for Auckland by the ' s.s. Takapuna (via the West Coast) to-morrow afternoon.

Mr J. C. Firth proposes forming a company to utilise the Huka falls for the generation of electricity to drive the gold* fields' batteries. ' '

Last evening was a special " footballers' night" at the City Hall, when Mr John Cullen and his Company gave an excellent variety performance, including new longs, dances, comic sketches, etc.

A confirmation service was held in St. Sepulchre's Anglican Church last evenidg, when the Primate (Bishop Cowie)confirmed 22 female and 9 male candidates, who were presented by the Yen. Arcbdaacon Dudley.

At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday Mr Woodward gave notice to more at next meeting, "That a capita' tion grant of 5a per head be allowed to all schools with an attendance of under XS for the purchase of stationery, etc." . . Mr R. French delivered a lecture on ' " The Peeple and the Parliament " in, the '. Newmarket Hall lasb evening,' Mr E. ' Withy presiding. Mr French went into politics at> some length, and referred ta ' various evils which :mighj& be remedied by Parliamentary, reforms. Mr J. P. Ward, cAretafcer afc the Auckland Magistrate's Court, 'if., about to be promoted to a clerkship in* the Warden's ' office at the Thames, chiefly to attend to\ the allocation of revenue to the natives under the Mining Act. Mr Ward was one , of Yon Tempsk'y's corps of Foresb Ranger* in the West Coast campaign. . .' ' ''

An Ashburton man who was fijiiSd £5 fot -1 taking his traction engine across a traffic bridge without! a permit elected to "tike, oub" the alternative of imprisbnmenb, Bat three days' incarceration in Lyttelton Gaol satisfied him. He was not) allowed to amoko, and rather than deny himself tbi« luxury he paid up the £5 and regained hi* liberty.

Captain Slceuin, who recently arrived ' alone at Samoa in the Spray, a little ketch of thirteen tons, from Boston, expects to finish his present single-handed voyage in two years from time of starting. He builfc the Spray himself. Captain Slocum ia.^ ' without doubt, an intrepid man. He har no chionometer on board his vessel: only a small tin clock, the original price of which ' was $1.50, but which he—owing to its being broken—secured for $1.00, and he states tb is the beat timekeeper he ever had. He devotea much of -his tinn to writing* being: engaged by several United tttaces ' papers to detail his adventures.