TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4527, 2 December 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

SounAN/ebols are submitting. Maio/Ilopata w seriously ill. Cattb are killed by electricity in LonThesarvey of the trunk railway will be finished by Christmas. • Tlere are 437 drawing-schools m rans, witl 27,000 pupils. , , #out a score of Wellington "deadheids " are trying to get elected to the Govffmnent Insurance Board. In Sweden, a man who has been drunk tiree times loses the right to vote. There are more than a million street limps in London. Why is Canada like courtship ? Because It borders on the United States. ,1. D. McKean, of Panmure, has invented nn " insect repelling scrim." Quarrels would nevor be lasting were the ault only on one aide. Mr Justice Gillies opened the Supreme Court sessions at, Napier yesterday. - Two female municipal councillors havo been elected for the first time in France. The only Ministers now In Wellington nro Sir Julius Vogel and the Hon. Mr lOno°of the hardest things to accomplish is to waken a man in a railway carriage who is occupying two seats. It is roported that the Premier intends to bring an aotion against a leading Dunedm newspaper for alleged libel in a leading article recently published. Tho U.S. corvette Iroquoia left Sydnoy for San Francisco, via Elobart, Auckland, and Callao, on 20th November last. A privato meeting was held at Christchurch last night, when the construction of tho West Coast railway was resolved upon. Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. . Letters patent for horse-power machinery aro applied -for by David Millor, of Thames. . , At Napier, yesterday, Judgo Gillie* had his usual fling at tho local magistrates F<» Bonding a man for trial for attempted ""^"spiritualist Templo, to cost 250,000 dollar*-, is being erected in tho Back Bay region ol Boston. Two boats were capsized yesterday on the bar at Gisbonie, and four men narrowly escaped drowning, but were picked up safely. Mr Sholfe'rd, a member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlement, who arrived by tho Coptic, intends to make a tout of Now Zealand, and visit the Hot Lakes. The Wellington police aro prosecuting an employer of labour for keeping females at work aftor hours on Saturdays, and for defective ventilation of his premises. " Smoking does not ogieo with some people; but it always fteeuas to soot the chimney. ' William Lorrell, a ploughman at Coalgate, Canterbury, diod yesterday from the nature of from potty larceny to attempted murder. The sitting is m,, w w-*. u-4 -n *«:«*.- Tho KuitaiiKatft Lake Coal Company (Limited), Otago, will immediately proceed with tho construction of thoir railway, which is to bo seven and a half milos in length. Tho lino is expected to bo in running order in oight months. I Fore is a " tenniklo pint" that mny be of use to Garrard—Three mon chargod with robbing nt Wellington recently took advan tago of an Act passed lnst year, and chose to bo tried summarily instead of being sent to tho Supreme Court. Tho "Herald1 this morning says "a proporly equipped uudcrstanduuj is about to bo sat going at Hokianga." Does this mean that the natives aro commencing to wear boots ? Two applications for letters patont from Auckland aro of importance to tho building trade, viz., that of Christophor AVood for Mahurangi cement, and that of Robert Bakor for a colonial concreto machine.