TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 271, 14 November 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

SUMMEEDAY. Cycling sports in the Domain. Agricultural show well attended. Auckland yachts crab this afternoon* Auckland Amateur Athletic Club's Sporfc, next Saturday. "My Sweetheart)" again at the Opari House to-night. ,>, Greenwich aebronomical time iax£o bft adopted by Franco. • "W 1 Direct steamer Rangatira has arrives here from the South. A notification of interest to paiatara is. advertised in to-night's issue. West End and St. George's Rowing Clubs' trial fours took place this afternoon. The consecration of Bishop Leniban will taka place do-morrow morning ab St. Patrick's. It has been decided to play 15 men in the New Zealand cricket match with the Australians. Sale unredeemed pledges from Monb df Piete Loan office, at Esam and Arthur's. Monday next. |L Four boxes of bullion, valued at £6,550, ;f§ were shipped for Loadon by the s.s. W Tongariro yesterday. A .; .Mr John McGowan haa been appointed %. Vainer • General under the Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896. & . Tho Christian Endeavour anniversary in e 1 connection with St.John's Wesleyan Church fftf Ponsonby, will be held on Monday,evening ■ | next, at 7.30. -yj The little girl Irving, who was so badly £# burnt at Purerna, Bay of Islands, lasb PI Wednesday, died oa Thursday nighb. ', Much sympathy ia felt for the parents. 0The anniversary services in connection fSp' with the Pitt-etreeb Wesleyan Church will s§i be held to-morrow, and the annual soirea -rMf and public meeting on Wednesday evening , * ." next. v.^.jl' ' The Opotiki " Herald " says : — " Wg[■, ■;• learn that the recenb frosts have .- seriously damaged the local crops, hun-l dreds of aciaa of maiza having been ruined." , • The 8.8. Fingal, on a recant trip Im. Opotiki, from Raukokore and way ports, reported thats o« the trip up a porpoise ~ abouc 10 feet long was harpooned and, $. capcnrad. A dispatch forwarding proclamation and*'' order-in-Cooncil applying to parts of the Imperial Coinage Act, 1870. and its amendments, to the Australasian colonies, ia gazetted. The Auckland Naval Artillery Volnnfceer Corpa went into camp at Fort Cautley last) night, under Lieut. Commander Little, for 16 days instruction in big gun drill at the North Head batteries. v ■ -A The competition in connection with Sfc. .fi Jf Barnabas' fete have been extended to November 30th, and will be received by Mrs G. W. Robinuon, Knighton, Valley Road, and any of the Committee. The Opobiki " Herald " this week says : —" It is rumoured that the Urewera native! have taken captive two prospectors who were working on their lands. One of them is said to be Mr H. Vercoe, of Tauranga." To-morrow week will be " demonstration Sunday/1 when the Auckland . Friendly Societies' annual concert will take place i© the City Hall, to which the societies will march in regalia accompanied by brass bands. The Auckland Sunday-school Industrial Exhibition will be opened at the Drill-shed. » on Tuesday, the 24th inst., at 3p.na,, by ' the Mayor. A full choir under the conductorehip of Mr J. H. Phillpot, will ba present. .. , ■ j « Tho next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court of Wellington will be opened nexb Monday, when ex-Defcectiva Kirby, whose sentence was deferred pending the decision of the Court of Appeal, will be brought up for sentence. The report of the Wellington United Farmers' Go-operative Association shows that the nab profits for the year amounted to £3.431, in addition to which a sum of £1,152 has been placed to the reserve account. A dividend of six per cent, is recommended. For the intercolonial band contest which is to be held in connection with the Wellington Exhibition on the 30th and 3isb December and lsb January, the Newtowa Band, Sydney (which won the recent contest at Sydney), and the Paramaeta Band, Sydney, have entered. An interesting historical relic in the form of an old Tower musket formerly used by Hongi, the great Northern warrior, has been presented to the Auckland Museum by Mr S. Percy Smith, Surveyor-General. This musket was given to Hongi Hiko, afterwards known as "The Man-eater," by George IV. of England in the year 1820. In connection with the forthcoming floral fete at Elleralie, it is announced that ladies will be otlered the amount of firab and, second prizes in gloves if preferred, and gentlemen in pipes or a small article of jewellery. Entries are extended to the 21st insfc. The train fares, including admission to the erouad, are Is 6d adults and 9d for children. A large shipment of striped fancy muslins, bought job, special value, 7fd; immeußO variety in chive, Trilby and other new makes of muslin, special value.—Smith and Caughey, Dress Merchants, etc., etc-— (Advt.) Visitors to Auckland during the Agricultural Show are invited to inspect the magnificent steck of novelties and new goods now being shown ab Smith and Caughey?s.—(Advt.) Visitors to Auckland during the Agricultural Show should make a point of ; visiting Smith and Caughey's, and inspect the magnificent stock of novelties and new goods now being shown in all department! and inquire prices without being pressed to buy, Over 700 cases and bales are already to hand this season.—(Advt.)