TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 20 February 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fine weather. Carl Hertz ab the Opera House to-night. Outward' Frisco mail left this afternoon. Zoalandia arrivod ab daylight from Sydney. ' Yacht Club picnic this afternoon and evening. Splendid shooting made at the N.Z.R.A. Meeting. Another ladies' match ab tha rifla meeting to-day. The Cretan question is still a source of uneasiness. Rifle meeting concludes ab Devonporb this afternoon. Thia afternoon the c.a. Flora left for the usual Soubhern ports. Union eteamar Upolu left for Rarobonga and Tahiti last nigbt. The rumour that Dr. H&ines is to remain in England is incorrrr".. Tha cruiser Km. I.a arrivod in port from Akaroa laso cv. z. Fishing excursion I the Newmarket Club in the Gulf thia .i.ornoon. Colonial Sugar Refining Company's steamer Fiona for Sydney to-night. The Northern steamer Wakabare lefb oa a harbour excursion this afternoon. Notice has been given of 200 amendments to the English Education BUI. During nine days of this month a record of 7-24 inches of rain fell at Rotorua. The Auckland Builders' Association hold a picnic on March 13th at Lake Takapana. A children's swimming carnival will be held in the Albert street) baths on March lßti. .'f Up bo the close of yesterday* shoobing seven possibles had been made ab the Rifle Meeting. The various prizes won during the course of the Rifle Meeting are bo be distributed tbia evening. The Orlando, flagship of the Australian Squadron, is expected ab this port aboub ' the 26th insb. A London mail of January 7th, via Brindiai, came to band by the Zealandia this morning. Officers were elected last evening in connection with bhe recently formed Daffodil and Bulb Club. Rear-Admiral Bridge returned boDunedin from the Lakes last night, and left in the Wallaroo bo-day. Crickeb cup matches resumed in the Domain this afternoon after an interval of some Saturdays. ,■ The Narrow Neck Rifla Range ha* Droved more satisfactory than the N.Z.R.A. marksmen expected. The time table of classes in connection with Mr T. Harle Giles' business college it pnblisbed in this issue. Bullion from the Waihi mine valued at £9.840 was shipped from Wellington for London by the K»ikoura yesterday, . Tho'last matches of the first round of the Auckland tennis championship were played on the various lawns this afternoon. To-morrow evening, ab the AlexandraBfcreeb Primitive Methodist Church, there will be a collection in aid of the Indian famine. Up to bo-day seven "highesb possible" scores have been obtained on the Narrow Neck range by the representative riflemen this week. A private school has been opened opposite fche Fonsoaby roßorvoir by the Misses Taylor. The young ladies are experienced in tuition. & % * Ab the annual meeting of bhe New Zealand Rifle Association last night ib was unanimously decided bo hold the next meeting abOamaru. To-morrow evening, in the Devonporfe Presbyterian Church, Rev. R. Ferguson will deliver his monthly lecture, subject, " Baal and Baalbek." Tho Davonporb School Committee aba meeting last night voted for Messrs Mair, Reed and Hobbs for the election of members of thn Board of Education. Mra George Wilson, who is leaving Thames for Wellington, was presented at St. George's Hall aba Bocinl evening on Wednesday with a handsome silver card case. The Union Company's valuable Cup for the higheeb aggregate Bcorer in the Auckland, Wellington and Chrisbchurcb matches has been woo by A. Ballinger, of Welling. bon. . We draw the attention of farmer* and coanbry settlers to a trial of Flying Dutchman donble furrow plough ab Mr Wylie's farm, Pukekohe, on Wednesday afternoon nexti The case againsh Hermann and obhere, which has been going on ab Wellington during tho weok, has progressed bo far as the dismissal of the parb of ib relating to Dr. Bakewell. During thia week'a Rifle Championship Meeting afc the North Shore, aboab 30,000 Marbini. Henry bullets ware fired, nearly bhe whole of them falling into the sea in Rangitioto Channel. The donation given yesterday by the Colonial Ammunition Cotnany, Auckland, to fcho..funds cf bhe New Zealand Rifle Association is £25, nob £35, as nupprinbed in last evening's issue. Tho.Upper PiU and Edwin-streob Primitive Methodist Sutsday-school will celebrate their anniversary to-morrow. The preachers are bhe Revs. Smith, R. Raine and G. H a Mann. On T.ueadi-.v Che annual tea'will be held. ■ Ab the inqueeb yesterday bo inquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of Frederick O. Knighb, John James Knight, Mrs Braid, fruiterer, and Dr. Wine envo evidence. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." Tho Auckland Builders' Association, ab a meeting recently, considered the request of tho' bricklayers for a further rise of la per day (from 11s to 12s), and decided that in the interest)) of all concerned it was best not at present to accede to the request Up to today Chiof Petty Officer O. William?, of Wellington, had won three matches (the llawko's Bay, Chriitchurch and Grand Aggregate Matches) *fc this week's Rifle Chatis'pionship Meeting at the North Shore, and prizes in money totalling £23. VYithbub reckoning on the Champion Belt filial, Private A. Baliinger, of Wellington (rifle champion of the colony in 1893), has won one match the Nelson} at the N.Z.R. A. meeting this week, while his brother, W. H. Ballinger (another exchampion) won the Ladies' Match. Sale unredeemed pledges by E*atD aod Arthur on Monday next.