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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Showery and squally. More horrors from Martinique. Bough weather contirwes op. tha coast. Thousands of charred bodies fcru_d in St. Pierre. Great loss of life through' the St. Vincent eruption. Wirth's Circus opens in the free* man's Bay ' "• " , Five hundred people were TsUtecl by, the St. Vincent eruption. Scores of people have been killed by lightning- on St. Vincent. Miss Amy Castles' second . concert will be given to-morrow evening. Queen Wilhelminii, of Holland, is recovering from her dangerous illness. A French aeronaut and his assistant_have been killed while making art ascent. Great streams of lava have been thrown out from the volcano on St. Vincent. The sacred cantata, "The Ascetision," will be repeated in St- Paul's Church, Symonds-street. this evening. Further particulars of the recent conferences between Lord Kitchener and the Boer delegates are to hand by cable. • *ff A man named Edward Bower has dieu at Whangaroa from injuries caused by a log rolling on him last .month. The Souffriere volcano, on St. Yin* cent, is stated to have shot out columns of vapour to the enormous height of eight miles. A very serious drought prevails in Queensland, and Messi's Cobb and Co. (the mail carriers in the interior) have had to stop running their coaches. A sawyer named Ben. Hardy had his hand severely cut on Saturday last while working- a goose-saw at Mr Coulthard's sawmill at Mercer. The steamers Elingamite and Ilawera had very rough passages up from Gisborne to Auckland, the Elingamite taking 32 hours to do the trip. The people of Devonport intend presenting' Mr Malcolm Niccol with a purse of sovereig-ns on the occasion, of his approaching departure for Wellington. • ' A young man named Pascoe Ellis, while out "for a walk at the Thames, slipped and fell, and broke his collarbone. He was attended to at the Thames Hospital. By. far the greater portion of the people killed in the eruption in Martinique were black. The negro population of the island greatly outnumbers the white. Florence Nightingale is nearly 82 years old. She takes her baptismal name from the city in which she was born. For fully a qiiarter of a century she lias lived a life of seclusion. Waikato papers state that Mr Win. Earl, of Cambridge, has disposed of his farm of 2000 acres at the Thames to Messrs Anibury and English and Mr Richard "Reynolds, whose inten-. tion, it is reported, is to cut; it up into small farms. At a meeting of creditors in the. bankrupt estate of S. Pascoe yesterday afternoon, it was" decided that the Official Assignee should procure a statement of accounts in connection with property formerly owned by bankrupt, and the meeting then adjourned. A Press Association telegram from Wellington to-day states that Dr. Graham Campbell, of Christchureh, Secretary to the Council of the New Zealand Branch of -the British Medical Association, is returning' to the colony by the s.s'. Monowai, due on Tlmrsday at Wellington. Mr George. Ritchie, employed by the Kauri Timber Company in the Pungapungji Bush near Kuaotunu, had hi* lea severely injured the other day through being tripped up in front of a truck on the tramline. A party of men" carried him in to Euaotunu, where Dr. Slator attended to him. ; The Prime Minister of Holland, Dr. Ruyper, is an example of an "allround man." He has founded a university, bidflt up a newspaper, established a church, held a professorship, edited an encyclopaedia, lectured in 25 America'u cities, writlen an opera, and given to the world more than 100 publications. Mr Ell, M.H.R., of Christchurch, recently wrote to the Acting-Premier regarding the destruction of hui'as and kiwis, and received the following reply:—"l have to inform you that both the huia and the kiwi are native game within the meaning of the Animals Protection Acts, and, moreover, that the former ai*e absolutely protected, being specially excepted from the native game which may be taken or ki*!ecl during the open season, and the latter can only be taken or killed during the open season for native game."