TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 13 September 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

European- affairs still critical. Princo Alexander still in Bulgaria. Tho Powers are discussing the situation. From words will they get to blows? Mr Samuel Morley is dead. Athletic Carnival at tho Opera Houso to-night. Sydney footballora badly beaten by Otago. Suggestive—Ale, ail; beer, bier; liquor, licker. Mr Baldwin has retired from the contest for Dunedin Central. Suva, Fiji, has a Mechanics' Instituto, with a Hbrary of 500 volumes. Humane Society's medals will bo presented at the Opera House this evening. The South Sea Island Fruit Preserving Company, of Rewa River, Fiji, have started operations. London wool market continues firm, with active demand. Nothing like faith. Spring sermons commence next Sunday. Query, " Will spring weather !" Mr Hales, surveyor, goes north this weok in connection with the survey of the railway from Helensville to Kaukapakapa. To find the newest books out, go to a circulating library. The rewest books aro always out there. When Beach was presented with the first prize in the recent sculling sweepstakes at London, he expressed regret that Hanlan had not competed. A company with a capital of £25,000 ia being formed in Taranaki to smelt the iron sand. No dividends aro promised, but of course good results are expected. ! Mr John Falconer, Mayer of Oamaru, and one of the early settlers, died on Saturday morning, aged 52 years. Wairoa, the township overwhelmed by the recent volcanic eruption, is to be re-oc-cupied—Mr Humphreys mading a start at his old hotel. No piano is needed in a house where there is a male infant, because " there is always music in the heir." Mr Jennings, of Xa Vesi, Fiji, has a hen that recently batched 14 chickens out ot 13 eggs. Patent incubators don't sell in Fiji. It is said that tenders will be called for i the first section of the Rotorua Railway from Poutaruru Junction almost immediately. Mr Woods, a Winnipeg merchant, baa been appointed Agent-General of the Dominion of Canada for Australia and New Zealand. A step towards Imperial Federation ! Rev. H. R. Dewsbury, preaching at Ponsonby Wesleyan Church yesterday,said the educational system of Now Zealand was a credit alike to the Legislature and people ef the colony. " Mary, do you know what a miracle is ?" said a lady Sunday school teacher yeßterday, to one of her class. " Yes'm ;ma says if you don't marry her new parson it will be a miracle." Result of Beach's latest sculling display— It is rumouied that Teemer and Ross, who' had arranged matches with the champion, have determined to forfeit the deposits and withdraw from their engagements. The Scot abroad is at home in Fiji. Tho Levuka Bailie Club is a flourishing institution,and recently had dedicated to it a book of Scottish humour printed in Glasgow, of which the first edition reached a sale of over 20.000 copies. Mr W. Beale, a well-known grocer, for many years in business in New Plymouth, died suddenly on Friday night, from heart disease, as he was returning home from a friend's house, where he had been sponding the evening. The quarterly returns of the batiks dcing business in New South Wales show that their liabilities amount to £29,707,028, andj their assets to £39,162,829. Tho total deposits amount to £26,584,236 lis 4d. A gentleman, generous in his contributions for church purposes, but not regular in bis at tendance upon public worship, was wittily described by a clergyman as being "not exactly a pillar of the church, but a kind of flying buttress supporting it from the outside." Thus Mr Seaman, in reply to insinuations that he got a " consideration " for his high valuation ofthe Stark property :—" Had 1 received the smallest consideration for such a purpose I should have deemed myself unworthy of the position I occupied as a Government assessor, and been justly entitled to be deprived of any further Government employment, and even to be debarred from any Christian or social fellowship." •