TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 130, 3 June 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Influx of Maoris. Tribes assembling at Roturuu. S.s. Waikare arrived from Sydney. H.M.s. Pylades arrived from Sydney. The Governor arrived to-day from Sydney. The Teachers' Salaries Commission resumed sitting- to-day. A Vancouver mail arrived here from Sydney by the .s.s. Waikare to-day. During the last 10 months Qisborns imported 3.103,000 ft of timber, and 42,000 posts. A large contingent of East Coast Maoris arrived here by the s.s. Taieri this morning-. The Supreme Court criminal sessions are expected to last the greater part of this week. Major Maddoeks, who lately returned here from South Africa, has been on a visit to Rotorua. The Hon. J. Carroll, Native Minister, arrived here from Gisborne by the Mararoa yesterday. The native child scalded at Rotorua last week in a boiling spring died on. Saturday from its injuries. A poll will be taken at Stratford on the adoption of the Rating- on Unimproved Value Act for the county. The dead body of an infant, sewn up in canvas, has been found by the roadside in Heriot Row, Dunedin. The Hawera Chamber of Commerce intends to urge the Government to erect a sanatorium on Mt. Egmont, The Kaikohe Brass Band (Maori) arrived here from the North on Saturday night, en route to the Rotorua gathering. The Waikato Maori canoes for the harbour display are to be brought down here on Wednesday by train from Mercer. There are four candle factories in New Zealand, employing 00 males and two females. The maximum wages are £6 per week, and the minimum (5/. Considerably over a thousand, Maoris from all parts of the island, bound for Rotorua, arrived here on Saturday and Sunday evenings, and this morning. There are a number of men engaged in forming a coach road to the great geyser at Waimangu, Rotorua. The geyser was very active during last week. The Rev. Mr and Mrs Rothwell, recently from the North, were given an enthusiastic reception at a soiree and public meeting at Gisborne on Thursday night. l Jene Taui, one of the leading Ngapuhi chiefs of the North, has arrived here from the Bay. of Islands at the head of his people, bound for the gala at Rotorua. At "the Supreme Court on Saturday evening a man named Louis Rollind was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment with hard, labour for an attempted unnatural offence. At the Gisborne Harbour Board notice of motion has been tabled that steps be taken in the direction of getting a harbour that will accommodate vessels of over 12ft draughtMrs Donnelly, the native chieftainess of Hawke's' Bay, a/rived here from Napier by the Mai-aroa yesterday, bound for Rotorua, where she will be one of the guests of the Arawa tribe. A Chinaman in the Wairarapa district has cultivated this season 14 acres of cauliflowers. He is sending1 150 sacks of this vegetable to Wellington weekly, and two express Toads to Masterton. The, Woodville correspondent of a Southern paper says: The Maoris are reported to be shooiting huias foal their feathers. This is a great pity, as the bird is very scarce in these parts. The natives in Wellington are considering the question of presentingthe beautiful carved house at Tablelands to the Duke and Duchess of York. The Waikato Maoris talk of giving the Duke the war canoe Taheretikitiki. A number of old warriors of the Urewera,and Ngatituwharetoa tribes, including some men who fought at Orakau in 1864 against General Cameron's forces, have arrived at Rotorua to see the long-expected "mokopuna" (grandson) of the Queen. The inquiry into the cause of the death of Jas. Campbell, at Dunedin, in which two policemen were implicated, concluded on Saturday. The jury were unanimous that deceased died from peritonitis, caused by accident, how caused there was not sufficient evidence to show. At Wellington on Saturday Geo. Eden, alias Dr. Reed, who had iorged the name of Percy Smith, ex-Surveyor General, to a number of cheques, which he negotiated a.t Petoue and Hastings, pleaded guilty, and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence. Ta-mahau Maliupukn. the wellknown Maori chief of the Wairarapa district, arrived here from the South on his way to the Rotorua gathering. Tamahau was one of the New Zealan'ders who witnessed the Federal celebrations at Sydney at the beginning of this year. A fire at Shamrock Glen, Pollok, on the 27th nit., destroyed a large barn and woolshed, containing hay, a dray, harness, tools, etc., belonging to Mr Thos. Cochrane. A nephew of Mr Cochrane's lost his personal effects in the fire. The damage is estimated at £100. There is no insurance. Captain Brown Tu-nui~a>-rangi, a Maori chief of the Hawke's Bay district, who was in charge of the Maori section of the New Zealandi Contingent'which visited London at the time of the Diamond Jubilee, arrived here on Saturday with his tribespeople, en route to Rotorua. The "Hot Lakes Chronicle" says that Mr R. C. White has been appointed electrician in charge of the electric light for Rotorua. For many years he has held similar positions in Otago. Mr Beale has been appointed as Mr White's assistant, and wfll remain in Rotorua. Mr Lynds has been appointed to assist Mr White at ths power station, Olcere Falls.