TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 9 January 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

y_y_ „■' '■■■ ' ..is 'i—• ~_ v; _. :?;■■;{:. .'-'■;= Big fire in Sydney. ~'■'' V.T ' 1 Cool breezy weather.-- v. t "'* | The tiu market is greatly .excited. * '" Sensational tragedy in Queensland^ > Rotoiti leaves the Manukau at.s*p.iu, • < Head' Sent Into Exile* on page 6 (to-i - nigllt. '■■''.;.,:'..; .' ' Parliament is further prorogued-to• March a. ■ _-, f \-;> ,• Elingarnite arrived from Sydney tibis : ' ; morning. ■ •■ <:-'' ~j --•/. Holiday making at summer? resorts T "' all the rage. ■' .> The Westralia leaves, for Sydney " this evening. -..:.'.. -".''',' ' '-_ 'The French Maid' at the OperaT House to-night.'. ~.'-... .'.;.,,'.' ' Fresh .novelties at the JSlelbouriie v i Waxworks.to-niglit. " V The attendance continues to; keep i y up at the Exhibition. ■ ~- ■: The suicide of a clergyman is re-/ ported from Adelaide. ..■•.-.._». Waxworks and entertainment, at the? Agricultural-Hall to-night;: "•-,,..» !,._._ *' \ The Hon. A. J. Cadman has visited: the Great Barrier and Kennedy's^Bay.** i The Vcn. Archdeacon - Williams-left] - for Napier in the s.s. Flora on Saturday, ' - ■ : , France is sending troops to Tonquhyl China, lo be i'Catly for Si.i.& develop-? : '' ments. ' '■~"'.', - •V'»w. . <i-^ ; Cle'o. Mills made 09 (not out) in the^ North Shore v. Uortloii match on Sat-' urday.' , \ • ■' •- ■ • A boy named Dennis'Nicliols had a* narrow escape, from drowning Ut>t|i6t: ' railway wharf on Satxivday afternodh'. '■_ "■ .. The Glenalvon boarding .house in' Symonds-s1 reef was feiitefStl* early Jem f •'-'. S'mulny morning and valuables stolen. ; '-.''* Aguinaldo. the leader of the Philip-'----pine insurgents, is threatened wi|.h arrest if he does not submit tv Amcri- » can demands. . ■ , Rust has made its, appearance, insome crops in the North Cnntcrbn ,- T ~ - district; owing •to ■ the humid-, and* foggy weather of late. . : "." His Honor Judge Cpiiplly states.that there is no foundation.:', for. (the v , that he has applied^ov^in^ends to apply for leave of. absence. , . '. Burns, of Invercargjl^, is unable to.go with the New Zealand cricket teamto Australia. 'Sims, of Canterbury,.* ■ has been chosen to .replace;him. ' Last montli the Harbour Boai*d> staff, at "Wellington- handled foreign!: shipping representing 109,000 tons,' which is 15,000"to 20,000 more than the< .'M. previous: record. ; ■ '■. y■ - ( >-; ' \.,'> _, A heavy ihtinderstorm passed over Christchurch city at eight o'clock on' ~ Saturday night, accompanied by a'. - , tropical downpour of rain, which' lasted an hour. It is stated that the crops in the? Wairarapa are looking well; .There?'. J;: are some traces of the Hessian fly, but' nothing to be,afraid.of just at pre--sent. The weather is unfavourable, he-; ing wet. with high winds, which may.'. affect the ultimate yield; . ' r _ '•. f \Y Lord tveagh is, one of tl • ichest men in England. He was the young-_ csl of three brothers, but iflanagcd ; V ■•. ' to a<-cu ire-"tire whole of the .family.", . brewing' business' before it. because a.^: eoippany.; rts utmost incredible-pro-1- :' spei-ii\ cilice is .< • of histovy., Lord rveagli is a man of imassiiimu"-. demean our,, but he'has a huge house, in drosvenor Pbeje, filled with UiC most \aluable collection of Komueysi , in existence. ,' > &■■■■•:. Recently ..received ollieial returns; show an enormous increase in .ship-, building in the United Kingdom.Trom , ■ these it appears thnt on Ihe 30th Sep-i t ember ia^t no less than VIS vessels of 1.364250 -aggregate tonnage were,'in: . pVocess of construction in the various, yards. This far exceeds any previous record. Included in the returns an;: uo less than fifty-two steamships.over* 6,000 tons each, the largest being- th<M Atlantic -liner Oceanic,-704 feet. Of the', total number of 59* vessels only 26. are sailing craft, ami these are of.' s'malitonnage. . . -