TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Warships shelliDg Greeks. The Cretan trouble is c till, very serioni. Waitemata County Council m»t to-day. The Courb of Appeal meebe on April Women's National Council is sbill sitting ab Chrißtchurch. A blockade of; Greek ports by tbe Blued fleets is imminent. The Women's National Conncil wants to disarm the nations. A Portugese claiming to be the Messiah has caused a serious rising in Brazil. Mrs S. E. Hundre has been appointed official visitor of the Auckland asylirm, A house v/ibliout a woman is like a body without a soul.—Montenegrin proverb. Friday, Saturday and Monday, tho 16th, 17th a»d 19cb, are gazetted public holidays. A Boer lieubenanb in tho Transvaal has been suspended for slandering Queen Victoria. The recenbly announced changes of medical superintendents of asylums are gazetted. f , A despatch containing amended regulations for preventing collisions at eea ia gazetted. ?Wl Prison' reform was 'discussed by tho National Council of Women yesterday afternoon. . < A telephone office has been opened ab Henderson, the hours of attendance being 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The European warships have reßtrmed* tho bocnbardruenb of the Greeks near Fort Izzodin, in Crete. Foreign warships shelled a Christian position in Crete, and enabled Turks fco reoccupy the town. Mr S. L. Rimmer lectured in the Newmarket) Hall last*evening on- "Tho Second Coming of Christ." \ Craddock, the tnJßSung. paymaster from H.M.3. Kaboombß, hasYlSfeah arrested in Melbourne on his honeymoon. There are now. said to bs aboat fiftyfour lady commercial travellers "on the road," repre?enti% London firms. Jewish convicts airo now sent bo Parkhursb prison, lalfc of Wight, where a synagogue has been provided for tbeir use. Tho Auckland Ch'rV&antbemnm Society's annual show ie bo ba hefd in eho Drill Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. Mr R. L. Stanford, S.M., ia gazetted Commissioner of the Land Court, and Mr «J. Brooking, of Gioborne, eub-Cenamia-sioner. The Chinese condemn criminals to death by preventing sleep. Sufferers last from', twelve to twenty dayu, when death comes bo their relief. At tho Wellington Harbour Board, yesterday, a resolution that the engineer report as to tho most suitable site, and ub to the cosb of a dock, was Carried. An English mail consisting of 35 bags arrives hero from Sydney by the s.s. Anglian next Monday. The mail bears London date February 26th. A Wurteinburg parish priesb fc having collected 9000 pounds of postage stamps in eighteen years, has sold the lob for £1000 and given tho money to charity. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society propose to urge tho Government to adopt maans of destroying stoats and weasels in districts nob infected by rabbits. The new steam leviathan, the Oceanic, now being builb ab Belfast for Isnaay, Imrie and Go., will'be able to steam' 23|4QQknots at 12 knots per liour without recoaftng. Field Marshall Lord Roberta, whom Kipling has immortalised &s " Little Bobs," has written an importaub two volume work called " Forty-one Years in India.'' There is bub one monarch of Europo who can show tho scar of a wound received in war. Ib ia King Humbert, who received a , severe sabre cue ab Che battle of Custozza. During his entire career, Sbradivariua made from 6,000 to 7,000 violins. Few of these were sold for more than £5 during bis life. Now aotns of them command £2,000 each, A Scotch member of Parliament has jusb been brought to book by hia constituents for playing golf or conducting golf exercises on Sunday while away trom home. ' _ R. L. Stevenfcon, Professor Henry Drummond and "lan Maclaren " wero classmates ab the Edinburgh University, and nob one of them won distinction aßa student. The average cosfe of men-of-war in Nelson's time was only £66,000 for a largo 100 tcun ship. The Magnificent, one of the latent and finest in the Bribish navy, cost £900,000. The anniversary of bhe coronation of the young King ot Tonga was celebrated ab Nukualofa on the 17th ulb. by a regatta and sport?, besides a series of lokulakas, or native daneof. More than thirty members of the Chicago bar are negroes. The firsb negro to be admitted to the bar in the State of Illinois was Lloyd G. Wheeler, who was admitted in 1869. Messrs 11. Burrow and Co., bonso and estate agents, reporb ha vine sold yesterday (in conjunction with Mr Thos. F. Cahill) Mr Loningham's 14-roomed brick residence, situate in Alfred-street, Albert Park, to Dra. McDowell and Somerville. A bankruptcy case is reported from Tonga, that of Mr A. E. Cooke, whaler, of Haapai. Mr Cooke, who filed his schedule in the Deputy - Commissioner's Coqrlj, attribute his insolvency to the scarcity of whales during the past few seasons. Yesterday afternoon the opening meeting of the Work and Help Society of ladies (Helping Hand Mission) was hold in bhe social hall of the V.M.C.A. Rooms, and work was commenced ab making garments for those who will be in need of them during the coming winter. The Wellington City Council last night reversed its former decision, and has now ogreed to oilow male teachers of Rwimming to give leesona in the public baths during the hours allotted bo female bathers, provided they have twelve pupils and the woman do nob offer nny objection. A harvest thanksgiving service was bold nt bhe old nativo mission station at To Kopua.^ion the Waipa River, near Pirongia, recently, when tho new American organ, an f.nstrumont obtanied in Auckland by (he Rev. W. Gicbos recently, was opened for the first M'rao, Mr Blackmail, school teacher ab Otorohanga, acting as organist. The Christchurch Drainage Board decided to revoke the permit to the Syrienhwm Borough Council ts connect their nightsoil depot with tho sewers, and ordered the eugineer bo cub tha connectiou with the sower after seven days. The engineer of tho pumpiner station stated that ashes and other solid matter was gebting into the pumps and injuring thorn. /