TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 27 August 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Y. M.C.A. Conversazionk to-night

" Socialism " at the A theme urn, Husso-Turkieh war threatening, U.S. warship Mohican leaves to-morrow. Snowfall hoavy in Otago and Canter bury.

The English Jingoes will soon be howling for war.

A Sydney bank has just squared a big embezzlement.

Weather moro promising for to-morrow's football mutch.

Wellington Meat Export Company pays 5 per cent dividend. A real, live, sober reporter has been drawn into tho Salvation circle in Melbourne.

Rowland, tbe Gisborne murdoror, is to be imprisoned for life England has half a million more acres in cultivation thin sho had ten years ago

Tho business of Messrs Burgoyno and Co., wine merchants, is to be converted into a limited liability company. Mr Thomas Ha\vko,o£ Tuakau, AucklanrJ, has nppliod for a patent for a neiv "river deepening, l.md reclaiming, and land conserving process." A man named Bonnet is in trouble afc Molbourno through soiling a " patent beorextractor," to which he represented ho had the sole right in N.S. \V. and N.Z. Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. Bailie has been appointed President of the Council of Military Education in New Zealand.

A public meeting is to be held at Thames to consider the borrowing of £1,250 to purchase Waio-Karaka recreation ground.

For every person who goes to church on Sunday in" Sydney, 10 go to the theatre during the week. The new Church of St. Mary, at Timaru, was consecrated by Bishop Harper yesterday. The building, which seats 800, was commenced six years ago. Rev. W. Macrae, Secretary of Auckland Caledonian Society, has received an appointment in connection with the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales.

A carpenter named Houston got his left wrist badly cut on Wednesday, while working at the new Epiphany Church, Newton. The allotment of shares in the Day Dawn Mining Company, Queensland, will be made in London to-day.

The lightning yesterday afternoon caused Borne damage to telegraph and telephone wires in Remuera and Newmarket districts.

Wm. and Edward Arnold are in custody at Wellington, charged with harbouring James Mitchell, who is accused of committing a big jewellery robbery there. Mr Justice Gillies has presented a bagatelle board and 60 volumes of good literature to the Auckland Provincial Hospital.

A young " swell" (an Englishman) married a Sydney barmaid last week. This is the second event of the kind at the same hotel within a couple of months.

Mr J. T. Garlick has been presented with an illuminated address on tho occasion of his retirement from the position of Superintendent of Mount Albert Wesleyan Sunday-school.

Mr H. E. Nightingale, Victoria-Btreet Weßt, Auckland, has applied for a patent for a " climax blind ventilator and shutter.'

Mr George Amley, of Customs-etreet West, Auckland, has applied for a patent for an " automatic chimney sweeper," also, for a " fire-kindler cooking ctove."