TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 254, 2 November 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cup to-day. S.s. Anglian gone to Sydney. Sangitoto track to be opened to-morrow. Two lives lost by drowning at Brisbane. Murder and suicide.reported from Brisbane. . : . Ninety-one Maoris sent to gaol in Taranaki. Barque Clan MacLeod arrived from New York. Bazaar in the Papakura Public Hall to-morrow. 1 Intense heat and snow are reported in New South Wales. > • Steamer Star of England arrived from London via Australia, R.M.s. Moana will arrive here from San Francisco on Thursday. Auckland College and Grammar School sports in the Domain to-day. Another pass on the Indian frontier lias been captured by the British. Yesterday: was the anniversary of the founding of Hawke's Bay in 1858. Cricket match between Englishmen and South Australians ended in a draw. Kinematograph and phonograph entertainment in the Opera House to-night. An, illicit whisky still has been discovered at Puhipuhi, near Whangarei. Mr D. Sutherland has declined to stand lor Mayor of Onehunga for a fourth term. La 1 erouse cable office reports that all direct lines with South Australia are interrupted. A Norwegian relief expedition is going out after Andree and his North Pole balloon. To-day is the anniversary of the day on which India was added to the British Empire in 1858. The New Caledonia cable is interrupted. The fault is supposed to be sixty miles from Bundaberg. A large quantity of mining machinery arrived here by.the s.s. Star of England from London last evening. Tho Arawa Maoris at Kotorua are sending through the Government a handsome illuminated Jubilee address to Q,ueen Victoria. Major Sommerville and the Wanganui representatives of the contingent and Bisley team were entertained at a smoke concert on Saturday night. A man named Monkhouse was picked up on the Rimutaka Road in Wellington yesterday, with his throat cut. ~ He was brought to town and taken to the hospital. At a large Maori meeting held at Paeroa it was decided to send a delegate to Wellington on native affairs, £10 was voted by the tribes towards the expenses of the delegate. Mr Thomas White, of Wayby, Kaipara, met with an. accident' several days ago through a fall from his horse. He was bruised very severely, and is now under medical care. The body of a man named Samuel Henderson, an inland farmer, was found in the Wanganui River on Sunday. Henderson left an hotel at midnight on the ] 9th instant, after securing a change of clothes. In connection with the Maori ploughmen troubles in Taranaki, it may be mentioned that to-morrow will be the anniversary of the day in which Te, Whiti, Tohu and Hiroki were arrested at Parihaka in 1881. Amusing proceedings? took place at the New Plymouth Courtroom yesterday, Wllcn :™f' -JKaon -political ploughmen" were dealt with. The natives ma?chedin procession m charge \>f- ~ —j^ow^vy _t«... the music of fifes, and numerous hak'as were danced. The natives of St. Joseph River, New Guinea, lately assumed a hostile attitude, ' and threatened to kill the white men. A party of sailors landed from the Government steamer, Merrie England, and destroyed the village and captured anumber of prisioners. The' general impression is that New Guinea*as agoldfield isa failure. Trans-, portation is too difficult, and Government assistance is badly wanted. Fifty miners at Samarai signify their intention to return to Mambare next March if a horse track is opened. A special Committee meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board is to be held this evening to consider as to what steps should be taken to counteract the proposal to substitute Wellington for Auckland as the port of arrival and departure of Pacific mail boats and Island steamers. The annual competitions in connection with Professor Carrollo's athletic classes were resumed at the V.M.C.A. Rooms last night. W. Fitzsimmons won the middle-weight wrestling competition, and P. Smith Avon the contest for novices for all-round gymnastics. Mr F. W. Edwards was judge. A boy named George Greay, the younger . son of Mr Charles Greay_, of Wayby. had his hand severely cut with an axe while his father Avas stumping some of his ground the other day. The axe very nearly severed the thumb from the hand. The,boy.Avas taken to Dr. Shoesmith, Avho dressed the wound. ' At a meeting of the Public Works Committee of the Wellington City Council last night a resolution Avas carried affirming the desirableness of Avidening Willisstreet, one 'of the. principal thoroughfares of the city. The. Mayor said the "scheme Avas almost impossible, OAving to the financial difficulties in the way. The steamer Kiripaka, Avell-known in Auckland, had a narrow.-escape Avhile crossing the Mokau Bar, West Coast, last Saturday. A heavy sea broke on board, stove iii the bridge, and washed a man overboard. Captain Jonas threw him a line and he Avas hauled on board again. A large quantity of Avater got beloAV, and at one time there Avere tAVO feet of water in the stoke-hole. Mr S. Percy Smith, the surveyor-general, who is one of the best authorities in NeAV Zealand on Maori names, says that the correct name of Lake Manapouri is " Manawa-popore " ('■ anxious heart "), and that Lake Hauroto is correctly " Hauroko" (the Southern equivalent of "Haurongo "), which means " the Avind of fame" or the " Avind which brings tidings." The natives AA rho have .been imprisoned for ploughing up settlers' land in Taranaki made not the least resistance, all the prisoners seeming quite Avilling to act the part of Avhat they consider themselves—martyrs. They state that ploughing will be continued in different parts of the district till November 18th, the date of the Parihaka meeting, so.there is every likelihood of still further arrests being made. The proprietors of Condy's Fluid notify that they find it necessary to remove to more extensive premises. Communications should in future be addressed to : Condy's Fluid Works, 65, Gosnell Road, London, E.C.