TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 1 September 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Cloches dk CYmt>K\ ii.lf." at Opera House, Unpropitioua treat her for Die opening-, Tho Premier has returned Io Wellington. St. Leon's Circus opens in Auckland shortly.

It is now exhibiting at Te Aroha. Bulgarians still in ecstasies over Pririco

Alexander,

Won't they their tuna when Russia atepa in !

Mr Bradshaw, M.H.K., Dnnodin, is reported to be dying. Parnell municipal elections are to bo contested.

It is proposed to send Now Zealand frozen meat to California.

Somebody hurt through furious riding on the Epsom Road.

Who he ia, and how he fares, nobody knows and nobody caves.

Canterbury Society of Arts has a credit balance of over £300,

• Too much talk in the House of Rsp?, eh? That must be cured, being unendurable I

Therefore Mr Henry Driver, M.H.H., has got a portion of hia tonguo nut off, lie ia doinfc; well.

Sir llobeit Stout declined to 101 l a Christchurch deputation what the intentions of the (tnvernmont. aro with reference to protective tariffs.

He said, however, that the Customs tariff, in his opinion, should ho arranged so as to provide lor tho protection and fostering of industries that were likely to succeed.

Twenty acres of olive-tree plantation at Ono-tree Hill are reported to bo doing very well.

An anarchist howling for bread or blood is generally willing to compromise on beor. A passionate reproof is like a medicine given scalding hot; the patient cannot take it.

Mr D. W. Duthie, National Bank manager at Tauranga, is to be presented with a testimonial on the occasion of his leaving for Auckland,

The Premier,beforeleaving Christchurch for Wellington, visited Canterbury School of Agriculture, with which he expressed himself highly pleased. Mr Fortunatus Evelyn Wright has been appointed Consul for Sweden and Norway in the South Island, Mr Wright is an old Wellington printer. At Dunedin, 64 applications have beon received for village settlement sections, open bush land being most in favour. Mr Burton, photographer, has left for England on a lecturing tour with his collection of views illustrative of tho late volcanic eruption, Diogenes, being asked what beast bites the sorest, answered : "Of wild beasts, the back-biter ; of tamo beasts, the flatterer."

Mr Collins, a Sydney bank manager, and his wife were lately fined £4t at the Police Court for ill treating a servant girl. The accused had made the girl go half-clad, and had also beaten her with a broom handle, belts, &c, pulled out her hair, and lilted her up by the throat. A caution to in-Farnall loafers is " protected" Victoria. Several of the Melbourne unemployed were arrested last week for marching through the streetß in procession without the necessary permit. A Mr Kenrick has taken paseage by the Aorangi to England. He believes he is heir to a million and a-half of money now locked up in Chancery, and has gone Home to prosecute the suit. According to an English return there ia not that much mono. in Chancery of which the heirs are net known.

Two wretched looking men were brought up before an 11. M. the other day on'a charge of vagrancy. Addressing the worst-looking one, the Bench said : " Where do you live ?" "Nowhere." "Aud where do you live?" said the Bench to the other. " I've got the room above him."

A bar of gold a foot long, and worth £200, has mysteriously disappeared, and the South Australian police are now making inquiries throughout the colonies. I'j is supposed to have been stolen whilst being conveyed from Silverton to tho bank at Terowi, South Australia.