TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 10 February 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mr Morgan is still buying the world in slices. West Australian, churchmen are working for an assistant bishop. Thd Waikare took £ 12,850 of bullion for transhipment to England. Caterpillars arc destroying the -potato crops in the Guvra district, .New South Wales. Messrs Parker, Laxon and Alison were yesterday elected members of the Auckland Harbour Board. A line series of Pacific Island pictures is a feature of the mail number of the "Graphic," issued to-morrow. A child carried out in the breakers at Yaniba, New South Wales, was, after live hours' unconsciousness, restored to life. Madame Melba gave her last concert in Perth boforo a crowded audience, many of whom paid a guinea for standing room. The Waikouaiti '•'Times'' understands that steps are being taken to erect a plant for the manufacture of condensed milk at Hampden." The Maori tohunga—or wise man—of the Haiti Plain is attracting crowds of the sick among the natives to be cured of their afflictions. .The quantity of sugar exported from Queensland this season is 57,345 ton., compared with .8,299 for the corresponding period last year. The Chamberlain '(-formerly Opawa) estate, iv South Canterbury, will be thrown' open, for settlement early in {March. It contains 10,000 acres. I .*. A young woman, employed as a domesj tic servant, committed suicide at Mudjgee. New South Wales, by taking poij son. She. had been, accused of theft. | The loan of £5000 for abattoirs, I which was rejected by the Stratford ratepayers, will be raised by the borough council, as provided by law. The personation charge against 11. A. H. Hitchens fell completely. through at/ the Supreme Court yesterday, and the Judge described the case as "very weak." The Siberian route for travellers from Australia to England is said. to. be likely to be popular. There have been several applications for passports at Melbourne. While the steamer Tangier was on her way to Fremantle from Wyndham, a man named John Young, who was being brought to the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, jumped overboard and was drowned. Mr J. V. O'Loghlin, as a Commissioner for the South Australian Government, is touring New Zealand to inquire as to the dairying and agricultural industries of the colony. Just now he is in Auckland. The outward1 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday, and, as is customary, no effort has been spared to make the issue of the "Graphic," published to-morrow, one of special interest for posting to friends outside the colony. The Devonport School Committee, whose differences with the Board of Education were dealt with in a recent article, have passed a resolution that they should resign unless the attitude of the Board changes. Mr A. W. Hardley, of Ashburton, interviewed by the "Ashburton Guardian," > said that his visit to Kawhia, where the sale of liquor is unlawful, convinced him that every, second place in the township was a "sly-grog shop." Perhaps it was only a coincidence, but it did seem as if the Devonport Brass Band practised in the schoolroom last night in order to encourage the Education Committee with its martial music to defy the Education Board.