TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 178, 30 July 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland.v. Wellington. ; - : Interprovincial football to-day. • 'Frisco mail due next Tuesday. - Fighting is reported from Uganda. ' The deabli of Mr Tonson Garlick is,re ported by cable. • Commissioner Tunbridge's report on the police force is published. The total strength of the New Zealand police is 563 of all tanks. , : ,''»'. Farewell performance, of " Natisha" in; the Opera House te-night. An Antarctic, meteorolgical disturbance between Hobari; and; the'Bluif is reported. ' \ A settler suspected of the recent murder at.Motn, Gisborne, has committed, suicide. y." Street-betting is becoming an inteler* ... , able nuisance:—Police Commissioner Tan.bridge. :,a. : . ' :... ~,;,';..-.,■ -" - ~ Commissioner Tunbridge wants, the police force increased by 50 men immedL- [ ately. . .ajAa' .;;-;.";, ■ I';'' Commissioner Tunbridge recommehda; the establishment of a pension■■ system for the police fqi cc. The' appointment of four sub-ihspectdfs te assist the police inspectors is' recommended by Commissioner Tnnbridge. A preliminary prdgramine for the North Shore Native Kegatta and Aquatic Carnival at Exhibition time was drawn.up last' " evening. : . a7:- . .'.'!.'- ' r. ' ..''"* The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors has adopted'a general scale of charges fer >: the whole colony, and will submit it to^he various centres for approval. The barque Lean and brigantine Aratapu had a rough experience in the sharpy '|f westerly squall in the harbour last evening," aud the latter sustained some damage. , V;. ; A very fierce westerly- squall, with a Zj heavy fall of hail^ swept ever Auckland yesterday afternoon, and caused some of the vessels; in the harbour'to drag their anchors. .. * ' ' ' At present there, are 3,000 fontiaalis "I trout at the Koterua trout hatchery ready - for distribution.^ They, will .be liberated in || the Whirinaki and Kangitaiki streams in tkeUrewera country. " : . ■">■ The D.S.C. have shown their faith in the business to be done during the Exhibition time; by bfieriiig; the contractor, « £500 bonus.to Jet them into their hewpremises by Christmas.' . . , ~ At Wellington yesterday Mrs ;3Jlyth», licensee of the Royal" Tiger- Hotel, ■'. was' fined £10 and costs, and her license' was ordered to be endorsed, for Sunday trad- • ing. Notice ©f an appeal \yas. given." : - The Ohau Channel connecting Lakes Ko*torua and Rotoiti has been inspected by Mr Rl H. Reaney, of the Rotorua Survey Office, this week, with a view.to effecting some improvements and deepening the channel for the passage of steam launches. The " Kaikoura Star " says that -the whalers at Kaikoura (South Island) recently . secured a small whale-—about 2Jtb; 3 tons y —a whaleboat. known as !the ;Kearsage . making fast: Owing to ;aV heavy kvvindV; ....,;'. coming iip; which nearly cheated the crews of their prize, the whale had to be.broiight into the port, but was taken round to the Fishery afterwards; .-• ;- Mr Ben Tillet was a passenger" fer. ■ London by tlie Aotea, Avhich left Lyttleton yesterday. "A He. is greatlyimpressed... with the possibilities; of the colonies, and • considers New Zealand has the greatest 1 i prospects as..far. as tra^e unionism is cen-' cerned. He takes' a.large cQl.lgqtion:;;of^ v ' photographib'slides, and wfll lecture-on the resources,'^climate and prospects of the colony.' '*"'"; "..''.. On and after Monday next, the Ist . ; August, the price ,of the " New Zealand , Dairy Association "and "Anchor" brands J butter will- be Is per pound wholesale.— ' :(Advt.).. _ / a : \/:. 7.7a. y -'