TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Big casualty list. Colliery disaster in N.S.W. Mercer Regatta to-morrow. Hon. J. G. Ward is in town. Four New Zealanders killed. Lord Roberts visits St. Helena. Four days' battle with the Boers. Lord Hopetoun has arrived in Australia. Tenders are- called for Mechanics* Bay sewer. Supreme Court civil sittings proceeding to-day. Entries for the Ponsonby annual regatta close to-night. In the Coningham divorce the petitioner's ease has closed. The Hon. J, G. Ward goes up to the Waikato to-morrow. Napier-street school concert in the Opera House this evening. The Wesleyan Synod session ■was brought to a close laat night. 11.M.5. Mariposa is due here from San.Francisco next Wednesday. The Rnox Church (Parnell) sale qt work was opened this afternoon. Outside oE the Blackball mine the roaring of the fire inside can be heard plainly. Sub-Inspector. Wilson, of the Auck* land police force,, is away, at Rotorusfc on leave. New Z-ealanders rusted* the Boers* position on the third day of the fight at Jteitfontein. De Wet was outflanked in, Ilia lasfi engagement, and the Boers were ex* pelled from all their positions. - The Auckland yacht Rainbow &r* rived at Napier from. Auckland and Gisborne last night'and reported 'all well. Mr J. H. Witheford, chairman, of thtt Auckland '■ Harbour Board, intends moving in the direction • of. appointing? a first-class engineer for Board works. The s,s. Eiffel Tower, .which. left* Gisborne the other day for Wellington, took on. board at Poverty Bay] a cargo of wool and tallow valued at over £32,000 for London. The Tokomaru has also loaded a valuables freight at Gisborne. The Conciliation Board, is; sitting at ; Hikurangi dealing .with the dispute, between the Hikurangi Coal Company^ and their. employees. It has been de* cided to cite the Ngnnguru coal ck>m* panics, also the Hikurangi Collieries'Board, and the hearing stands adjourned till Tuesday next. The Native Minister has had pre-« pared a number of models of seals to be used by the councils to be set! up under the Act of last session. Some of the designs are very quaint, especially that for the Kingites, which! depicts a Maori in a sitting posture, with a. huge potae, or belltopper, suspended, like an extinguisher, over his head. This may refer to the Rohepotae country in some mysterious manner. Another shows an enormous fish, like a serpent or taniwha, rising from the sea. Many of the seals contain coats of arms, flanked" on each side by Maoris. .■• iord Ranfijrlyv thoroughly; enjoyed himself at ra "Bohemian evening at the Christchurch Savage Club during the period of the Exhibition festivities. His Excellency let himself go so thoroughly that he took a turn as an entertainer and astonished the Savages with some clever card tricks, JLord Ranfurly gave the committee another surprise by informing them that he had during his young days been captured by Arabs, and held captive by them for some weeks. That experience, said His Excellency, entitled him to take rank and wear the sign of the hatchet. Children's sample tunics and pelisses from 5/li; sun hats and bonnets, 2/6, 2/11 up; boys' blouses from. 1/11.—MeCullagh & Gower's.—(Ad.) . Real Maltese lace scarves, hand made; suitable for Christmas gifts, very; choice goods just opened at McCullagh and Gower's;' also lace ties, in cream, white and butter, 1/, 1/3,1/6,1/9, .2/3, 2/6, 2/11, 3/6, great variety to choose from.—(Advt.) ' is