TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 119, 28 May 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Toe boots cover a multitude of Bjijna. Qur Parliamentary representatives are waking up at last: Why npt sell the pld circus jqkes as well us the horses 9 A bad uctor—Tho malofaotor, A whine stopper—The dog killer. Thoy say extremos moot; then by all means meet " Extremes" at tho Opera Housp to-night. Tlio railway worka now.in progress In Otago are estimated to ooot #200,000. Yen. Archdeacon Dudley leavoa next week on a two months' holiday. Greymouth Hospital Committee will resign next month if Government does not supply thorn with funds. Messrs AY. Jackson and J. J. Sheldric have beon unanimously appointed auditors for the Borough of Onohungn, A forthcoming event—One that succeeds three others. At Timaru Messrs C. Frasor and J. Granger havo boon elected borough auditors, unopposed. There are 300 female fanners in Dakota, most of them Scandinavians. Forbury Park Land Company, Dunedin, declares a dividend of 4 per cent,, with a bonus of 2J. Children are brought up on bottles; but men are brought down on them. The author of thp qaying thtit " you roust ftlways take a man as you find Mrri" was a constable. Mr Moat, M.H.R., addressed the electors at Aratapu on Monday night, and got a vote of thanks and confidence. The Wellington shareholders in the Colonial Insurance Company on Tuesday diacussod the Board of Directors' management, and propose to call a general meeting to consider the subject. Anderson, the absconding workhouse governor from Liverpool, who was arrested at Wellington for embezzling £600, And sent back to England, lias boon soot two years to prison. A mean thief the other day stole a hospital collection box and its contents from the Governor Bowon Hotel, Thames. Tho tun of Newmarket mayoral oloction commences in earnost to-night, when one of tho candidates addresses the doctors. Mr Petrie, an Otago School Inspector, suggests the introduction of tho peripatetic system of teaching elementary science. Cyprus is said to be the most flourishing of British dependencies, financially considered—the revenue showing s surplus of 73 per cent over the expenditure