TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 152, 28 June 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Royalties have gone. Kruger has been ovated at Softer* dam.

! Queen-street is to be repaired at j once. Duke and Duchess have left for Hobart. The Ophir sailed from Lyttelton last night. Warm scene at the City Council. last night. The Federal Senate has voted against sweeps. McLean, the Canterbury murderer, says he is quite ready to die. The Auckland Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Show was open again to-day. & j A Norwegian vessel. the schooner * | La Belle, is now due here from Hani' ii burg. | Another Cycle Koads League depuj \ tation assailed the City Council la_. ] night. ,? j The City Council want a catalogu"; ing clerk for the Free. Library, at a .{salary of £..00 a year. t jj The Board of Conciliation will givo 3 the award in the Auckland bakers' disr' apute next. Monday afternoon. j Four whales were captured on Wed' ii nesday at the whaling station at !; Whangamumu, near Cape Brett. I Dr. J. L. Campbell, Mayor, is loan' j ing to the. City Art Gallery two cases |of pictures he has received from j Italy. I The annual smoke concert of th. I Auckland ..owing Club will be held jin the. Masonic Hall, Princes-street, f: to-night. j Cr. Haume's motion to appoint a j city engineer at a salary of £800 a \ year was rejected at the. City Coum ! cil meeting last evening', i Mr. C. «i. Parr is at present laid up j with an attack of influenza, and j therefore eovtld not attend the City Council meeting last, night. | Cr. Glover challenged Cr. Hannan lat the City Council last evening to j resign and contest the South Ward i with him, but Cr. Hannan declined. j Eules for the guidance of students j at the Auckland Art Gallery were apj proved by the City Council last evenling, and'will be found elseAvhere in j this issue. ii It transpires that three knight' I hoods were practically placed at the disposal of the Premier by the Colonial Office, and only two have b.een conferred. —"Dunedin Star." A tire brigade is to be formed among the male servants at the Wellington Hospital, so that in the event of an outbreak of fire in the building effective work may be done in the direction of subduing it. At the City Council meeting last evening Cr. Baume opposed the proposed raising of a loan to purchase the Philson property, opposite the Free Library. The Finance £ommittee's report recommending the raising of a loan was adopted. An extract from a State school teacher's log book, qtioted before the Teachers' Salaries Commission at Wellington ran: "What with the Govern-ment,-the-"Board, the committee, the inspectors, the parents, and the children I am between the devil and the deep sea." j Mr. A. S. Remington will, 'it is said, i certainly be a candidate for the PaIlea seat as soon as Mr. George HutI chesou's resignation is officially an* Enounced. Mr. Remington is a chemist at Hunterville, and he has twice before unsuccessfully, contested the seat against. Mr. Hutcheson. An ingenious member of the Tauranga Mounted Rifles, who accompanied his corps to Kotorua for the Royal visit, computes that as the only duty this force performed was to present arms at the railway station for about five minutes, each man must have cost the country at least 4/w per minute for the trip. During last, week 18.470.800 gallons of water were pumped for consumption in Auckland city. This is 2,000,----000 gallons above the average, accounted for by filling up the reservoirs as the ponds allowed. The Western Springs ponds rose 12 inches last week, and have been rising about two inches per day. Last week Major James Town send Edwards, an old Imperial officer, was found dead in his bed at the accommodation house at Awatere, Marlborough. Deceased was employed on odd work about the place, and had complained of a cold a few days previously. Mrs Edwards is believed to be living in Wellington district. . • It is stated that Colonel Gudgeon, C.M.G., refused a knighthood, being content with the minor honour that was conferred upon him. The honour was conferred because, by the prompt ipforj^tion supplied to the British Government of French designs on the islands lately annexed, he enabled France to be checkmated, and the islands secured to Great Britain.

It has been found that the trout in Lake Taupo will not take the rod or line. A proposal has been made that nets be permitted in that locality. There is an abundance, of trout in the lake, many running between twenty and thirty'pounds. Inquiries arc to be made by' the Wellington Acclimatisation Society from the Auckland and Otago societies as to the arrangements made for netting trout on Lakes Rotorua and Wakatipu. The methods of colonial working men have evidently impressed the "foreign" visitors (says a Christchurch paper). When the Ophir waa coaling in Wellington she was treated at the wharves as quite an ordinary ship. The men very properly knocked off for the full dinner time, and conducted operations generally in their own way. One "big" officer on the Royal yacht was heard to declare that he, was going to resign all his emoluments and become a labouring man in New Zealand. An unrehearsed incident took place at the Royal reception ceremonies in Victoria Square, Christchurch, lately. A well-known Orangeman. who brought up the rear of the RnendJy Societies, lagged behind after the procession had passed in front of tne Royal dais, and waving his toll hat and bowing low, he approached the platform tnd said; "Long lire the Kmg aud Qtwen and the Duke and Duchess of York." His Royal Highness, who was standing next, to the Premier, remarked to that gentleman: "That, Mr Seddon, was an address which was not provided for in the pTOgTainjne. I