TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 262, 11 November 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Police inquiry is sitting. Wesleyan Conference opened. Agricultural Show to-morrow. English cricketers beat Victoria by Wo wickets.

An important speech by Lord Salisbury is cabled.

Auckland Chamber of Commerce Council met this afternoon.

.A disastrous wreck has occurred on Lake Erie, North America.

The proposed systematic drainage of Devonport is estimated to cost £10,000. Africa is the plague of the British Foreign Office, according to Lord Salisbury.

A party, of Sikh soldiers has been annihilated by the tribesmen on the Indian frontier.

The sum of £18,872 was passed through the totalisator at Ellerslie during the three days' A.R.C. races. The Rev. H. T. Burgess, of South Australia,- is the new President of the Wesleyan General Conference. The newly-elacted General Secretary of the Wesleyan Conference is the Rev. Geo. Lane, of New South Wales.

; During the past month 24,800 tons of cargo passed inwards over the Auckland wharves and 10,230 tons passed outwards. It is estimated that fully 11,000 people travelled on excursions by the Devonport Ferry Company's steamers on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. The rifle range of the newly-formed Paeroa corps of the Ohinemuri Rifle Volunteers was formally opened at Paeroa yesterday afternoon. The Auckland Harbour Board and Mr E. W. Alison, of the Devonport Ferry Company, are to confer re wharfage facilities for the North Shore ferry- service in respect to carrying of cargo. At the Supreme Court yesterday the Registrar granted, on the application of Mr E. Mahony, who was for the petitioning creditors, leave to withdraw the petition in bankruptcy in the matter of Alfred Walker, Ellerslie, the debtor having paid petitioning creditors' claim. The body of a packer named W. Gunn, lost in a snowstorm on the 28th May near Roxburgh, Otago, was found on Tuesday on the top of Old Man's Range, not far from where his horses were found. • The body was in a good state of preservation, after being in snow for over five months. Attention was - drawn at the Harbour Board meeting yesterday afternoon to the state of Quay-street, which is in great need of repairs. The Board decided to again write to the City Council with regard to metalling the road and forming a footpath for pedestrians to the new Quay-street jetty.

The Australian members of the Wesleyan General Conference who went by special train to Rotorua on Monday returned last evening shortly • before five o'clock. A number of them visited the Waiotapu Vallejy and were much pleased with their trip, while those who remained at Rotorua visited the sights there and at Whakarewarewa.

The death is announced at Onehunga of Dr. W. Harsant, aged 87 years. Dr. Harsant was a very old colonist, having been Resident Magistrate in the Upper Waikato district amongst the Maoris prior to the" outbreak of the Waikato War. :|Je was^ succeeded by Mr (now Sir John) Gbrst.and was transferred to Raglan as -R.M.. arid medical officer to the riativ'es. Subsequently he retired on a Government pension and resided at Onehunga till the day of his death. - •

At a special meeting of the Devonport Borough Council last evening, after the other business had been disposed of, it was resolved on the motion of Mr O. Mays, seconded by Mr Dunning, " That the Harbour Board be respectfully requested to furnish the Council with a copy of the tariff of wharfage on goods landed on the Devonport wharves." The collection of wharfage dues at the North Shore by the Harbour Board was the cause of the motion being brought forward. An operatic concert was given in the Devonport Hall last evening in connection with the bazaar in aid of the new convent schools at Devonport. There was an excellent attendance and a pleasing programme was provided, the vocalists being Misses Ada Wood, Donovan, Coleta Lorrigan, M. Knight, Messrs Parrish, Casier and Grace, and the Rev. Father Kehoe. Violin selections were rendered by Miss Celia Dampier and Madame Lelievre, and an orchestra under the conductorship of Mr P. F. Hiscocks played several selections. The bazaar has been a highly successful one. Pic'anniny biscuits are specially made for children and invalids by J. Bycroft and Co. Limited, sold in air tight tins. "Ask for them."—(Advt.)