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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 167, 27 July 1901, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Outward mail day. Sonoma for San Francisco. 'Frisco mail is due on Monday. Several rebels have been executed. Great battle in the Morocco hinter* land. "Maritana" at the Opera House to* night. An Imprest Supply Bill for£47o,oofe passed the House last evening. Championship football matches thij afternoon at North Shore and EpsomTwo troopers of the Seventh New, Zealand Contingent have been wound* cd. "The Flying Dutchman" will be produced by the Opera Co. on Monday] night. Mr Seddon says he hopes to bring down the Financial Statement the week after next. A long debate on the totalisator, took place last night in the House of Representatives. Major Maddocks left for England via San Francisco by the mail steamer Sonoma to-day. The Shops and Shop Assistants Act passed its second reading in the House last evening.l Mr John G. Woolley, of America, orator and reformer, will lecture in the Tabernacle on Tuesday next. The Auckland fishermen are signing a petition to Parliament asking that trawling in the Hauraki Gulf be prohibited. M. Jean Gerardy, the famous Belgian 'celloist, arrived at Wellington from Sydney by the Westralia on Wednesday."1 The King of England says the discoverer of a cure for cancer would be deserving of a statue in all the capitals of the world. The members of the local branch of the Hibernian Society purpose giving a grand ball on the occasion of their twenty-eighth anniversary. The anniversary celebration of th© Pitt and Edwin streets Primitive Methtodist Church are held to-moi> row and the following Wednesday. At Wellington yesterday the negro cook of the barque G. M. Tucker obtained £15 damages for assault from Captain Oliver, master of the vessel. The new three-masted schooner Countess of Banfurly is to be given a trial under sail out in the Gulf, returning to the wharf early on Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bloomfield and Mr. C. Gillies, of Auckland, were amongst the passengers.who arrived here from Sydney by the mail steamer Sonoma this morning. "Gambling will exist in one form or another," says the Hon. J. Carroll^ "if the totalisator is abolished an undesirable class will come to the front who are now held in check." A fisherman said yesterday afternoon, at the meeting re trawling, that if trawling, was allowed to go on in the Hauraki Gulf, in a couple of years there would be hardly any fish left. Mr and Mis L; D. Nathan are to leave London- on August 14 for New/, York and Vancouver, on their way to Japan and the East. They intend re* turning to Auckland via Australia. The residence of Judge Mackay, of the Native Land Court at Nelson, was totally destroyed by fire last evening, only a few effects being saved. The family were out for the evening when the fire occurred. One of the returned troopers stated in the South that ode New Zealand sheep is equal to two and a half Transvaal sheep from a culinary point of view. The same proportion is alleged in regard to cattle. Last evening Mr Ebenezer Long, an old Canterbury colonist, who was well known in musical circles |n Christchurch, died in Ponsonby, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs R. Bell, Sussex-street. He arrived in! Canterbury over forty years ago. The Hey. W. Gillam, of St. Matthew's Anglican Parish, is making a short trip to the South Island. The Rev. E. E. Jecks, M.A., formerly of Durham, England, will take charge of St. Matthew's Parish during the Vicar'a absence. The ladies wh'o are getting up the' ball in aid of the Protection Society have invited the returned officers and troopers. The Countess of Ranfurly is lending the pot plants from Government House for decorating. It is hoped that 'the efforts of the ladies will meet with great success. A witness in the Magistrate's Oonrt, Wellington, was asked what company was kept by the prisoner on whose behalf he was called. In all seriousness he answered: "I have never seen him keep bad company; I have been in his company a lot myself." Andj remarks the "Post," he seemed to wonder why a smile went round the Court. The many friends of Father Croke, late of Auckland, will be pleased to hear of his success .in Australia, where he went for the benefit of his health. He has been recently appointed to the charge of the important parish of Barcaldine, in Eockhampton, and he finds his health much improved since his arrival in Queensland.