TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Heavy showers. Country looking better. Tho Hia Ora is at the Wharf. Anniversary Regatta next Friday. Highway robbery near Coolgardie. S.s. Tasmania arrived from Sydney. Lord Glaegow Isave3 for England next month. Sensational robbery from the R.M.si Oceana at Melbourne. Half-holiday Conference at tho City Council rooms to-day. " The Queen of Coolgardia " again at tho Opera House to-night. Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonetic shorthand, is dead. ~ Tha Premier will meet the Governor ab Lyttelton before going on to Hobart. The Nupe (South African) natives are retreating before the Niger expedition. The Orakei block sub-division again came before the Native Lands Court today. A verdict of " justifiable homicide " has been returned in connection with the Opawa tragedy. A gig crew of ladies from Picton won the ladies' fours race at the Wellington Regatta. The Victoria Rifles " A " team won the rifle match for the Gordon- Challenge Shield on Saturday. Burns anniversary will be celebrated tonight by a concert and dance, at Masonic Hall, Karangahapo Road. The Windward, Mr Windsor's new 2*_« ratar yacht, won the Auckland yacht race for 30-footors in the harbour on Saturday. Sulphur ore, which comes chiefly from Tikitere, Rotorua, is now being exported by sailing veasolsfrom Auckland to Sydney. The new steamer Kia Ora was an object of much interest as she lay alongside the Quay-street Jetty to-day after her long sail from Glasgow. The woman Mrs Kate Donovan, who was taken to tho Hospital on Friday night, having swallowed match heads, is now out., of danger and is recovering. . " Bixby has given up learning to play cheap." " Too much for his mental calibre ?" *• No, he hurt his jaw trying to pronounce the names of the leading players." The Hou. A. J. Gould, Minister of Education for New South Wales, leaves tomorrow for Rotorua, and will probably go to Wellington via Lake Taupo and .tha Wanganui River. " Kia Ora,'"the name of Mr McGregor's new steamer, signifies in Maori "good health," or "may you live." It is a contraction of the expression "kia ora taton," which being interpreted means "may we live." Mr George Baird D'Aunet, ConsulGeneral tor France at Sydney, who arrived here from Sydney by the R.M.H. Alameda on Friday, went South today in order to visit the French Consul at Wellington. : His visit is mainly for pleasure. The wheat crops of tho Tauranga dis- ; tricb, small though they were in area, are reported as being excellent in quality and yield, being better than for some seasons past. Considering the present prices this must be highly gratifying to the growers, who are chiefly natives, by the way. Capt. E. A, D'Alberfcis, who visited Auckland recently, has forwarded to Mr Shillington, librarian of the Auckland Public Library, from Genoa, Italy, a copy of his work entitled ** Cruises in the Mediterranean in the Yacht Corsaro." The work is printed in Italian and is illustrated. It has been placed in the Grey collection. Sir Walter Buller returned to Auckland on Saturday evening from the Northern Wairoa, where he had gone on a visit to Tangiteroria, the old Wesleyan mission station, where hia fathor, the late Rev. Jas. Buller, laboured over a generation ago. The mission buildings are now in ruins; Sir Walter Bullor contemplates another trip to England. At Rotorua 13 Maoris were charged on Saturday, at the instance of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, with netting trout at the mouths of creeks running into the Lake. The defence rested on the Treaty of Waitangi, and on the clause reserving to the Maoris their rights to iish. Netting in the Lake was said to be an ancient custom, and it was stated that inanga or whitebait) have seriously suffered from the trout. Colonel Roberta, S.M., has reserved his decision till February 19th.