TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail arrived. Fatal accident at Waihi. Pope's benediction phonographedMethodist Conference completed. Boer delegates at Rotorua to-day. Canada asks for 5000 mechanics. The Waikare took £16.350 in bullion No stowaways on the Marere from Sydney. Mr W. J. Napier left for Wellington yesterday. Cambridge waterworks open to-morrow afternoon. Maori Girls' School Bazaar at.Parnell to-morrow. Madame Melba received a hearty farewell last night. j Only four wives allowed in Afghanistan, says a decreeAnother Pharaoh —and perhaps the greatest—has Yon found-To-day is the 40th anniversary of the marriage of His Majesty King EdwardTho. Veterans of the Empire Association are reminded of the meeting in the Drill 1:1 all on Wednesday evening. Mr C. A. Macdonald. a member of the Alpine Club, with a guide, climber 00.__ feet, towards the summit of Mt- Cook. It was in tlie present month, thirtytwo years ago. that railway constructior; was commenced 1 under tlie Public Works policy. A handsome inlaid cabinet of New Zealand woods from General Baden rowell's Auckland admirers is on view in the Art Gallery. Mr Mutt, general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation, who is travelling over the world, arrived i by the Sierra to-day. j Lyttelton has been made an extra j port of call for the steamer Surrey, j where SOO tons of oats are offering fur shipment to South Africa,. Wellington City Council will use 5. .00.----000 feet of timber, as a.ell as a large quantity of cement and other accessories, in blocking the streets of their city. Tlie Grey "Star" says there is every indication that coal will be sent out from the Seddonville State colliery within 12 months- Then more steamers will-be j wanted. As to the Nelson ringing of fireboll. by water power, which is not a success, n_n irreverent contemporary states that Nelson firebells are more often rung by wtiisky power. According to official statistics, 143...29 emigrants left Bremen last year, as compared with 110.006 iv 1901." Tbe figures ufTord some slight measure of the depth of the industrial depression in Germany. It has been decided to hold a "siege banquet" at Pretoria next month. It is anticipated, that there will be a goodly gathering of old Protoriaiis who took part in the defence of the town in 1880----1881. Under the reorganisation of the Con-tinental-department of the Salvation Army, Colonel Estill, well-known in New Zealand, has been placed in charge of the work in Holland, and made a commissioner. . Instead of dealing at once with overnight "drunks" this morning at the Police Court, the first proceeding was to clean the tables, which had apparently suffered • from the effects of a dust storm. The Canterbury Centre bf the New, Zealand Swimming Association is sending representatives to compete in tho quarter-mile and half-mile champion-1 snips of New Zealand, at Auckland next month. Rotary ploughs are being used with success for road making in some of the East Coast districts. • The steel discs cut into the hardest ground, and with the help of a scoop, roads in level country, can be formed at a cheap rate. The payment of salaries to members of the German Reichstag has been practically agreed to. It is probable that the payment will not take the.form of specified salaries, but of daily allowances for those members who take part in the sittings. A rather strange request was made a _ the Waimate (South Canterbury) HighSchool Board the other day. The daughter of a farmer living ..some six miles from the school had won a junior scholarship, and the father asked the board to make an allowance towards the cost of a bicycle for his daughter. The committee granted £5. 1 ' ' ~~--~-—"-'»MM»MM»M_MMI____-_»--W<