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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 6 September 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

: Sktti.kd weather at. last. Capt. Edwin's occupation gone ! Cable lines interrupted yesterday. " VTrenk on the high C " at St. Patrick's last night ! " Los Cloches " at the Opera Houso tonight. Prof. Brown's lecture to-night at the Institute. Uo who pursued tho stag regards not hares. Now South Wales funeral trains carry corpses free. Beggarly New' Zealand taxes a man more when dead than when alive ! Mr George Rignold has recovered from his recont accident at Dunedin. Profeeeor Carrollo's annual athletic carnival is fixed for Monday next. Australian coal can be bought nt 10s fid per ton in Portland, Oregon. There will be a lull in the Timaru poisoning Eenaation for a week. Tha magistrates think there is a prima j facie case against Miss Houstou. I Professor Kirk will shortly visit Whangarei, in connection with the School of Forests. Sir Robert Stout, iv reply to a curious querist, stated the other day that he is 42 years of age. Last year, 15,863 tons of coal were exported from Australia to Portland, Oregon, against G.ISS tons from Great Britain. The successor to Archbishop Goold, late Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, will bo nominated next week. In Victoria, the averago length of tho Parliamentary session is weeks ;in New Zealand it is only 14. But New Zealanders sit longer in reality — our average number of hours per session being 500 against Victoria's 400. Sir Samuel Davenport aud wife return from London to Adelaide by the s.s. Bengal on December 9th. A residence for "the gardener in connection with the School of Forests is to be built at Whangarei, and a number of fruit trees will be planted soon. Thomas Hawke, farmer, Tuakau, is the patentee of a new process for deepening of rivers, reclamation of land, and conservation of sand hills, etc. An Irishman contentedly laid his head upon a large stone jar for a pillow, and replied to one who inquired if it was not rather hard, " How can it be, my jewel 2 I have stuffed it with hay ! A lumper named Buckland got his leg broken on the Queen-streetWhart on Saturday evening, through being struck by an iron girder which was being landed. He is progressing favourably at the Hospital. Grattan Riggs, tbe Irish comedian, has had a week's travelling among the active volcanoes of Tarawera and Rotomahana, and is now back at Rotorua The London newspapers, it is said, manifest great enthusiasm over Beach's victory, and at his having beaten the record to Hammersmith. At Clinton, Otago, a publican ie a great support of the Salvation Army. He distributes the "War Ury" gratis with his bottles of whisky, etc. Queer union of beer and the Bible ! A South Australian colonist named Kither, now resident in London, gave the other day a treat to a thousand East End children, which took the shape of a trip to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, and a dinner. It proved a great auoeess. Yesterday, the new Salvation Army barracks in Market Square, Christchurch, which cost £2,500, and will seat 1,800 persons, were opened by Commissioner Howard, from Australia. About 400 Salvationists from other parts of the colony, besides the local corps, were present, together with large crowds of the public. Dunedin City Council have paid i' 2,052 as compensation for personal injuries sustained through the blasting accident that took place in Dowling-street, and for damage to property. The claims for personal injury alone amounted to over £7,000. George Ainley, Auckland, seeks letters patent for a new invention for sweeping chimneys, and for a " rire-kindler cooking Btove." "Young men believe in nothing nowadays," said Mrs Ramsbotham, with a deep sigh. " Why, there's my nephew, Tom, who was brought up as a Christian, and now he's an Acrostic." .An amusing illustratien was given by a parent when a>-ked by his boy, " What is understood by experimental and natural philosophy ?" The answer was : " If anyone wants to borrow money, that is experimental philosophy. If the other man knocks him down, that is natural philosophy." A public meeting was held at Coromandel last week to consider the advisableness of forming a company to erect a quartz-smelt-ing furnace owned by Mr Johnston, of Onehunga, who was present, and detailed its principle to the meeting. A committee was formed to appoint three"members to superintend a trial of quartz from Coromandel at the furnace as it now stands at Onehunga. • •