TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 6 August 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail day. , R. M. s. Moana for America. , ,l Interprovincial football to-day. Auckland v. Canterbury at Epsom. /=; ■ Excursion steamer Waikare has gone South. ' Mourning over Bismarck is general in, Germany. :'." ' Pastor Steed will preach at Epsom tomorrow evening. . , ' Heller's Mahatraa Company open in the Opera House to-night. ' B.M.s. Moana had a very rough passage across the Tasman Sea. ■-- ; It is believed that Spain has accepted the main conditions of peace. .• -• A Spanish coloneliat. Puert»: Rico has l»een senteaced to be shot.. . \ .;' _:: , Russia's policy is rendering the Chiaese situation a very grave, one. .Another l«n<* debate on the Bank Bill in the House of Kepresentatives last night.: ' During the past year 28 lives were lost by shipwrecks on the New Zealand coast. An attack by frontier natives oi| a working party in the north of India is reported. ; ■"■■ In the Beresford-street Church oh Sunday evening the Roy. Parker discourses oa Bismarck. ~ '~ ; ..,., >' , : An ambuscade in which 27 Indian troops were Icilled is reported from Somaliland, Northern Africa. "" ': , ...

Mail-steamer Moaaa had her boats and bridge damaged in the bad weather, coming across from Sydney. ; : ■--■■; Steerage passengers on the R.M.S. Moana had ta.be kept under deck during the steamer's passage across from Sydney.

The Government are making inquiries aSi to the commercial value ef.- the oil and skins from the seals at the Auckland Islands.

The annual meeting of the Otago Refrigerating Company adopted the report, recommending payment of a dividend of 2s per share. < , - The Banking Amendment Bill was put through its final stages in the House of Representatives shortly before 5 : o'clock this morning. ."'■"'■';. The attention of breeders of homing pigeons is directed to Mr Walter Fricker's advertisement which appear* in our advertising columns. A meeting of the Waitemata County Council was held yesterday, but beyond routine matters no business of importance was transacted; , , . -'

The Committee arranging the Auckland Garrison Band Ball to take place in the Choral Hall (Aug. 26) are working hard to make it a success, and the tickets are selling well. Early application for tickets is necessary. Next year the Union Steamship Company will run another South Sea excursion with the steamer Waikare. The line of route will embrace Samoa, Friendly, Islands, WaJlis" Island, Fatuna, Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and thence to Sydney. .' . v Aperahama Pokai te Ruinga, a chief of the Nsratipaoar tribe of Thames and Waiheke, died at the Miranda oh Thursday last. He was about 80 years of'age and was one of the leaders in the historical invasion of Auckland by the Ngatipaos. over 40 years ago.

The Public Petitions Committee recommend the.Government to re : emp|oy;jGk Hill, a veteran of the Maori war, wh'6%b ; ehaved with great tfavery en several occasions on. the East Coasfc/^'ltill^y^p'w^aiii^di^MiiVsr.and Armed Constabulary man, Treeently discharged from the Torpedo;, Corps at Auckland. * lU~v '•■*■:■■■■ ■•*-•'<!*■;•:.