TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 98, 24 April 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Beautiful holiday weather. The double-voiced caroller in tho Opera House. War imminent between Greece and Turkey. Bad railway accident in South Australia, Big lawsuit promised over Samoa land claims. ■ The runaway prisoner at Mercury Bay has been capturod. Sir Julius Vogel is to give an address at Wellington to-night, though he is still unwell. Earl Boaconsfield's silver plate, each article with his crest on it, was lately advertised in the " Times " for sale "at half the original cost." . A boat containing two lads was capaued off the North Head yesterday afternoon, but the boys being able to swim, righted tho craft, and reached shore in safety. ! •' More light." Nine gas lamps are to be erected to light the Thames streets. The " B " Battery of Artillery at Nelson has been transferred to the North Island Brigade. A bachelor is like a ship at sea without ballast- he is apt to be ciranky. Victoria has 119,378 marriageable women, and only 99,867 marriageable men; but New South Wales restores the balance, having 100,445 marriageable men to 84,270 marriageable women. " Land for the people." It is announced in the Govermhent Gazette that land ia set apart for lease with perpetual right of renewal in Whangarei, Bay of Islands, Rodney County, and Raglan. Dr. Mitherwell, a leading Melbourne physician, died last week, aged 71 years. Deceased, who was widely known aad respected, came from Sligo, Ireland, about 50 years ago. A girl of 10 years, named Agnes Graham, dropped down dead on Thursday, at Dunedin, while on her way to school. R. J. O'Donnell, Auckland, seeks letters patent fer an invention for preventing chimneys smoking. A Dunedin baker has just been fined £2 10s and costs for selling light bread. Is there no light bread in Auckland ? It is reported that Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, is being supplied with funds from the Russian Treasury to enable him to create the port of Antivari under planß of Russian military engineers, Russia's object being to establish a secret naval rendezvous on the Mediterranean. Robert Canesi, an Italian, died in Sydney Hospital recently from suffocation caused by a piece of meat sticking in his throat, It got co far down that the doctors could hot remove it without an operation. A fine specimen of the strawberry tree (Benthamea, Fragifera) -was on exhibition to-day in the window of Messrs Hesketh and Aitkin's seed store, Queen-street. The tree is covered with fruit. It is from the nursery of Mr McDonald, Newmarket. In the same windows is a specimen of bananaas grown on Mr W. J. Hurst's at Lake Takapuna. It is seldom that fully-ripened specimens of this fruit are produced in this district.