TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Waitenuita Couuty Council met today. Alafeking garrison is close vii starvation. ; "The French Maid" at the Opera House this evening. Avondale Jockey Club races will be concluded to-morrow afternoon. Determined attack was made on Mafeking recently, but was repulsed. ■ Matinee performance of "The Geisha" at the Opera Mouse to-morrow ; afternoon. | £150 a/7 was taken at Knox : chui'cl) bazaar yesterday. Our report ; appears on page 0. To-day His Excellency the Governor entertained {he Maori boys of St. I Stephen's school, Parnell. i General Hamilton dispersed the ! Boers at Hautneck, and captured 50, t, I including the commandant. I Thirteen more insanitary buildings in Auckland city have been condeiuni.ed, and are to be pulled down. | Auckland City Council strongly"condemns the needless plague scare, ami Idisapproves of Dr. Baldwin's reports. | Roehelle: How much did that cye!e cost you, old man? Parke: 1 don't know. My doctor hasn't sent in Ills bill yet. At the Gaiety performance in the City Hall to-morrow evening the Williams Sisters will make their last appearance in New Zealand. Or. King, the city health officer, suggests that boarding-houses should be registered and space defined, In order to prevent overcrowding. ' Mrs Hicks: I just know my uew dress does not look at all neat .and stylish. Hicks: What makes you think so? Mrs. Hicks: Recau.sc it's too comfortable. "Call a man a sad dog." said the corn-fed philosopher, "and he will look knowingl and feel flattered; but if you call him a miserable pup he'll want to fight." Mrs Xagleigh: I suppose you arcs satisfied now that you made a mistake when you married me? Mr Xagleigh: I made the mistake all right, but I'm not .satisfied. Arrangements have practically been completed for a united bands contest, to be held in Christehureh during Christmas week, in connection with the Jubilee Exhibition. Dr. E. IT. Bakewell says that he is prepared to .sleep in the bed in which a plague patient has died, and in the same bedding-, to proTe that there is no danger in mere contact with a plague patient. Frank Evans, a policeman, met a terrible death a few days ago at Darliii«- Harbour. Sydney. He got too close to the ice snw at the Fresh Food and Tee Company's Works, and was literally sawn to death. During the month orf March the Xew Zealand Government railways yielded a lotal revenue of £ 143,191 .6s 6d, the expenditure being- €3,1,278 8s lid. The railway revenue on the Auckland section was .£14,97(5 His; 3d. while the expenditure was £'9,048 10s., During1 the last twelve days the number of carcases of frozen mutton and lamb handled at Lytteltor; amounted to the enormous total of 331,619, in addition to 904 quarters at beef, and several hundreds of boxes oi kidneys and sweetbreads. The Governor, on the occasion of his visit to the '"Kapai" Boot Factory,' Eden Terrace, yesterday, was conducted round the establishment by Mr G. A. Coles, one of the proprietors and managing director, who carefully explained to His Excellency the methods of boot and shoe manufacture and the nature of the machinery employed. The "Wairoa Guardian" says:— "We arc informed that there is an< alarming mortality among the natives of Xuhaka, llawke's Bay, chest complaints being the principal diseases. Eleven deaths have occurred in six weeks, and the various settlements are full of sick children. If the Government desire to abolish the calling1 of the ignorant, presuming tohungas they should provide some medical aid for the natives." Nothing is being talked about on the West Coast except gold dredging, and T all along- the route from SpringfieM to Jackson's there is hardly any other subject discussed. Almost every second man one meets has a sample or two in his waistcoat pocket. A West I Coast paper, referring to the Easter holidays, remarks that on Good Friday j" numbers availed themselves of the j excursion trains to go shooting and | pegging out dredging claims." I"