TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Big fire at Hamilton; ■■•' '' - .' «■•»•:.-1 Panic amongst the Spaniards." ' * ' Mararoa arrived from Sydney-. . . ; S.s.. Waihora arrived from the South.', • Spanish banks removing specie inland. ■ Auckland Harbour Board meets tomorrow. ' ■' " ' \ \ Bombardment of Spanish coastal tewiis , is expected. - " ' Southern prohibitionists want the Clutha S.M. removed. Twenty thousand Spaniards are to be sent back to Spain. ."*■ ; f, Spanish forces at Santiago • surrender their arms to America. \: "v .'. The net profit last near! on the Waihi Company's operations was £82,323. •■ •■'.'■''-. • ■■'■' The Vancouver mail; London' date June 18th, is due ati Wellington on Saturday next.- ■ «■ \ '•••;• ■■- ■ ' • ' ' •■ i ' Ninety-two passengers arrived here;from Sydney by the "; s.s. Mararoa yesterday afternoon. ••, • •■■■ ■'■■ ' ':. •*» .>> '■ ' : A Suez mail which left London on June 10th arrived here from Sydney by the s.a. Mararoa yesterday. - , r ■;■ i v Social will take place in-St. -Benedicts Hall on Wednesday evening. ; Proceeds' in aid of school and hall fund. . i A hotel keeper was fined 40s to-day, with costs, for allowing billiards te be playedin his licensed premises after hours. •,■ :,i So far ithe applicants for the Auckland Exhibition Choir comprise 96 sopranos, 70 contraltos, 30tenors, and 60 basses. • ~;.: ■ Mr A. McCorquodale, formerly manager of the Auckland Roller Mills, leaves ipr Sydney by the s.s. Waihora this evening. « The total yield of gold from KJoadyke for this summer is estimated at between twelve and thirteen million pounds sterling. ■ :. [ : ■ ■ ' ' ■ ' } It is stated that America will give tack the Philippines to Spain provided that Puerto Eico is surrendered and Cuba declared independent. . , The Auckland Volunteer Garrison; Ball is to be held in the Choral Hall on Fnday evenings September 16th. The total number of invitations is not to exceed 350. : . A Broad Hint.—Visitor: Is Miss .Bo^e at home? Servant: No, sir. Visitor: Why, she has just come in; I saw Her. Servant: Yes, sir^ and she,saw you, too. • : The welcome to the Rev. B. L. Thomas and farewell to Rev. G. Williams takes place at the Devonport Congregational Church on Tuesday, 26th instant, iusteadof to-morrow evening. . : . r The Shaw-Savill clipper ship*^ Crusader, which under Captain Perriam and other commanders made some very, fast passages between London and New' Zealand^ nas been sold to Norwegians. ," ;■•■.:, ■" ', , . Now let us be gay and give thanks to ,the fates,While the welkin resounds with our cheers,. In a month, we're acquiring more cities and ■ istates. ;' ■ ■•• • '.' "■'.;'■. • ■ '■■'''." Than we'll learn to name over in :years.' r ;••.,. " Washington StarJ! Another Patriot.—" I understand »thatf Bindle is going to.apply for a pension.P " Upon what grounds I should like to kno\y ?. He never fought for his country." "No, but he cameover on the:Paris^and his nervous system was upset." '.' "'"''; " Did you say you' fbiind a large amount; of righting equipment' on that: newspaper .man ?" asked the Spanish General. " Yes,'." sir; there Vefe enough lead'pencils and^: blank paper to have enabled us to,win halfr "al'dozen Tictories'.''^-" Wa|3hirlgtßh Star." >, "- ''Bridget," who; is that -Soorf 1 "It's a po«r.mah,imum: He'waniKisb'methitig to eat." "If he's - akothijr ' refugee driven out of Spain by the: war, tell; him i there's nothing "left for Him.- "We've I already fed eleven ex-censuls thismorniug; 1'; I At the meeting- of the Northern" Gun [ Club held on Saturday afternoon'at Epsom, there was a good deal of practice'shooting, anal several competititions were arranged. The shooting on the whole was;good;'. A number of members and visitors were present. " ' :'. •"i'; r .-"' ■' ■' '"■ Last evening Miss Davidson gaye an ad« dress on " Heaven and Hell" in the Theosophical Society's rooms; Mutual-Life Buildings, and in the course of her lecture traced the evolution of the belief: iv places or states of reward and punishment in-the futurelife. 'f J '■"•'■ ' . .>' > :? ■ The death is announced of Mrs Lynn Linton,. the English novelist. She: was bom; at Keswick dn 1822. Amongst-her works of fiction were: "Azeth the Egyptian," " Aruy'mone," " Witch St«ries," "Patricia Eemball,'.' "The .Mad Willoughbys. and Other: Tales," "The One Too Many," and.; many other, bpoks.iand she also was the author of '? The GirL.of the Period "an the ''Saturday, Reyiew."4