TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5466, 26 January 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Scirooii Committco e'o:t'.ons on,

Ralph Hood's! ftirowcll concert tonight. Dr. Hughes lectured last night at Thames,

Is this hot enough?—9l degrees in tho shndo at Napior yesterday.

Might is right, but dynamite is wrong, 1 ho Firo Brigade teams in Duncdin liad church parade yesterday.

The body of the third victim of fchotunnol accident at Pukorau hns Leon rocovcrcd.

Jaa. Isbi3tor, an Olasjo plouglimnn, banned himself last Tuesday because his horso3 displeased him, Largo bush fires aro raging around Mokatokn district, in Hawke'a Bay. Wellington Moat Preserving and Refrigerating Company declare a dividend of 5 per cent, for the past year. Titokowaru's meeting in March next will bo tho largest held in Wanganui district for many years.

A number of gravo fences woro destroyed la'ely by a 11 ro in Devonshire-street Cemetery, S^dnoy. The Fire Brigade turned out and extinguished the flames. In the2i hours' walking match at Dunedin between Scott, the Otago champion, and Hancock, an Englishman, Scott won easily, covering 114 miles. Hancock, who, like Job, was " tormented with boils," gave up at 100 milos, when he was seven miles behind,

Tho timber mills of Messrs Parsons and Small, near Napier, have been destroyed by fire, with a large stock of timber, and other mills are threatened.

Justice- Willes, in answer to tho question what to do when you find a burglar in your house, gives the deliberate advice: —" Take a. double-barrelled gun, load both barrels to tho muszlo, aim carefully at some vital organ, and shoot him dead."

J. 0. Frew, civil engineer, went out duck-shooting near Hokitika yesterday morning, and shortly after was found lying shockingly wounded in the face. He died in the Hospital after lingering for sevoral hours.

In Germany a man dare not cut down the trees on his own land without consent of the proper authorities, so zealous is the Government in preserving the forests. A woman named Ann Mary Packer has been committed for trial for manslaughter at Napier. The alleged offence consisted in treating roughly the newly-born child of Mrs John Bell, Ormond villa. _~