TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 5 March 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Departure of Bough Eiders. A brilliant scene. • - Public half-holiday, Enthusiastic send-off. Avon dale Fruit Show was a decided success. Earl Beauchamp leaves for Sydney this evening. ' Thames Miners' Union demonstration took place to-day. Cronje has been given the Admiral's quarters on H.M.S. Doric. Blyth and Co. sell to-morrow a valuable piano, furniture, sundries, etc. Duringthe siege of Ladysmith SOOO soldiers passed through the hospital. The 12,000 shells thrown into Ladysmith only killed 35 and wounded 188 Eudyard Kipling- cabled for increased supplies of Australian horses. Waitekauri return this month totalled £6271, the product of 2054 tons of ore.

British army estimates provide for 430,000 men and an expenditure* of £61,409,400,.

Dr. Howard and Mrs-Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, left for Rotorua this morning.

Tributers in theKiirunui-Caledonian mine obtained £605 19/2 for last month's operations.

Deliberate pollution of Ladvsmith wafer supply by the Boers inipairea the health of the garrison. James Harris, aged 22. one of the men injured at Calliope Dock on Sat-; in-day, died at the Hospital. The secret despatch from Mr Chamberlain was merely a request for 2000 additional men from Australia. Four children of James Christie, farmer, of Toiro, near Balclutha, were* burnedto death this morning. The Rev. Hudson Taylor, founder and director of the China Inland Mission, arrived yesterday by the Westralia, The Anglo-Continental Syndicate notifies that after three months it wall cease to carry on business iv New. Zealand. ';.'.■-'- The three-year-old daughter of Mr H. N. Black fell from a-perambulator and broke her leg on Friday at the Thames. At the City Hall last night the Rev.' John Gouthey, from Melbourne, gave the address. There was a good attendance. In the trenches, at Pieter's Hill the' dead body of a Boer woman 70 years of age was found. Another, aged GO, was dying. A finely executed oil painting of Seahorse, by Miss Mary E. Morton, is on view at Messrs J. H. Upton & Co.'s, Queen street.

In the House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain stated that the Australian Federation Bill would 'probably, be introduced after Easter. ' ..,-:,.-': Mr IN*. B. Lusk was struck on the .temple by a cricket ball on Saturday, receiving a nasty cut, but he. is not likely to suffer any permanent injury. _ ■ ' • . . ' A competitor in the swimming races on Saturday night at the.Albert St. Baths had'his watch, and some loose silver stolen, from his clothes' left-".li-the, dressing-room. The Fire Brigade had to be called out again, yepierday, as the .smouldering- mass at _V.Zi Loan and Mercantile buildings again burst into flames. The fire was speedily extinguished. The Ponsonby Orchestral Society, are about to commence pcatices. Over 20 instrumentalists have joined, and intending members are requested to forward their' names to the secretary, Mr Jas. Short.