The Auckland Star.
VOL* XXIIo-Mo. 220.
AUCKLAND, N.Z., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Iβ, 1891.
PRTCPr-ONE PENNT.
TABLE TALK.
Wak scares. Powers arming. Britain on guard. , Chinamen rioting. *S.s. Pakeha arrived. Ovalau gono to Fiji. Parliament nearly over. . Choral concert a success. Richmond loft for Islands. Russian famine increasing in horror, Capt. Logan's certificate .suspended. Mr W. B. Perceval is Agent-General. . £13,900 worth of cargo has arrived from London by the s.s. Pakeha.
It is reported .that a widespread plob is being organised ■to depose the Shah of Persia.
A Scotch concert \will be givon ab the Mount Hobson Kali, Remuera, on Friday next.
Tippoo Tib asserts that fchore is no truth in the story about Jamieaori and the canni bals at Eibarbo (Africa).
Sibbin relief fund is expected to be handsomely supplemented by the Orches tral.Union Concert next Thursday. ■*~ Mr E. Eugster made a sweeping denun ciation of the rougher British eports at the I J resb3'teria» Conference last evening. Musical and dramatic entertainmenb by pupils of St. Joseph' 3 Convent, Surrey Hills, will be held in the building next Fri day. ;

Aldomalo, one of Balmaceda's Ministers, was murdered in Chili while escaping:, by his own escort, and robbed of 30,000 dol lars.
A Waikato electoral requisition to Sir M. O'Rorko to become a candidate for the vacant seat is being signed in the Wai kato.
Special jurors in the case of McLeod v. White will not be required at the Supremo Court till Monday, 21sb inst., at 10 o'clock iv the forenoon.
