TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 132, 5 June 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A French soldier kilk

Serious fight at Tien? Methuen has relieved '/x<■'.' ■..-;!. Quarrel amongst foreign troops. Jfough weather on the East Coast,

Big- fireworks display next Tuesday night.

The New Zealand Alliance meeting* were continued to-day. Desperate fighting with Boers re* ported by cable to-day.

The Supreme Court criminal sea* sions were continued to-day.

The Government steamers Tutanc kai and Hinenioa are now painted white.

McAdoo's Jubilee Singers -will open in the Agricultural Hall on Saturday

evening-,

All the Auckland Volunteers will parade for inspection in the outer Domain next Saturday.

The Maori canoes for the harbouf display were to be brought do\v» from the Waikato to-day.

The body of Mr Fred. Ayres. missing since the Grand Hotel fire, was found this morning in the debris.

Upwards of .€l2O have already been subscribed in aid of the employees at the Grand Hotel, recently destroyed by fire. «

The Licensing Bench h^s refused an application for 1.1 o'clock closing of hotels during' the Royal reception week.

To-day the Auckland Harbouf Board took the Teachers' Salaries Commissioners on a trip round tha Auckland Harbour.

Mr John Webster, the veteran set' tier of Opononi. Hokianga, has arriv* erl here from the North in order to witness the Royal reception.

The New Zealand Government casket, for the Duke of York is now on its way up here from Dunedin. It is said to be a beautiful work of art.

Captain J. Swain, well-known, in this port, has resigned the command of the American barque Alice, in which he has visited Auckland many, times.

The City Licensing Committee has declined to grant 'n transfer of li« cense from the Fitzroy Hotel, Wake* field-street, to "Glenalvon," Symonda* street.

The sum of £1400 is now In hand for the Maori Girls' School in Par* nell. The sum aimed a.t by.the pro* motors as necessary for the Collega is £10,000.

The Postal Department, has been advised that a bag of mails from Lon« don for Christchurch, and a bag fo* Wellington, were destroyed by a fira on the Oruba.

Mr S. Smith, secretary of tha KS.W. branch of the Seamen's Union, is expected to arrive her« from Sydney by the Zealandla next Sunday on a visit to New Zealand.

The captains of the warships ia port paid their, official visits yester' terday to thevGovernor, and the visits were returned in the afternoon by Captaiu Boscawen, hon. A.D.C. to tha Governor.

Captain Todd telegraphed from Welling-ton last, night to Colonel White, officer in command of the dis* trict that the statement that he had authority to raise a body of scotitf is without foundation.

Captain Boscawen, who is honaraxj A.D.C. to the Governor, and is busj in connection with details concerning the' Royal visit, was an officer oa board H.M.S.'Phoebe when that wai* ship visited Auckland in 1870 as on« of the -Flying Squadron, escorting 11. R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Major Crawshaw, who returned from South Africa a few clays ago, has been presented by the Mayor oj Timaru on behalf of the townspeople, with a suitably inscribed gold watch, as a mark of respect and esteem xhe watch was obtained by populat subscription, largely of shillings.

Dunedin is the latest place to be afflicted with a ghost scare. The ap« parition is said to be a transparent white form, with a yellow spot in ths centre, which rises out of the water at the harbour edge. At midnight it points its thumb thrice upwards and thrice downwards and then disappears.

The Rev. P, A. Bennett, of the Anglican Maori Mission, leaves for Rotorua to-morrow in order to help Mr Xgata at some Maori meetings there, and will return to Auckland next week for the laying1 of ths foundation stone of the Maori Girls* School by the Duchess of York. He is an active member of the "Young Maori" Party.

A Wanganui paper says that al the native school at Koroniti (Corinth), up the Wanganui River, the chairman of the local School Committee, Te Awe, is a diligent pupil. "We venture to assert," says the paper quoted, "that the fact of the chairman of a School Com* mittee being a pupil of the school is a unique experience for even democratic New Zealand."

The Kawakawa railway extension, eight miles into the bush, which was commenced in November, 1399.' Iras no\v the greater part of the earthwork form* ed up to seven miles from Kawakawa, excepting the long swamp in the immediate vicinity of Kawakawa. which formation has now stopped sinking. The rails, which have been on . th» around for some months, will soon ba kid.

After the recent punitive expedition to Risk Point, New Guinea, the Governor of British New Guinea said:—"l believe we have seen the last of this terrible fighting and massacre in this territory. The report of this expedition will spread everywhere, and if. as I believe it will be., this result is effectual in checking such awful massacres it will serve to crown the life work of that noble man, Mr Chalmers."

The Rev. Thos. Eykyn, vicar of St. John's Church, Wai hi, was a heavy loser by the Grand ITotel fire, having: lost, a quantify of valuable personal effects there. It was only quite recently that the reverend gentleman was burned out in the premises known as Tuthill's Buildings, Waihi, when that block was totally destroyed. Mr Bayldon, consulting eng-ineel for the Waihi Gold Mining Company, was also a heavy loser by the fire.

Hose of York badges, with photos of Ihike and Duchess. 6d each; flag% with poles, 7Jd to 1/3 each, at jMc Cullag-h aad flower's.—Ad, ~, •