TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 11 July 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK

! Gales in tie Tasman Sea | bteamer Waikato overdue Transvaal Uitlanders disappointed _£___S_L men ento^ »- ■aS-ajya*^ "*-«»* 4-af^fc!^ 6V ""«': Cargo-steamer Waikato is now «•» days out from London to D_ n *J£ 67 The English team for t*h7 V ___, jteg cricket match tapSjfcSd &£? Progressive leaders in Caiw--rvi y* : consider tne Boer propoSi? SS| l^Zft^ iSs?S'Se*^ < pire city. m i The No. 4 Gaiety Company and: j •Royal Cmematographe at the City Hall to-night, ?' j £1000 worth of gold has been stolen | from the Kalgoorlie Mint and Iron ,_ung Battery. J A man has been lost overboard from the s.s. Titus, off the N.S.W. coast, during a squall. | At the beginning of this week there ; were 144 male and 11 female prisoners in Mt.- Eden goal. i Chief Justice Chambers and family, | will join the E.M..S Moana at Samoa jfor San Eraucisco. j An amendment of .the Conciliation jand Arbitration Act is proposed to be j made this session. *i„ ■ | Transvaal proposed reforms "are con-' jsidered- by the English newspapers j more, real than apparent. ! Mission auxiliary screw schooner, j Southern Cross leaves for the Islands iOf the Western Pacific to-morrow. | The. Australian Cricketers are play- ' |ing against a Midland Counties Eleven, j and scored 192 in their first innings. j Through increased postal facilities, [ a letter posted in Paris at midday can. i be delivered in London at 8 p.m. byj' means of an "express, messenger' ar* - rangement. It is stated that Mr Martin, formerly S.M. at Wellington, is to be'appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, and made president of the Court of: Arbitration. j Mr N". A. McLeod, solicitor, has declared himself a candidate for the Bay. of Islands' seat, and has addressed meetings of the electors at Dargavilla and Aratapu. A man named Geo. B. Simpson, aged' ,78 years, died suddenly at Hikutaia, Thames Valley, yesterday. He had been suffering from ' heart disease, dropsy, and liver complaint. The largest and oldest chain bridge' m the world is said to be that 0 Kingtung, in China, where it forms' a perfect road from -(he top of onmountain to the top of another. Miss Elsie Atkin, daughter- of MrArthur Atkin, who ' was ' injured' through being thrown from her -horse'on the Mount Albert Road has reeoverjed^consciousness,- and is getting or "Twenty - millions of people fri th, Congo Eree State are eaters of-human flesh, said Mr Mohun, United StateS | Commercial Agent, in a recent interview. That is about four-fifths of the entire population. ' ; The average duration of human life is thirty-three years. One quarter Qthe people born on earth die before they are six years of age, one-half before they are sixteen, and only one person out of 100 lives to the a~e of sixty-five. to Mr William Quinn, an auctioneer who has resided in Tapanui'for the* past twenty-five years, and -who is a prominent citizen of the town, states' in the "Otago Daily Times" that prohibition has completely ruined tho Borough of Tapanui. Much commotion was caused atf Whatawhata, on the Waipa, last week by the holding of a Maori tangi, beingthe celebration of the death of a noted: young' Maori woman. The meeting was rendered more attractive by a visit from the Maori King, Mahuta, and a band, conducted by Mahuta's son. When -the Union s.s. Co.'s steamer Waikare left Sydney for the:'-Souths Sea Islands with excursionists th_*» other day, she 'had 18,000.fresh egg*? in the freezing room, 20 tons of beef. _ ton of fresh butter, 2000 head of poultry, and 10 tons of ice. Besides she had 330 cases, of fruit, of SOlbs each, for the passengers. Very/few people, save the railway, Officials, says • the. "ChristchurclPress," know the large amount of rail* way traffic there is from the Christchurch railway, station. In the busy season ninety-eight' trains a day have been either despatched or arrived. These were not exceptional days, but; ordinarily busy. ones. On numerous days in the year the traffic far exceed* 100 trains. • : ~' "Recently an interesting cave 'discovery was made on the Akaroa Peninsula, Canterbury, where some men unearthed the camping, or perhaps more correctly speaking, the former abode of Maoris. They found a- collection of Maori implements and belongings, including adzes or tomahawks of greenstone and another kind o_ stone, greenstone ear pendants, earrings of human teeth, bone an^d wooden hooks (some with flax lines attached), bone and wooden spear heads, bone and wooden needles, pieces of sandstone worn in the shape of a mortar, vessels of what appears to be kelp drawn into shape by pieces of wood and flax,-wooden ..clubs,'etc.