TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 166, 14 July 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mark Hambourg to-night. •"**- •-"■• Eight hours day, bank to bank', fojj miners proposed. .Forty-six thousand Russian troops will soon be : massed at Port Arthur. Onehunga sanitary matters were discussed ■by the Borough Council lasfi night.. -Many flags flying to-day in celebratiort of the anniversary of the French Re*< public. A reception was accorded Mark Hambourg'and' his party by Auckland musii dans' last .night. i The Victorian Government do not i__« tend to incur any expense in connection with the St. Louis Exhibition. Heavy northerly and north-easterly, gales, during the past few days have been reported by several incoming ships. A Chinese fruiterer at Newtown has been sent to the Wellington quarantine station, being a supposed case of leprosy. The Postmaster-General has approved of the opening of a post and telephone office at 'Law's store, Kauaeranga Valley, ■ At a meeting of . Labour representatives on Monday night it was resoloved to form a Trades and Labour Council iv Napier, The Mararoa, which left for Sydney; last evening, took £ 16,350 in bullion, shipped by.the Waihi Gold Mining Company for transhipment to London. The net profits of the Broken Hill (N« S.W.) Proprietary Company to November, 1902, were stated at £7,456,000, and the wages, not including salaries, a_ £6,324,880. The railway men whose services the Victorian Cabinet decided to dispense with, owing to their action during the late strike, have not yet received notice of dismissal. President Roosevelt thanks the King for his courtesies to the officer's of the American fleet, but says nothing in reply to His Majesty's remarks as to Anglo-' American friendship. William Ernest Henley, a poet who,, like Stephen Phillips and William Watson, had something better in his muse than most of his contemporaries, has died in his 54th year. The foundation stone of the new. Roman Catholic Church at Huntly will be consecrated and laid by His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, Lord Bishop of Auckland, on August 9th. During the snowstorm in the South' it is said that the drivers of some of the tradesmen's carts were fortified with a. supply of stale eggs with which toj repel the attacks of snowballers. ■ ..Mr Wyatt, of the Navy League, seema to-lie a man of great power and elo« quence. It is impossible to read the fuller reports of his speeches without being moved, let alone to hear thenv An Imperial Parliamentary paper 'issued lately shows that three thousand seven hundred and eight vessels passed through the Suez Canal last year, and of that number 2165 carried the British flag. . "; .Mr Bygrave, of Te Aroha, has purchased Mr,, Glass' Bakery .business at Hamilton East, as, Well as the building in which it-was: carried on, and the adjoining house, from Mr W. F. Bell, of Auckland. ' The New Plymouth Borough Council last'night decided to accept the tender of' Messrs MeWilliam and Anderson, of Wellington, at £5595 3/, for the headwork of the tunnel and pipehead for tha gravitation Water supply scheme. Thai highest tender was. £11.409. . This week's "Graphic" is the most: varied '-that has been issued for several weeks.""' There are views from all over the colony, a very amusing cartoon on; the ••precedence question," and interesting particulars' and photos of people talked about. The Pope recently received 300 pil* grims, who,are returning to their homes from the Holy Land. They were mostly French.! The audience lasted twenty; minutes. The Pontiff urged the French! pilgrims to "pray fervently for dean France, which needs'it so much." The Napier Charitable Aid Board yesterday affirmed the purchase of 5_ acrest of land for the purpose of erecting a newj building for the Old Men's Refuge. The land is situated not far from the pre* sent site,, the building on which hast been condemned by the Inspector-Gen* eral of •Hospitals. ' }