TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 2 March 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail day. Wirth's circus opens to-night. E.M.S. Sonoiaa .or San Francises to-day. Federation Commission opens here on Monda3 r . Builders' and watchmakers' annual picnics to-day. Otahuhu Trotting' Club's races at Epsom to-day. Mr L. D. Nathan leaves here on Monrlay for England. Swimming sporis in the Calliope Deck this afternoon. The lion. J. McGowan has returned here from the Thames.

H.M.s. Archer leaves here for the Chatham Islands next week. .

The "Premier picnic is to be held at Motutapu on Saturday next.

The picnic of the Ponsonby Sailing Club was being held at Kohimarama this afternoon.

The Auckland anniversary regatta is to be held next Saturday. Entries close on Wednesday night.

The West End and Auckland .lowing Clubs were holding trial fours races in the harbour this afternoon.

The Auckland Conciliation Board will give its decision in the carpenters' dispute at 10 a.m. next Tuesday, not Wednesday, as stated yesterday.

The Rev. .1. Southey, of the China' Inland Mission, who is at present on a visit to A nek land, will speak at the Central Mission Hall on Sunday momin B'•At a meeting of the Legal and Finance Committee of the Auckland Harbour Hoard held yesterday afternoon Mr Alfred Kidd (chairman of the Hoard) was elected chairman of committee.

The steam trawler Doto, hired by the Government for experimenting along the coasts of the North and South Islands, is at present .out lithe Ilauraki Gulf testing the. grounds. Mr Ayson, Inspector of Fisheries, is on board.

The borough valuer of the Birkenhead district lias increased the total capital value of the property in the borough, on the rating, valuation hook, "by £12,220. The valuation of some properties has been increased over fifty per cent.

Among the successful candidates, who passed the recent Junior Civil Service Examination were Miss Maude Towers, from St. Mary's' Convent, High School, Ponsonby; and Mary Y. Speight, from St. Patrick's Convent, Hobson-street.

New season's goods 'now open. Many exclusive dress novelties.—• Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—(Ad.)

New goods ex Rimutaka: Early season novelties now showing in dress department.—Smith • and Caughey, Ltd.—(Ad.)

Smith and Caughey, Ltd., now" showing new winter fashions, dressdepartemnt.(—Ad.) '~