TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 28 March 1904, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

At the Yalu. Yesterday was Palm Sunday. Zealandia for Sydney to-day. Governor returning from North. Russian financial crisis in sight. Reunion devastated by cyclone. North-east gale succeeded by rain. River Limits Commission continued. .. Jap artillery nearing the Yalu River. Entrance to Port Arthur not blocked. Auckland won the rowing championship. Tram and cart in collision on Ponsonby road. Cambridge won the boat-race by 4_ iemgths. Six • church anniversaries celebrated yesterday. Sixty-one deaths from plague in tha Transvaal. Ten Russian destroyers afloat afc Port Arthur. Grossman has won Auckland tennis championship. Hospital and Charitable .Aid Board meeting to-day. Miss Rosina Buckman's concert in JHia Majesty's to-night. J. Hooker was "Victor ludorum" at sports on Saturday. Russians have failed in their efforts to raise a war loan. Relatively poor attendance at athletic sports on Saturday. Grey Lynn, Parnell, and Newmarket Councils meet to-night. Irish. Unionists suggest terms for their support of the Government. Japs will cross Yalu protected by gunboats, which have arrived. Russians got out of Port Arthur and reconnoitred adjacent islands. Russians invaded Corea before the negotiations were broken off. Person has bepn found using a wash* house as a home in Wellington. H. A. Parker won South Australian tennis championship brilliantly. War commission again indicts the Government in the strongest terms. Big house witnessed Cuyler Hastings' last appearance on Saturday night. '1 give nothing for a man's religion if he be not a patriot."—Dr. Neligan. Miss D. Udy and Billing won the Auckland combined doubles championship. Thirty men are imprisoned in a mine in Indiana by the of a dam. The Russian Government will, it is said, be compelled to a forced paper currency. Russian fleet is said to be "rapidly making ready to regain command of the sea." 70,000 people attended »eseting in Hyde Park against Chines- labour in the Transvaal. A British Port Arthur merchant tells a new tale of the results of the bombardments. War commission recommends the granting of additional seniority for meritorious • service. The latest account from Port Arthur represents the Russian port as be-* ing practically unharmed. The Chief of the Japanese War Council predicted that they would carry the war to a successful conclusion. Tornado near Chicago, destroyed 500 houses and cost a million Sterling. Many were killed and injured. Maoris at Kaipara Heads ar.e_ celebrating the erection of a monument to an ancient hero, Hau Moe Werangi. French Government has protested through its Ambassador at the Vatican against the attack made by the Pope. South Australian Premier has informed Dowie that he will not be allowed the use of any hall controlled by the Govern- ' ment. Auckland and-suburbs had the highest birth-rate_ and the lowest death-rate of the whole-of the boroughs in the colony in February. A -petition is being circulated in Rotoruayfor presentation to the PostmasterGeneral praying for a letter delivery by carrier for Rotorua. A return presented to the Wellington City Council fixes the cost of wood-pav-ing the streets along the tramway route at 3/o| per square yard. The Mapourika, on her last trip from the West Coast to Wellington, brought four boxejs containing 311Soz 14eiwt 18gr gold, valued at £ 12,474 19/. Arbitration Court's jurisdiction over vessels trading to the colony but owned outside is questioned %in cooks' and stewards' dispute at Wellington. "I say, upon a premium, that in every church in Auckland the furniture is adapted to do away with the elementary piety of kneeling."—Dr. Neligan. A storekeeper at Akaroa (5.1.) has installed an -electric plant on Ms premises, the electricity being generated by water power, obtained from the borough mains. North Island Railway League is asking ' Auckland business men to guarantee to take up £200,000 in debentures for the completion of the North Auckland railway. Wellington Harbour Board discourages the public from using the wharves . as a promenade on account of the danger to the public, their hampering the work and increasing the danger of pilfering. Prisoners in Mt. Eden Gaol last week numbered 185, of whom 169 were hard labour, two life sentences, and threes' simple imprisonment. There were 19 disf charged and 16 received during the week. "The moment you ally the holy name of God with the base tricks of the politician," said Dr- Neligan last night, - "you strike a blow from which the nation can never recover, at least for many, generations." Dr. Neligan deprecates amusements on Good Friday. "I care not for this claptrap about the workers' hard-earned rest when it breaks the sanctity of the holiest day in our calendar. In these colonies at least there is no need to do it," he said last night. It was stated at a meeting of the Wellington and , Wairarapa Charitable Aid ' Board a few days ago that if all case 3 of desertion were taken from the institution the Wellington Benevolent Trus- , tees could practically close their doors - so far as outdoor relief was concerned. Caretaker of Te Ngutu o te Manu Reserve picked up, whilst digging in the -grounds, a bullet, considerably flattened out. It is believed to be the bullet that 3 killed Major yon Tempsky or Captain Buck, as the spot where he found it was but two yards away from where these officers are supposed to have fallen. '• New Jackets for ladies' and children; _ 700 to choose from. AU new styles; 12/11 il to 55/ each; splendid A, Bradi ? street, draper, JKarang_vha£e (