TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 144, 20 June 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Accession Day. llararoa left for Sydney. Governor left for Wellington. Three British warships in port. Suez mail arrived this morning! Tarawera arrived from . Sydney. A fire occurred in Bereford-street j early this morning. H.M.s. Mildura and H.M.s. Kinedove : airived from the South. ! The Premier made another speech lat "Wellington last night. j It does not harm to believe in Fate lif you act as if you did not. 1 A Sydney cable predicts a fair majority for the Federal Bill. The Tarawera had very stormy j weather on her passage from Sydney' | Mr John Bollard, M.H.R., addresses the electors at Avondale this evening. Mr Newton appears for the last time at the Gaiety Company to-night. The Perthshire will be docked at I Sydney and discharge her cargo there Judge Gill, of the Native Land Court, has arrived here from, Tau-, ranga. There are at present 111 male* and 41 female patients in the Auckland Hospital. Jeffries has defeated Fitzsimmons: for the pugilistic championship of the world. Lord and Lady Ranfurly left Onehunga to-day in the Tutanekai for Wellington. ' ■ Mr P. Lawry, M.H.R., will address the electors in the Eden Terrace Hall this evening. At the end of last week there.were 157 male and 10 female prisoners in Mt. Eden gaol. . . Further particulars of the Perthshire's experiences are cabled from Sydney to-day. Forty-six passengers arrived here from Sydney by the s.s. Tarawera this morning. ... Mrs Young-man, who murdered her son, has been tried in Melbourne and. adjudged insane. An English mail of London date May 12 came to hand to-day by the: s.s. Tarawera from Sydney. Eight cases of typhoid feter.have1 been admitted to the Auckland Hospital during the past fortnight; i The Tarawera had two bditfe carried away and other damage done on the passage across from Sydney. A proposal is made to establish * residential house in connection with. the Auckland University College. The Australian cricketers are playing against a team representing Oxford University past and present. Colonial mails per Oratava, from Melbourne, May 17, were delivered 111 London on June 18, two days' early. - Mr James Barker, of tb,e: South. British Insurance Company, left here for Sydney by the B*6. Mararoa last evening. ■ :;' \ : ~, ,;■;:::: - A new serial story entitled "A Lady, from Nowhere," by > Fergus/-Hume', will be comjErienctea- in "tl^''Graphic" to-morrowii: ■<■■•■•>"-.«*■<■.< ■** :-.»-' :'"h^,\\'.'i ';..:" Trade "in- Johaiiiiesburg: is j^sfegnaat, Hundreds of natives are ldaVifi^r ttetlyand there ■; is'a. sferiotts; ish6|*^> e of labour for the mines. Arrangement have been completed to send an Australian rifle teaan to compete at Bisley in July. It is hoped New Zealand will be included. a , " .' "Gebrgie, I'm glad' to see,that yon are polite, and offer sister the oranges first." "Yes'm, 'cause then she has to be polite, an' take th' little one*" The office of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company has been removed to Halliday's buildings, Shortlandstreet, as per advertisement in another column. > ■ The three British warships in Auckland -harbour'were decorated- with" bunting to-day in honour of the anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession, to the throne, 1837.. ;Y An Auckland lady has been the lucky winner of the "Graphic" cricket competition. Full results of the cricket and drawing competitions in the "Graphic" published to-morrow. The fourth officer of the Perthshire said that when they were . drifting about at sea they had almost begun to think they were the remnants of a great world on a Noah's Ark expedition. , - Affected Young Poet (with > luxuriant locks): "Do, Miss Bella,1 grant me one favour. Let me ask you——■-''■ Miss Bella: "I know what you're going to say. Yon want me to lend you a hair pin." ' . Mrs Pressly: "Mrs Bingle says hea; husband has Idssed her regularly every morning of their married life." Mr Pressly: "I have often wondered what gave him that expression; of settled melancholy." According to Mr Geo; Hutchison" there was only, one greater insult than an M.L.C.-ship that the Premier could have offered to the Maori "King" Mahuta, and 'that was to make him a justice of the peace. ' : It is stated that the Shaw', Savilt and Albion - Co.'s, steamer Waiwera steamed 1750 miles.on the \New Zealand coast in her quest for cargo. As this is nearly equal to six, full. days' steaming1, some idea can be g^ain^d of the tax _pn ocean steamers in "coasting" for freight*. , , The threshing- tallies at Cheviot (South Island) this season, including 7000 bushels of wheat yet to. be put through, amounted to 132,000 bqshels, the average for wheat beingl about 45 bushels an acre. The highest yield for wheat is 81 bushels an acre, on Mr S. Haughey's farm. i . , !> • The Pahiataa, "Heradd" siatete:— It is rumoured in town that1 £150,000 can already be obtained at almost any time for the proposed Pahiatua electric railway, and we know that one leading commercial gentleman, has offered to finance £50,000 of ..the amount required for the sohemej. The recent visit of the Ngaitai tribe, from Torere, near Opotiki, to Hori Ngatai at Whareroa, Tauranga, was attended with much ceremony, and they were presented' with two tons of flour, half a ton of sugar and a large number of other presents*-' such as native mats, horses, greenstones, etc. * ' The funeral of the late Mr J. G. Somers (brother of Mr W. C. Somers, of the Auckland shipping agents firm of Russell and Somers) took place yesterday at Purewa cemetery, the Key. Canon Calder conducting the burial service. The interment was private, A large number of beautiful wreaths were sent, including one from the Hoa, J. Carroll, Colonial Secretary. •>■,-;;-•■■-■>«