TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 213, 9 September 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Seight and warm. S.s. Anglian lefo for Sydney.' : ■ "Graphic " published fco-dayj Municipal elections to-morrow. Board of Education met to-day. Steamer Maori for Fiji this evening. S.s. Te Auau from the South to-day. The Khalifa of the Soudan ia said to btt lead. " Paul Jones " at bbc Opera House to* aight. Ofeago foetballera play Hawke'e Bay tomorrow. ■ Association football fconrnatnenb at) Dunsdin to day. Another fatal qua accident) is reported from Obago. ' ■ ', ■ Meeting of St. Andrew's Church congragation to-night. "Debate on, our defenoes in the Honsa of Representatives last night. * ■ . ■ , ; Picture of"the Sovereign Drive, Wftlfca« kauri, in to-day's " Graphic." Germans are eaid to be implioated in the rising in the Phillipine Islands, Gaiidaur received a great ovation after winning the sculling championship. The Rev, L, M. Isitt speaks on the liquor question at Onehunga to-night. More petitions against gambling have been presented to the Hou«e of Represenbafcivea.,.. ■ . ■ - ... The Northern S.S. Company's now 3teamer Wakatare bas Mfc Glasgow for Auckland. Mr L. A. Cuff, the crack Obrißtohurcb sricketer, has been elected captain of the United Cricket Club. .. • Gaudaor's rowing weight) was 12at 21b, »nd his height is jnst over btb. He was born at Ontario, Canada, in 1857. W The Auckland Women's Political League wantb the City Council to protect feha!:«V Armenians from the barbarous Turk. The sneak-thief is continuing his opora- ' tions in the suburbs, and email articles left 3uk of doors at night often disappear. The Government intend erecting a monument to the memory of Kereru, a chief of ;he Drewera natives, who died lately. A fine photogravure of the Otago footsail representatives, the men who defeated Auckland on Saturday last, appears in tha ' Graphic." Three tone of ore from the Monowai, Dometock, and Broken Hill mines, Waiomo, »re being shipped to: London for the pur- . 3ose of being experimented on by the Park* - W hi taker process. The Government proposal to make the anda of the Tahoe or Urewera d.ietriofc*'Sa lative reserve, each block to be managed )y a local native committee. The land ifleeted is about 650,000 acres. There are from 60 to 70 applications at aresent in for telephones by Auokland :jtmiiesß meH, but they cannot be supplied it) present, as the Government has not ielephones enough to meet the emergency. The local branch of the Irish National federation holds its fifth annual meeting ;omorrow evening, in Sb. Patrick's Hall, if hen the election of officers will take place, md the annual balance sheet will be pralented. . ■■ At the meeting of the Devonport Boroogb. Council last evening, the pumping engineer ■eported that the shaft at the works ab Lake Takapuna needed strapping wtbh iron. ■ [b was resolved that Mr Philcox be requested to report on the matter. The Mayor has convened a meeting of cifizens interested in the annual meeting of the 1 Zealand Rifle Association, ab thfr. Municipal Rooms on Friday evening, when steps will be begun to bring about the financial success of the meeting. The usual meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, which was to have been held yesterday, was postponed till a future date. Mr A. Bull, one of the member", is inspecting the Waimakariri nab hatchery ab Okoroire, in order to report to the next meeting of the Society. " Mra Duffy and Mrs Main waited on tht Mayor yesterday afternoon as a deputation from the. Women's Political League, And aeked him" to take soma steps to enable citizana to give expression to their sympathies in connection with tha Hl-breattnanfe of the Armenians by\ the Turks. Tha Mayor promised tv bring the tuaoter before the City Council. An inspection parade of tho Auckland Naval Artillery Volunteer Corps was held laflb evening in the Drill-shed, under Lieutenant-Commander Little, and Lieutenants Clements and Oake*. Lieutenantcolonel Goring inspected the Corpe, and the men were then put through intanbry jrill. The Garrison Band alao paraded for inspection.