TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 247, 24 October 1885, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Comic Opera season successfully opened,

Royalty at tho North Shore this afternoon.

Conference on the Roumolian quostion agreed to. Consols are up to 100g. Bishop of Brisbane preaches at St, Paul's to-morrow evening.

Best celected kauri gum is fetching ten guineas per cwt. in London. There are at present 96 patients in Auckland Hospital. The "Escaped Nun" will shortly flee to the Thames.

Sir Geo. Wbitmoro -omes to Auckland in the Hinemoa on the Ist of November.

Big review and sham fight here on the 9th (Prince of Wales's Birthday.)

Christchurch Diocesan Synod, now in sos sion, decline to take action towards defining a " communicant."

The Bank of England reserve was reduced by balf-a-million during this week. Miss Tessie Chapman is to be married noxt week to Mr Isaac Selby, Freothought lecturer.

Tenders are called for the erection of a Catholic convent school building on Surrey Hills estate.

Does not seem as though His Holiness meant shutting up shop because of petticoat opposition. Best sun-dried copra is quoted at £15 per ton in the London market.

A fisherman's house on Oyster Island, Nelson, was destroyed by fire with its contents yesterday. Family, with twelve children, destitute.

New Zealand wheat has fallen Id in the Sydney market, and oats aro worth 2d less than last weok.

Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., goes to England by the Tongariro, from Auckland. The medical mon of Wellington support the proposal to bring the CD. Act into operation in the Empire City.

Colonel Whitmore remarks that the South Island Volunteers should be placed in tho following order of merit: Nelson, 1; Dunedin, 2 ; Christchurch, 3.

Lady Jervois is in such weak health that tho Governor's projected visit to tho Cathedral City is postponed for several weeks. Sir Julius Vogel is of opinion that a society should be formed in New Zealand similar to the National Fisheries Association of England, to deal with the Government on one hand and the trade on the other, in order to place the fisheries on a thoroughly satisfactory basis. Ho also advocates the formation of aquaria in the principal towns of the colony. Advance, North New Zealand ! A settler at Kaitaia has started a new local industry in the shapa of preserving lemon peel, making marmalade, and otherwise utilising the lemon, of which there are considerable quantities in the district, A few days ago a Maori was burned to death in a tint at Parengaranga. He had sold his gum and had been indulging. Verdict—" Drink did it I"

The settlers on Waimea Plain have hold an indignation meeting denouncing the Go vernment purchase of Waimea Plains Railway as ruinous to settlers.