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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4517, 20 November 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK

" Miriam " in tho Opera House to-night. Wabanui lias been offered a seat in tho | Legislative Council. Calliope Dock works commenced to-day. < An average of five people are drowned weekly in the Thames at London. An observatory is being erected in Tauranga Domain. The American warship Iroquois visits Auckland shortly. llupini Pokia, a Maori, is to be tried at Nelson for causing the death of a woman. The Mayor of Greymouth was presented with a silver cradle last night.

"Doctor" Wanstnll is giving Tennyson ian recitations at Waitnra.

Hon. Mr Ballance leaves Wellington in a day or so to visit the East and West Coasts of the North Island. Tho cholera scare has had the effect of diminishing drunkenness in Paris. Wellington folks are trying to get more than £1,000 already premised by Government towards the proposed Industrial Exhibition. A scheme ia afoot in London to build a grand hotol in Sydney, at _, cost of £1 ..0,000. A gold miner named Taylor was yesterday killed at Woathorstono Diggings, Otago, by a quantity of earth coming away from an embankment and crushing him. The Wellington Trades and Labour Council have decided to give a hearty support to tho proposed Industrial Exhibition, and the Council desire to have an interview with the Colonial Treasurer on the subject.

Two girls aged eight and two years respectively, daughters of Neil Currie, Swinbourne, Otago, wero yesterday burned_ to death through the houso accidentally taking fire while they wero within. Why do wo make such a noise about a hundred or two of " unemployed ?" When last mail left America thoro woro 20,000 idle mon in Cincinnati, 25,000 in Chicago, and 10,000 at Fall River. "'Tis lovo tnat makes the world go round," exclaimed the married man whose wifo had' chased him around the room till the walls seemed to spin like tho many skirts of a ballet-girl in a fourth-class opera. Rev. Wm. Barton, a Maori clergyman of tho Wesleyan persuasion, who rendered good service to the British during the Waikato War.has just died. Ho was a chief of tho Ngatitainamu. It is expected there will be thrco candidates for tho Mayoralty of Wellington. Mr Fisher, ex-Mayor, is nominated, and Mchsi-s Allen and Pethcrick are also spoken of. An Ohio farmer says that a cow can be cured of kicking by catching hold of her leg while in the act. Just so : and a bee can bo cured of stinging by catching hold of the stinger while in the act. Try 'cm both some time. It's fun.

Tho appeal case, Dawson v. tho Queen, has been decided at Wellington in favour of appellant, who recovers £1,650 damages from the Railway Department, value of property destroyed by a spark from a railway ongino. Tho " Otago Daily Times " reminds Sir Julius Vogol that " Parliament is not the Stock Exchange, and human nature in Now Zealand is hotter than ho takes it to bo."

Hero is the sliding scolo of speculation :— £1, "thief!" £50,000, "defaulter!" £100,000, "shortage!" £500,000, "Australian Tourist I" £1,000,000, "brilliant financier !" Thero aro lots of thieves in New Zealand, but only ono brilliant financier.

The " Anglo-Now Zealander " makes a ludicrous mistake, by stating that " by the most recent returns the number of ' ships ' now in Now Zealand is shown to bo 13,300,32!?, being an increase during the year of 892,223 I" The word " ship^ " should havo been " sheep." The Kennedy Family of vocalists, after returning from New Zealand, opened their concerts in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, on Monday, 6th of October. Tho " Scotsman " says of the "auld man " : —" His tour seeme to have mellowed him, and to have put more Scottish feeling, if that were possible, into his rendering of the mirthful songs which it is liis delight to interpret." The "Otago Daily Times" says :_- ---" Major Atkinson's defect lies in narrowness of viow, nnd a tendency to fossilise. Ho has been Bhut up in Now Zealand too long. It would pay the colony ovor and over again to send him Home for a trip during the recess, nnd give him the opportunity of mixing with ablor mon than himself, and seeing things from other points of view.