TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4529, 4 December 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Early to Risk—Bread, Fijian natives are dying out rapidly. Floral and industrial show in Foresters Hall to-night. ■'. ■ '• * • Mr gtout stays at Dunedin over New Year's' Day. - ■' A Sheep-breeders'- Association ie to be formed in Tasmania. • _ . Judge Seth Smith has been appointed local law examiner. XTpjohn, (he-Melbourne hangman, has joined the Salvationists. Sir G<#. Grey is. expected in town from the Kawau to-night. A woman has boen committed for trial at Sydney for starving her child to death. M. de Harven, the Belgian delegate, has gone to Dunedin. The salt taxis said to bo responsible for the cßolefa in India. ~, # A lager beer company, with L 30,000 capital, is projected in Melbourne. Government have detailed, Mr McKerrow, Surveyor' General, to assist M. de Harven in his Now Zealand mission. A reformatory for boys, to cost L 20.000, is about to be erected by the Government of New South Wales. Frank Dunlop fell 32ft. from a scaffold at Wellington yesterday, and his life is despaired of., Lately at Redfern Police Court, N.S.W., 59 persons wore fined in one day for having unregistered dogs. The gold yield of tho United States last year was 1/5,563,328, the lowest for fourteen years back, " The People's League for the Abolition of the Hereditary Legislative Chamber," is tho latest Radical movement in England. The Thames "Advertiser" has given up its leading columns to a series of articles on " Geology and Goldmining." Milk is sold retail at Tauranga at 2£d per quart. Plenty of milk in the Bay of Plenty 1 John Sylvester was yesterday _ found guilty of attempted murder at Napier, and sente_oed to ten years' penal servitude. Dunedin City Council have agreed to ex tend the Tramway Company's concession for other twenty-one years. "Major" Forbes, a prominent Salvationist, has' been arrested as a lunatic at Adelaide.. He had told the Army "they were all going to the devil." A woman swallowed a pint of keroeone with intent to commit suicido. She still, lives. She forgot to swallow a lighted match. Mr E. P. Houghton, who has beon for two months at Levuka reorganising the Union Steamship Company's business, has returned to Now Zealand. William Meldrum, a shanty-keeper on the Otago Central Railway, has died from injuries inflicted upon him at midnight on Monday by three men named Lawrence White, Thomas Crowley, and Gerald Fitzgerald. Tho two last-named men are in custody, and tho poliso are looking for the other.

A too-enthusiastic supporter is a troublesome appendage at election times, for t'lough he may bo a fool ho is still a friend. Onoo, when Sir David Salomons at Greenwich began a Bpecch, " Gentlemen, circumstanced as I am," a frlond below, in order to encourago him, roared out, "Go on, old hoy, circumcised as you are; all right." The Dunedin Salvationists have come into collision with the North Dunedin Rifles, while marching through the streets. The " Regulars " havo lodgod a complaint with the Volunteer commander.