TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 5476, 6 February 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Mr Booth.m farowoll on Monday night. '. First fashionable night of " Forget-Me-Not." Mr Ballanco will not bo in. Auckland till . Monday. Waikato rosidonts are disapponted because 1 Mr Booth cannot visit them. Thoro were 20,000 tramps in Germany [ last year. A boy in an Auckland workshop has inL duced nino othors to don the bluo ribbon. About 2,500 people visit tiie City Public \ Baths every week at present. I Spoiling the heathen ! Twenty China- ' mon have just beon fined from £1 to £5 with ' costs for gambling at Dunedin, , An Anglican Churcn is to be erected near tho Sugar Works at Birkenhead. 1 M. de Harvon has gone to see Sir Julius Vogol at Waiwera. The new High School at Dunedin has ' cost £18,000. It is to be opened noxt week. Rotorua Maoris have started to make 1 billiard cues from mairi timber, which they do moßt successfully. ' G. Q. Gardiner, a Canterbury mill-owner, . has", died' from! gunsTibt wounds accidentally inflicted byhiinself. '' * v" "' " ■' "The' second ahh'ual meeting of North New gealanct'Fa'rmers' Co-'o'pe'ratiy'e A'ssbciation , tool; place aii Hamilton thlß'afterriqoln. ' ■ Photographic group, Of Ihi' 'm'e'Fpfiere. of the temperance choir under'tyr'Tudehope is to go presented to Mr Booth. • " Two' epttages were destroyed by fire at gouth Punedm yesterday, The loss js £ISO over the insurjmpes. The Dunedin Committee in connection with the Industrial Exhibition recommpnd that the charge for spaoe be reduced to Gd per foot. A Waikato sottler who was troubled with orchard robbers, has got a respite since he ■ ■ >- -j fioh.hooks to the best loaded deftly attacuci- „..- branches. Verb sap. During last year, the vessels entering Timaru harbour had an aggregate tonnage of 63,435 tons. M. do Harvpn intends to present doublebarrelled fowling pieces to King Tawhiao, Major Te Wheoro, and Patara te Tuhi. Railway' 'excursions in Christchureh continue successful! yesterday twb train's to Timaru took 2.0Q0 passengers. ' "'■ : i G. Black, draper, b'f Akaroa, was sailing j back from French farm in the Pinafore ' when his boat was swamped. Tho ketch 1 Blackwell, while sailing up the harbour, j found him floating about insensible, supported by the oars, and returned to Akaroa with him, He is doing well. , Mrs Ballance, who has been staying at j Wycyard House during the absence of the .' Native Minister at the Waikato, left Auck- < land ibis morning by the JO.IO train (or I Tuaksu. 11