TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 77, 3 April 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Gbeece bo be blockaded. i S.s. Flora went South to-day. ! Lasb nighb of " Lights o' London." Parliamentary sesß.on next week. Turkey and Greece on the poinb of war. Austrian troops have bean landed in A free public library is to be established in Dunedin. Queen's diamond iubilee medals are being struck. " Tommy Atkins " ab the Opera House on Monday night. H.M.s. Lizard comeß up here thortly from Wellington. Sbeamer Mamari ia due here from London direcb to-morrow. All the Powers an now resolved on the blockage of Crete. S.s. Tasmania arrives here from bhe South to-morrow morning. Tiie Women's National Council hascloaed its session at Christchurch. H.M.s. Royalist is undergoing a thorough overhaul in the Calliope Dock. Cargo steamer Hawke's Bay, from London, left for Napier tbis morning. Butler was to have left San Francisco for Auckland by the Mariposa on Thursday. The Auckland Chrysanthemum Show opening has been postponed till April 13tb. The Rev. Thomas W. Newbold will speak ab the Sunday evening service iv the City Hall. Mr Arch. Wallace, the English tenor, appears ab Mr Dixs " Pops " on Monday next. The North Shore Sailing Club's annual picnic took place this afternoon at Kohituarama. A man, whose name is unknown, was found dead at Ormond's Plough Camp, Wanstead. Sir John Hall and Lady Hall lefb Weiliogton for London yesterday afternoon by the steamer Gothic. The Government have granted £250 to the Waitemata County Council for. the tluia-Wust Coast Road. Five hundred tons of butter and cheese were shipped from Wellington to London by the s.s. Gothic yesterday. Tho Women's National Council at Christchurch has decided that domestic servants should be given a legal half-holiday. Mr Ben Tillect is sightseeing at Rotorua. ab present. He tang at Miss Celia Dam pier's concert thero on Thursday evening. The Waitemata County Council has decided that the rates to be struck at nexb meeting be _he same as those in force for the pa.t year. Captain T. Broun, F.E.S., Governmenb Entomologist, will deliver a lecture to the Waikomiti Fruitgrowers' Association on April 7ch, at 7.30 p.m. The lirsfe number of the "New Zealand Cyclist," a weekly journal entirely devoted to cycling, was ie sued from bhe "Lyttelton Times" Office yesterday. Ab the next meeting of tbe Rotorua Town Board the question of a museum for Rotorua, in which many valuable curios might bo preserved, is to be considered. A road is being surveyed from Rnato, a native settlement on Lake Rotoiti, to connect with the old Wairoa road, near the once famous Tikitapu Bush, on the way to ; Lake Tarawera.. .._.-'...-- .-. _. -..;_.».'- An inquest was arranged by the District Coroner to take p!-iee to-day ab the residenco of Mra Cummerford, Upper Queon street, on the body of an infaati child which had boen boarded out. Ab the Waitemata County Council meeting yesterday afternoon a complaint was received as to the state of the Waimauku-Tuup'.ki P.oad near Helensvilla, and waa referred to the engineer. The Glenvar Wine Company have jusb succeeded in adding over 4,000 gallons to- their prosenb stock of wines. The demand thus created for grapes ba3 proved ■a veritable Loon Go the surrounding settlers. Tne Hon. Mr Cadman, when ab Rotorua lately, expressed himself favourably in regard to tho construction of extra cooling tanks in connection with the women's swimming bath.and the Blue Bath at the ' Rotorua Sanatorium. An inquest was held by Dr. Philson, coroner, yesterday at the Shamrock Hotel '[ on the body of a child named Henry. ' The , j evidence of Dr. Hooper showed thab the child was prematurely born, and a verdict , was returned accordingly. On Monday naxS the practice for the . Queen's Birthday gathering will be held in . the Grafton Road Wesley an schoolroom, instead of St. Sepulchre's, as previously , announced. The practice ab St. John's Wesleyan schoolroom will ba held on Tuesday. A sailor on the American barque Porbland Lloyds, namad Wm. Henry. Steed, who t was mentioned in tho Police Courb this week as having been robbod the other night, foil over the Lower Hobson-fj.reeb Bridge yesterday afternoon, broke some of his ribs, and was taken to the Hospital for treatment. Steps are being taken by a strong committee /in Napier to collect for the tem- _ norary protection of lands subject to the floods in the Ahuriri Plains, and to promote legislation giving power for the | union of all local bodies interested in carrying out a comprehensive scheme of river conservation. A party of natives from Tauranga arrived at tho Thames yesterday to take parb in the tanqi which is still going on in connection with the death of the late Maori chief Taipari. Tbe visitors have a native brass band with Lhom, and were received at i, Parawai with a powhiri, or song of welcome, c by tbe local natives. *J At tbe meeting of the.Waitemata County - Council yesterday afternoon, it was stated 9 that the Maoris residing at Makarau had !■ taken oub the native dog collars issued by ' order of Mahuta, the Maori "King," and - had refused to take them from the County s '_ Registrar. It was decided to proceed against the natives who failed to register ~ thoir dogs in accordance with the Act. The Government Survey Department - have completed the purvey of the block of V land on the shores of Lake Rotorua on which the celebrated Hamurana cold spring is - | situated, and have cut out the area of 40 .'" j acres awarded to tho Government by the r, j Native Land Court, besides marking off ' | the native burial grounds. Hamurana is a ~ r ' favourite resort for tourists, the scenery on iy j the top of the creek being very pretty.