TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 102, 30 April 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A rise in milk. . • City Council to-night. . , Japanese demands are shortly to b& made. / ' • , . Appeal for funds to send the Morning back again, y. Trotting meeting at Alexandra Park on •Sattirday. To-night's is the last meeting of the old City Council. Victorian Government stands firm as to the Trades Hall. , There,is now a telephone line between Hobart and Launccston. The Fourth and Fifth Contingents had their first reunion last night. , The draw was made for the first round of the.football championship matches. > Church Association is dismayed , at- ~ King Edward's approaching visit to the Pope, ' ' - Prince of Wales is actively interesting himself iti British representation at the St. Louis Exposition. The march of the "Yellow Agony," as the; ragwort pest is so aptly tehned in Taranak;, continues. ■'"." . '■/;"-'■"'■; There are two more boys than girls in _ the',.All Saints' Sunday School—rather unilsUal in these days, Mr. William Corncs was re-elected Mayor of Whangarei on the easting vote 1 of the returning officer. Ponsonby Mayoral return at 8.30 was first out last night, but the others dragged on till near midnight. ,'..'"' - - Panfell count "was not finished till nearly one .o'clock, but a large, enthusiastic crowd cheered the re-elected Mr. Fitt.. Recent statistics'show that : £68,700,----.189 has been risked by the French public on the Pari : mutuel, or totaiisator, during the..last ten'years. r lne Auckland University College Professor of Classics will on June.. 3, give the first of a course.of lectures on ancient ' art—-Myeensean, Greek and Roman., Captain Bosworth, at the social last night, said that the,devotion of the New'Zealand doctors in South Africa to their ! patients won everyone's admiration. ' J ■ It was stated by the secretary of tliQ ' l Railway Men's Federation that if a ' strike arises in Victoria it will, be the bitterest struggle ever known in Australia. The Gisborne "Cook Memorial Fund now amounts <to nfearly £1000, including the Government' subsidy of £500. ' School children have subscribed nearly £200. '■ V-, ; ' - '•- ' ' For the Otago University endowment fund the Dunedin "Times" collected £2114 7/6 in all, and the total cash re- ~ ceived to date by the Commissioners ; Is ! £324615/11. - • ',' ■■-■'. i v:""'•'. v' ,: s : > At Feildirig, on Saturday, two ' boy s' ; aged nine and eleven respectively, were ; sentenced to six hours' imprisonment ' arid a birching for stealing £16 in cask, ' .also goods valued at £2. . ' ■ j* This yearj : .under the Pacific Islanders rAct, only 600 kanakas can enter. Aus-•' ! tralia,' arid next year none at all. By ' | the end of 1904 there must not be! ex-' \ \ cept by special permission'for teriipor- ! ary purposes; a single- contract kanaka ' within the Commonwealth. * * The jeatjmatcs for the salaries arid expeuiSeis of tlie Britislr Civil department;* . for ItJO3-4, issued just before the mail left-England, show a total of *£%2>89,----i 602,'! a decrease of £31,972 compared - witli, the previous year. In the miscellaneous estimates £30,000 is put down ! for the St. Louis' Exhibition, the ..total being £ 31,707. Last year the miseel- \ laneous estimates amounted to £230,? ■> 922, out of which £ 125,000, represented the cost of the Coronation.- The estimates for education/ science, and art total £14,531,824, a net decrease, of £ 1,494,137. The National Gallery receives the usual annual grant of £5000 for the purchase of new pictures. , . Splendid value in the fashionable ; metal belts, beautiful designs, at 1/6 and 2/6 each. —Milne and Choyce, Ltd.— (Ad'.y ■•" ..' . : ; : " ■