TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 5, 7 January 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Clear, breezy weather. Lat night of 'Djin-Djhi.' '- Read 'Sent Into Exile' on page 6 tonight. ° Military sports at the Exhibition • track to-night. The s.s. Taviuni arrived from the : - Islands last night. The usual ecclesiastical notices ap- " pear m our advertising columns. A prohibition convention opens on Tuesday next at the Central Mission • Hall. On Monday night-The French Maid' will make her first bow at the Opera : House. Inspector Gillies leaves t'6_- New Ply-' mouth in the s.s. Gairloch to-morrow' morning. ■ • The s.s. Flora, left for the South this " afternoon crowded: with returning lioliday-makers. . - - . • A New Zealand storjf- by Miss Cheeseman is commenced on page 6 of to-night's' Star,' •;■;•■■•■ A new comedy, 'The Doctor's Shop.' and first appearance of \Devilo' at the Melbourne Waxworks to-night. To-morrow evening at the Mutual Life Buildings Mr S. Stuart will lecture on 'Theosophy and Science Com-! pared.' . Messrs J. and J. Lovegrovp's tenderof £88 4/9 has . been accepted for* painting the Auckland Grammar School. A young man named A. G: H. Burnnand accidentally shot- himself .last evening in his bedroom at Cross-street, Newton. '-. ...... At Pitt-street Wesleyan,Church tor morrow evening-the Rev. W. J.Wil--Mams will give his monthly sermon to young men., \ , . . Mr Galvin, the editor, of the Cavern-" ment 'Mines Record,' is touring.-tins, goldfields districts. He visits -the; leading mines. '. L ."".-'- '"'.' In Wellington 142 applicationsnaive' been received under the Old Age Ben- Q sions Act. This is practicaJly tha number for a week only.*- :.;' Mr Ashbolt-has selected'Burnes, of Southland, to., replace. Richardson in the New Zealand^.ricket team. Richardson was unable to obtain leave of1 a-bsence. ■. _v> j .; \ j c . The man Thomas Kelly, alias Patrick Murphy, charged with the murder of his mate, Ernest Nicklin, on Decern- .'.,_ ber 24, was yesterday committed for trial at Palmerston North.'' Miss Florence Young, 'the- wellknown operatic artist, has made a successful appearance in .the : pantomime of, 'Dick Whittington,' at the Grand Theatre, Fulham, a London suburb.' District, volunteer orders for the month of January areLahnbunced elsewhere. In addition, to_ inspection parades attention 4s called-to the re- _ opening of the..Mouht.l"den range for rifle shooting. ' . , " ' The Grammar School Board have' agreed that-tenders be called'for a_new. lodge for the janitor, and also for .re? moving the boys-' workshop; and __reconstructing it dh a new site on the school grounds. Advice has* just been received from ■'-'■. the Treasury--tha4--t4_e -application--by., the Te Aroha Borough Cpiihctl,'for a loan of £ Jf,(-(.o^_yS:b-_ien passed by the Audit Department,:and that-.tile money is now available. „_ "Mr' H. Aitlceh," who had just eftterecl * upon his fourth year as; Mayor ."of Oamaru, diecj yesterday. He had undergone •'-' an operation '' about two months agd,Lano_.-neyer recovered. He 'was anold-resitTehfof the town. Lf The machinery for printing;the lasjfc. issue of stamps made by the New Zealand Government is.now on its way,to the colony, and the Government Printing Office anticipates being able to f start prjnting":by"the"erid of February; 'The 'Orient ..Con_i,pany and the Noijffc German Hqyds, after consulting-' their solicitors, at' Sydney, have jointly informed.the -I_Jhibn .Company that: &$/_ ■ must throw the onus upon them of-re- . fusing to carry" the Austrians' "yA" Yesterday afternoon the delegates to the annual meeting of the British Medical Association discussed the subjects of typhoid fever in this city during the "fast 48 years, arid*___aM-* thetics. The visitors intend going to Rotorua. to. w_i'cl_place 'they ivill hip conveyed by'special train. : v . The^new Mission,_HaU ; at;Brick Bay, Devonport, which-lias been built on the site' gd^eri by Messrs Wilsbfi ;and Dr.McDQweJl, -will.be open for-divine service to-iobrrp.w, "when the chairmapj of the Auckland .Sjrnod, the Rev. H. __.. Dewsbury, Will''preach at three, and the Rev_ C. E. Beecroft at half -past six. ~. ■ ... , .... ~ . , .. The service's for the Dedication Festival of Ejuphahy Church were poorly, attended yesterday owing to the rain. The Church was-beautifully decorated. The Rev. L. FitzGerald preacjiefl at evensong, arid "--we : understandi "fKaiß ■the services on Sunday will be of ~a i festal chmt&et 'fsfts& [to the -tedfea:tion of trie,, church. The body,of Wm. Moir, aged 49, carpenter, of the ship Timaru, who disappeared ori th*6 night oi the 23rd ult, was found on the beach, at t!he Bluff, abreast of the ship yesterday. Moir had been on board a cutter near by, and it is .believed that; he Ltfejf between her and- tlie wharf as "lie xfsia • returning to his. ship. At the inquest a verdict of;' Found drowned' was returned. "•-'-.* . At the Christchurch Magistrate s Court yesterday a lad named Elt Evans .v_as charged "with the theft of letters containing £2 15/ in inon^y, .the_.propfxty of_the Christchurch Meat, Company. "Accused was employed a*' the works of the edmpany at Islington. He was also charged with stealing letters containing £5, the property of the Postmaster-General. Evans was committed for trial on both charges. Smith and Caughey have made * a special purchase of 4,200 yards of Job dress materials, which they are selling much under wholesale price. (Ad.) *