TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 298, 18 December 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Otahuhu Races today. Regatta in the harbour. Merry-making season commenced. " Silver King" opens on Monday night. More political prosecutions in Ireland. Lost, stolon or strayed—Charles Stewaxt Parnell! Sly grog selling to natives in' the King Country suspected. A constable has gone to try and catch the delinquents. About 100 folks want to be secretary to the Grammar School Governors. Last performance of "Flowers of the Forest" at the Opera House to-night. Lot of new and charming excursions organised by tbe Northern S.S. Company. The Jubilee Singere, after performing: at Thames on Monday next, leave for Napier. The German mail steamers intend to call at Colombo instead cf Chagos, as at present. Howick Township. Road Board has by special order adopted the Local Bodies' Loans Act of last session. The English mails.by the lonic are to bo brougbt 'from Hobart by the Manapouri, VhicE.lejffeyeßterday for. Bluffi . • ./ •'• '■" t ■ The London Chamber of Commerce have * asked Mr Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, to carry the Australian letters for 2M. Henry Walker, a fireman i on the steamer - Waratea, fell fram. the gangway into the river at Weatport yesterday, and was drowned. The London Board of Inland Revenue have decided to remit the legacy duty on the Australian property belonging to the late Mrs Chalisa, a former resident of New South Wales. Rosljn Borough Council, OtSgo, are determined to call a spade a spade. Their papers calling for payment of rate for charitable aid purposes are headed'" Poor Rate." The Union Company have announced their intention to suspend operations at the end of the year at the Korumii Coal-mine, Westport. At Dunedin, to-day, a deputation waits upon the Premier to bring under his notice .the hardship imposed on freeholders of small township sections in being debarred from applying under the homestead system. A Maori girl was the other day accidentally burned to death at Aowhanga, a settlement in Wellington district. The captain of the South Dunedin Voluntears, being of opinion that many of themembers of his company were not desirable members, has called upon about twenty men to resign and hand in their arms. A carpet-trade paper tells a rtoryof a perspiring salesman who seemed to be unable to Buit a lady after unrolling miles of his stock. When the lady remarked to her companion, " Baby likes to see him roll them out, and it is not time to take the train yet," he gave it up. Ye banks and braes o' benuie Doon. How can ye bloom sac fresh and fair 1 It is because, the poet says, St. Jaooba Oil onres pain and care. .. Eagleton's Electric Baths. See advertisement 3rd page.