TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 122, 1 June 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Peace assured. Mail steamer late. Consols havo' fallen to IOOJ. Heavy hoar-frost this morning. " Diplomacy " in the Opera House tonight. London wheat market continues in- ■ active. New Zealand's new loan is quoted at 2 per cent, premium. The Chairman of the Piako County i Council has predicted that in about two years time the new battery at Te Aroha will be wiped out of existence by an avalanche of earth from above. Wellington people intend to try and get the three city electorates rolled into one. Mr John Thomson, New Plymouth has been appointed Harbour Engineer at Gisborne. The salary is £800 a year. 1 s*The Colonial Treasurer has just received £140 from some conscience-stricken person in New South Wales who formerly swindled our Government out of that sum. This suggests the reflection—By (Sir) George 1 What a windfall the Treasurer would get if certain land-grabbers in the colony would develop a conscience ! i 'A licensing court.—The permission to ■■ pay your address, i Wellington Woollen Company start to ■ build their factory. Waring Taylor's creditors will receive about 3s in tho £. Mount Hobaon is becoming a popular i recreation resort. The steamer Triumph and Hinemoa have : arrived at Wellington. A few more hundreds of pounds are to i be spent in repairing the Cambridge ! Rotorua Road. I A flowery name for the people of the ' Emerald Isle—Tho car-nation. For one person killed by a mad dog,'there are 100,000 killed by whisky; yet Now ! Zeslandlaboursbaidtoexeludehydrophobia, and manufacture tire-water. -A, Janet.Niocol leaves Wellington tojijilil for Lyttoltim iiud Dunedin, and begins her contract services to the South j Sea Islands on Thursday next, June 4th, i . (not July 4th, as erroneously telegraphed.)]