TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 227, 26 September 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Grey's funeral to-day. 'Frisco mail due to-morrow. The Austrian influx continues. S.s. Waihora arrived from Sydney. Another all-night sitting in the House. Outward San Francisco mail next Satur day. Steamer Mararoa has arrived from the South. Another tragedy is reported from Melbourne. Christian Endeavour Convention continued to-day. " Germany's future lies on the water. 1* —The Kaiser. Stonewall continued in the House of Representatives. Professor Dante opens at the Opera House to-night. Paris is in a ferment of excitement over the Dreyfus case.. A shooting affair has occurred in Paris over the Dreyfus case. • Stormy weather between New Zealand and Sydney is predicted. . A man has been arrested in Melbourne for the Strathmerton tragedy. An agreement for the pacification of .Crete is to be signed by the Powers. ' The Government are placing. an obelislc over the grave of the late Major Kopata. The Molyneaux River, Otago, is in flood, being over lift above its normal level. Mr W. J. Napier returned from Wellington en Saturday afternoon per s.s. Takapuna. Inspector Emerson arrived here on Saturday evening from Whakatane and Opotiki. The Premier challenges the Opposition to appeal to the country on the Old Age Pensions Bill. . . Mr W. L Robinson announces an exhibition of technical drawing and presentation of art certificates. Another large party of Austrians bound for the £iimfields arrived here from.Sydney by the Waihora to-day. Fifty-one saloon and a hundred and twelve steerage passengers arrived' here from Sydney this morning. The French Commission appointed to consider the re-opening of the Dreyfus case is equally divided for and against a trial. The Star of Newton Lodge, No. 4, 1.0. G.T., celebrates its 25th anniversary next Thursday evening at the Protestant Hall. Nearly all lions are "left-handed." A famous explorer says that when one desires to strike a forcible blow the animal almost always uses the left paw. ■ The mass meeting of citizens on Saturday night carried resolutions again urging the Auckland-Taranaki railway on the consideration of members of Parliament. • The Opuha estate, Tiniaru, comprising 4,900 acres, with the sheep, horses, etc., was sold by public auction on Saturday for £21,500, Mr Lysaght, Hawera, being the purchaser. The mass meeting of citizens on Saturday evening resolved to oppose the return to Parliament next elections of any member who fails to support the Auckland* Taranaki railway. * The members of St. Benedict's Club announce that they will hold a grand plain aad fancy dress ball to celebrate the closing of the-season, 189S, in St. Benedict's Hall on October 7th. Andrew Carnegie, the American millionaire, has purchased a million dollar castle in Scotland. He has just moved into'his new acquisition and settled down there, apparently for all time. Mr George Fowlds, the well-known clothier and outfitter, returned here on Saturday after a seven months' absence on a trip to the Old Country. Mr Fowlds' friends intend giving him a welcome at St. James's Hall to-morrow evening. ■ It is said that Mahuta, the Maori '' King," liasdecidednot to go to Wellington, as the meetings of the tribes at Tauranga, King County and elsewhere were averse to him doing so or accepting a seat in the Legislative Council. It is believed that his " Premier," Taingakawa te Waharoa, will go to Wellington instead. Mrs Draffin delivered a lecture entitled, " Is Theosophy'Opposed to Religion?" before the members of the Auckland branch of the Theosophical Society last evening. In the course of her remarks, she said that Theosophy was not opposed to the religion inherent in man, but was opposed to the dogmas and creeds tkat were called religion at the present day. . A rumour is current in Fiji that it is the intention of the authorities to organise a corps of rifle volunteer or militia from amongst the white residents of Suva and Levuka for the protection of those ports, and that some 500 Lee-Metford rifles of the latest pattern are now on their way from England. A correspondent of the " Fiji Times" thinks that a battery of artillery would be a much greater protection to the port than 600 rifles no matter how expert the marksmen.