The Auckland Star.
VOL. XXIL-No. 11.
.AUCKLAND, N.Z., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1891.
PKICE—ONE PENNY.
TABLE TALK.
"A Doll's House." Sydney mail arrived.
Parliament close at hand. Duke of Somerset is dead. • Wainui cleared for Islands. Madame Burton successful. Cabbies boycott the wharf. Te Anau for Sydney to-night. Tourists flocking to Rotorua. H.M.s. Curacoa is at the Bluff. St. Helier's Bay excursion to-day. Hanlan has challenged O'Connor. Rev. J. Chalmers visits Rotorua. Burns's anniversary on 26th insfc. Ship Talavera on fire at Sydney. Mr John White's funeral to-day. Shabby design for new stamp. John Williamson died this day 1875. Great preparations for Mercer Regatta. Chamber of Commerce meets to-morrow. Napier-Wellington railway open shortly, Yankees want to make rain with dyna mite.
German Emperor wants Europe dis armed. Madame Burton sings " Who is Sylvia?" to-night. Brother Jonathan is still bothered with' the redskins. Baron Housmann, the reconstructor of Paris, is dead. A thaw has set in both in England and' on the Continent. L. D. Nachan's standard teas at afternoon tea Graving Dock.
" The second Gough" should have packed houses nexfc week.
An avalanche has killed seventeen people at Leon a in Bosnia.
The New York Chamber of Commerce condemns free coinage.
Hurdle races in the water ab Graving Dock on Saturday. Great fun.
Rev. J. Chalmers lectures in Newton Congregational Church to-night. Great race for Swimming Championship of New Zealand at Graving Dock.
Rev. W. Watt lectures on New Hebrides' in St. Luke's, Remuera, to-night.
Hanlan has challenged O'Connor to vovr him for a thousand dollars a-side.
Dr. Ivlaeee, Bishop of Peterborough, has been appointed Archbishop of York. The Rev. J. Chalmers at the Newton Congregational Church this evening.
