TABLE TALK.
Royalties In Perth. "Maritana" to-night. More Boers killed and Kcaptured. More sharp fighting on the veldt. Steamer Fiona arrived from Fiji. . S.s. Zealandia has left for Sydney. Auckland Harbour Board met thi* afternoon.
Captain Botha, a. Boer officer, has been killed.
A Boer commando lias been surprised near Honingspruit.
The Rev. Mr Slade arrived hero from Fiji by the s.s. Fiona last night.
In Mrs Kruger's death the only tie binding Kruger to South Africa i 3 severed.
Mr S. H. Gollan has purchased Seahorse, and will send the racer to England. ,
Yesterday there were 99 males and 60 female patients in the Auckland Hospital.
The National Bank shipped for Sydney, per the Zealandia, bullion valued at £17,500.
The Conciliation Board met again to-day in connection %vith the dispute in the timber trade.
Mr and Mrs Sydney W. Buck, of Ponsonby, left for Sydney by the s.s. Zealandia last eveningl.
At the beginning of this week there were 180 male and 16 female prisoners in Mt. Eden g-aol.
Mr Alfred Oldham, late secretary to the Auckland Stock Exchange, left for Sydney by the Zealandia last evening-.
Charles McLean, a tramp, died at Armidale (NJ3.W.) lately, as a result of getting frost-bitten, while oui camping.
The Auckland Hospital Board has decided to establish a maternity ward, and to erect a separate building- in the Hospital grounds for the purpose.
The well-known intercolonial trading- barque G. M. Tucker is overdue at Wellington from Newcastle, and is fered to have been lost in the recent gate. His Worship the Mayor, on entering the orchestra stalls at the opera last evening was heartily cheered by the audience, and bowed his acknowledgments.
The Newmarket. Borough Council does not appear disposed to fall in. with the Parnell Council's proposal for the amalgamation of the two boroughs.
Agriculture generally (says a Sydney paper) is? flourishing in Queensland. New markets are toeing opened for products, and fresh capital is beinig attracted.
The Chxistchurch City Council haa decided to charge a guinea to the local bodies outside the city for each corpse taken to the new morgue from their districts by the police.
The Union Co.'s steamer Rakanoa, which left Suva (Fiji) on July sth for Auckland with' the hull of the burnt Russian ship Occident in tow, arrived at Newcastle yesterday. . ,
The fruitgrowers of Birkenhead and surifounding districts : ,fcneet in . the Zion Hill Schoolroom to-morrow (Wednesday) evening to discuss "ihe question of strawberry boxes. The London "Daily Telegraph" informs its readers that Auckland is 'situated on the spacious Hauraki Gulf, in the, Bay of Islands, in the extreme north of the North Island."
At Taihape last week Chas. Whitman, was fined 10/ and costs 13/ for assaulting a resident with snowballs, and it is stated that 28 cases of a like nature are to be heard at Mangaweka.
Our Wellington lorrespondent wires that Mr Chas. Edmund Nicholas, of Whangarei, has just returned from a six months' trip in the Old Country with! his niece. He returns to Whangarei shortly.
A contemporary says: "A capitalist taeing asked what he thought of the innumerable dredging ventures afloat, replied: 'They are like a cold bath; to derive any benefit from which it is necessary to be very quick in and very soon out."
The Ghiristchurch City Council last evening decided to refer the question of erecting a destructor to a commit■tee of the whole Council, in order to go into details with regard to machinery and appliances in connection with the affair.
An American paper, the "Globe Democrat" comments on the fact that there was a heavy falling off in the number of novels produced in England during the last, year, and caustically remarks: "The truth is affording Britons all the excitement they care for at present."
Constable Fraser, who has been stationed at Coromandel for the last three years, bajj now been transferred to Thames. During his stay at Coromandel Constable Frazer proved himself a smart and capable officer, and was much respected by all classes of the community. Constable Johnson, of Newton, will be stationed at Coromandel.
Some Rotorua residents who lately visited Waimangu geyser, at Rotomahana, describe th« action of the great "puia" as follows: —"The lake ros« over the banks, which are 200 ft. above the ordinary level, and poured volumes of boiling water in to the surrounding1 country. From the centre of the lake the great mud geyser shot up, playing to the height of five, six, and seven hundred feet. Mud and stones were hurled for a considerable distance from the geyser. Stones and great red-hot boulders met, the cool air with an angry hiss and exploded with a loud report."
When Messrs. Isles and Paget, of Rotorua, were exploring in the Roto, mahana thermal district, one of their dogs disappeared through the crevices several times, through the ground crumbling" away under its feet. On one occasion it was unable to get out again, and on reaching thte place it was found some 15ft. below the surface. Prom a small opening in the surface a huge subterranean cave extended underground for a considerable distance. The dog was finally; rescued by one of the party gettinf on a small ledge inside the opening leaning down, and gripping the animal from another ledge on to whiek it had sprung.
Of special note—Black silk and wool dress grenadines, 44 inches wide, hand« soono patterns, 1/111 yd, at the {jrea* f.»±r.— Gwtth. & Cuaght/y, lAd,—(Ad,), ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 163, 23 July 1901, Page 1
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