TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4530, 5 December 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK

Printers are often " out of sorts."

"Mountain Laurel" going — dull care."

" Begone

Public healing in St. James's Hall tonight. Cold has been discovered at Kaeo. City Council don't want a Library Com mittee.

The action of wgman on our destiny is unceasing. Mr J. L. Campbell is appointed to Auckland Land Board. The Belgian delegate is at Timaru. It is proposed to form a compnnyto run steamers on the Upper Wongonui River. Better than magnetism to cure deafness — Whisper to the patient about a chance to make his fortune.

Government propose, it is said, to place all charitable institutions on the •■ pound-for-pound " subsidy syssem. An invention known as the " triumph titree cutter" has been patented by Henry Reynolds, Taupiri. The Governor was present at a Rose Show in Christchurch yesterday.. Government Insurance Board elections take place in January next. Musical Problem, —if a man blows his own trumpet, can his opinions be sound. M. Clarke, Hawke's Bay, has patented improvements in meat-preserving. Mr Wakefield has resigned the editorship of the "Timaru Herald."

The Hokianga goldfield has proved a " duffer," and the prospectors are back in Auckland.

For the Industrial Exhibition to be held at Wellington next year, a committee of a hundred members has been appointed. All male Tasmanians earning at the rate of £60 a yeor are to have a vote for members of the Assembly. T. K. Williams and Walter Harford, Auckland, seek letters patent for fanlight lock and suspender, and automatic gas regulator respectively. Mr William Christie, of Warepa, Otago, who passed bis medical examination on Saturday last in connection with Otago University, is the first medical student who has passed a professional examination in this colony. Geo. Taylor, Win. Thompson, and Thos. Morgan have just been arrested at Porirua and lodged in Wellington Prison, _ failing payment of fines and costs, aggregating over £500, imposed on them abouttwo years ago for illicit distillation. '. . ' ;