TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 203, 28 August 1899, Page 1

TABLE TALK

Another shipwreck. Steamer Te Koa lost. Struck on Staten Island. 'Frisco mail due to-morrow. ', Steamer Taieri has left for Fiji. Criminal sittings >opened to-day. S.s. Mararoa arrived from Sydney. A Boer raid in Lorenzo Marquez is feared. Case of supposed murder at Wellington

Transvaal crisis growing more acute.

Very serious football accident at Dunedin.

S.s. Ovalau arrived from the Eastern Pacific.

Mr Chamberlain gives Kruger £ solemn warning. Auckland Hospital Board held a meeting this afternoon.

Most of the crew of the wrecked s.s. Te Koa are missing.

A meeting of the Auckland Institute will be held this evening.

The Transvaal has decided to maintain the dynamite monopoly.

British India steamer Umta arrived Irom Calcutta, and Singapore.

A gold-exploring expedition is to start out from Adelaide shortly.

The renowned Captain Wm. Jackson Barry is at present in Sydney. Auckland rep footballers will leave for'•the South early to-morrow morning-.

News from Tahiti and Raratonga arrived here by the s.s.,Ovalau today. . ■

The trial trip of the new coasting1 steamer Kawau took place this afternoon.

Mr Chamberlain says that Britain's patience with the Transvaal is unparalleled.

The steamer Julia Percy has had a very perilous passage from Brisbane to Newcastle.

Last performance of the AfroAmerican Minstrels in the Opera House to-night.

Captain E. Phillips is again in command of the Union Steamship Co.'s steamer Mararoa.

The "Georgia Magnet" make.1? her first appearance in the Opera House to-morrow evening.

The mysterious distress signals off Newcastle last week were fired by the steamer Julia Percy.

Mr Chamberlain refuses any form of arbitration in regard to the suzerainty over the Transvaal.

"It will be at the eleventh hour if President Kruger now speaks the word."—Mr Chamberlain.

■• Auckland footballers defeated the Upper Thames men at Potter's Paddock on Saturday afternoon.

One hundred and twenty-eight passengers arrived lucre from Sydney; yesterday by the s.s. Mararoa.

M. Guerin, who has been besieged by the police in his house in Paris, has been discovered to be sick.

An English mail of London date July 21 arrived here via Suez and Australia by the s.s. Mararoa last night.

Six large steamers were berthed at the Auckland wharves yesterday. The tonnage of the steamers totalled 22,204.

Mi* David Lundon, of Tauranga, announces himself as a candidate for the Bay of Plenty electorate in the Liberal interest.

Mr Chamberlain, speaking1 at Birmingham, said the developments of the Transvaal crisis showed the unity of the Empire.

The rumour again comes from the Bismarck Achipelago, via Sydney, this time, that England will take over Samoa, America retaining1 Tutuila.

New Zealand Shipping Company are having bad luck with their steamers. The Waikato is drifting about in the Southern Ocean, and the Te Koa has been wrecked near Cape Horn.

A ball \v.as given by Lord and Lady Ranfurly on Saturday night at Government House, Wellington, and was a very successful event. Amongst those present were the Premier and Mrs Seddon, Colonel Pole-Penton, Capt. Leah, E.N., and Capt. Russell.

On Saturday evening a pleasant gathering was held at the residence of Mr Edwin Young, who was presented with a handsome trophy by his many admirers, on the occasion of his becoming a member of the Auckland football representatives team. A number of songs were sung.

A very old Maori, one of the past generation, named Rawiri te Maire, died in Otago lately. He was one of the Lake Hawea natives who were expelled from Central Otago in 1836 by Te Puoho, one of the great Rauparaha's warrior-chiefs and his men, and Maire and his fellow fugitives fled down the Waitaki to the coast. H8 w&S a grown man whea Christ" ianity was introduced.