TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 76, 8 April 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Major Caotlev is at Dunedin. Egyptian affairs—Mummiee. Criminal sessions now on. Mr Samuel Vailo has reached Wanganui on his lecturing tour. Col. Reader has gone South on defence business. ' Song of the Bishop's lady—"My love, my lovejifl over the see." Major Swindley is a candidate for Tauranga seat. Mrs Dr. Fotts is now lecturing in London. There is not a chimney in all Mexico; not a stove, or a grate, or a furnace. Tho "Bilvor TCing" Company aro at Timaru, while Miss de Grey is in Welling- ', ton. Tolograph line between Herd's Point and Hokianga, costing £950, has been authorised by Government. Latest sign of insanity on tho part of tho Maori prophetess—She wants to wed a married man. Tho Minister for Defence has received over one hundred applications for appointments as officers in tho Dofonce Force. Lieut. Mackay, who was soriously injured at the military Bports at Dunedin, is making favourable progress. No fewer than 12,394 paesengorß were carried over the Auckland tramways during Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Monday, The New South Wales Government received no response to an invitation to supply 150,000 tons of steel rails manufactured in the colony. Rev. Joseph Berry, of Dunedin, who goes to Christchurch, was last night entertained at a farewell meeting in the Wesleyan Church, Dunedin. There are in the .United States Army 18,262 privates, 2,913 storekeepers, musicians, &c, 4,660 non-commissionedand 2,193 commissioned officers—2B,o2B in all. Dunedin folks will have " nae whusselin' on the Sawbath." The City Council last aight rejected* proposal to allow the band to play on Sundays in the gardens, which was recommended by a committee. About 10,000 people visited the military manoeuvres at Dunedin on Easter Monday, while through the short-sightedness of our railway officials scarcely anybody saw the sham tight at Papatoitoi. Major Eccles left Wellington for Lyttelton by the Hinemoa last Dight to arrange for the return of the'Governor's family. Maria Pungare, the Eaikohe prophetess, has been scattering jewellery and money among her deluded followers, in order to pacify them. , The Chinese have perhaps the meanest saying abou t women ever written. '' There are two good women; one dead, the othflr unboru."