TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hard frost this morning. Good weather for the football match. A Backward " Spring."—A summer suult,

Six weeks' bad weather in Wellington. A "job " lot.—The New Zealand Minis try.

The Colorado Minstrels aro in the Watkato.

Auckland Plasterers' ball last night wa3 very successful. Caledonian concert takes place on 17th September, Te Aroha mountain is covered with snow. There aro 13S prisoners in Mount Eden Gaol. Sir Goorgo Grey loft for tho Kawau last night. Big wallaby killed yesterday in a city sewer. Mr Bradshaw, M.H.R., Duncdin, had an apoplectic stroke on Monday. Hokinngaßawmill has resumed operations with Mr J. M. Shearoras manager. Dear innocent thing ! Russia knows nothing of the Bulgarian disturbanca. Arbitration case, Isaacs v. the Queon, proceeding at Auckland R.M. Court. The National* Bank branch office at Newton is to be opened in three weeks. Sydney oranges are fetching an averago of 9s per case in London. New South Wales invites the British Association to meet at Sydney in ISBB. The snowfall at Ashburton, Canterbury, yesterday, is said to be tho heaviest over known there. Mr W. Hutchison means to contest Wellington South against Mr George Fisher, M.HR. i It is Baid that the sale of wines at the London Exhibition has injured colonial wine interests. Shovelling tho snow off tho ground at Dunedin for the Oanterbury-Otago football match. Messrs W. S. Wilson and W. H. Taylor have been re-elected directors of T. and S. Morrin and Co. Rev. Mr Austen, of Whitby, has been offered the Bishopric of Melbourne. Auckland mails dated 20th July have been delivered in London. Tho Victorian Premier says that the cost of taking a censuß next year would be £16,000. Mr Rees appears for defendant in one of Sir Juliu3 Vogel's libel suits, and means to make t lively for the prosecutor. Tho telephone is an arrangement _by which two men can lie to each other without becoming confused. That's why it is so popular with Auckland business men ! Mr Harvey, Inspector of Agents of the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company, has been appointed London secretary of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Association.

John Merrick, a bushman, killed himself by opening his jugular vein at Upper Hutt, Wellington, yesterday. The Golden Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII., and the Golden Jubilee of the Queen of England, chanco to fall in the same year. At the annual meeting of T. and S. Morrin and Co. (Limited), a sum of £4,200, profit balance, was carried forward to next year. A Chinaman is missing at Grafton, New South Wales. Several hundred of unemployed white workmen are knocking about there. Sanctimonious South Australia again ! The various churches of Adelaide have agreed to petition Parliament against the passing of the Totalisator Bill. During a thunderstorm on Wednesday night a bouse at Riverton, Southland, waa struck by lightning, and badly injured. The occupants narrowly escaped.