TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Trouble in Venezuela. Pretoria is full of troops. A Boer raid on Natal is expectoc!. Outward San Francisco mail on Mon< dfty.

Inward 'Frisco mail due on Tuesday.

Hon. J. MeGowan has gone to Te Aroha.

Helensville Agricultural Show next Wednesday.

Kinematograph Company at Opera House to-night. All Saints' Sunday-school picnic at Pine Island to-day.

Admiral Beaumont has taken charge of the Australian station.

Lawn tennis mterelub matches postponed until next Saturday.

Several loyalists have been elected for the Dublin municipality. The thermometer at Sydney yesterday recorded 106 in the shade.

Victoria sends a thousand men in the contingent now forming for South Africa.

Crane-Power Dramatic Company open theiv season in Auckland on Monday evening.

St. George's Rowing Club competed this afternoon for the Coates Cup and trophies.

To-day is the anniversary of the departure of the Second New Zealand Contingent for South Africa last year.

Stone of a granite nature at Coromandel is being examined with view to its use if suitable at St. Matthew's Church.

There was forwarded by to-day's mail .261, a first instalment f.-oro Auckland towards the Stoke Orphanage case defence fund.

Mr Alexander Innes McGregor Mayor of Akaroa, and a member of the House of llepresentatives , Jijqjti iBB7 to 1800, died yesterday. ?*&.

The. Hon. Carroll and Mr Fraser, M.H.R., lunched with the Governor of South Anstraliii yesterday, aifd afterwards left for Xew Zealand.

After the parade of the Auckland Engineer Corps on Monday night a meeting will be held to elect a surgeonmajor and also a lieutenant.

Dr. W. E. Thomas has consented to act. as conductor for the musical part of the programme in connection with the departure of the Sixth Contingent, >y I The Finance and Legal Committee of the Harbour Board met yesterday afternoon. Beyond passing accounts there was nothing to be considered. ■ :

Mrs Jury, widow of Charles Jury, who was recently killed accidentally on the Great South Road, tenders her thanks to Mr Joseph Noye and those who kindly gave subscriptions on her behalf.

As a result of a' meeting' of the stewards of the Wellington Kacing' Club they intimated to the Postmas-ter-General that the telegraph office will be kept open as usual at the Hntt racecourse. ". .

Amongst the spectators a^thg execution of Jimmy Governor was George Mawbey, brother of the man who was, family was so ruthlessly massacred. After the execution he remarked: "Xow lam satised. I Avould never have been satisfied unless I had seen this."

Mrs Jane McGonag^e, who died at Otahuhu last week in her 80th year, arrived with her husband, the late Win. McGonagle, in 1848, and had lived in Otahuhu 51 years. She leaves four sons, three daughters and a ■ large number of grandchildren.

Blouses, new cut, 1/61, VHI, 2/6 up;; pique, drill, duck and holland cos^' tumes, latest style, 6/11, §711, 10/S----up; lace, Soutache and Broche mantles, 2/11, 7/11, 9/11, 12/6, 19/9; less than half-price. At McCullagh & Gower's sale.—(Ad.)