TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• —-" Indra arrived. Tramway disputo proceeding. English football team chosen. Tavuni and Moura gone to Islands. "Sush King?' at Opera House to-night* . Arbitration Court began:'sitting to-j day. ; -,^ Sarmersf iOnion Conference st!o_w>r-' row. Supposed human skeleton found at Otau. ~•-". Ptetrtoleuni iboringj. /started Sat Plymouth. Baltic; Squadron to leave for Far East on July 15. Mr F. Holworthy's Shakespearian, recital to-night. Makafoff's •widow has received a pen* sion of £2000. Thompson Handicap to be run in. Wei* lington to-morrow. Yesterday's inquest was an interesting Btudy to physicians. Fine of . "Creation" bjj Choral Society last night. Japanese Corean railway is progspss* ing rapidly towards the Yalu. - Chloroform mishaps at Auckland Hbs* pital are about one in 16,000. Meeting to discuss Greater project at Grey Lynn to-night. t Tabernacle Sunday School celebrated its 46th anniversary last night. St. Stephen's BOyß' School, »t ParaeH, was destroyed by fire last night. Inquest on Mrs T)rinnaa resulted in verdict of death from natural causes. The English football team includes seven English and Welsh internationals. An Imperial exhibition will be opened in the Crystal Palace in May of next year. Annual meetings of Holy Trinity and St. Paul's Anglican Churches held last night. • ."■ . i There was an increase of 6d in the. general offertory at St. Paul's last year! • Wcstport Borough has adopted rating on unimproved land values by 280 votes against 163. -r-wsur l Last year 999 chloroform eases were dealt with by the Hospital without a single mishap. ?— ~_' General Booth only proposes to send . out selected emigrants under approval of the Agents-General. - Military ' operations in SomalilanS will now cease, the Mullah being prao tically Without followers. In a hospital fire in Indianapolis two. surgeons quietly finished a critical ope-, ration and saved their patient. Further details are given in our cables of the death on the Petropavlovek of. the great artist, Vasili Vereshehagin. "I don't like being a Bishop—l wish I was a parish priest again."—Bishep Neligan at Devcnport last night' The llussian threat as to correspondents using wireless telegraphy applies to the "Tames. correspondent alone. St. Paul's parish has passed .a resolution condemning the General. Synod:' i?£ shelving the Women's ... -Czar Js^seridnig-^ ber of track the wounded and bear *to them medicaments for first-aid. The inquest on Mr W..L. Thompson-, the' Sydney solicitor who was found shot in his office, resulted in an open verdict. The Kibitu Maoris have secured the log on which 'Tamaii Waika floated down the Wairoa Eiver to; till death; they have fenced it round and mad* iti tapu. Trout numbering 6952 and 'weSteftg 30,6811b are knowh-to have been in Rotorua during the season, and represent but a third of the estimated catches. ... Bishop 33eligan girded very strongly at the "threepenny bitter" at - Bevwa-* port last night, describing him as thsj man who wants three, penn'orth of his; own pet parson . once a week if the weather is fine. . The Parnell Fire Brigade acknowledge the receipt of two guineas towards them accident fund from Messrs. McGregor and Montgomery, in acknowledgment of the brigade's services at the laia fira :on their, premises. / . > ' The Canterbury Rugby Union has suspended five members of,the Sydenham Football Club in consequence of dis* turbahce in a train at Easter time. Th* action was taken on the recommends? tionof the club concerned;-