TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 26 January 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

More Regatta entries. Tasmania went South to-day. S.s. Pukaki arrived from Fiji. Board of Education met to-day. Steamer Tokomaru due from London. Anglian from the South this afternoon. , The Premier left Dunedin to-day for tha Bluff and Hobarb.

Meeting of Tailoresses' Union at A.M.P, buildings to-morrow evening. Captain John Nearing lefb for Wellington by tbe s.s. Takapuna yesterday. . The A.N.A. Gre.it Wheel Race for £500, firsb prize £350, is run at Melbourne to-day. Te Mare, the crater on the Tongariro range, is again active, and ejecting smoka and ashes. .

This day twelve years ago General Gordon was killed at Khartoum by the Mahdi's Soudanese.

The young man who is anxious to lay tha world at the feeb of the girl he adores, three months after be marries her isn't. willing even to lay the carpet. ' Captain Babob, Marine Superintendent of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's vessels, arrives from Wellington this afternoon by the s.s. Anglian. A prolonged earthquake was felt ab Taupo yesterday afternoon, preceded by a rumbling. This probably haa some connection with the eruption of Te Mare.

As soon as Mr Seddon returns from Australia, Mr Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, will pay a visit to Auckland id company with the Hon. A. J. Cadman. Excursionists from Auckland by train on Friday aro allowed to book to Hamilton as well aa other stations. The attraction ab Hamilton is the amateur athletic sports.

" Ib is shameful that the states have to legislate aboub women's theatre hats." " Why 2" " Well, it shows how little influence, individual men hare wibh their wives."

The Native Land Court, sitting in Auckland, baa given the natives interested in the Orakei block an extension of time, in order to allow them to settle the smaller divisions of the block amongst themselves; Miss Modern—'l have brought this book back. Mamma says it is not fit for me to read.' Librarian—'l think your mother must be mistaken.' Miss Modern—'Oh, no, ehe isn't! I've read it all through.'

The following further entries have been made for the Auckland Regatta on Friday : —Scow race: Pukapuka. Trading cutters : Harvest Home aad Henry. Cruisers' race: Yum Yum. Yachts (Class D): Huia.

" A great many yeare ago, when I was a little girl—" began Miss Candide. *' You mean a number of weeks ago, don't you ?" said Softly. It was no wonder she said Mr Softly was real nice when somebody elsecalled him stupid. The ordinary meeting of the Newton Borough Council was held last evening, tha Mayor, Mr J. W. Shackelford, presiding.' No business of importance was done. Tha tarring and sanding of certain streets was referred te the Streets Committee.

One of tbe duties of the Governmenb steamer Hinemoa will be to protect the eeala on the Auckland and other outlyingislands to the sonth of New Zealand against the visits of sealers from outside the colony who visit the island to kill the seals for tha sake of their oil.

Tbe chase-hooped Armstrong gun of fiva tons which .was recently returned hero frdm England has now been placed in Taoßitioff-iagitin at*the"'Ba_kidH,"'l-tb in tha Auckland Harbour, and another has been dismopated ready to ship to England, to ba sin-ila.lJ'treated. " • The' ": WaMio Airgds" has tha! following :—" A gentleman a ieV days; ago is reported to have offered tho native, aft Galatea £3,000 if they«would allow him _o prospect for gold in the Urewei_ Country, but they declined. He gave them a present! of £100 when leaving." At a meeting of bhe Auckland Regatta Committee last evonibg a deputation asked tbab a raco for half-decked keel or centreboard yachts, 22_b overnlland under, should be placed on the regatba programme. Tha matter will be considered at the final meeting of the Committee to-morrow evening.

At the Native Land Court in Auckland yesterday, the application to be included in" the ownership of the Opanake No. 1 block, Northern Wairoa, on behalf of Ngatiwhatua, Te Taou, Ngatirango, and Te Uriohau, was opened, and evidence waa taken as to the title cf the block; Tha case for the applicants is now in the hands of a native agent, Rem ana.