TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 198, 21 August 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fighting in Pekin. r ~;,. .;.,?.* Fart of Felcin is ou five. , - More Boer treachery is reported. , , Allies bombarding' the Inner Gity. . Baden-Powell is shadowing De Wet An English mail of London date July 13 is to hand. , >.. Supreme Court Criminal sessions ■ opens next Monday. .' Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation of drastic measures 'against; troublesome* Boers. ■ ' -:; :',•'; i At the beginning of this weelt there * were 154 male and 10 female "prisoner? in Mount Eden gaol. ..' !. , ,„.. New Zeaiande'rs particulai-ly dis-; tinguished themselves in "the latest,, conflict with the Boers. '£"; ; . '/ -■ Mahuta, the Maori King, is to attend ] a native meeting this, week at Maunga-*; tautari, near Cambridge.; , ■;r:.:;Li t v- | Peterson, a New Zealaiide'r,;1 and. other prisoners, escaped' froni- i they Boers under most sensational cii:cum-< stances. See to-day's cables. r ■ ■ -■'■.' ' Gold to the value of £2O,lO'o';wa3. shipped hence to Sydney by the sis." Zealandia last night by the National* Bank, for transhipment lo London. Lord Charles BeresfOrd: was-: an officer of H.M.s. Galatea during. the": second visit of the late Duke, of ;Edin* burgh to Australia and New Zealand.. \ The Waihi Gold Mining Go. has declared another1 dividend of 2/6 'per share, making the total amount paid in dividens by this company, so fat £519,000. . . f : ■; i/ The Goulburn Municipal Council' (N.S.W.) has refused to rco-operate' with the Parkes Council in taking ailtionto prohibit the .playing ■; Qf football, cricket, and lawn tennis .on Sun? days. ..." . ■.•■■.-.. ■■■■< .."> t,,;1 ; / jjj The jjassengeijs by. the Pilliga-Nar-rabri (N.S.W.) coach;; the. other; day were all armed (says a Sydney, paper)', in view of the possibility of meeting the blacks, who are wanted; for .the recent murders. i ii j , s> •■.,.', Last evening, at .WellingtonpjMri J; Grattan Grejr, late chief of the.lfiansard staff, was presented by his sympathiß'ers, prior to his departure for^Englai>)di with an illuminated address and a cheque for a substantial-.■amounvt;'/.■>• The N.S.W. Minister for.':A|iaes..jand Agriculture estimates ;that the: aj)^: proximate logs sustained by ,New South.W r.a-les last year in wool, and sheep, owing- to- the prolonged drought, was about four and^a^half millions of poiinds sterling. " '~/ ;" A benchman. named E, Kpbinsqn, me^t with a painful accident at the .Mountain. Rimu Timber Company's ,'at Mamaku, last'week, thfougli'getting his,, arm caught uin'. a ( beit." ,He' was brought into Kbtbrua on a jigger, and attended to by Dr. Kenny. •" ,;The^follo^ving note was recently.received by the*master of.a N.S.Wr.'couittry"'; school: —"Dear, Sury-^lf Joriny fales, to deliver this here noat, beltim like blazes, and if he's not at'":sKo6T to>day'cain 'im, for lie's'plain the wag.-i-i' i'oures afec^iunet, Mrs^-i-i." ,/'; '*, , 'v.'What.dbtypurcpnside'r, the' great'esjb otJjecit' of interest; in this countryl?^* "asked , Miss • -Cayjenhe.*,' "W;ellv'' : Bni».. swered the lecturer, "I arrived here yesterday, aim " "Of she ,exclaimed,. apologetically:' "I'-meant . the greatest object of jnteresi n^'xt t6 yourself!"''"". '_,' '' "./,!.".' , J. / v' . . A^ •young man named .Adarn'som1 're« siting in. Union-street s who, hafl' Tjeen. knocked about' by some' i>ougtis; jf^as baleen into, Mr ; J,. Trejmain.'s sfiopV'Wel-lesley-stree't, on Saturda.yv* . i'iiight, l sufEering- severely from blows .'received. 'He; was attended, to by Mr 'Tremain. and then." went "home. | His jassailanta were not.discovered. V ' (f • ' ' Dalgety. township, at the .celebrated Snowy River, ne^ar Mt.'' tKosciusko, N.S.W.j is.suggested,'as a^'stutarb^e- site for therAustralian^^ I'eja^raV.jßapital.'.'lt is iii,the Monairo' district, Jandi .hjas ati agreea,ble climate., "The altitude =Of Bombala (which is also suggested as a capital site) is said to.be 3000 ft, Cpoma; 2637 ft, and according ;t.-to':Mr |Cirig," P.M.' (calculated' T?y 'Aneroid barometer), the Snowy' Biyef-palgetyi site .is' some! 460 ft "below Cdoinai • ,: " . Sunday Jis kept in various' fashions in 'differenti countries and' cities. & writer,in a Brisbane newspaper1 ex- I plains the Charters Towers ;(Q.')[ hion... Says he:—-"Last Sunday, >Jwlien attending a funeral, I saw :jthousaJnds of people conjgTegated • together T«?i)tnessing the opening, football match/pi the,season. That was on one side;of the road leading1 to the cemetery.'-.On the other side the rifles were cracking all the afternoon. Members', of the Defence' Force and others were engaged in their usual Sunday, afternoon practice." ' ■' Members of the old Waikato Cavalryl will." be pleased to learn (says the "W&ikato Ar,g,us") that a^ old conirade, Mr William Hunt, who the Australian Bushmen's Contingent;' is now serving with distinction in South. Africa. As a volunteer, he had a fairly good record, having been in on.c of the Thames corps early in the seventies, and subsequently; gained a lot of experience as a mounted man as Lieutenant of the Hamilton Contingent of the old Te Awamutu Cavalry. He was offered a Commission in the Bushmen's Contingent, but had to de« cline through lack of means. ( "Warrung Narriga Anara Tpmab: Mirrool Wambobl Galare Wiradaii" Bullanaming Millemurra." This "is no^; the war song of the Breelong black* fellows, (says a. Sydney paper). It-i£ simply a carelesi? selection fromi,th^. electoral divisions nomenclature submitted "to the .New South Wales Par* liament for approval. TJhe ElectoiraF Commissioners had to arm themselves with . twenty-six aboriginal ■ names. Warrungi the premier city division;;* is Sydney cove; Narriga is translatable as the native tribe of the district;' Uhara is from the chief of the tribe of the locality; Tomah is a mountain facing the Valley of the Grose.