TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 270, 15 November 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Pleasant weather. Harbour Board meet t.-day. Steamer Delphic from London this ■. week. Good progress at the Exhibition buildings. Five British warships are to go to | Gibraltar. A powerful American squadron is to visit Europe. 'A Lord for' an Hour' at,,the Agricultural Hall to-night. Plenty of cut grass can be obtained in the Albert Park. Major Marehand is on his way back to Fashoda from Cairo. - Norway has now got a flag of its own, and ignores Sweden. Vancouver mail arrives here from Wellington via Onehunga this evening. Westerly weather has prevailed almost continuously on the East Coast lately. The month's return from the Woodstock Goldmine is £2,367 from 1,000 tons of ore. '."" '...'■. Shot and shell firing with big guns iat Fort Cautley is to take place next Saturday afternoon. - jj A strong French force is reported to be marching; on the capital of Khordofan, in the Soudan. The ladies of St- Patrick's hold their. Christmas tree and sale of work in the Foresters' Hall on December 9 . and 10. . ; ; It is proposed to hold a regatta oh the Northern Wairoa River about January ■ 28th, either at Aratapu or Te Kopuru. , An excellent exhibit of products from the Bay of Islands and Hokianga, counties is to be shown at the Auckland Exhibition. A large number of wreaths from sympathising friends were placed on the coffin of the late Mr G. M. Reed yesterday afternoon. It is said Hooley gave the conservative party in England £50,000, hoping to obtain a baronetcy, but his cheque was > returned. 'Felo-de-se' was the verdict • returned by the jury at the inquest on the body of the lad Hamilton Scott, who jumped off the Cemetery Bridge. The Waitekauri Goldmine has beaten its record again this time with a return of £6,075 worth of gold for the month from 1,777 tons of ore. Mr J. Hartley, of Waitekauri, won third prize in TattersalFs 100,000 (at 5/) consultation,' which was fully subscribed. The prize totalled £1125. The first of the Club races in connection with the Auckland Yacht Club will take place next Saturday afternoon, when races for 30-footer and 36-footer yachts are to be held. The owners of La Burgogne, the French steamer sunk with grea:t loss of life in the Atlantic recently, are claiming very heavy damages from the owners of the ship Cromartyshire. The Chinese, of Auckland have come forward generously in the way of donations to the Children's Hospital, having raised no less than £73 19/ for the purpose. The list of subscriptions is published elsewhere in this issue. At Te Aroha on Sn'uu'day a coroner's inquiry was held into the recent fire Avhereby three shops were burned down in the township of Te Aroha. Eleven witnesses were examined, but no evidence was adduced to show how the fire originated. Ehau, the Waikato 'tohunga,' who recently worked a sensational 'resurrection' of the Maori girl -at Tauranga, has returned to the Waikato, and was at Whatiwhatihoe, oh the Waipa, last week. The natives are now said to look on him as an 'atua' or god. A fire occurred in Mr E. A. Cook's store at Dargaville on Saturday evening, caused, it is supposed, by a kerorVne ..lamp igniting inflammable material in a show window. The stock was insured for £800 and the building for £150, in the National Insurance Company .of New Zealand. The damage to stock is estimated at £150, and to the building at £ .10 , ■

Mrs Archibald Kelso, of CoromandeJ, has received news i'l'oni America that.jb.er eldest son, Hewson Broadgate, who is a Coromandel boy, was in active service in the American navy during the late Spanish-American war. He distinguished himself on several occasions, and has been decorated with two medals, one from the United States Government and the other from the city of Baltimore. On board the British steamer Snowflake, from Card iff,, at Philadelphia, is a young Irishman (says an American exchange) who is something of a professional stowaway. The man claims to have hidden in foreignbound craft nearly two hundred times. He has circumnavigated the globe- seventeen times, and has been in. every country to which vessels go. He i -sintelligent and an entertaining" talker.