TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Harbour Board met tc day. | Patriotic resolution carried by tbe Citjr Council. Commandant Kruitzinger is to be tried immediately. Scheepers, the Boer commandant, has been executed. More Boer leaders have been permanently banished. Numerous burghers in the Eastern Transvaal have petitioned Botha to end the war quickly. The Premier has cabled to the Imperial Government that another contingent will be raised. A lad at Puriri cut two of his fingers off while cutting wood last Sunday, and was taken in to the Thames Hospital. A British officer, Major Whitehead, and four men have been killed while storming a position at Griquatown with the bayonet. The" Auckland butchers are to report to the City Council on Thursday evening on the question of the site for the new city abattoirs. The six Maoris and a half-caste Samoan who obtained places in the Eighth Contingent are not to be allowed to go to South Africa. Amongst the events on the programme of the Taupo races to be held this month is one_ for "wild horses and scrubbers," first prize £1 5/. Detective Mcllveney yesterday forested a man named Harry Hart on a charge of forging a cheque for the sum of £53 16/ on the Bank of New Zealand. A girl who was before-the Wellington Benevolent Trustees last week, though over twenty years of age, and brought up in the colony, was unable to sism her name. A fad named Harold Walter Parker was arrested by Detective Maddern yesterday afternoon on a charge of the larceny of the sum of £13 2/ belonging to Charles Ratjen. A party of Wellington amateur fishermen visited Palliser Bay in the steamer Duco a few days ago and caught two tons of hapuka, and five trumpeter weighing between 30lbs and 401bs a-piece. An old lady of Oamaru has just' completed a mat made out of 20,000 rabbit tails. It has been beautifully designed with different coloured tails, and "is large enough to cover a doublesized bed. The mat was sold for £40. Mr. P. Le Quesne (says the "Waikato Times") has disposed of the Waikato Hotel property to Mr. W. H. Knock, who until lately was the proprietor of the Hot Springs Hotel, Te Aroha. The price paid is about! £4000. Mr. B. S. Bush, S.M., chairman of the Commission of Enquiry re the Waihi petition for a hospital, has decided that the Commission shall meet at Paeroa on Monday, the 27th inst.,, and afterwards proceed to Waikino and Waihi. '■••'■■•■■, Cr. Stackpole, addressing _da cojleagueP at the Ohihemuri, Council meeting lately, said: "I tell you there is a regular colony of dogs in the hills surrounding KarangE-hake, and in two days they killed two hundred, fo wis." Trout are very plentiful and large just now in the Waikato River and its tributaries near Atianmri. The residents find that they are readily, caught with the "huhu" grub as bait, which is even more efficacious than, the orthodox fly. Cr. Rosser mentioned at the City Council meeting last .evening that a .fellow-worker of his was so permeated with anti-German feeling that he had "knocked off" eating German sausage in order to show his patriotic indignation at German methods.