TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 241, 13 October 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Anglican Synod opened.

Wybert Reeve's benefit to night. Farewell performance of "The Millionaire."

Tragedy reported from Oamaru. Baptist missionary meeting to night. Diocesan Choral Festival at All Saints Church.

The number of working women in Eng land and Wales is 7,706,045.

The breweries and distilleries of the United States pay to their employes in wagts 120,000,000 dols. a year.

Criminal sessions opened at Wanganui yesterday.

The calendar, unlike that of Auckland, is very light.

Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Show at Mapter to-day.

What punishment should be awarded to the man who steals a inarch ?

Probably no doubt but what the crrck6ry doalers all Fign their letters Ewers truly..

The London Socialists are promoting a procession to follow tho Loi'd Mayor's show on November 9th.

Mr Sims Reeves, the vocali.t, is vow 64 years of age.

Miss Annio Leaf is in the United States awaiting engagement.

Mr A. C. _3ewes, a well-known Nnpier solicitor, is dead.

The "unemployed" have abandoned their contract for works in Oliphant-slreet. A Califorhian salmon has been caught at Ingles Bay Wellington. Auckland Free Public Library has finally been taken over from the contractors, on the certificate of Mr H. G. Wade.

" Baron" Maklay is seeking Russian help to establish a temperance colony in New Guinea.

i harles Hodgson has been acquitted at Wellington on a secret charge of embezzling money from the Union Bank.

Trade in England is reported to be steadily improving.

Mr Duncan Wright, the Presbyterian evangelist iB conducting a successful miseion at Napier.

Wellington Rugby Union have again failed to get a quorum to consider the Auckland football dispute. Adjourned till Friday.

Evidently the Southerners are heartily ashamed of themselves, and shrink from facing the task of giving explanations. " General " Booth will, it is said, visit Australia and New Zealand next year in connection with the Salvation Army organisation.

A slight spurt has taken place in the hop market, and choice qualities are in better demand, at the maximum price of five guineas.

A man named Given has got his shoulder dislocated and has sustained other injuries by a pile-driver falling on him at the works of the New Zealand Timber Company. The Chairman of the Bluff Harbourßoard has given notice of a motion for inquiry as to feasibility of converting the Board's loan of £50,000 (now nearly expended) into £100,000 loan.

At Napier yesterday a photographer was fined 2s for taking a picture on Sunday. The debateonSir H. Parkese voteof censure is proceeding in the New South Wales Assembly.