TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 294, 11 December 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

De Wet cornered. '±Tisco mail to-morrow. S.s. Zealandia left for Sydney. _ The Czar bus declined Kruger s visit, Boers have been raiding more trams. Another New Zealand trooper

killed. '~. Auckland HaTbour Board met this afternoon

Cornelius Vanderbilt's estate ia valued at 14i millions. More missionaries and converts tortured to death in China. Johannesburg is surrounded by; bnrbed wire as a precaution against Boers.

At the beginning of this week there were 152 male and 14 female prisoners in Mt. Eden Goal.

An English mail of London date November 2 is expected to arrive .-here from Sydney by tbe s.s. Morayshire to-morrow.

The Napier-street Public School concert, which was so successful last week, will be repeated in the Opera House this evening. The R.M.S." Mariposa, which is due here to-morrow from San Francisco, lias English mails of London date November 10 on board.

Waldersee returned a letter of protest written by tlie officer in command of the American forces in China because he objected to its tone.

The steamer Zealandia, which left for Sydney last evening, took a gold shipment valued at £0350 and large lines of maize, timber, fungus, kauri

gum, etc. Mr A. P. Fielding, of Master-ton, has sent to Brighton, England, some 2500 marked stamps to be disposed of, the proceeds to be devoted to the funds of the Melanesian Mission. The little boy, Herbert Edward George Piper, who was murdered by, his father in Franklin Road on Saturday night, was buried yesterday at Waikumete, his relatives attending the funeral. The natives at Oeo, on the Taranaki coast, last" week picked up on the beach a young penguin, which died shortly after capture. Naturally, the Maoris are curious as to how the bird got where it was found, the penguin not being indigenous. A rather unique incident is reported from Dunedin. The Australian wan correspondents ("Banjo" Paterson and Donald Macdonald) joined forces for their farewell lecture there, the former occupying the stage till nine o'clock, when the latter took up"the running, and spoke till 10.30. - The Samoa "Herald" of the' 17th ult. says:—"By the mail boat arrived. Captain M. Grapow, who conies to take command of the German warship Cormoran, in the place of Captain Emsmann. who has been appointed to a position in tbe Admiralty on the Home station. The officers of the ship took the opportunity to entertain their late captain with Mrs Emsmann on board to a banquet. On the captain's intention being known to po on shore, the. boat -was manned bt" the officers, the first lieutenant taking "stroke oar." -

Just opened: Scarce lines black* grey . and dove French dress voiles^ black and white spot, navy and" white spot, challies, a.t McCullagh and Gower's.—Ad.