TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 130, 10 June 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Mr Wvhert Rrevk'h benefit to-night,

A railroad strike—a collision. The typo fighter—Tho proof-reader. Consols have advanced to lIS^ ; Now Zealand securities unchanged. Tho bo.ly o: a man supposed to have peri.hcd from exposure bus been found at Lovoll's Flat, Otago. Tho only crop that grows by gaslight— Will oats. To steal a thio on an elevated railway would bo highway robbory, Otago Institute means lo urgo Govornmont to prevent the wholosalo deportation of tuataivi lizards from tho colony. Mr Pearson, M.H.R. for Ashley, was ontertainod nt a banquot by his constituents on Monday night. An improved rotary cngino has beon invented and patented by Mr G. A. Ritson, ongineors' fitter, Wellington. A man doesn't k-;ow tho truo import of wearing a tilo until ho gots a brick in his hat. The Waimakiriri Ilivor, Canterbury, is in heavy flood, and is injuring tho railway ombankmonts. Mrs Adamson,wifo of a baker at Hawere, committed suicido by drowning on Monday night, Mr C. Atkin, coach-builder Auckland, bus applied for lottors patent for the "premier centripetal brake." Tho section of land applied for by the Unseetarian Church committee at Rotorua has been made over in perpetuity by tho Government.

Tho Gisborne Dairy Factory Company intend sending six tons of chee.'-e to London by tho steamer lonic. At Lyttelton, the Collector of Customs intends prosecuting shippers for neglecting to puss export entries within six days of tho departure of steamors, Parihaka Maoris havo but dim ideas of pakeha law. Lately a settler threatened to impound about a hundred Maori horses that wero running on his land. "All right," said the dusky owner, "you give me pound tako away, How much ? Ono pound one horse ?"

John Christopher Cuff, a half-caste Australian native, was beforo tho Police Court at Christehureh yesterday charged with altering a forged note. As prisoner had been several months in hospital, and had lost an arm through injuries sustained when eluding the police, the prosecutor did not tender any evidence, and the Bench allowed tho chargo to bo withdrawn.'