TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bracing weather. Shooting season opened. Further serious plague riots in India ; Select concert in St. Benedict's Hall 5 in 11 fc.. . VVestralia leaves for Sydney at 4 p.m. Eastern Question again brought into ' prominence. b Westralia arrived from the South vester- * day morning. The Maori trouble in the North is r«- ' garaeiJ as serious. The West Australian Cabinet has just • been re-arranged. i " Kussia, it is asserted, has evoked distrust and bitterness in China. - ; Mr Bcobie Mackenzie, M.H.R., left by/ tins morning's train for Rotorua. '. " ; ; Heated discussion in the House of Com- • . inons on British Eastern diploma^; The Spaniards in Cuba have teen rej lnloreed by 3,000 Soutli Americans. Numbers of Kawena residents yesterday afternoon took refnfje on the GJeiiel" i Spain obtained delivery of '170,000 tons 1 coal before commencement of the war. • North Shore Sailing Club held a success- | ful picnic at Drunken Hay on Saturday Enoka, the Parihaka wife>mnrderer',"was ■ hanged this morning at New. Plymouth. I Mount Eden bowlers defeated visitors from.the North Shore Club on Saturday. , - The.City of Paris, which was convoyed by two'cruisers, has arrived at New York. Lively yielee at a federation meeting in ' North Mefcume. Sticks and umbrellas used. lE*, \ I The anmvers'my services of St. Stephen's > ■•: \ Presbyterian Sunday-school' Were held yes- ' terrlay. V.<:' v.-...,.*-*-*^^.. Mr Maskell, registrar of the New Zea-. , land University, died at Wellington yes- ; terday. \ To-day was commenced the work oft^gyt, ■ molishing the old police barracks irfrSS^1 ! O'Rorke-stroet. ; Hone Heke, Maori M.H.R. for the North, attaches little importance to the ; present outbreak. The revival of "Paul Jones" at the Opera House on Saturday night met with - a-hearty'reception. The First Junior Cricket Championship ■ of the season was won on Saturday by the North Shore A. team. United CO. by their defeat of Parnell on Saturday won the .senior cricked championship for this seasoß. f ; The English authorities in pursuance of -' ; neutrality have seized 10 tons of cartridges • on a steamer about to sail for Cuba. The formation at Wellington of a Domestic Servants' Union has been accomplished, a movement long talked of. Isaac Cam, who escaped.from the prison , gang working at Fort Cautley on Satur- ■ • day, was re-captured during the evening. ', rhcre was not only a large muster of 1 football players at Potter's Paddock' 6a * • Saturday, but a fair attendance ef specta- ■ ' tors. ' . Spaniards deny that the Yankee bombardment of Cabanas did any d;.ma»e. The Yankees state that two batteries were wrecked. • By a lire in the ironmongery warehouse * of John Edmond and Co., Duncdin, on Saturday, damage to the extent of £'2,000 was done. Mr L. J. Lohr, the popular theatrical manager, arrived on Saturday t« niake avrahgoinen.t s'for tlij'- Ffan£ Tiio^nUVn'CouiV pany's season." - -..-.. r *•-- %:•" ■-*.. ■"■■\h v —_ ; _ The Auckland bowl6rs on Saturday defeated on their own green seven rinks from the Kenmera Club by the substantial 1 majority of 58. .;, t| A crew stroked by E. Oswald won the final trial fours of tue West End Rowing • Club on Saturday for the medals presented • by Mr M. McLean. f ; The Second Junior cricket supremacy ] for this season falls to the Porisonhy A. i team, as a result of their defeat of Belmont B. on Saturday afternoon. Mr David Craig, general manager ef the \ J New Zealand Insurance Company, returned yesterday from a visit of inspection to .the I Australian branches of thetEpmpany. : The Mayor of Dcvonpbrb suggests that \ competitive schemes for draining the borough should be obtained by the Council : offering prizes of £125 and £25 as first and i second prizes respectively. 1 A strong force was dispatched by the I Gairloch for. Hokianga this morning, and I the Hinemoa, with 100 of the Permanent r Artillery, left Wellington on Saturday night for the scene of the Maori trouble. Another sten of the gradual enlighteh--1 ment of the Heathen Chinee is afforded by I a telegram from Shanghai. According to . i this despatch it is announced from Pekin - • that the Emperor.has just sent a written I order to the British and Foreign Bible t Society's book store for 400 foreign books ■ - translated into the Chinese language. . Many of the books included in His ~ • Majesty's list are Christian works. { A terrible fight between^ two menagerie t lions occurred recently at Sanger's Circus, • then visiting Watford, England. After \ the performance, the keeper heard sounds s of a battle royal, and proceeding to the 1 scene of the encounter, found the two lions fighting. He pluckily entered the cage, : and eventually succeeded in parting the inj furiated animals, but not before one had r received a mortal wound, its jugular vein . being bitten through. ' The deceased lion : \ was worth £250.-'' 550 yards of silk in shot glace, surah, etc., •I bought-job, marked 2s lid, worth 3s lid' i per yard, choice lot of silks for day or..' '< evening wear from Is 6.Yd to 5s lid. Smith . i andCaughey.-(Advt.) 1 Latest novelties in evening silk from Is ' 3Ad ; also a few choice exclusive silk dress ' lengths; special value in woollen dresses' - for evening wear. See windows. Smith i and Caughey.-—(Advt.)