TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Count Caprivi is dead, fighting ia. the Philippines. Hundreds of Filipinos captured Elingamite arrived from.Sydney '• Steamer Westralia left for Sydney. "■ ; h ihpmos defeated by the Americans. Vancouver mail arrived in Weilinsw • ton. s Steamboats are displacing gondolas in Venice. A village in Hungary has been destroyed by fire. A sensational shooting affair is reported from Kent. 'The Gaiety Girl' again at the Opera - House this evening. > i 'A united Germany is the bulwark of peace.'—The Kaiser. A Cabinet meeting was held at Wei- ' lmgton yesterday afternoon. . A prisoner has escaped from the ' Mount Cook (Wellington) gaol.. / '" ' The Military Tournament funds case - before the Supreme Court to-day. Twenty eight American soldiers '. have been killed in the Philippines. The Kickards Company left for Sydney last evening by the s.s. Westralia. ' ■ Before the war Cuba contributed about one-twelfth of all the tobacco ' used in the world. ■ • Three American cruisers shelled the V insurgents' position at Manila during the fighting there. ■•■ ■' <■-■■■ •"" The buildings, walk and ornamenta* tion of the Paris' Exhibition of i960 will cost £4,000,000. •-.;'•' 7y7 The one-rater yacht Mercia waa . I shipped across to Sydney by the s.s. Westralia last evening. . . ' Mahuta, the Maori 'King,''has been & asked to take part in the speech-mak-ing on the Grey Memorial Day. • ■ Forty-one • saloon and forty-two steerage passengers arrived here from Sydney by the s.s. Elingamite this morning. . The production of soap .in Great Britain is about 45,000 tons per week, of which between 3000 and 4000 ton*' are made in London. The ketch Gratitude, well known in this port, is overdue at the Bluff from the Macquarrie Islands, to the far; south of New Zealand. The.Chinese have devoted, them-' selves for nearly 4000 years to the artificial propagation of fishes, shell5 fishes, fowls, pearls and sponges. Coal heavers in - Chatham Dockyard during the inclement weather struck work, claiming a pint of beei*' per :■. hour. This request was granted. '■■ In fifteen years Kussia has '- sent'" 624i,000 persons to Siberia. -Fully 100,000 relatives of prisoners have ac- - companied the exiles of their own freewill. ■. ' ■ '■■ : . ■■;':■:.'.'.;■■■■■■■<! A mountain has been discovered im' Alaska 19,500 feet in height, which'-'is- ...A-* 1000 feet higher than Mount St. Ellis, • hitherto regarded as the loftiest peak' in America. , , " "^ , The Grey Memorial Committee has decided, to carry through^,the proposal to use the Domain Cricket Ground, and will interview the Mayor and City, Council on the question. The Mayor of Auckland will interview the. District Manager of Railways in' tie direction of getting-a'n excursion train run from Waikato to Auckland on Grey Memorial Day. 7 There are hundreds of millionaires in Russia whose-fortunes are in; th? .AAA, shape of vast domains containing gold and. silver of incalculable value, but which have never been developed. The, State ,of Guernsey decided oni /f November 30th to bermit the optional use of-English in in that Assembly where French has been the only language.spoken since its foundation. Russia has fewer newspapers, only, about 900, in :proportion.to its inhabit-' ants than any other European country. Gerinaqy has seven times, France five times, and England four times as many. The Mayor of Auckland has pro-. mised to get a legal opinion from the City Solicitor^ on the question of the right of the Grey Memorial Committee to°use the Domain Cricket Ground om Feb. 18." ' . ' " - Captain Farquhar,.of the s.s. Clansman, took up four homing pigeons, the property of Mr Clark, secretary o£ the Wellington Homing Society, rtp Russell yesterday, with a view of their being liberated to perform the experiment of flying to "Wellington. If the fly is successful this will be the longest distance yetJcovered by homing pigeons within the colony. _________________ j • mm^mmm ___.___..__-_^— ——^— tmmmmm.m ' ,