TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 259, 8 November 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Holiday to-morrow. Destructive fire at Paeroa. Races at Ellerslie to-morrow. . Mararoa arrived from Sydney. Excursions to Rangitoto to-morrow. Wesleyan Ministers arrived from Australia.

Steamer Waihora arrived frem the South.

Temperance Gala in the Domain tomorrow.

Auckland Agricultural Show openS'On Friday next. Rumours of war between Spain and the United States. ■■ .

An unsuccessful attempt has been made to kill the President of Brazil. The sum of £5,393 was put through the totalisator at the Ellerslie races on Saturday.

Australasian "Wesleyan Methodist Church conference opens here on Wednesday.

Steamer Mararoa made the trip from Sydney to Auckland in the fast time of 3 days 14 hours.

Forty-four Wesleyan. ministers.were passengers across to Auckland 'frojn Sydney by the s.s Mararoa. ,":f>

To-morrow the jubilee of the landing of the military pensioners in .1847 will be celebrated at Ho wick. . •

Rangitoto Island was visited by a considerable number of Aucklanders on Saturday and yesterday. Supreme Court Criminal! Sessions open in Auckland on Monday, the 22nd inst., before Mr Justice Gonolly. : The want of a water supply was respon- ". sible for the destructive spread of the fire at Paeroa yesterday morning. TheM.U. Oddfellows'are holding their premier picnic at St. Helier's Bay, on Saturday, February 26th, 1898. Two hundred and twelve passengers landed here yesterday morning from the steamer Mararoa, from Sydney. " ■" In the Englishmen's cricket match with.Victoria, the colonialshad six wickets down for 273 runs on Saturday afternoon. ' * W. T. Wynyard, of the North Shore; Cricket Club, scored the first "century" of the season at cricket.on Saturday. An art critic, describing a collection of bric-a-brac, said, "The visitor's eye will be struck on entering the room with a porcelain umbrella." One of the heaviest south-west gales experienced for years, attended by ■ fearful squalls, and a nigh broken sea prevailed at Dunedin on Sunday. .

There are 424 mining companies in the Auckland district, with a subscribed capital of £5,377,225, and an actually paid-, up capital of £836,336. A special train was despatched to Rotorua to-day to enable the Wesleyan General Conference visitors to Auckland to view the " Wonderland " sights. '

"Do you remember cur first quarrel, dearest ?' " Yes, love." " I said you were. just as mean as you couid be." " I believeyou did." " Oh, William, how mistaken I was !"'

Mr G. Mueller,' Commissioner of Crown Lands', is at present as Rotonia in connection, it is said, with the Government taking over the working of the baths at Whakarewarewa.

W. Parson, porter at Dannevirke Railway Station, fell on the rails-or Saturday last and the shunting, engine weni; over his leg just above the ankle. ... Amputation will be necessary. .•-.., ■■■*" ■• ■ Collections were taken up in most of the Anglican Churches yesterday in aid of the country clergy fund, and considerable sums were collected at each, of the churches at the various services.

Another contract for the . supply. of sulphur (500 tons) from Tikitere has been entered into at Rotorua. The first consignment was brought down from Rotorua by train on Saturday. Inspector Emerson, of Hawke's Bay, arrived here by the s.s. Waihora from the East Coast yesterday, in connection with the Police Commission of Inquiry, which opens here this week. Sergeant Villers, who was stabbed at Wanganui • while .on duty, and who has sincebeen in the Hospital for weeks, has now left the institution, and has been granted a fortnight's leave of absence. In Russia teachers are none too well paid. At a scholastic meeting some one proposed the toast, "Long live our school teachers." "What on?" asked a cadaver-ous-looking specimen, rising in his seat. Among the arrivals by the s.s. Waihora yesterday was Mr W. Stevenson, of Pleasant Point, Timaru, who has come up to judge draught horses at the Agricultural Show to be held on Friday and Saturday next.

" The idea that the bicycle unfits a girl for the domestic duties that naturally fallto her is erroneous. I understand that Miss Bloomer kneads bread '; "Possibly; but she needs skirts more/"' And thereafter they never spoke. . About" thirty members of the House o£ Representatives and Legislative Couucfl," with their wives and friends, in all 80, arrived in Pahiatua by special train on Saturday, and were entertained at luncheon by the Mayor and Councillors. A portion of the Mangaorewa Kaharoai Block j near the celebrated Hamurana cold springs, Lake Rotorua, is being cut up into smallareas suitable for settlement. The sections will be about SO acres each, and are said to be suitable for fruitgrowing, etc.

It is intended to survey a road from the Tauranga-Rotorua Road via Oropi Bush to ioin the Tauranga via T&,.^Puke Road. \Vhen this is done a drixefinght round Lake Rotorua will be prae^teble and will no doubt become' a favSSSte trip with tourists. ■;-■.'