TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 21 January 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Queen is ill. Outward 'Frisco mail to-day.

S.s. Zealandia arrived from Sydney. Lord Methuen has repulsed De Ifc Key.

Auckland Kegatta Committee meet? to-night.

Imperial troops arrive liere on Felv mary 10.

The Boer raiders in Cape Colony have been checked.

E.M.S. Alameda is due from San Francisco to-morrow.

The Crane-Power Dramatic Company opens this evening.

New Zealanders have defeated 800 Boers near Ventersburg.

Entries for the Anniversary Re* gatta close this evening. Mr Seddon left Sydney for Mcl« bourne on Sunday night.

Mr. E. Thompson, M.H.R., arrived here from Whangarei yesterday.

The marriage of the Queen of Holland has been fixed for February 7th.

Boers captured a British, train loaded with mining material for the Hand.

The !s Tew Zealanders returning by the Orient will land at Dunedin . on "Wednesday.

The Hon. J. G. Ward will come up here from the South in order to. fare^ well the Sixth Contingent.

Eighty-six saloon and seventy-three steerage passengers arrived here from Sydney by the Zealandia to-day.

The Government intend establishing a State nursery at Whangarei in connection with the Forestry Department. ;•?;■-.

Arrangements are being set on foot for a great gathering of Maoris to welcome the Duke of York on hisvisi* to New Zealand. , '.'..' ~.':

Messrs O'Meara, Allen, and McGuire; New Zealand legislators, are ampngsi, the passengers by the Waihora,'whicK left Sydney on Sunday. •*' An application for the Humane Society's award has been received from the Mayor of Devonport on behalf of John Lunn and William Oliver, two lads who rescued a man. named T. Barrow from drowning at the North Shore wharf on November 8.

The citizens of Suva and thej Fiji Federal League have written requesting Mr Seddori to convey';to the Government of the Commonwealth their congratulations on the inauguration, and regret that they were not represented on so historic an occasion.

Mr F. W. Smith, grain merchant, Commerce-street, has now sufficiently recovered to be able to' attend tb nis business in a'fortnight. If will be remembered that while returningI'!from Bombay to Auckland dujijjgf his holidays Mr Smith had- a nasty bicycle ac* eident. •'••-•" - 1a- ■-■ ■'

The death is announced of Mrs. John Eattray, relict of the late Gaptain John Eattray, of Albert-street. The deceased lady arrived here in the fifties by the ship Invincible, from Melbourne, and had resided \in Albertstreet for about 44 years in tfoe xme house. She leaves one son 'and four daughters. • \ •