TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4520, 24 November 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK

An old ldxatio—time out of mind.

■ " Life " on tho stage of the Opera Ilouso to-night. W. G. CI. is not yet within four stone walls.

" How beautiful is the rain, after the dust and heat."

New railway time-table starts to-day. Three stables wero burnt down at Oamaru on Saturday night. Worse than raining cats and dogs— Hailing omnibuses. Prince Albert Victor of Waloa starts soon on a tour of the world.

Mr .Tamos Udail, Oamaru, aged 75 years, was drowned from the steamer Beautiful Star on Friday night. Street lamps in Berlin are extinguished at midnight, and there are no complaints of intoxicated M.R.s colliding with the lamp-posts. The Temple of the " Drammer."—The pit of the Opera House on Saturday nights. A fire in the offico of Mr Austin, solicitor, Christchurch, on Saturday last, did little damage beyond destroying valuable documents.

It is rumoured that Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, is to be raised to the peerage. Tho lout buckets of tho Dunedin dredge, weighing about 30 tons, are stil! unrecovered from the deep.

Tho King of Siatn, who is not thirty years of age, is the fathor of 2G3 children. Government have made a contract with the Union S.S. Company for dolivery of the mails by direct steamers. The Sultan of Morocco, who is 37 yeais of* ago, has a harem of ],200 women, yet he haß to cut up his own tobacco.

It is not an uncommon thing for Turks to smoko from sixty to eighty pipes of tobacco daily. Mr Seddon's ability is (says tho "Otago Timed ") gotting over his want of education, and wo should not bo surprised to see him attain a portfolio some day. " i rou did not pay very closo attention to tho sermon, I fear, this morning." " Oh, yos, I did, mamma." "Well, what did the minister say?" "He said that the picnic would start at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, and oh ! ma, can I go ?' The practices of the Choral Society will be resumed Jto-morrow evening, under the conductorslup of Mr Rnox. The work to be studied is " The Messiah"

Mr James William DeFoo, the great-great-grandson of Daniel DeFoo. is paralysed, nearly blind, and in urgent need. The Dunedin big dredgo has cost £00,000, including repairs, and ia now useless because of the loss of the buckets.

*' When I read in some of the books of tho Old Testament," said Mr Beecherona recent Sunday, "that God spake to Hin servants face to face, and then see what He said, I don't believe a word of it."

It is suggested that members of tho colonial Chambers of Commerce should visit Tonga, Samoa, and Tahiti when the mail servico starts, in order to find out the commercial wants of the islands.

On a late occasion the numbers entering the city of London within 24 hours wero taken at ite 00 inlets: they were 797.5C3— one third moro than the whole population, men, women, and children, of Now Zealand!

A sailing boat was capsized at St. Peter's, Whangaroa, on Sunday, 16th taut., and three men on board—Messrs Sharp, Hall, and Wolnwley—had a narrow escape from drowning, being picked up in an exhausted condition.

On Sunday morning two wooden buildings off Colombo-Btreet, Christchurch, wero burnt down, and £700 worth of binder twine, which wasjuninsured, was destroyed. The damage done is about £2,000, an the buildings wero stored with merchandise, and the insurances only amount to £1,000.