TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 143, 19 June 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK

Perthshire found. Towed to Sydney. Picked up by the Talune. Suez mail due to-da.y. Governor goes South to-morrow. Mararoa, arrived from the South. All are well on boa.rd the Perthshire. Warlike preparations in the Transvaal.

3000 Filipinos have been badly repulsed.

Auckland Hospital Board met this afternoon. The Perthshire was found off Norfolk Island.

Three artillery batteries have bee* sent to Xatal.

Steamers Upolu and Pukaki arrive from Westport.

Threo British batteries have beet ordered to Natal.

M. Poincaire has failed to form ( Cabinet in France.

Newton'beat Parnell on the football field on Saturday afternoon.

Eng-lish footballers defeated N.S.W. at Sydney on Saturday afternoon.

The Newton fifteen are leading- in the senior football Cup competitions.

The Perthshire wais towed into Sydney Harbour early this morning1.

The Gaiety. Co. are producing- a new a;ud excellent programme at the City Hall.

City of- 'Auckland Assessment Court adjourned until 3rd July at 10 a.m.

Address by Mr George Hutchison, M.H.E., in the Choral Hall this evening.

Fifty people have been drowned in a steamboat collision on the Uiver Oder.

Australian cricketers won the second test match in England by ten wickets.

The first post office was opened in Paris in 1642, in England in 1581, in America in 1710.

H.M. warships Mildura and Ringdove are now on their way up to Auckland from the South.

The Auckland Electric Tramway Company has been registered in London with a capital of £150,000.

The Oriental pipe smoked by the Shah of Persia on State occasions is a very elaborate and -costly affair, and is valued at £50,000.

A well-known, professor asserts tha.t the smallest interval of sound can be better distinguished with one ear than with both.

No picture is hung on the walls o? the Louvre, in Paris, until the artist has been dead ten years. Auckland artists please note!

In England and Wales women hold seats on 349 out of 642 unions. Theri are 161 lady rural District Councillors, and 793 lady Guardians.

The Spanish Government- seized a British yacht with 5000 chassepots aboard, believed to be intended for the followers of Don Carlos.

Italy has had 294 square miles of land added to its, territory in ~.the last 70 years by the advance of the delta Of the Vo into the Adriatic Sea.

The German peace delegates hare retcirned to Berlin to try and get the Kaiser to agree to a permianent international arbitration tribunal.

. AH England in' their second innings scored only 240 runs, leaving the Australians 28 to get to win, which they scored without the loss of a wicket.

There are more medical men in London than in all Scotland and Iceland together, and in those two countries the number decreased during the past year.

More men have died and are buried in the Isthmus of Panama along the line of the proposed canal than on any other equal amount of territory in the world.

The bulk of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild's estate being in Austria, the value will not be revealed, but it is understood that it was worth more than £25,000,000.

The contempt for money and trade characteristic of Japau has lost much of its force. Merchant^,liaVe risen in social standing, and have even been advanced in the peerage.

Statisticians claim that the earth will not support more than 5,994,000,----000. people; At the present rate of increase the- utmost limit will be reached in the year 2072.

As a result of the year's workingof the municipalelectric tramways at Dover, England, the sum of £9000 was taken in penny fares. A profit of over £2000 thus goes to the relief of the rates.