TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 11 September 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Benevolence and Comic Opora combined Last night of "Les Clochea" at the

Opera House.

Turkey is preparing for war ; she knows

Russia's tricks. Soino folks want to force a " fourth form" on Mayor Waddel.

ToDga is groaning under tho villanous currency of the country.

Land on Lambton Quay, Wellington.sold yesterday at £1.85 per foot.

That sqems high ; but there was a wooden building included, the price ef which is not stated.

The " unemployed "have ro-commonceil agitation at Chvistchurch.

fiood times coming for them. 5a a day on that glorious railway !

The Dovonport tram cira should be running to-day, for visitors to the l'akuranga hunt.

Crushing of sugar at Mauritius this eeaBon is expected to yield from 105,000 to 110,000 ton?.

Thero are in tho Order of Rechabites 6i>,000 adult and f>o,ooo juvenile memborp. Tlio Governor is to open Wellington Fine Arta Exhibition on 4th October.

Mr I. N. Watt, formerly Superintendent of Taranaki, died at Dunedin yostordny afternoon.

The steamer Lubeck, of the new German line, is expected to arrive at Tonga on tho 14th instant.

It is proposed that an Anglican Church Congress eliall shortly beheld at Wanganui. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught have left London on a visit to India.

Yesterday the Mayor of- Dunedin ban quetted the Sydney football team.

Tho Premier will not leave Christchurch until Tuesday or Wednesday next.

Dig a well bofore you are thirsty. Bo prepared against contingencies

Tonga has now got a I'cstolllco Department in full swing, and the new Custom House will be opened shortly. At Lyttelton yesterday a lumper naracd Heury Rider got his back injured on tho steamer Triumph by somo bales falling on him.

The New South Wales Assembly has sat for 30 hours without a break, discussing the Government Railway proposals. Fifteen gold-diggers under Mr Joseph Gibbs go from Cbristchurch to the new find at the Rod Hill district by the s.s. Hinemoa.

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will fall short of it.

A case of email pox has been landed at Adelaide quarantine station from the French steamer Oceanian. The steamer went on to Melbourne.

In the Sydney market, New Zealand wheat has advanced to 4s 5d per bushel, and maize to 3s 4d per 561b. Cats are unaltered at 2s 6d per bushel.

Dunedin Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has decided to decline contributing towards the maintenance of children removed from the Board's- district.

Capt. H. F. Anderson has presented a red flag to the New South Wales Football Team, as a memento of their visit to Auckland. It was sent South by the s.b. Waibora yesterday.

At Dunedin an auctioneer has been held liable in damages for holding a sale of furniture at an earlier hour than was advertised. Ll5O claimed; L 2 10s awarded.