TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.Goer raiders are hemmed in. University Senate still sitting-. Botha has had a crushing' defeat. Outward 'Frisco mail next Saturday. The Minister of Lands visits Whangarei. Butchers' annual picnic at Motutapu to-day. The Indian troops were at Nelson to-day. Auckland Chamber of Commerce nn« nual meeting to-day. "Why Smith Left Home" at the Opera House to-night. A colliery fire in Wyoming entombed 50 miners and killed 49. The Hons. J. G. Ward and Hall-Joneg propose visiting Auckland shortly. The Conciliation Board finding in the painting trade dispute was accepted. Tlie Rev. Geo.. Lane has been elected I president of the S.S.W. Wesleyan Conference. The liev. A. R. Edgar lias l>een elected president of the Victorian and Tasinanian Conference. i The new Governor of West Australia accompanies the Duke of York to Australia in the Ophir. Colonel Goring and Mrs Coring arrived here from Whangarei by the s.s. Wellington last night. An elaborate programme has been arranged for the proclamation of the King at Adelaide on Wednesday, in which the Imperial troops will participate. Bridget: Sure, phwy do thim Oitalyons be makin' ready to cilibrate Columbus? Patrick: It's histry ye shud study, Biddy. Columbus landed in th' West Indies and discovered bannanies. Father: I think I've scared Bobby out of smoking cigarettes. Mother: What did you say? Father:. I told him no boy seven years old who used tobacco would ever grow big enough to be a policeman. School Teacher (to boy at head of class, the lesson being philosophy): How many kinds of force are there? Boy: Three, sir. Teacher: .Name them. Boy: Bodily force, mental "force and the police force. Mrs Waggles: If women had the suffrage politics would be purer. Do you think they would sell their votes for two dollars? Waggles: No, my dear. They'd probably do it for one dollar and ninety-nine cents. Keepers of poultry in the suburban districts should be on the lookout for weasels, as Que was killed last Saturday by Mr H. Freeman, Onslow Road, Bellwood, Mount Roskill, in the paddock at the back of his residence. At a meeting of Wanganui ratepayers, held last night, authority waa given for taking a poll on the question of raising a loan of £30,000 for the purpose of purchasing and municipalising the local g-asworks. Another fine number of the "Graphic," containing a pictorial: account of the Imperial troops at Rotorua, the Indians in the South, and the Auckland members- of the Seventh Contingent is published to-day. Send a copy to your friends abroad by the, 'Frisco n-_-nl on Saturday,- - , ' On Sunday -afternoon at the camp of the Seventh Contingent' in the Domain a gold ring and silver-mount-ed pipe were presented to Trooper A. J. Thorn by the employees of the Avondale Brick and Pottery Company as a mark of esteem they felt for their late fellow workmen. Mr Maalan, who made the presentation, wished Trooper Thorn every success and a safe return. Mr J. H; Siggs recently gave to the Hawera museum some cannon balls. These were fired from H.M-s. Alligator on the Taranaki coast, and were carried, on to Mr Siggs' property and afterwards found, having lain embedded since 1832. The reason of the shots being fired was due to the wife of the captain of the Harriet (vvreckedt beyohd Opunake) having been captured by the Maoris, and the Alligatoi came along', firing shots into a settlement near the coast line. Thetcrew, effected a landing at the mouth' of the 1 Waingongoro, and rescued the captive.' ,"' !• ...' ■ t'' Just opened ex s.s. Rimutaka, noyf in harboifr, latest novelties in autumn dress goods.—Smith and Caughey, I Limited.—(Ad.)