TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 196, 18 August 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Victory for the Allies. foreign Legations relieved. Chinese defeated near Pekin. Severe fighting in Manchuria. Financial Statement, published. Edward Hall, of Ngaruawahia, 'hai resigned his J.P.-ship. Frenchmen are much irritated ovex the British loan to Wuchang. The landing of British troops a£ Shanghai has been postponed. . • The debate on the Financial Statement is to begin on Friday next. The Colonial Treasurer advocates $ narrow-gauge railway over the Strat* ford route. The Premier gays work is to be energetically pushed on at the northern end of the Main Trunk railway. A railway porter named Ilansen waa killed lastAight at Lumsden, South* land, during shunting operations. ' _ Mr John Court announces himseh, as a candidate for the Ponsonbyj Ward at tlie City Council election. The further proceedings in the tailors' dispute before the Conciliation Board are adjourned till next Thursday. Captain Owen, of the South Lan* cashire Regiment, is gazetted major of the New Zealand Militia for staff duties. • . What is the difference between Mr Rhodes and Mr Steyn?—The one lays the railways and the other makes tracks. The' Financial Statement suggests, the expenditure of about £5000 on new bath-houses, etc., at Rotorua sanatorium. The Estimates include an advance o£ £500' to the Cook Island Government for the purchase of an auxiliary oil engine schooner. The directors of the Westporfc Coal Company have declared an interim dividend for the half year ending June 30 of 34 per cent. . ' ■ ....,' The rainfall of the' principal centres for July was: Auckland, 3.68 inches;; Wellington, 8.08 inches; Christchurch, 1.22; Dunedin, 5.85. "■'':■ The Kauri Freehold Gold Estates property at Opitonui yielded £ 2303 worth of gold from 1498 tons of ore for the month of July. ;/• Mr Turney (say's the Waikato "Argus") has purchased a 200-acre farm close to his own, on the Te Awa-mutu-Ohaupo Road,,from Mrs GavinT" Captain Baiime; of the No, 3 Company, New Zealand Native Riflea (Auckland) has. been transferred from active to honorary position of captain. The Financial 'Statement .says' that the Main Trunk railway line will be completed to Kawakawa from Poro-Q-Tarao (about 16 pities) in a year's time, r- ,- ~ .■ -'■>■■'■ ■•■ ~'• , :>',' •,,-;■ The Collectors of Customs and tide surveyors at the r>rincipai; ports have been appointed ■ officers to carry out the provisions of the Immigration Re-; striction Act, 1899. .;■ At Dunedin the Supreme Court te V occupied with the case of Aitcheson v. Kaitangata Railway.U|hd Coal Company. This is a claim for £1000 damages for alleged brench of ' covenant. »The case, is likely to last a week. ~,:, : The "/^a**!**^^ ~(Mr'"KerrX;and-sundry "rabbit agents" ' or "ra'obiters," along with ,a. Small army •■ of assistants, are busy laying phOsphorised bait for the rabbits on Grown-lands jjiea'r Kihikihi, Waikato. The Waikato "Argus" says that 'Mr A. jJones, of, Ohaupo, has purchased 200 acres of Mr Garland's estate,. Pukerimu, late'Mr Heather's"," at a satisfactory price. This ought to make a good dairy farm, and jvVill :bV close to the new creamery to- be erected on Mr Greenslade's property. } Mr John , Clark,. who isV' about to leave Auckland* for a tinie on account of his health, having been ordered to take'a long sea trip, is to be farewellecl, this evening by the 'West End Row- ' ing Club, Ponsonby, of which club'Mr Clark has been captain, and also coach, and 1 the mainstay generally," for'some years, past. His many friends will r6? gret to hear of his bad health. •■ ' , Trooper R. Meredith, one of the Kihikihi boys, who volunteered and, went to- South Africa, met -with, a .■jovial;1" though rough and ready sort of reception at Kihikihi, Waikato, this week. when, he arrived from '(visitingl Ws ' parents at Poro-o-tarao. Mr Meredith, was invalided home. Some of the Kihikihi boys, headed by membersVof jthe volunteers, ran him round tihe 'township in a brake with a pair of white horses, and &c was cheered and handkerchiefs and flags were waved by many of the residents. In the evening Mr Meredith, who looks stout and well now, was royally entertained atj; a smoke concert. ■■•• ' '> Attention1 is drawn to the XueWancl Co-operative Terminating Building ' Society's advertisement, on page 4. Ad. The wholesale pxice of i "Anchor" and New Zealand Dairy Association: brands'of butter has been reduced to one shilling-per lb.—(Ad.) ~•