TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 211, 4 September 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■Mr Justice Cooper in Chambers to* day. "The Serenade" to-night at His Majesty's. Presbyterian Jubilee meeting in the Choral Hall last night. ."Boy Jim" (from "Kodney Stone") at the Opera House to-night. 'W.iiihi Borough Council decided to pay; its Mayor £200 per annum. Anniversary Eegatta Committee postponed their'raeeting till next Tuesday. Many unable to obtain admission to the Presbyterian Jubilee meeting last night. A concert in the Sailors' Home las£ evening 'was opened by the singing of the National Anthem. The Suez mail which left London on 31st July is due to arrive, per Talune, on Sunday evening next. A bicycle road race in connection witb! the members of the Civil Service iv Christchurch will be run soon. The Governor and Lady Ranfurly entertained 200 sailors at Government House on Wednesday evening. Latest title for a sermon: "A Young Man Smitten. Down in the Shambles oi Sin by the Pole-axe of Gambling." International Wireless Telegraphy Congress favoured the construction of coasts stations 'to communicate with ships. The Legal Committee of the City Council has made recommendations as to the poirto'be taken in the matter of Sunday trams. 1 The City Council '"'received" the Auckr laud Bowling Club's protest in the matter of the erection of an infectious diseases hospital. Superintendent of the Auckland Sailors' Home Mission says that the cramped quarters of sailors afloat requires serious consideration.

City Council last night granted licenses to one boardinghouse, four second-hand dealers," 13 gum buyers, and for two advertisement hoardings. ■ Russia's.mission is "to defend civilisation" against the yeilow races." That's why she is not going to allow anyone else in Corea —vide cables. Consideration of the proposed bicycle track in Victoria Park "has been deferred by the City Council till the new Legal Committee has been appointed. , '. Dr. Parkyn arrived at Wellington by the Tutanekai yesterday, and the conference as to the. Kliodes Scholarships will begin as soon as all the delegates have arrived—probably to-day. The Government, having decided to ,es-< tablish a butter-grading station at Gisborne.' the Nuliaka butter will be sent! there,, and most likely that of Wairoa , also. , .. During August 119 cases of scarlet fever were reported in the Canterbury, health district. Of these •75 were in. Christchurch and suburbs. The tigures show a considerable increase on those for July. The city 'engineer has/reported to the/ council that tile expenditure at this season'of the year is'proportionately heavier than at other seasons, but during the. remainder of tlie y«ar the expenditure, would be brought within the allocation: • Mr Hansen made a formal declaration in a letter'to the City Council that he would not run trams during church hours on Sunday for the first twelve months after receiving powers.-, to run on that day,-nor-thereafter-without a special poll of the citizens. . A curious error has been discovered in the tables attached • to the Financial Statement, where it is stated that 253,321' sheep, sent to South African ports from this colony, weighed 141,086,0321b5. This gives* an average of SaOlbs a-piece, the weight:of a good heifer. A freak of: nature in the shape of aS chicken with four legs and three wings has been "brought to this office for our inspection. The monstrosity was ushered into the 'world at Mr..F." AspinalFs place at .Taradatfe, but in ah- endeavour to re« lease it from the shell it was killed.—* "Napier Daily. Telegraph." Speaking at A'shliurton on the subject of refunds made to students for fares in travelling from other parts of the colony; to get to Lincoln 1 College, Professor Lowrie said that £ 15 was refunded to those students during the three years they, were at the'college. Those students were therefore boarded'for £28 G/8 per year. In a lecture at ; Christchurch Dr. Greenwood stated that lung development •would do a , very great deal in the direction of alleviating, or even curing, cases of asthma. A member of the audience stated that he.knew of a case where a' young man had been entirely cured oi this distressing complaint by a systematic course of lung culture.

A gentleman from Jnvercargill, visiting Christchurch, stated that there had been a spell of splendid weather in the South, and that ploughing, discing and even drilling and tine-harrowing were in full swing from outside Invercargill to the Taieri. The fanners were taking full advantage of the weather, and early crops were expected all through the country. As indicating the large number of Southland sheep purchased for transmission to Canterbury during the past few, months, it is worthy of note (says the "Mataura Ensign") that one Canterbury, buyer- alone during a short stay in this district paid £1200 in railage alone on sheep purchased by him in this district, and which were all forwarded to Canterbury. ;