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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4531, 6 December 1884, Page 2

TABLE TALK

"Green-Busires" at the Opera House to night.

No more small-pox cases at Sydney. The Port Albert religious farce is nearly ended. •

A''converted clergyman" in the Opora House on Sunday night. Gold has been found on Manaia Orcok, Coromandel.

Government surveyors havo boon again obstructed by Waikato natives.

Tho Wellington hangman is in custod*y on a charge of burglary. *Geelong waterworks costing £350,000, are a dead failure through engineer's blundors. Miss Geneviove Ward opened her season in Christohurch last night. A girl of ten years old lias died at Waikomaiti, Otago, from eating unripo gooseboirios.

Our wily Postmaster - General has " euchred " New South Wales in the game over tho San Fransisco mail contract.

Patont medicines in Britain last year paid LluO.OOOduty.

Dunediu City Council got no sympathy from tho Premier in their attitude regarding Sidey's compensation claim.

A monster lfieeting of Maoris is projected at Aramoho, near Wanganui, about two months henco.

Mr Spurdlo, Wanganui, who did some Council work while a member of that body, has been ordered to .pay £100 penalty with cost 3. . ."

To keep down smallpox iii Sydney, strict house-to-house investigation has boon instituted by the authorities. 3 If 3'ou want to keep ilies out of. your rooms, place a couplo of pots of geraniums in the open windows. Dr. Albort Martin, son of Hon. John Martin of Wellington, has obtained the'appointment as resident physician at Guy's Hospital, London, at a salary of £500 to start with. Dr. Martin is now on a visit to the colony.

The Bishop of Melanesia, who is now in Auckland, is announced to preach in St. Sepulchre's Church, Kyber Pass, txi-inorrow (Sunday), at 11 a.m., and at St. Paul's in the evening, at 6.30.

A strange story was told in Dunodin P..M. Court yesterday, in the hearing of a civil claim. A mnn named Km-sey was sued for board of his wifo, and in defence he alleged that.Mrs Kursey loft him one day, telling him; sho was going to Mosgiol, instead of which she went to Auckland^ travelling wilh a young man named Lnckharfc, a? his wife. Sho was examined and admitted going to Auckland, but denied knowing any young man called Lockhnrt. She said she did not know what steamer she went to Auckland or returned in.