TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 78, 27 March 1886, Page 2

TABLE TALK.

Bill.- Emkkson's farewell. Weather beautiful and bracing. Garrison Band in the Market to-night. Big Maori " Korero " at Wanganui. As ueuiil, " much ado about nothing." Remomber to fill in your census papers. And don't forgot the Star census on infant mortality. In Western Australia there aro two single men to every single woman. The University College Entrance Scholarship Examinations commenco on Monday week. Hon. Mr Buckley, back from his run to the Hot Lakes to-day. Tho big native meeting at Wanganui is boing continued to-day. Shipping wheat at Adelaide is quoted at •la 4d to -Is , r)d por bushel, A verdict of accidental death has been roturned in tho case of tho father and son burned to death at Waikari, Canterbury. Tbo Rev. J.. B. Watkin, of Tongan notoriety, will lecture in tho Foresters' Hall j on Monday night.

Out of tho ten vessels Bent to New Zealand from the Clyde last year, nino wero despatched by Mcsara P. Henderson and C»

The marriageable females in Now South Wales are 16,000 in excess of tho marriageable males.

Sir Wm. Jorvote and family leave for Auckland at 11 p.m. on Monday night."

"The Garden of New Zealand" is desirous of becoming the site of a big central prison, if the Wellington site is abandoned.

Thero is an unusual proportion of medical mou in Dublin, and the death rate there is usually higher than that of any other city in tho United Kingdom. What about Auckland death-rate and doctors ?

Tho Wellington " Press " says the rosult of tho expropriation of landowners in New Zealand would be that "tho production of tho country would fall away to nothing, and the population would speedily be reduced to a melancholy congregation of idlers and paupers." New Zoaland produco is quoted at tho following rates in Sydney : —Wheat, 4s per buehel; Now Zealand oats, 2a 4d ; pollard, Is _!d ; potatoes, 80s par top; Sugar Company's No. 1, £'25. The world is governed by 12 emperors, 20 kings, 47 princes, 6 grand-dukes, 17 sultans, 12 khans, 1 viceroy, 28 presidents, and a miscellaneous variety of savage chieftains. During the recent elections in England, a west country vicar thus concluded a Sunday's sermon to his fiock : —" And now, friends, which is it to be Salisbury, Churchill, and Heaven; or Gladstone, Chamberlain, and Hell ?"

A publio subscription has been opened for the survivors of the family of Richard FruoJ inun. It will bo remembered that Frueman and his boy wore burned to death by a iiro. Mr Whitofoord, R.M. ot Christchuroh is receiving donations.

Mr Stead says—"There is nothing like being in gaol for escaping bores, and getting on with work." Moat editors will agree with him. Municipial election at Newmarket to-day. Tbe result will be Kent by every Burgess about 7 p.m. The water in Kpwakawa coal mines has been lowered during the week six feat, and altogether about thirteen feet. Last Saturday evening one of the rods of the pump broke, which caused a stoppage of about eight hours. It is thought probable that coal-getting operations may be resumed by the end of next week.

Tho Maori census returns for Nelson show that the number of natives in the district named is 403, as against 630 in 1881, wheu. the previous census was taken but thia decrease of 27 is accounted for by the fact that a number of natives left their abodca in this island about the ond of 1881 forParihaka, and have not sincereturned.