TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 135, 11 June 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last night of " In the Ranks."

" Called Back " to-morrow night. Proceeds for benefit of sufferers by the volcanic eruption.

The English Parliament is to be dis^

solved.

Mr Bradlaugh's visit to New Zealand is therefore postponed.

Mrs W. A. Cu?hney died suddenly at Cambridge last night of convulsions.

Block on the telegraph line ; another reason for a duplicate line from Auckland to Wellington.

Holt, the bank manager, had a very wretched appearance when sentence was pronounced.

All the publicans in Coromandel dis trict got renewals of their licenses yesterday.

At Melbourne New Zealand feed oats are quoted at 3a to 3i 4d ; under bond, 2s 6d to 2a 8d per bushel.

Thames Couuty Council ■will oppose the Gold Duty Abolition Bill in its present shape.

Wholesale and retail drapers' representatives played a tootball match yesterday, the retailers being defeated.

Cambridge Jam Factory Company are treating for the purchase of a complete jam and marmalade plant.

A new railway time-table comes into operation on 21st,on which date the railway extension from Oxford to Lichfield will be opened.

Mrs B. Levy returns sincere thanks for visits and letters of condolence received during the week of mourning for her late lamented husband.

Thames County Council have decided to defer taking any steps regarding the codlin moth pest for the present time, aa it is evident the Government purpose legislating on the subject.

John Lofley, charged with deserting his wife in Auckland, was arrested last night at New Plj mouth. He was with another woman, who left-by train for South.

Mr Pratt, late engine driver on the Grey Brunner Railway, was presented by his fellow workmen with a gold locket and album on the occasion of his leaving for Auckland.

Major Minett, late of the 18th Royal Irinl), who acted as subaltern of that regiment in New Zealand, has been Appointed Musketry Inspector of the New Zealand Forces. The appointment was gazetted last night. The Rev. J. S. Smalley, the Congreeational Evangelist for the Wesleyan Church, commences his evangelistic mission in the Graf ton Road Church this (Friday) evening, Mr Smalley is assisted by Mrs Smalley and Mrs Donald. He is especially gifted as an evangelist, and is expected to draw large congregations.

A man named Goorge Sly has pegged out an alluvial claim at Waiomo, consisting of two men's ground] one of which has been hitherto known as the Paroquet or Prospectors' claim, and against which a plaint wa.) laid yesterday in the Warden's Court bj Thomas Murray, on the ground of non working.

The following tenders were received for the Cox's Creek Bridge and approaches :— Contract accepted; Maguire, Auckland, £1,785. Declined : Pascoe and Co., £1,805 ; J. Cheyne, £1,966; Grosvenor, £2,241 ; Oonlonandßegan,£2,2B3; SheehanandCo., £2,673 j Cleghorn and Proaser, £2,602; Woolley and Brown. £2,665; W. Blewden, £3,500. Mr Graves Aickin, President of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday evening forwarded the following telegram to the Hno—thn-Minister.for Mines :—" Rejapsed tbis vote be revived as a reward for improvements in gold and silver saving appliances. Mines, Upper Thames, paralysed for lack of means to cave precious metals in payable quantities." The action is cordially approved of by the Brokers' Association.