TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4528, 3 December 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

A call to arms—''Take tho baby !" Mi- Mitchclson moans ttf retire froifa politics. Opportunity U another name for godd iuck.

Hearn, tho scullor, goes to Kiverton on Monday next. Parnoll wants a railway station. I'here are aboiit 5,000 milk-shops in London ; tho " milk-sops " are more numerous. Sir Julius ogel comes North a fortnight henbe. , What is out of our power to amend becomes supportable by patience. "Hamlet," in French, has been successfully produced in Paris. The Free Library and Art Gallery plans have come at last. Florida expects to raise 3,000,000 boxes of oranges this season. Meeting to form, a Crimean Veteran's Association in Robson's Rooms to-night.

Tho average duration of a locomotive is 30 years, and it is good for about 700,OlX) miles of travel.

The foreman of the jury at tho Supreme Court, Napier, had an apoplectic fit yesterday. Canton, China, with a population of a million and a-half, has not, it in said, a newspaper of any kind. Mr Wakefield says the West Coast railway scheme is the bicgost land monopoly ever heard of in the colony.

Fire broke'out in A. Pearson's store at Whangarei on Monday night, but was Sromptly extinguished and a ruinous conaeration averted. By the law in Kansas a man cannot sell his land without his wife's consent.

Miss Gonevieve Ward and Mr Vernon, v ho are on a tour of tho colony, closed a successful soason at the Princess Theatro, Dunodln, last night. " Next to a clear conscience " (says JO3II Billings), "for solid comfort cums an old Mr 'Wakefield, M.H.R. for Selwyn, says that Sir J. Vogel before he has done will add to tho public debt £7,000,000. Mr and Mrs Howard Vincont, who etayed at Government House, Sydney, for ton daye-, have gone to Brisbano on a visit to the Governor of Queensland.

day*re*e'iectc3 Chairman of Otago Harbour Board. v A seven-roomed house at Wellington, occupiod by Louis Davis, Bharobroker, was dostroyed by lire last night. Care will kill a cat. Tho care must be exercised in taking aim. It i« extremely difficult, however, to hit one in tho dark with a boot-

Napier Hospital scandals have culminated in Dr. Fisher Wna requested to resign and Mo nurses boinfj dismissed. About 100 native chiofa assembled; at the Maori Parliament held lately at tho Kaipara, and tho speeches delivered were most loyal to the Queen.