TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 131, 4 June 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

r. «—— . j Boers still resisting. "j Kumassi has been relieved. Panic and confusion in Pretoria. \ Fighting impending near Pretoria* 'Frisco mail is due on Wednesday. Ovalau arrived from Eastern Pacific. Great mortality from cholera in. India. > Big fleet of warships off Taku, China. Steamer Mararoa for Sydney thii [ evening. City Licensing Committee meets tomorrow. Kruger has engaged rooms in Amsterdam. . . ■ I j "The Silver King" at the Opera 'I House to-night. , . ,'. " • \ Severe fighting has taken plae« ' • around Johannesburg. Supreme Court Criminal Sessions ■ were resumed to-day. ...... . j The Auckland Institute holds an j open meeting this evening. . r; Pour foreigners have been killed bjt • 1 the Chinese Eebels near Pekin. Lord Ranfurly paid a visit to Pakur, anga and the Howick district toj ' I day. j To-day being- WMt Monday, the I banks and insurance offices were closed. i Forty British'soldiers were kiljed in. »jthe.fight at Lindley, in the Orange • . Free State. ■ , The output from the Weslport Coal Company's mines last week was 9349 tons 1 cwt. ■ -.-.. The Ponsonby Njavals hold (their annual business meeting at the Drill Hall this evening. '■ Farewell entertainments by Eer. Chas. Clark and Mrs Howie to-night and to-morrow evening. In the football match Waitekanri r. Waikino on Saturday, ' EdwaYds, . V : Waitekauri player, had two rib* ' broken. ', Mails for South Africa, via Albany and East London, per Ormazan, closft • at Wellington on Saturday, 9th inst.. j at" 10-a.m. The Rev. Dr. Hosking preached las* •evening in the Mt, Eden Free Methodist Chwrch on "Socrates and Christ" i Compared and Contrasted." ' Tk&'-ket±^;': . j mon proved novel and very infe'te^-c' . I ing. ■■ ' ■ :'' ; • An organ solo by the Re?. fatßeij? ' Patterson -willbe perfprnjed in ;st. ; Patrick's Cathedral at an early djite. t Some compositions of Mr H. HiKjofekV - (junr.) will be performed on the same occasion. , ■ ; ' The chief complaint with reference to cheap workmen's tickets is' thit they are not available afc.anytnne.':Un- ; der the 2/ regime the tickets «Eptr« ; . everySaturdayj but the oia^yef^iieisei^ entitled the holder to 12 rides; in>*i<Brbr ; . night, and it is suggested air^iaj^awss*-'* T ment wouldbe to make the new tick* ets good for six days from1 issue. 7 "- ' Special services >were; held via St. ■ \ John's Wesleyan Chnrchj JPonsbnby', - yesterday, in aid of ior'e'i^ ■• missions. ;. In the morning-• the f EeV; W.vfieady t . preached; in the afternoon tto SeV.Ci • »-E. Williams arid Josef a, (b^Mj^ gaT<s;. ... ; .addiesses^^p#.;iifcthWeyemnjf^eß«^ f C. E. Williams pfeachea, darling .with; „ 5 the subject of Christianity" in'J^athen* ; " dom. The collections- at^ each' service - were in aid of the missions. i 1 At a meeting of the Chairmen of the' , ". Eden Terrace, Mount Eden, Mt. Albert : and Arch Hill Eoad Boards, held in the : Eden' Terrace Public Hall on Friday, , , evening, in order to consider the drainage of the Arch Hill gully, Mr Jenkins. : (Chairman of the Arch Hill Eoad Board) was empowered to intervieyr ' the Mayor of Auckland for the purpose 1 of "convening a meeting of delegates- , from the various bodies interested in - the drainage of the gully, in. or(je,r ;■ ' that steps may be taken to remedy ■ the present nuisance. • . >■) ■_■{