TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 19 August 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» — Upolu safe. Steamers in bad weather. Terrible gale in the Tasman Sea. Shocking colliery disaster in Wales. S.s. Hauroto arrived from Samoa and Tonga. More sensational developments in the Dreyfus case. A mosquito plague is reported from Hackney, London. Direct steamer Papanui is now duo here from London. Two big British steamers have collided in the Eed Sea. Another forgery has come to light in the Dreyfus case. German newspapers assert that' Dreyfus is innocent. To-morrow will be "Citizen Sunday" in the Auckland churches. British volunteers are volunteering for service in the Transvaal. H.M.s. Melpomene has left Capetown to search for the s.s. Waikato. A French steamer fell in with a ' hurricane in the Tasman Sea. Mass meeting at the firebell this evening re the electric tramways. Heated debate in the Hoiise last night on the Eussell land grant. "The freehold is the foundation of national greatness." — Mr B. Monk. M.H.E. Eighteen miners killed and 60 entombed through a colliery explosion in Wales. i The British yacht Shamrock has arrived at New York to sail for the America Cup. The oyster-yacht Thistle is missingl from Coromandel and anxiety is being1 felt for her crew. Germans protest against French army authorities ignoring proofs of Dreyfus innocence. M. Bertulus, examining magistrate in Dreyfus' case, says that Dreyfus is ' "absolutely innocent." French steamer Maroc arrived at Lyttelton from Newcastle last night after a very perilous experience. A quantity of coal was washed overboard from the s.s. Lismore on her passage from Sydney to Auckland. The Collie pups at Messrs Warren Blyth anS Co.'s sale yesterday brought good prices, the average being £1 14/. Mr Carson, M.H.E., wants the whole of the million loan devoted to the completion of the North Island Main Trunk Eailway. y A passenger jumped overboard from the s.s. Mararoa on her voyage across from Auckland to Sydney this week and was drowned. The Australasian Federation Lea- > gue announce a lecture by Canon MeMurray at the Harbour Board Hall on Monday evening next. Next Wednesday evening the Rev. W. Eeady will deliver a lecture en- •} titled, "From London Streets to the Pulpit.'^in the Wesleyan Church, Pitt- s, street. ■■ ... ] An unsuccessful search Has been made for the bodies of the four foxing I men belonging "to the "oyster cutter Willie Winkle, who have been drowned near Coromandel. < Yesterday, while the s.s. Lismore i was coming down the coast, a big sea broke on board just as the cook was getting dinner ready and made a clean sweep of the galley. Owing to the non-arrival of the s.s. Upolu the Auckland mails have missed the Vancouver mail, which that steamer was to have connected with 8 at Fiji, and the mails for England will now be sent via Suez.