TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 258, 6 November 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Races at Ellerslie. Cricket and rowing to-day. Cycling road race this afternoon. S.s. Te Anau went South to-day. Excursions to Rangitoto Island to-day. Crackers caused two "incipient" fires last night.

Exciting chase after an escaped prisoner at Lyttelton. '

■ Some wreckage has heen found at Puygegur Point, Preservation Inlet. Mr Holland, M.H.R., says the Auckland police barracks are a disgrace to the city.

St. George's and West End Rowing Clubs' trial fours were being rowed this afternoon. • •

Mr Balfour says the British Government do not intend to add to their Indian responsibilities.

To-morrow the annual collections in aid of the country ;clergy fund will be made in the Anglican churches. The Native Land Laws Act Amendment Bill has been read a second time in the House of Representatives. Professor N. B. Smith, the horse educator, gives his first exhibition in the Agricultural Hall this evening. ° The children will sing their anniversary hymns in the Newton Congregational Church at the service to-morrow.

The Land Purchase Board decided not to recommend the purchase of the Matakiwi estate (Holmes Bros.) at Masterton.

Mr E.; Crouch and' Miss Sorley.Secretary of the Y. W.C. A., will give addresses at the Central Mission services to-morrow even-

ing. • .-■■.. ';U To-morrow ■-'• evening at St. Benedicts, Newton, .the Very-Rev. Father Gihaty, S.M., of Christchurch, willopen a week's mission. '.!•'

The barque Nor'-wester has arrived at Dunedin from • Maiden Island with the crew of the wrecked American ship Commodore.

Brigadier Hoskin will conduct special meetings in the Albert-street Barracks tomorrow morning, and at Newton Barracks in the afternoon.

The death is announced of Huperio, one of the oldest Maori chiefs in the Whangaroa district in the North. A tangi is now proceeding over his remains. A number of new half-rater yachts will be out in the harbour this season. Two new half-raters have just been built by W. Logan and Walter Bailey.John Fraebridge attempted to commit suicide at Waitati yesterday, by cutting his throat with a razor. He was taken' to the hospital, and will probably recover. Bonfires were blazing all round the suburbs last night in celebration of Gunpowder Plot, and the lighting of crackers and squibs afforded great, delight to the juveniles. * , The Finance and Legal Committee of the Auckland Harbour Board has resolved to recommend the Board to lease the Fish Market to Mr F. Williams in terms of his application. - A sale of Crown lands was held yesterday at the Lands Office, Customs-street. A one-acre lot in the township of Cambridge East waa sold for £35, being £15 in advance of the upset price. . A public meeting^ will be held in the Devonport Forester' Hall, Monday evening, when the workings of the Auckland Cooperative Building Society will be explained, andf&pplication for. shares'in the 'SocietywiH".he w ;recejy,e.4, rii , ,'",.,•; ~ A Napiet paperr.states, that, it having been asserted in-certain' <parters thafclha Premier's statement at Home that" the Maoris who fpjgp.dj p^rj^the, 2s&se&< land contingent Avere rangatiras and the descendants of rangatira's was not true, it is the intention of the natives to prepare a document in which the genealogy of each of the men will be fully set forth, and present it to the Government.

The Guy Fawkes' celebrations were responsible for two incipient fires last night.. A. lighted squib fell on the roof of Sharland and Co.'s warehouse in Coburg-street, but the fire was put out by MrJones, who lives next door. A similar occurrence took place on the roof of a house in Upper Nelsonstreet, occupied by Mr Cronin, and owned by Mrs Revell. The Fire Brigade turned out and the fire was quickly extinguished. The damage in each case was trifling. Sale unredeemed pledges by Arthur and Gorrie on Monday next. Our stock of cotton, silk and wool, and woollen dress fabrics is very large, well assorted, and marked at cheap rates.—Smith and Caughey, dress merchants.—(Advt.) Picanniny biscuits are specially made for children and invalids by J. Bycroft and Co. Limited, sold in air tight tins. "Ask for them."—(Advt.)