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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Tutanekai gone again. Searching for a missing vessel., Outward 'Frisco mail on Monday, The Paris Exhibition opens a yea* from to-day. The British Budget shows a surplus of £186,000. R.M.S. Moana from Sydney to-mor-row afternoon. National Council of Women sits again this evening. The Auckland Chrysanthemum ' Show closes to-night. The Maggie Moore-Koberts Company farewells this evening. • ' The assets and funds of the Auck- " land Rugby Union total about £1,900. The British revenue wanted for the forthcoming year is nearly £lll,» 000,000. The missing schooner Marmion, of : Auckland, is now 42 4aJs out front Napier for Tairua. New Zealand's offer of troops for Samoa has again teen submitted to the British Government. There was a crowded attendance : of the public at the National Council of Women last evening. Hugh Mitchell has been committe<| '- for trial at Mastertdn for allegeilv breach of the Bankruptcy Act. . • The Waiwera is the name of a new Shaw-Savill steamer which has arrived at Port Chalmers from Glasgow; A number of Scottish residents of; * Auckland will present^ati address to > the Hon. John McKenzie this even- . ing. The National Council of Women • wants the Cabinet of the colony to be elected by the House of Representa- ; tives. Two young men had a narrow eS->----cape. of being blown to pieces by a gunpowder explosion at Wellington '* yesterday. The Rev. D. O'Dop,nell, evangelistsis expected to visit Auckland next month, when he will conduct missions in various places. ■■ • •? Sister Howard, of the Central Mis* ■ sion, is .announced to sing a solo"-a?" the revival services in the Centra.» Hall to-morrow evening. Most of the officers of the big steamer Mamari ,now in this pprt.irp'nv London, are Scotchmen, and ' there are four 'Macs' in the e^gine-roj|sn. At the National Council of. Wflmen. last evening a resolution« was carried in favour of the legal recognition of the economic independence <jf ; married women. j, ' The new bridge across the Waikattf/ River near Waimahana, on' the new..v. road from Rotorua and Waiofetpu to Taupo, is expected to.be completed in a fortnight .■-■■■- ■•■>■■■ The full programme of the concert to be given by the Auckland Banjo, Guitar,. and. Mandolin, Club in the Opera House on Monday next appears in this issue.- x■ ' Np man, for any considerable per-v. jod, can wear one face to Himiself and another to the maltitude without,. finally getting^ bewildered as .to which' may be the truer.^ >■■<> <-..•;; - ;'.. It is. estimated: by competent. aur ; thbrities that, as the, result flf War, . ffamine; ■>andv*the^ tslaTe-trade^Jwifc^ss 4-han^setfen -'iftHlknis t>f: thel'Soudanese have perished sltice 188 i. : A. tjpy>four and, a half years''old, named;Douglass Ross; died rather suddenly at Wellington yesterdayl. It is , supposed the" child consumed.,. some whisky he found in a bottle. •] './■ In"; Frankfort, Germany, there is a 'refbrni gymnasium,' or higi schobl, which is attracting much attention. It teaches French first, then.Latin; and Greek only in the last -years. There are hundreds of miliioWaires in Russia, whose fortunes are in the shape of vast"; domains containinpr gold and silver, of; inealdulable •yalue, but which have never been developed. . Mrs C. W. ,Skrine (knot^n prbfessionaliy as Miss Beatrice Esmond),*"a wel^knbwn Corpniandel, vocalist, hag t accepted an engagement frcjin Iklessra Williamson and Musgrove to join their! No; 1 Opera Company in Sydney, i The icebergs of the two ; hemispheres are Vi entirely different' iir shape. The Arctic bergs are irregular in form ,with' lofty pinnacles and glittering domes, while the Antarctic bergs are flat-topped and solid-look-ing. ~ . '-■ '~•.' ■' - " /"■';,-.'•• ''■', Swiss • steamboat - companies, to ayoid disputes as to",the "age of chilsren^ have established .- measurement rules. Children under two feet in! length- ride freei children under four feet' four, inihes and dogs,pay naif fare. .'. •• .. -> ~■•, .■ , '~ , . A new invention of Commander Wells was successfully, tested .at a recent London firev: It is a 'nozzle' by-which the intensity of therprejsi sure, of the water ,can be ijnstantaneousjy- .regulated to' suit particular, ■ '» An •bid' identity;,;,Mr J. $; .W^oon. fprnQrly Collector ;61 Custom's a*" Wanganui, is at present on a shbr.tr visit to Auckland. Mr- Wbbn's' father ■vyja.^;?l,p|pneex, missionary Hblciaiiga, aind[his son may re-visit ; that district shortly." ' the report that Mr Rblleston doea ■ not intend to seek re-election in thenext Parliament is denied, by the Ctiristchurch '^resSj' which says that Mr Rolleston's health is steadily iih" proving, .and" that he will address hia constituents at'an early date./ • • The Wairoa (Hawke's Bay) paper ' says that the Maori settlement at Te TJhi boasts a ygreat-great, > grandmother. She is a gTeat-great-gTaiiii- . mother to a son by Rongo Hamana, ! who is a son of the late Hamana Tia* : idwai, chief ■of ■, the Kihitu settlements The old grandmother is .hale • and hearty, and cooks for herself. The mother of the. great-great-grand-j child is'eighteen years of age. ; . The Sims-Dudley, dynamite,afield ; gun was recently tested at New York, j The ranges were 1,500; and 2,000 yds. , Great holes were torn in the ground large enough to hide a hor§e and t waggon. In the opinion of the offi- > cials. of the Board nothing living ' could exist within 50ft. radius of the - point of explosion.' Powder charfres ' were used to propel high-explosive ' : shells. Powder gases were cushioned i upon . shells, after a principle some- . what resembHing that used in eiect- ; ing'" torpedoes fromi 'the Whitehe^d • tube. In the Sims - Dudley gun » charge made up of hitro-gelatint, I guncotton, and dynamite is used..-, ■' In silks, dress, fabrics, and cap* r cloths we are showing pur usual full 1 ranges and makes, including, a magj. niigcenti assortment; of blacks (o.m! i specialty) from l/3J,'h/6J, 1/91, l/ll| i to 6/li.H-Smith and Gaughey,---(Ad.) 1