TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 6019, 28 March 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Last night of tho Juvenile Opera; Troupe. A place of sculls—The Paramatta River. Auckland to have six guns to pepper the Russians.

" Fun on the Bristol " opens on Monday

night. Anothor Cabinet Council at Wellington to-day. Miss Genoviove AVard is at Timaru. Mr Ballance leaves Wellington on Monday for Auckland via Napier. Tho " Last Day " of Maria Pungare is to be on Tuosday next. Tauranga is doomed. Tho " Bay of Plenty Times " tbroatens to make Itotorua its lioadquartcrs. . Bishop Cowie is presently on a visit to the Northern parts of his diocese. The Opera Houso will be completely filled to-morrow night with matter, mind, and spirit, Letters of administration have beon granted in tho estate of Captain Duncan, late ofc Dunedin. Ho was master of the gchooncr Tauranga, which is-presumed to havo been lost en route for Tonga in June last.

Thero aro a hundred petitions being signed in Auckland against the employment of barmaids, and more forms are wanted. Andrew Waiapo, tho smart young aboriginal who lately "vamoosed" for Sydney, is to be brought back at the instance of a couple of commission agonts whom he swindled to tbe tuno of £80.

A house and shop at Makihikihi, noar Timaru, wero burned down on Thursday night, and a man named Frere narrowly escaped boing roasted alive. Alfred George Mantell, Wellington, is in custody charged with obtaining £4 17s from Harry Bennett, of Auckland, by false pretences. During the galo of a fortnight ago, the nativo church at Tnumarore, Bay of Islands, was blown down and completely wrecked.

A shed at Waihola, Otago, containing two engines nnd threshing machines, was burned down on Thursday. The loss is about £500 ovor tho insuranco.

Those plumbers again ! Tho Sydney City Council's contract for plumber work for a year came to £522, and the " extras " to £840.

Government havo authorised tho making of a bridgo across tbe \Vaimamako Rivor, between Mongonui, Bluff, and Hokianga. It is understood that the names of several gentlemen whom the Government intend to call to the Legislative Council havo beon submitted to the Governor ; but as these gentlemen themselves have not beon communicated with, no information has been divulged.