TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 179, 30 July 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Table Talk Boers in full flight. British at Middleburg. Another success for Koberts. • San Francisco mail is due to-mor-row.

Rev. J. Campbell at St. Paul's Social to-night. Parish Social at St. Paul's Schoolroom to-night

Troops enduring great hardships in the Transvaal. S.s. Taviuni arrived from Tahiti and Cook Islands.

The Kaiser has farewelled German troops, for China.

Boers and Lord Methuen are racing for Potchefstroom.

Chinese. Boxers are reported to have killed Prince Tuan.

The s.s. Mararoa, due from Sydney this evening, will be quarantined till Wednesday.

The latest news from Pckin confirms the reported massacre of the ambassadors

Sixty French sailors arid soldiers have arrived here from Tahiti, en route to France. '" .•■■■■' ' •

The Kaiser tells his'soldiers they must give the Chinese no quarter and "take no prisoners.?' ■

Constable Luke McDonnell, of the Ponsonby police station, who has been very ill from pleurisy, was somewhat better yesterday, and was able to' sit up for a little while. ■ <

. The steamer ■ Taviuni, which ai^ rived here yesterday from the Eastern Pacific, brought ■up to Auckland a very valuable cargo of pearlshell, vanilla, copra, fruit, etc.

Mr E. Eugster, well known in Auckland, leaves by the s.s. Waihora-for Sydney this evening en route ;to the Paris Exhibition. He' will return to Auckland in about four months.

There 'will be another attractive performance at Fuller's Waxworks and Bijou Company in the Agricultural Hall this evening. A very laxge audience assembled in the hall on Saturday evening, and a. first-class variety programme was gone through.

Eecent news from the Cape, states that distrust in their generals, is increasing rapidly amongst the Boer rank anc. .file. They believe that Commandant Botha Was guaranteed £15,000, "■ and other commandants £10,000 yearly for leaving the Biggarsberg after thei recent armistice.

At, Mr W. Eichardson's prohibition, meeting, held at the Grey-street firebell last evening, a resoiutioi. was carried by those present exi)ressing the opinion that Mr Bichardson had been fined, excessively at the Police Court for a, breach of the Electoral Act; which was at-the worst an ; in- %i advertence, and expressing a hope that the Minister for Justice would substantially. reduce the fine. ,-_• *■:■!

On Friday night a Waihi mincer/an elderly man named Thomas Thomp.son, fell from one level to a distance of over 60ft, at the WaibJi mine. He had (gone to get somfi water for the drill and did not take a light;- -He fell- ttfrbugh to the next level, Jraiij. landed,; on his feet.: Sis back was skinned- considerably,. and his chest and feet, were hurt, while one ankle was sprained. He had a marvellous escape from death. ■ ■;

A: correspondent of a Cape paper writing- from Bulnwayo says:—Not only the presence of the troops in the country, but the! presence of Rhodes, who is lookedl upon by the natives as their Great Chief, will do much towards the maintaining' of permanent peace amongst thb Matabela tribes. On a journey, a chief asked me whether,- "when Krngei',-vvas caug-ht, he'would not be made to tlbil the kettle for the Queen, that being the native idea of the • fitness of things^