TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 131, 11 June 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Parliament opened this afternoon. Unexpected political crisis in England.

Tho liro fiond ugain on tho rumpago to-dny. A hen-pecked man is not always shrewd. Now South Wales Parliament is prorogued till 25th July.

The inventor of a Hying machine la eoarly to bo pitied. Hon. Mr Tolo is recovering from his , illness. Tamahoro Hotel, Waikato, which was lately destroyed by liro, is not to bo rebuilt. Tho Qtiooiißlantl Parliament is to moot on Bth July. Hon. W. RobinßOn left Wellington for Sydney yosterday. Dr. Fortcscue, of Sydney, hoe died thero of typhoid fever, which is very prevalont on account of tho scarcity of water. Christchurch Protection Association has remonstrated with Mr Roooo, M.H.R. for Stinmoro, bocaueo ho spoke against protective tariffs. Tho boy whoso hair is cut by his mother soldom takes oil' his hat, whon thoro are any girls mound. Major To Whooro, M.H.R., is lying ill at his residence In tho Lower Waikato. F, Liardot and .1. S. Harris, who wore out shooting gamo on Walrarapa Lako, in tho Wellington district, havo boon missed nearly throo wooks, and it is feared thoy have boon drowned. Government havo nccoptod tho tondor of Messrs Cranwoll nnd Co., of Dunedin, to supply 150,000 croosotcd sloopers, at a cost of £20,009. A bill prohibiting tho omploymont of barmaids will bo introduced in tho Now South Waloß Legislature this session. There is to bo no exhibition in connection with Wellington Fino Arts Association this year, but it will bo merged in tho art branch of tho Now Zealand Exhibition. A man ongagod on tho soaffolding at tho Post-ofiico towor, Sydnoy, foil 145 foot, and was killed on tho spot. Herbort Allendale has been committed for trial at Wellington for oxtonsivo jowol robbery. A publio mooting at Christchurch lost night passed resolutions in favour of the Government taking measures to facllitote the sottlomont of working men on the land, and introducing cheap money, in accordance \\ ith Sir Julius Vogol'e scheme.

The body discovered at Ca veil's Flat, Otago, has boon identified as that of James llarr, a ewagsman. Poisoning is suspected to havo caused death. Aiatnia Bridgo Hotel, near Oamaru, was destroyed by nro yesterday morning. The insurances amounted to £750. At Timaru, yesterday, Trongevo, chargod with an assault on Mb wife, was found guilty, and soutoucod to throo years' hard labour. Mr John Graham, of Mangapai, was killed on Tuesday ovoning by _ tree which ho was foiling crushing him. Deceased was aloao A-licn tho accident happenod. At Dunedin £.180 havo boon raised and handed to tho Univorsity for tho pnrposo ! of founding a scholarship open to womon.