TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 53, 4 March 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail due to-morrow. Federation Commission opened. More of De Wet' 6 men captured. De Wet flogs his men unmercifully. S.s. Elingamite from Sydney to-day; Mr Justice Cooper left for Welling ton yesterday. De Wet is hard pressed, and ha* lost all his guns. The Supreme Court criminal sessiott is still proceeding. The Franklin Agricultural Show will be held next Wednesday. President McKinley was to be in* stalled at Washington to-day. The first public band concert will be held in the Albert Park to-night. The Federation Commissioners will leave here next Monday i'or Sydney. There is evidence of peace negotiations between Kiteiiener and Botha. The Conciliation Board will g-jve its finding in 'the carpenters' dispute tomorrow. Professor Talbot Tubbs gives an' open lecture at the University College this evening-. Wirtb's Circus had n splendid house at their opening performance on Saturday night. The Hon. J. 0. Ward addresses tha residents of Te Awaimitu next Wednesday evening. Eighty of Kitchener's fighting1" scouts have surrendered to Boers after prolonged fighting. Owing to Mr Percy Smith residing1 at Taranaki, it has been decided to move the headquarters of the Polynesian Society to that town. • 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 Cauerhev, Ltd.—(Ad.) Smith and Caughey, Ltd., novr, showing new winter fashions, dress departemnt. ( —Ad.)