TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 125, 4 June 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Parliament opens next week. A grate singer—Tho tea kettle. No infectious disease reported in tho city. Building operations in Auckland show decided signs of revival. A man who is a host in himself.—Tho hotelkoopor. Other £2000 aro to bo spent in enlarging tho Exhibition at Wellington. It is proposed to prohibit tho sale of strong drink to tho nativos of how Guinea. MrGnrrick, Agont-Goneral of Queensland, accepts tho decoration of K.C.M.G. Successful "Diplomacy" at tho Opera Houso. Doson't como a-Miep.—A boy baby. Forced politeness.— Bowing to necessity. Mr Booth wtartH a temperance mission at Wellington to-night. "Tho Bland Old Man" is what tho Christehureh "Star" calls Sir Goorgo Groy. It has bcon resolved to introduco tho chamois into Otago. Island Bay Park Company, Wellington, has v credit balanco of C2lB. I!ov, W. Kaoburn, of Hamilton Prosbytorian Church, loaves in a few days for Auckland. Tlio polico stato that thoro is a pood deal of drunkenness among womon in South Uunodin, Kowi and Wotoro havo gono to'Parihaka to pay thoir respects to To Whiti. Look out for anolhor " nativo diiliculty !" Tho stoamer Stirling Castlo is boing " converted " into n war cruiser, and will bo sent to Austrulia from Malta. Captain Russell, M.H.R., addressed a mooting ot doctors at Hastings last Saturday, and got a vote of conlidenco. Ten o'clock cloning of hotels has just been onforcod at Cavorsham, a suburb of Dunedin, A platolayor named John I.owis was badly injured on tho Canterbury railvyay lino, near Kanglorn yostorday, by falling from a trolly in motion. Tlio girl who calls a man by his lirst namo upon oarly acquaintance is not likely to bo called by his last Tho Comniittoo of Canterbury Art Socioty will make no iccommondation to Government as to Canterbury exhibits of pictures for tho forthcoming Industrial Exhibition, Tho Government Insu.anco Association Board havo resolved lo tako n vote of policy-hotciors on tho question of establishing local boards; Laet night tlio Otago Volunteers .voro suddenly callod out by signals (liring of guns and ringing of bolls), to tost how . peodily thoy could muster in tho ovout of a night alarm. Thoro woro .01 on parudo nt Dunedin, whilo 210 turned out ut country railway stations. A girl named Augusto Piorson, who wandered from her home at Ormondsvlllo, near Nnpior, last Friday, has boon found crouched undor v fallen troo in tho bod of a shallow stream about two miles from hor homo. Hor logs woro immersed in tho wator, and it is foarod sho will loso the uso ol hor handß and foot. Sho is said to bo of wook intolloct.