TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 78, 10 April 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

The Promior returns to town to-night. Hound to look woll.—A braided coat. An Upper Flat,—An aristocratic noodle. Sir Julius Vogel beliovos in woman suffrage. " Fun " in the Opera Houso ; " Rico " in tho Theatre. Mr F. Jeune is gazetted a member of the Auckland Hospital Committee. Mosgiel Woollen Company declares an interim dividend of 10 per oent. The Minister of Public Works contemplates reform in tho railway tariffe. Hon. Mr Stout was deputationised at Whangarei on tho subject of the railway, but declined to commit himself to any declaration of policy. The appointment of Lieutenant Arthur Percy Douglas, R.N., as Naval Staff Officer to the Government is gazetted. At Timaru, a brute named Lucas is in custody for stabbing his wife shortly after hor confinement. Tamatai Paora To Rangi, of Rotorua, has been appointed a Native Assessor. Bloggs wants to know if it would bo a de-Grey-ding thing to go to tho Opera House noxt weok. Not at oil, old chappie ! A girl named Kate Martin has been drowned by falling into a deep ditch at Waikouiti, Otago. At tho Christchurch Criminal Sessions, George Bark, an old offender, was convicted of robbery with violence to a girl under 14, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Timaru Harbour Board have resolved to seek Parliamentary powers to borrow £100,000 for the continuation of breakwater and wharf. Captain F. W. Garner, F Battery Artillery, has been appointed to the command of the Napier Volunteer District. It is urged that the employment of shorthand writers in law courts would cheapen and facilitate litigation, and it is probable that Government will give the scheme a trial. Hon. Mr Stout declined to promise that the telephone would be extended to Whangarei Heads unless the settlers guaranteed that it would pay. There appears to be some doubt as to who will officiate at turning the first sod of the trunk railway at Te Awamutu next week. A Pres. Association telegram from Wellington asserts that the ceremony will be performed by Wahanui, Rowi, and Taonui, and that they will be assisted by tbe Hon. Mr Stout. It is not considered likely that there will be any ceremony at tbo Morton end.