TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 234, 5 October 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mori- plotting in Bulgaria. " Dark Days " in store for Turkey. That Waikato eel is growing larger. It has killed a child and frightened a man.

Tho only alligators are those making tho allegations.

Russia is increasing in population faster than any other European country.

That's why they aro so eager for raoio territory.

Mr Matthew Burnett in the City Hnllto night.

Tho trial of Te Whiri and othor natives tokos placo to-morrow,

_ There aro over TiOO " unemployed " on relief works in Otngo. Mr VV. F. BucUland addresses tho electors ut Otahnhu on Thursday evening' next. The Stark Purchnso Commissioners have arrived and started thoir labours.

Tho resignation of Hoy .1. Robertson his been accepted by Bowtafurd-et.roet Cnngrugational Church.

Dunedin High School Governors aro so short of funds that thoy cannot, appoint; paid examiners this year. Mrs Preston, wife of n labourer, died suddenly-at Wellington yesterday. It is stated that Mr J. w. Mackay intends to purchase an English estate and make his home on it.

Ilonrv Percy Fisher has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for larceny at Dunedin.

To the proposed Wellington institution for the aged and needy, the Bank of New Zealund has subscribed £. r>o.

Wm. Peate, of Wellington, threatens an action for damages in connection with his recent arrest at the instance cf Allen Whitfield.

At Christchurch criminal sessions, John Hughes, for forging and utt-ring a cheque for £8, haß been sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

A woman doctor in Boston was recently convicted of manslaughter for administering a deadly poison to ono of her patients. The Court fined her $500.

Angus Robortson. a young man, has committed suicide by shooting himself at his mother's farm, Upper Clutha. Manslaughter of a wife is not such a serious crime apparently. Geo. Manning Rees, convicted of that crime at Christchurch, has been sentenced to twelve months' hard labour.

A girl named Mallen was badly burned at Windsor, Otago, on Friday last, through her clothes catching fire. Christchurch Gold-mining Company have had an assay made of stone from a reef six feet thick, with the result that gold was found at the rate of 2 Jozs per ton. The London "Times" considers that the Wine Committee of the Exhibition have not rebutted the charges brought against them to the effect that tho interest of producers had not received their first thoughts. Mr Best, late cashier in tho Treasury Department at Wellington, was yesterday presented by Sir Julius Vogel, on bebalf of the Btafl', with a set of silver plate, worth about £100.

Forging, or even cattle stealing, is a more serious crime than beating one's wife to death At Christchurch, yesterday, Richard Maoma, a Maori, and Mat Wells, were convicted of cattle stealing, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with bard labour.

A steamer similar to the s.s. Eldorelio, but fitted with the Hall refrigerating machinery, is to arrive at Oamaru. in March, to load frozen meat for London. A cargo for this veseel has been guaranteed in order to brock down a compact,by which the two steamship companies trading to this colony have Becured a monopoly of tho use of the refrigerator.

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