TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4516, 19 November 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

In musical circlos all again in " harmony."

A happy medium—Adrunken Spiritualist. "An able Ishmacl" is what an Otago paper calls Mr Dargavillo. The Poiw intends creating eight new cardinals.

Two more cases of smallpox have occurred at Melbourne.

An import corn taxis proposed in ftwneo. Tho British drink bill for 1884 totalled L125,G75,275. A great firo at Moscow recently destroyed tho Gorman Theatre and seventy-six shops. Auckland Museum will bo re-opened by a conversazione on Friday evening. Mr Rolloston is said to be the moat unpopular man in the New Zealand Parliament, and to deserve the unenviable distinction.

" Mr Miteholson," says the " Otago Daily Times," " is a straightforward man of business, and in the present dearth of political ability in Auckland, is likely to be in tho next Ministry Major Atkinson forme." According to the " Otogo Daily Times," Major Atkinson occupies a higher position in the estimation of tlio country to-day than ho ever has before.

The Otago " Times " saya that Mr Stout, as leader of the House, has put a severe control upon his naturally bumptious iliaposition. During the past year 14,702 Germans have been sentenced for attempting to emigrate to avoid military service. Delegates ef tho Farmers' Alliance are to hold a conference in London this month on tho agricultural crisis. A boxing match for £50 a side at Wellington resulted in Pottergell boating Perry in three rounds.

It is suggested that the Maori King ehould bo asked to turn the first sod of the To Awamutu extension of the trunk railway. Thero ia great depression in the British shipbuilding trade, the result of overproduction during the past few years. Messrs Barnes, Spedding, and Scoullar, all City Councillors, were nominated for tho Mayoralty of Duncdin yesterday.