TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1903, Page 6

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. Education Board met this morning. Rev. Mr Slade's lecture on Fiji tonight. Neiv Zealand v. Metropolitan team at Sydney to-day. Cambridge shopkeepers.'consider Saturday closing to-night. Mr Henry James Synis, a well-known Auckland Oddfellow, lias died at tiie early age of 41. Recent figures show that there aue 2470 murders yearly in Italy; 2400 in Russia; 1000 in Spain. A requiem mass for the soul of the late Pope was celebrated at St. Patrick's j Cathedral this morning. i It is proposed to convene a conference jof inspectors of t*:e public schools, to bo held in January next. Ponsouby Cricket Club was reorganised last night under the title of Ponsonby District Cricket Club. The not profit on the "pester ,, ball--held at Napier in aid of the Hospital is anticipated to reach nearly £100. 1 Auckland shop assistants are sending, a deputation of two. to Wellington -to give evidence before the .Labour Billa Commission. The foundation stone of the Wlianga-' rei Baptist Tabernacle ,jvi]l be laid by Mr 11. M. Smceton, of Auckland, on the Gth of August. Russian 'industrial riots have led to the murder of two Russian "princes.-"' The largest Baku petroleum works has also been set on fire. The -Ventura, with the outward English mail, which left here on the 10th July, arrived at San Francisco on the 27th inst., at 1 p.m. Kawhia and the surrounding districts are receiving numbers of Taranaki settlers. It is said that every steamer brings in new settlers. A native preacher in the North has offered his services for the Waikato district, so that the necessary missionary work there is likely to get more attention. At Te Awamutu recently Dr. Xeligan referred to the lack men in orders in his diocese, and said that at present he could do with twenty more priests than he had. A distressing accident occurred at Belfast. As an old woman was rushing forward to shake hands Avith the King she was knocked down, and the wheels of the Royal - carriage passed over her. ' , The Federal Budget just delivered shows receipts £12,105,000,'0r £535,000 above the estimate. The estimated re-, ceiptsfor next year are £11,566,000, or £539.000 less than last year. A solemn dirge for the late Pops was sting at St. Patrick's Cathedral last night, in the presence of a vast congregation, which overflowed, to the doors of the building. Mr Carroll yesterday presented a petition from ladies of the Poverty Bay disiti'iati hisfepsour of facilitating the imini-' gration-of young women for domestic ■^servants.•".'■'■ '" -" : " " -t-..' ~- ~~'.',,-, . A'meeting of shop assistants at the V.M.C.A. last, night passed a resolution in favour, of. approaching the Premier and the Auckland members on the subject of the compulsory Saturday haJfholiday; ' .'.' '• The technical classes which were started a short time ago in Christ-church-, are now attended, by over 370 students, . ; •and the Board of Managers is experien-v > ring great difficulties in finding accommodation. ';.] . The-richest, known source of the rare gas 'helium is a spring at Maizierea (Cote-dOr), the water from which' throws off large bubbles containing about 80 per eenf;. of a mixture of argon and helium.- . . T .• Baron de Constant, leader of the French deputation now visiting-England, has stated that both Great Britain and s France were ready for an Arbitration Convention, and also to favour the working of the Hague tribunal. Sir Joseph Ward, replying to a request for the free carriage of war canoes to the Auckland Regatta and the Roto- . ru'a carnival, said that war canoes or rowing boats, accompanied by their crews, would 'be carried free to any, regatta in the colony. A contemporary states that England has eleven universities, which have to compete with, no fewer than 134 in the United States,, and with twenty-two en- ' dowed in Germany. English private en-. 1 dowment is much less than 10 per cent, of the American endowment, and in Germany the S.t'ate gives to one university, more than t-Jie British Government gives to all the universities and university colleges in England,' Ireland, Scotland and Wales put together. ;

Coloured surah silks reduced to 4|d * and 6|d yard; 3/11 quality silks reduced to l/41d yd: dress materials reduced to 32<1. Gd, Bd, 10d; ]./; 2/6 green cloth for. Hid. yd.—Histed's sale., to-morrow, 10 o'clock, Ponsonby-road.—Ad. Special Notice: Being unable to show, our goods owing to the Avorkmen starting operations at our front windows, our clean-sweep and expansion sale wilt be continued for the next few days.—MeCullagh and Gower.—Ad. Towels, Id; twill sheeting, 6*d; striped flannelettes from 1/G dozen; Sj'd printed flannelettes lid yard; double width reversible cretonne, 6.Jd. —Histed's sale, Ponsonby.—Ad.