TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 84, 10 April 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Gusty weather. Wet and squally on the coast. Barque Kathleen Hilda has putback here leaky. Tenth Contingent leaves Wellington on Saturday. m The small-pox epidemic is still prevailing in London. Lord .Kimberley. a noted British diplomatist and statesman, is dead. The new Volunteer Drill Hall at Paeroa was being formally opened to-day- \_. Mi- A. E. Devore has been re-elect-ed President of the Auckland Society of Arts. Murders have been committed by Bulgarians with a view to provoking Turkish reprisals. ■Details of De la Key's defeat in .'the Western Transvaal on the 31st ult. are to hand to-day. The A.U.S.X. steamer Paroo, which went ashore, on the Victorian coast, has been towed off safely. Dr. Morkane. of Dunedin, has been appointed surgeon superintendent of the Ross Hospital, Westland. Extraordinary displays of the popular love and esteem for the late Cecil .Rhodes took place at the funeral. The flagship Royal Arthur and H.M.s. "Ringarooma are out in the Hauraki Gulf at big-gun practice. The Dunedin Art Society * offers a silver medal for 'modelling, open to pupils of the art schools of the c6l--ony. All the sections of the Eureka Es-'! late, Waikato, recently placed on the market have now been taken up for settlement. * Dr. Giles, of Mauku, has been nominated to a seat on the Education Board by .hie Mauku West, School Committee. The court-martial proceedings in the case of the Bush Veldt Carbineers' officers shot for murder are not to be published. The Premier is t.o be entertained to-night at a farewell banquet in the Empire > Hotel. Wellington.' The Mayor of Wellington "will preside* A native, the son of the Chief Told, has been brought in to the Whangarei Hospital from the Hikurangi Bush with hjs right leg Tmdly crushed by a log. His Excellency the Governor will present new ribbons for war' medals to.the naval and military veterans of Auckland at Government House on Saturday afternoon•At a meeting by the. Mayor of Christchureh yesterday, it was resolved that a public testimonial should be presented to Inspector Pender on his retirement from the police force. >' i Several additional Maoris from the Auckland province left yesterday; afternoon and to-day for Wellington ■to undergo their examination at the Trentham camp for the Coronation Contingent. A member of the Sixth Contingent, krho recently returned to New Zealand, says a Southern paper, was invalided because he had broken in half the plate upon which his false teeth were/ moiiuted. 1 The heavy rains at Wanganui this week, caused a considerable freshet in the river, and tiie ■ TJpokongaro ferry punt, nine miles up the river, iwas washed out to sea. Otherwise little or no damage was done. It is stated, says an E. Coast paper, that in order to secure a fiill vote at the general election, the prohibition party will .run a^ candidate- for the Waiapu seat, in the event of no other being forthcoming to oppose the Hon. J. Carroll, as seems probable. With reference to the unemployed in Dunedin the La'oour Department | (after inquiry) finds that there are not nf£>re than 30 necessitous cases - about the city and suburbs, and work ;wi]l' be found for them without delay, probably on the Otago-Central railway. . , Constable O'Reilly, of Opotiki, has received from the Department of Justice three fine ensigns for presentation to the, Maori chiefs Matin Ranapia, Paora" .te PaMiii and Mokomoko. This is the result of a promise made by the Native Minister at Rotorua last year. At a meeting of the Board of Education at Christchurch yesterday, the Chairman pointed out that the bal-ance-sheet,' as preparec* under Departmental instructions, . was fallacious. Instead of a balance to credit there was an actual debit. The excess of liabilities over assets is £2402. A AVaikato paper says that a consignment of totara timber'lately arrived there by the King Coimtry train, for the Experimental Farm at Hamilton, wliere it is to be xised in the erection of poultry buildings, This timber was cut in the Waimarino forest, in the Wellington province, by Messrs Ellis and Burnand. Dr. Erich Pister, the Austrian Trade Commissioner, who is touring the colony, arrived in Auckland from the South yesterday, and will spend some time here. He is gathering information as to it\e prospects of extending Austrian trade with this colony. "He is "spending about four, months in New Zealand, afterwards going, on to Australia. He intends visiting Rotorua and Taupo before ! going away. There is a large number of people at Te Awamutu in anticipation of the ballot for the Kawhia lands, which is to take place there to-morrow. The applications are numerous notwithstanding the change in tenure,, as the people want the land, which, if not procurable as freehold, they have to accept under the best terms obtainable. The ballot will be conducted by Mr Gerhard MuellerJ AssistantSurvey-or-General, who will be assisted by Mr Thomson, of the Lands Department, ij Just arrived, novelty tucked silks, black, white and all colours, from 2/11.—Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—Ad. Novel designs in panne velvets and satins for blouses, 2/6, 2/11, 3/6.— ~ Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—(Ad.) Just ox^ened, exclusive novelties in black and coloured dress robes, 29/« t 0 £4.—Smith and Caughey's Dreaa Depot.—(Ad.) Special values in black and navy dress serges. Ask to see our special "Victory Serges," 1/4$ to 6/6,—Smitli and Caughey/s Dress Depot.—(Ad.).