TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 184, 12 August 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Last night of " Pinafore." Kxpected collision between tho true and faUe Salvation Army Bands. The "Nort&em Coal-osuus "-—Bay of I-ilanJa. Lend is fiutd to bo plentiful in a number of To A mini rei;fs. Cantmbury contiaos to ugitatto for the ' East nnd West Coa-t Railway. £3.000 wero paid for the copyright of ; General Gordon^* diary. I'ollowing the example of tho Horticul- ! tunil Sociocv, tho Poultry Association have presented i'lo co tho Volunteers through Colonel Lyon. Sergeant Major llnslam is about to' sovor his official connection with the Volunteers and .Militia, aftoran honourable and creditable service of upwards of 21 years. Mr JTarquhur Macrae intends shirting prnctici") as a solicitor in Auckland. The "River Mm, in China, is to be reopened to navigation. Hon. W. E. Gladstone is opposed (So the principle of paying members of IVirliamont.

Michael Kiely, of Paeroa, has been committed for trial for personation at tha late Tauranga ejection. Remenyi is being sued for £2,000 damages for breach of contract by Messrs Rigtnold and Alison.

The Young Men's Club and a sad<llei's shop at Geraldino, Canterbury, were burned, down yesterday. Warden Kenrick ctmplains of parties taking up ground at Karangahako goldfield without any intention of working it. An Otago rabbiter named Smith has committed suicide by taking poisoned grain. His Excellency yesterday opened at Wellington a largo show of poultry, pigeons, canaries, rabbits, and cats. Civilization among the Maoris ! A native tribunal at Parawni has just adjudged a Maori woman to pay £30 damages for slander.

The Soudan is still unsettled. It is said that Khalifa Abdoola, -who aspires to the position of tho successor of tho Mohdi, has summoned a council of the native chiefs to consider whether tho war shall be continued.