TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 110, 10 May 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A city totally destroyed. Terrible volcanic eruption. The football season opened this afternoon. Miss Amy Castles arrived from the South this morning-. I. is stated that Poidevin, the Sydney cricketer, intends qualifying for , Gloucestershire. Miss Stacey will lecture on Sunday _ evening- in the Lome-street Ha_l on "Sowing- and Heaping." The Newton Brass Band will play a musical programme on Sunday afternoon in the Hospital grounds. The Guard of Honour Socials commence in the Hibernian Hall, Wel-lington-street, on Wednesday next. Warning to local, ping-pong "nth- ■ letes": A Toronto man has died of over-exertion brought on by playing ping-pong. The first baby gets its photograph taken every three months; the other babies are "lucky to get theirs taken once in three years. The Governor will give at Wellington a State dinner on June 26th and . a ball on June 27th, and will hold a levee on June SOth. Barnes' knee is still giving trouble, and'gave way at Lord's yesterday. He had to see a specialist, who allowed him to resume play later in the day. The Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee has a balance in hand of £49 11/11, after paying all expenses in connection with the regatta of 1902. John Duffy was sentenced at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon • to ten years' hard labour for the re- , cent serious assault on a police constable. A Christc]§-rch A shooting party of two the other day at a lake on a property near Christchurch secured Ofi clucks, 40 swamp hens, 15 swans and two hares with eight guns. Auckland citizens have made a start with the preliminary arrangements for the celebration of the King's Coronation. Committees have been appointed and various suggestions put forward. Mr S. Percy Smith. ex-Surveyor-General, author of "Hawaiki, the Whence of the Maori," is preparing for the "Polynesian Journal" an exhaustive article dealing with the natives of Nine (Savage Island). Mr Smith was acting British Commissioner at "Niue last year. Trooper Cattermoor, of the Cust Mounted Rifles, who won the prize a,t a recent camp in Canterbury for "the smartest man in getting -fchroug-h the lines during a night attack on .the camp," adopted the novel method of rolling himself past the sentries in a sack, and prvt into the defenders' camp nearly an hour before the attack ended. The Hon. Sir W. T. Smith, who has been appointed Chief Justice of the Transvaal, was born in 1853, and called to the Bar in 1575. He was ap- : pointed puisne judge at the Gold Coast 1.831, when only twenty-seven, ' and'went to Cyprus a year later, actl ing first as Judge of the" Supreme . .Court, and afterwards as Chief Just-. ice. He remained in Cyprus until 1898, when he was' appointed Chief ; Justice of British Guiana. This evening: Come and see the fairy and her ma just of. to the ball. McCullagh & Gower, the popular drapers. —Ad. Opportune and seasonable.—Special for week commencing Monday, May 12. A table of exclusive fancy : black dress robes, forty-eight to : select from, one of a kind only 25/, 27/6, 32/6 to 85/ each; also a table ,' of fancy blouse silks (British), all at l/lli J)i— Smith and Caughey's dress department.—Aid.