The Auckland Star.
VOL. XXUI.—Wo. 32.
AUCKLAND, N.Z., MOJS'DAYi FEBRUARY 8,- 1892.
PRICE-ONE PENNY.
TABLE TALK.
English elections approaching. Financial scandal in Paris. Barque lost near the Bluff. Supreme Court civil sittings on. Governor banquetted at Dunedin. Cargo-steamer Morayshire arrived. McCarthy chairman's the Irish party.
VVainui from South Sea Islands to-mor* row.
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded thia day 1586.
Barque Lottie Moore cleared for New York to-day. The Chinese observed lasb Saturday as their New Year.
H.M.s. Bingarooma is expected from Melson shortly.
To-day, the telegraph lines were down south of Oamaru.
The luncheon to the Governor at Christ church takes place to-morrow.
Splendid year's record for New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Mr J. Carroll, M.H.R. for the eastern Maori electorate, is in town on private busi ness.
The Bank of England has declined to facilitate the establiehmenb of gold currency in Australia.
The Ameer of Bokhara has sent a contri bution of 100,000 roubles to the Russian famine relief fund.
A big tangi is taking place near Tauranga over the remains of an old Maori chief, Tareha te Makarini, who died recently. The Grand Duchess Xenia, eldest daugh ter of the Czar of Russia, is betrothed" to the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelowitch.
H.M.S. Victoria wiil return to Malta. She has received only slighb injuries. The double bottom, was the means of saving the ship.
Sir W. V. Harcourb thinks thab the result of the Roesendale election shows that the Tories are doubting the value of the alliance with the Unionists.
