TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 248, 26 October 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Outward mail this week.

Affairs are now quiet at Taupo. Mararoa for Sydney this evening. Mariposa goes to 'Frisco on Saturday. Auckland Harbour Board met to-day. A railway horror is reported from New York. Nautical inquiry into the Aotea fire at Magistrate's Court to-morrow. * The English cricketers play their first Australian match to-morrow at Adelaide. The Court of Appeal has decided that Mr Ward's election to the Awarua seat is valid. Government steamer Tutanekai has arrived here from the Northern lighthouses. Mr Frank Trembath, an ex - councillor,' announces himself as a candidate for the Thames Mayoralty. The Premier told a deputation of Maoris yesterday that the Government proposes to abolish the native land courts. The Royal Oak of Hauraki goldmine has yielded over £3,000 for the month from between 10 and 11 tons of quartz. The geysers are active at present. at Wairakei and at the Spa, Taupo,. the " Crow's Nest " being particularly lively. The Auckland Hospital Board has thrown out the honorary medical staffs objection to the proposed children's wing at the Hospital. The R.M.S. Mariposa is again a treasureship this voyage. She is now on her way from Sydney to 'Frisco, via Auckland, with 275,000' sovereigns on board. Five thousand rainbow trout fry' have just been placed in the tributaries of the Utuhina stream, which Hows into Lake Rotorua, by Mr Dansey, of Rotorua. Mr R. W. Gallaugtier, the well-known provision merchant of Victoria-street West, announces that his special price list for the Christmas season can now be had on application. Our Awhitu correspondent records the death of Mrs Jas. S. Page, which took place on the 22nd inst., at her residence, Pollok. She leaves her husband and six of a family. Mr James Park, F.G.S., has presented to the Library a copy of his work on " Geology and Veins of the Hauraki Goldfields, New Zealand," accompanied by a set of coloured maps. Sergeant Ellison has been appointed to the charge of the Wanganui Police Station, and leaves on Thursday for his new station. He takes the place of Sergeant Cnllen^ promoted to be inspector. Miss E. G. Hunt, daughter of Mrs Thomas Hunt, of North Shore, and pupil of Mrs Caro, surgeon dentist, Napier, sue-. eessfully passed her final dental examination in Dunedin last week. The Mount Eden Bowling Club will open their green on Saturday, October 30th. They invite all bowlers to come and " kiss the kitty," and to enjoy the bowler's delight—a " toucher" every time. Mr C. C. Dacre has donated "Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion Derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy" by Alexander Keith, D.D., published (thirteenth edition) in 1835. Te Puna, the "prophet" Mahuki's follower, has been sentenced to one month's hard labour in Mount Eden Gaol for breaking windows at Te Kuiti on the night that he and Mahuki were arrested there. The celebrated Mount Morgan mine, in Queensland, has produced 1,631,9820z of gold, valued at £6,712,186, and paid dividends to the ■ amount of £4,400,000 since the company was formed in July, 1886. The engineering survey of the new road j from Ruato, on Lake Rotoiti, to Tarawera ! has been completed, and is 19 miles long. I Splendid views of Lakes Rotoiti, Tarawera, Okataina and Okareka are to be obtained from it. The Government intend opening up part of the Puhipuhi kauri forests, in the Whangarei district, and the Government steamer Tutanekai has landed a large quantity of railway sleepers at Whangarei for the extension of the line towards the bush. Yesterday Mr and Mrs Morrison, of the Royal Hotel, Thames, returned to AuckI land after a very pleasant trip to England. j Reports had been received some time ■ ago that Mr Morrison had died on the i trip, but these happily proved to be un- | founded. A full rehearsal of "Elijah" by the amalgamated Wesleyan choirs is advertised I for Wednesday night. As the orchestra j and soloists will be present a full at- : tendance is requested. Visitors will not be admitted. The New Zealand Glassware Company, of Wellington, notify by advertisement in I another column that they are prepared to ! purchase broken bottle and window glass j in any quantity, and also to appoint district agents for the collection thereof. "I wish to say that if you take the • statistics of our colony you will find that i from 1853 to 1895, which includes the ! latest returns I have, our little colony has 1 sent away gold, silver and other precious metals to the value of £64,775,629."—H0n. I Mr Seddon in a London speech. A Maori quarrel, which it is said nearly I ended in bloodshed, occurred at Te Whaiti, in the Urewera Country, lately, through a decision given there in a native case by two justices, and in consequence of the row ! a number of packhorses, bound into the I Tuhoe country with stores for Mr Turner, surveyor, were turned back. Amongst the passengers who arrived at Sydney lately by the s.s. Ovalau from I the Islands was Ratu Kadavu I^evu, grandj son of the late King Cacobau, of Fiji, arid himself the highest chief in Fiji. He is taking a pleasure trip through Melbourne ! and Hobart, and returns to Fiji via New ■ Zealand, Tonga and Samoa. i When Mahuki, the Maori prophet, was committed for trial at Te Awamutu, on Friday, for arson, he said li I have always been opposed to courts, to sale of land, and to the settlement of Europeans. I have also opposed the white race taking Maori women for wives." The "prophet" then called down blessing on the colony, on Europeans and Maoris and everyone at large. : Speaking at a recent meeting in London Mr Cecil Hartridge (managing director of the Hauraki mine) said : " As a director of the only under-capitalised New Zealand mine—(laughter)—l am not going to say anything more than this, that with a capital of £40,000 the shareholders have ! had over £200,000 worth of dividends in two : years." I A painful accident happened to Mr Sedgei wick, at Waiuku on Thursday last. He j was going for a ride, and the horse being • rather fresh reared up and came back on hard metal. Mr Sedgewick was con« j siderably bruised ana shaken. Dr. Clou'ston attended to his injuries. It will be fully a fortnight before he will be able to leave his bed. At Waiuku on Thursday evening last the members of the Waiuku socials con* eluded the season with a grand plain and fancy dress ball which was a thorough . \ success. There were about forty couples ; : present, also a number of spectators on the I stage. The music was supplied by Messrs _' Reed and Dans. The characters repre- '. sented were very numerous and some of the dresses rich. " ;