TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

German Emperor's birthdayTasmania gone South. Anglian leffe for Sydney. Regatta Committee meats to-nigbb. Bead the new story in to ni^ht'a Star. Auckland Tailoresses' Union meets to. niplit: Emparor William 11. of Germany is 33 years of age to-day. The cinematographs will ba exhibited to* night at the City Hall. Mr T. S. Morpeth, the well-known r* ceiring agent on the wharf, is dead. The Xative Land Conrb in Auckland is still examining into the Opanake case. Major Soniraerville, of the New Zealand Rifle Association, arrives here to-day from, Wanganui. News from Lake Taupo states that trout are plentiful in Che lake and in all streams round about. The Cambridge Borough Council has decided to adhere to Wednesday aa the weekly half-holiday. The Prohibition League, expended £200 during tha past year, including cost of licensing elections. Mi9B Bessie Doyle, the clever violinist, who visited Auckland three years ago, ia said to ba now married. The Auckland Museum is closed for the resb of the' week for cleaning and rearrangement of specimens. Yesterday a rich specimen of golden stona valued ab £300 was eecurad in Scotty'a Hanraki mine, Coromandel. "In the Hands of the Enemy" is the title of a new serial'story which commences on the sixth page of to«ni«hb's jesoe. A boy named William O'Brien fell into the Auckland Dock lasfr evening and was seriously injured about the head. He was taken to the district hospital for treatment. He died this morning.

Tho Board of Education yesterday afternoon decided to aceepb a tender of £125 for the Board's endowment ab Hobsonville containing six acres of land and an old bouse.1 V V' "

The Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club has decided to send Mr E. Reynolds to represent the Club at the Amateur Cycling Championship to be held in Wellington on February 24th and 27th,

Mr Howard Chambers returned here from Fiji by the a.s. Pufraki yesterday. He goes South to join a concerto company, but will return to Auckland to take part ih the comic opera " Princess Ida," to take place this year. Master Arthur Field, a pupil ab the Wellington College, has arrived here from Wellington overland, having ridden through the island, via Rotorua, on hia bicycle. He will cycle back to Wellington by way of Napier. " Italy," aaid Jinks, " is washed by the waters of the Mediterranean." "Humph !" said Barlow. "What a poor laundress the Mediterranean would make?" " It makes one mistake," said Jiuks. "It depends too much on bluing."

At the Police Courb on Saturday hub, before Mr Northcroft, S.M., Ernest Neala; appeared in answer to a charge of wife desertion. It turned out that there had been a mistake, a»d the case was withdrawn ami the charge struck out.

First Humorist (gloomily): "My wife says ehe can't see anything fanny in half the things 1 write." Second Humorist: " Don't; be diecouraged, old boy. If she thinks half of them are funny ahe does better than most of ,üb.'»> ■ :■ V ;! ~ /

Those interested in primary sdncafcioo will like tb'ltpo*#v{Bat'- the very latest reports published on it are in onr "Kreo Public Library, the^latesfc official publications on tbia 'subject (relative to Scotland' and Switzerland) having been presented this month by Dr. Lai9hley.

The second polo match for Dr. Sharman'a cup was played at Potter's Paddock between the " A " and •' C " teams of the Polo Club. The game was won by the •' C " team by seven goals to three, the winning team being Messrs Hanna, Elliotts, H. Wynyard, and Gordon. Next Saturday the final for the Cup will be played. The Auckland Crown Lands Board yea« tarday withdrew from selection the block of 2,475 acres in East Taupo notified as open for selection. This ia said to be the block Mr J. C. Firth wished to lease in connection with his Enka Falls electricity scheme. The Government propose making the block a reserve in connection with tha Falls.

Yesterday morning a requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the late Bishop Luck was held in the Church of the Asaamptioo, Onehunga, Bishop Lenih&n beioc the celebrant. A baodeoma memorial tablet was unveiled After mass, bearing an appropriate inscription in. memory of the late Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.

During the presenb year there will he two eclipses of the sun, one on Tuesday next:, February 2nd, and the other on July 29th. Each will bo an annular eclipee» which is an eclipse of the sun in which * portion of its surface will be visible in the form of a ring surrounding the dark body of the moon. About nine-tentha of the sun's disc will be hidden at 6.2 a.m. oa Taeid&y. The eclipse bagiae at 4.4 a.m. and ends ab 7.6 a.m.