TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 150, 26 June 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Royalties at Dunedin. Brutal murder near ChristchurchY Captain W. H. Colbeck, of Parnell, is dead.

The Mad Mullah has escaped into Italian territory.

The steamer Tekoa is now due here direct from London.

S.s. Hattroto is now expected here from the South Sea Islands.

A Filipino general and 650 men have surrendered to the Americans.

It is now estimated that a thousand lives have been lost through the great flood in Virginia.

Mr R. Thompson, M.H.E., for Marsden, arrived from Whang-arei by the s.s. Wellington last night.

Since Kitchener's last report 41 more Boers have been killed and 27 wounded, and 230 are prisoners.

The Harbour Board has accepted the tender of Mr John Jenkin, £4995, for the erection of Admiralty House.

The Hon. John McKenzie was knighted by the Duke in his railwaycarriage at Shag Point yesterday afternoon;

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, left for Rotorua this morning-, on a short trip for the sake of his health.

Head Mistress (to pupil): "What must be th« condition of a person in order to, be buried in consecrated ground?" Pupil: "Dead, muni."

Admiral Beaumont declined to lay the foundation stone of the Admiral's House at Auckland because the plans had not been approved of by the Admiralty. )

Dr. Bull, surgeon of the Coroniandel Hospital, intends leaving1 here shortly an a twelve months' tour of England and the Continent, accompanied by Mrs Bull.

The South Australian Zoological and Acclimatisation Society have purchased a zebra stallion from Mr C. Hagenbeck, Hamburg. The animal has left Europe for its destination.

It is estimated that a sum of £20,000 will just about cover the cost to the Victorian Government of entertaining the intercolonial troops in Melbourne during- the Duke's visit.

The libel on the King has been reprinted from the "Irish People" into the "Tocsin" of Melbourne, and the publisher, a member of the Victorian State Parliament, is in trouble ia consequence. •

One of the oldest colonists in Tasmania, Mr Edward Dumaresq, now, in his..looth" year, drove from his house into Longford, the nearest township, a distance of some seven, miles, to record his vote at the late Federal elections.

All the flags for British ships o£ war, except the Royal Standards,; are made in.the Government dockyards, and the enormous number required, may be judged from the fact that in the .colons U»£t at Chatham alone about 18;<#Q faj& j££ Wad.c j».& yeaiV EeturnJßiJ Eipcrper: "Clara, ycni were engaged ,t«*. me, and yet I heat that'while I "was at the front you went ou<j often with thai old admirer of yours,; Bob Cudelsby." Clara. "Oh; George, he was so thoughtful, and I was so anxious, thai he took me every, night to the—«r—War Office—to seat __ er —if you were killed." 1 An epidemic of dysentery at Tanna, one of the New Hebrides Group, is reported. A terrfble story comes from one of the villages. A man had died and so his wife or one of his wives went and strangled the man's mother in cold blood, that she : might avenga the death of her husband upon th« woman who had given, him birth. The traffic on the Government rail* ways on ; the Wellington-Napier .and Palmerston-New Plymouth section* during the past week has been exceptionally heavy. It is approximately estimated that 23,000 people journeyed into Wellington in connection with the Royal visit. During the fortnight'ending on Monday last the Railway ' Department expected to have handled 46,000 passengers. The stick which Mts Seddon ha* asked the Duke to present to the King wa* carved by Mr J. Heberley, of Petone. During their stay in Wellington the Royal visitors inspected Mr Heberley's collection of Maori carvings,. and purchased several exr pensive articles. They also sent to the carver a letter, written by Lord Wenlock, telling him how mucli they had enjoyed the inspection of nis curios. , The drain on the stock of Maori curios in connection with the visit r>£ the Imperial troops and the Duke Sw» *af. *« very great, and the Hawke's frj "Herald"-says that we shall soon have to visi,^ tp discover whajkwere the ari aldlftdustries of the IJaorw. Our contemporary asks 7 heth«T something ought not to be done by the Government to prevent the loss of what remains of the very remarkabl^nd interesting art, of our native race. :