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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 7 April 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

TliouuilT-READiNa in the Theatre lloyul. Major Cautley is at Lyttolton. Big walking match on Saturday next. Woodyoar's Circus has arrived in town. Thero aro 330 subscribers on Auckland Tolophono Exchange. The Governor and Hon. Mr Ballanco left for Lyttolton to-day. Eastor military reviews in all tho Australasian colonios yostorday. Now Zealand licks croation for cheap patents and cheap telephone connection. Mr Burnott's totnperanco mission at Invorcargill rosultod in 600 pledges boing taken. Tho Maori prophetess Maria Bays tho natives woro fools to believe her prediction. Divorces for dosortion are now permitted in Italy. Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. " Man's a vapour full of woos. Starts a piper, busts, and goes." Only five more nights of the inimitable " Fun on the Bristol." A telephone line to Tairua and MerGury Bay, costing £1,500, has beon authorised. Richard Marker, cab-driver, has boon oommitted for trial at Christchurch for trying to burn down his house. A thousand tons of coal wore loaded at Groymouth on Saturday. A third shift of men is to bo put on in the Brunner mine. Demonstration and sports in connection with the Band of Hope" took place yesterday at Haglcy Park, Christchurch, being attended by 2,000 people. An Auckland man named Primrose has been badly scalded at Ohinemutu by accidentally stepping into a boiling spring. At Christchurch on Saturday, Livingstone, the pedestrian, ran ten miles and three-quarters in an hourAccording to a Wellington paper, all homeward-bound ships from that port are just now besieged by recently arrived immigrants who want to work their passages home. Bicycle races in connection with Christchurch Club took placo yesterday. C. Reese won the five-mils race in 14mins. 56sec8., and P. E. Baldwin the ten-milo race in 32min. 32secs. Mr Henry C. Saltor has been appointed to the position of Superintendent of the Adelaide Fire Brigades. Mr Saltor, who is a native of Now Zealand, is only 26 years of age. Lieut. McKay, of Oamaru, one of tho competitors in a hurdle-jumping match at Tabuna Park, Otago, on Saturday, was thrown from his horse, and sustained concues'oji of the spine. His condition iB critical. The ratio of inhabitants to the square milo in Canada is 1,33; in the United States 13.92, and in Belgium 481.71. Tho ratio in Canada is smallest of any country in the world, and in Belgium the largest. A three-roomed house at Mussolburgh, Otago, was destroyed by, fire with its contents on Saturday night. Tb.3 house was owned and occupied by P. Prince. Waiter: "Which will you have, sir—a three-aud-sixpenny orafive shilling dinner?" Gourmand: "What is the difl'erenco?" Waiter: " There is a difference of eighteenpence, eir." A body found ii the Taieri River, Otago, some weeks ago has been identified as that of Edward Forrester, a navvy, who had shown signs of insanity. For the newly-created position of assistant locomotive superintendent of the Victorian Railway Department there were 28 candidates—l 6 from Victoria, four from Now South Wales, four from South Australia, three from Queensland, and one from New Zealand.