TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 165, 14 July 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.Suez mail arrived to-day. S.s. Mararoa leaves for Sydney tlris evening. , ; A-London cable reports that Mrs Seddon is ill. S.s. Waihora arrived from Sydney this morning , . The King will be removed to his yacht to-morrow for a short cruise. The Lancastrians in London banqueted Mr Seddon at the Hotel Cecil. It is expected that the Coronation may take place between August 8 and 12. The great sea-serpent has been seen once more, according to a Sydney cable to-day. A London paper demands the publication of the Boer documents handed over at Pilgrim* Rest. A New York cable states that a large petroleum oil field has tieen discovered in Trinidad, Colorado. The missing , ooal-laden stea-iner Quiraiiig is'now out 21 days from Newcastle for Dxinedin. Lord Kitchener received a very enthusiastic welcome home on his arrival in London from South Africa. % An attempt at burglary at Hayman and Co.'s on Saturday night was frustrated, but the thieves escaped. The Hamilton Borough Council has decided that a new traffic bridge be erected over the Waikato River at that town, at an estimated cost of about £14,000. Messrs Wirth Bros, are having built at Sargent and Lifctleproud's six handsome new cages for their menagerie for. their coming tour of jlew Zealand and Aiistralia. . The coal exports from Greymoutli for last week were: Blackball Company, .2 ITS tons 13 ewf; Brunner, 2384 tons 8 ewt. The Westport ■ Coai Company's output last week was 12,838 tons 4 cwt. .The Telegraph Department sends the f6llo\ving memo, re the cable lines: — "JJJerhe advises that'the line beyond Fao, the Turkish route, is interrupted, •Tjie cable between Mozambique and Ma'nunga is restored. The line to Swatow J is; interrupted." ■ ■ ' "It is such an unusual thing for an insolvent to pay twenty shillings in the pound that 1 will give a certificate on embossed paper, with gold edges, if you can prove in a proper manner that all the creditors have received this amount/ —Judge Molesworth to an insolvent in the, Melbourne Insolvency Court the other day. j At a meeting of the Gisborne Beautifying Association last week the President (Mr Kennedy) said there was a likelihood of the Qaptain Cook memorial ; being taken up all over the colony, and by the Admiralty and Government, arid probably a handsome stone obelisk would be erected at the landing-place at Gisborne. They might have a visit from a warship and a great function onAhe day of dts erection. :The Government has awarded 2,000 acres of■ jth'e Whakarewa Block, lying between Otamarakau and,MaJ,ata (Bay ofr Plenty) to, the^Sigati-Rangitilii Tlife is theHfibe 'tliaf 'iiiflfefed so muck at the time of the Tarawera eruption. They lost not only many of their principal people, but much of their land was damaged. Since then they have managed to eke out a living by cultivating the unoccupied lands around Matata. -Quoting from his roll of New Zealand veterans, Lord Ranfurly says that 39 of those enrolled have medals for service prior to '1850, one the bombardment of Acre in the year 1840; 77© were earned between ISSO and 1860, a,nd there, were 1362 Maori ,War o medals. Italy's great liberator, Garibaldi, also had a representative ("Rowley" Hill, of Auckland), who wore, not a medal, "but the rosette that was with Garibaldi the reward of valour. The subject of gorse and its erldication was frequently under discussion at the Whangarei County Council meeting last week. ■ Cr. N. McKenzie referred to a road in Waipu, which,, two years ago, was one of the best in the district, but .to-day it was quite impassable on account of being choked with gorse; and he said that everywhere one went the gorse was; a trouble; in factj it looked as if this pest woiild take possession of the country. Cr. Cutforth said blackberries were a bigger curse than the ftfrze. s Visitors to Wainiangu (says the Eotorua "Chronicle") are warned ■of the great danger of approaching too close to the great geyser. The eruptions'are so sudden and take place without any preliminary rising of the waters, that there is no time to get-out of tile way/ Women are the greatest transgressors in getting too close in their anxiety to see everything. On several occasions last summer, when it was time to run away, the ladies, instead of doing so, went off into a dead faint. The Tourist Department have placed a stretcher there in case of accident. There has been a great commotion amongst the members of the No. 3 Company Waikato Mounted Rifles at Cambridge during the past few days (says the Waikato "Argus"), owing to eight of them having been fined £3 each for not attending the week's drill in camp. Those who have been notified that they have been fined seem to think they are being hardly dealt with; but, on the other hand, they should bear in mind they are doing the whole Company an injury by not attending the drill, as the capitation grant will probably be lost through their absence.