TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 152, 2 July 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Supreme Courb proceeding. The s.B. Anglian is in the Calliope Dock. Newton Pigeon and Canary Show opened today. Benefib Societies' Koyal Commission still sitting. Gup football matches at Epsom tomorrow. Pan Anglican Conference opened ab Lambeth. S.s. Star of Victoria arrived from Londoa via Sydney. Major Ropaba Wahawaha, the EaebCoaßb chief, is deud. Further parbiculara of the India .riots are cabled to-day. . The colonial Premiers were "dined " by Mr Chamberlain yesterday. A moating of the Queen's Stafcno Committee was held this afternoon. New Zealand v. New South Wales football match ab Sydney bo-morrowt A shilling dividend ie declared by fcha New Zealand Crown Mines Company. The artillery volunteers ab Napier'have useless guni and their drill is obsolete. A local mining: agent had a narrow escape from drowsing in the harbour last evening. The services of the Ohinemuri Riflaa and tho College Riflea, Auckland, have been accepted. Thieves are reported to have been busy lately stealing from houses in Upper Queen-street. The business of Bycroft and Co., millers, of Auckland, is being converted into a company in London. A leading legal firm in Wellington haa been appointed to represent the Hooley Trust in New Zaaland. Fond Mamma : Bobby, Bobby, whatever makes you so restless? Bobby: Having to keep still so much, I suppose. There is no " hero" in Shakespeare; even noble characters are very rare. For he draws men as he sees them. At the instance of tho Dunedin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a rabbiter was lined for keeping rabbits alivo after they had been caughb in a trap.; ' Aren'fe you jueb a little impatient, Dorothy ?' inquired the kindly nurse, wibh jusb a tinge of correction in her tone. • No, I'm Hob !' retorted Dorothy, promptly, I 'I'm a little she patient !' The Dunedin Harbour Board adopted the report of the works committee, recommending the calling for tenders for dredging the Victoria channel to depths of 49 and 22 feeb at low water. At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday tho licansea of tho Central Hotel, for permitting billiards to be played after closing hours, was fined £3 and coste and the conviction endorsed on the license. Discussion took place ab the Cifcy Council last evening on tho question of adding £100 to the Mayor's salary to cover feha city's Jubilee expenses. Ab the Mayor's request the motion was withdrawn. At the lecture concert ab the Newton Congregational Church laßb night, there was a large attendance. The Rev. F. Warner gave the lecture, the aubjecti being " The Christian Endeavour Movement." John Anderson, 42, quartermaster on board the R. M.s. Alameda, met his death, at Syduey last: week through falling down the forehold of the vessel, a distance of aboub 22 feat. When picked up ib was found that deceased's neck was broken, and life was extinct. The Suprome Courb ab Napier has bean three daya trying William Wilson and John Fitzgerald, two young men charged with the murder of a station mate named James Mclntoah, who was robbed, and received injuries from which he died. The ca?e is ospocfead to finish to-nighb. • Frederick W. Binns, builder, of Coromandel, a bankrupt, stated to the Official Assignee yesterday afternoon that tha reason for hia filing was losses on contracts and want of employment. His liabilities amounted to £186 lie, and his assets consisted of furniture valued at £20. A requisition signed by miners and residents on the Greab Barrier Island, praying to have the pigeongram service subsidised by the Government, was forwarded bo Wellington by Mr Parkin yeßterday. We are informed by Mr Parkin that) close upon thirty messages have been brought to town during the last few" weeks through his service. During tho month of May the receipts on the Auckland railway lino were £9,810 5s 7d, and the expenditure £7,954 16s 6d. On the Kaihu lino the receipts were £1,430 13a 2d, and the expenditure £384 os6d; on the Whangarei lino receipts £737 15s, expenditure £748 12s 9d, and on the Kawakawa lino revenue £165 18s 3d, expenditure £357 15* 4d. Afc the evangelistic service held in tha Alexandra - streets Primitive Methodisb Church last evening, there was a coed gathering. The Hey. Fredrick Boya delivered an address on "'The Fulness and Largeness of God's Love." Miss Bradbury rendered wish j?ood efiecb an appropriate Gospel song. Tonight will be an old Mobhodisb praise mooting. The following asaandmenbs to the dreoa regulations of the Mew Zealand Forces, 1895, are gazetted :—l. Pago 10 : Linos 10 and 11, delete from "the stripe" to " service," and Buba&ibute •' trousers as worn in tho Imperial service." 2. Tha pleats in front of the uniform jackeb (Norfolk jacket pattern) are to be sewn up. 3. Tho collar of tho jackeb is to ba extra stiffened with buckram. A number of new buildings are being erected in Auckland, and plans are in hand for a number more. In Ponsonby Road about £1,500 worth of buildings are going up, and Mr Hoffman is about to build a large music warehouse in , Queen-street, adjoining Mr Cooper's, saddler. A warehouse is aboub to be erected on the harbour reclamation, and a number of private residences ara going up in various streets. News from Sydney abates that tha American clipper ship Conqueror, which haa arrived there from New York, re» ported having encountered several terrific gales, and had two fatalities—one oa the Ist ult.. when a boy was swept! over ab night and nob saon after, and again Dine days later, when Mr James Mulcoy, the chief officer, was washed over and drowned, the captain also being severely injured by the same 6ea. Sotno sails wera lost and damage done to deck fittings. The fortnightly meeting of the Obahuha Mutual Improvement Society held on Monday evening was devoted to impromptu speeches. The speakers, who drew their subjects by lob, wero Miss Luke, Canon Gould, Messrs W. P. Hunter, Sturges, Whitmore, Bay, Luke, McDonald, Lawrence, Sinclair, Towneend and tha Chairman, Mr ,R. Dick. Considerable regret was expressed ab tho resignation of cho Secretary,. Mr C. R. McDonald, who ia leaving Otahuhu for Dargaville. Me Oliver Sinclair was elected to fill hia place.