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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 279, 24 November 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sunday-school Exhibition. Floral fete on Saturday. S.s. Upolu arrived from Fiji. Star Summary on Thursday. S.s. Waihora {rose to Sydney. Daring burglary at Melbourne. Rotomahana wenb South to-day. Auckland Harbour Board met to-day. Dr. Jameson, who has been unwell, is ia* proving.. Supremo Court criminal sessions proceeding. San Francisco mail steamer left Sydney for Auckland last evening. Auckland College and Grammar School sports oa ike Domain to-day. There are at present. 81 men and 31 women in tbe Auckland Hospital. Outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday. Send a Christmas "Graphic" to your friends at Home. The coffea crop thia season in Rarotpnga, Cook Islands, is expected to be a very large one. Advertise tho 'colony by posting a "Graphic" to your relatives in tbe Old Country. About 1009 prisoners ara constantly within the walls of each of the three London prisons. The mail steamer Mariposa has no less than £350,000 worth of gold on board from Sydney for San Francisco. Read the advertisement of the contents of the •' New Zealand Graphic" which appears on page 5 of this issue. Magazines posted by the outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday- will be delivered in England on the last day of the year. Owing to a breach of promise action against him, Mr J. M. White, M.P. for Forfarshire, has resigned his seat in the House ef Commons. The eel season is now on in Nelson. Aa ugly looking creature, with a head like a bull .dog, measuring 4ft lOin and weighing 221b, was caught in a creek th_ other day. Last evening the Hon. Thomas Thompson, Minister of Defence, visited Fort Cautley, North Shore, and inspected the Auckland Naval Artillery Volunteer Corps at drill at the big guns. A man who stuttered badly went to consult a specialist about his affliction. The expert asked, " Do you stutter all the time?" "N n no," replied the sufferer, "lan stut 111 ter only when 1111 talk." At the inquest held at tho Asylum yesterday afteruoon, before the coroner, Dr. Philßon, on the body of the inmate, Thomas O'Brien, who died the previous day, a verdict of " Death from natural causes " was returned. News from Rarotonga states that it has been arranged that Maretu is to be the successor to the late Ariki of Takitnmu for bis life, but at bis death it is te revert to the rightful line, of which Tia, wife of Makea Daniela, is the present representative.