TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 2 September 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Opera Cr.UB performance successful. It will be repeated to-night. Another Government fraud case at Sydney. A wise man forgets all grudges. Riches come bettor after poverty than poverty after riches. Crimean Veterane' dinner takes place this day week. Humoured that Dr. Buller aspires to be Agent-General of New Zealand. St. Leone Circus drew £400 in deeply distressed Rotoroa. Borrowed money makes time short ; working for others makes it long. Tho Victorian Government are introducing a bill to create a Metropolitan Board of Works. A -wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. At Darlington, New South Wnlea, tho other day, a married woman hung her three-year-old boy and then hung herself. There is a Chinese proverb that hae a peculiar application to the present job Ministry of New Zealand. Large fowla will not eat small grain. Great Ministers are not content with small bribes. Canterbury folks don't talk of rejoicing now, although the first contract of the Midland Railway has been signed. A bill has been paseod conferring the franchise on Victorian policemen. The Mayor of Wellington ie going to the Canterbury banqaet to be given by His Worship of Sydney.' The reason why ladies prefer tho mandolin to the banjo is because there is a " man " in the former. Michael Driscoll was killed at Weetport yesterday by a tree falling upon him. There are only three cases set down for bearing at Auckland Civil Sessions, which open on Monday next. The Government are making inquiries as to the best means of eradicating the rabbit and small birds peat. In' Greece, senators get £20 per month, and members of the Representative Chamber £10 per month. During the four years of the active existence of the Salvation Army in Australia, it baa established 200 stationp, which are in charge of about 400 officers. Between 11,000 and 12,000 soldiers are in regular service, and the aggregate attendance at ull the barracks on Sundays does not fall far short of 100,000. ' Mr Hoare, one of the directors of the Midland Railway Company, and also a director of Lloyd, Barnett, and Bosanquet's Bank, London, ie coming to New Zealand. It is stated that the Hon, Captain Kenny, M.L.C., will accept the position of commissioner to inquire into the claims of old soldiers, and that the first meeting of the commission will be held at Wanganui on the 16th inst. In Belgium each member of the Chamber of Representative receives 200 florins, or £16 15s per month, or for the session of eight mouths, £134. It is said that a blind woman can knit faster than one with good eyes. She doesn't look out of the window every 5 minutes. It is quite time that the attention of tho authorities was called to the disgraceful condition of several streets in Ponsonby, more especially to New-street, from which some half dozen other streets branch off, and which has consequently to bear the heaviest of the traffic. The footpatha especially are in a very bad state. Professor Thomas'a lecture on " Glaciers and the Great Ice Age" will bo delivered to-morrow evening in the temporary rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association. Tho lecturer will show how the earth's surface is sculptured by frost and ice, and special reference will be made to the snow mountains and glaciers of New Zealand. Numerous limelight diagrams will be shown in illustration of the subject. A Wise Deacon.—"Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family bo well the past season, when all the rest of vi have been sick so much, and have had tho dootors running to us so often." " Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family well, and saved large doctor's bills. Four shillings' worth of it kejpt us all well and able to work all the time, ana I will warrant it has cost you and most of. the neighbours £10 to £100 apiece to keep sick the same time. I fancy you'll take my medioina Nn-anftar. Sfln.