TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_ ♦— University Senate sitting-. Criminal session proceeding. Two high Chinese officials have be<^, beheaded. The Indian troops have left Kelso* for Lyttelton. The Wesleyan Conference opened at Wellington to-day. Ladysmith was relieved this' day twelve months ago. Boers under Meyer are retreating before French into the bush.' The Federation Commission will take evidence at Auckland on Monday. Wirth's Circus opens on the Freeman's Bay Reclamation on Saturday evening. Mr D. It. Caldwell has been' elected President of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The Hon. T. Duncan, Minister of Lands, left for Warkworth and Whaugarei to-day. Somalis were repulsed by a British' force on the 10th inst., and had 150 men killed. The British lost 17 men. killed. The lawsuit over the Auckland Exhibition surplus funds is to come before the Supreme Court early next month. i The red deer liberated by Mr J. Grant at Galatea, (on the borders of the Urewera Country), arc increasing in numbers, several fawns having been' seen this season. The Beeves pheasants released about the same time havaf not since been seen. Trout are plentiful in the Bangitaiki and its tributaries, near Galatea. The meeting of native tribes Whictt was to have taken place in Rotorua early in March has been postponed till the 10th of April. This will probably; be the last meeting of the Ko.tuhitanga' (or union of the tribes), its place infuture being taken by the Maori Council. Owing to the large attendance of i natives expected, it will be necessary] to erect buildings to accommodate the visitors, hence the postponment of the meeting until April. , A witness before the Federation Commission in Wellington was being questioned as to. the influence which the sixteen representatives of New Zea- ' land would' exercise, in the Federal ; Parliament. "If we. had sixteen Seddons to talk," said the witness* "we might derive some benefit from it, and our wants would be heard." Another?. witness was questioned as to the probable effects of federation or non federation upon future generations. "We must first get the unborn millions before we take them into account," replied the witness.. Just opened ex s.s. Eimutaka, nois? in harbour, latest novelties in.autumn' dress goods. —Smith and* Gaughey, Limited. —(Ad.) i »