TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Premier ie in Wellington. Earthquake at Nelson last night. Major-General Whitmoro is in town. Sir Julius Vogel arrives to-morrow. Gas works are being erected at Westport. A fair exchange is no robbery, eh ? H'.M.S. Nelson arrives from Australia; racehorse Nelson goes tbither. Two earthquake shocks at Wellington and one at Christchurch last night. The crops in Nelson district ore proving better than was expected. An epidemic of measles ia sweeping over the West Coast of the South Island. A burglar's advertisement—Goods carefully removed. Mfctle tbinga that tell—Little brothers anrl sisters. MrKerr, Chnirman of Groymouth Harbour Board, has resigned. Two Continental princesses have tsikon to the Btage, and the son of a prince ia a waiter in Milan. Last week the export of coal from Westport was 3,603 tons—the highest yet recorded. Never jest in affairs of business. Thore is no money even in a capital joke. Why should tailors always be able to please their customers ?—Because it is their special duty to suit, people. Mr John Plimmer has been elected Chair^ man of Wellington Licensed Victuallers1' Association.

At Bradford, a mother and her daughter committed suicide because the latter failed to make her husband happy.

An English surgeon fell from the Great Pyramid, a distance of 400 yards, and reached the ground a Bhapeless mass.

Westport Goal Company, in order tc induce the Government to make a railway extension or ten miles, guarantee an output of 40,000 tons of coal per annum. Yesterday afternoon a workman named Dawaon was dangerously injured at Uiaborne by falling from scaffolding at viaduct works on to the rocks beneath. On Saturday a man named, "George Turner, residing at Haakertemai, near Oamaru, was gored to death by a cow.

A lad named Win. Ross, formerly an inmate of the Industrial School, is charged at Dunedin with criminally assaulting a littlo

Sir Frederick Wbitaker, who was recently indisposed, is now on a visit to To Aroha Hot Springs, along with several members of his family.

The man who will put down a window in _ a train and then move out of the range of the draught so that the man at the back of him will catch it would steal sheep. The first of a courae of lectures on English History will be delivered to-night by . Mr G. P. Newcombe, Park Road. The terms are one guinea for twelve lectures.

A temporance paper advises business men not to drink liquor during business hours. This wiil doubr.iosscauso.a great many men to curtail bueineps hours.

■ Another special trip by steamer will start on Monday, 14th inst., to tnke up special settlers to the Herekino block, in Hokianga district. -

A proposal is made to carry the Midlaud Railway via Richmond and Wftimea .West to the Bulier, instead of via Tophouse, ac surveyed by the Government, on the ground that the line would tap more population, aud would not reach such a great altitude. .

I Inspector Thomson received • a telegram * from Wuiuku j'eßtorday, stating that a man Darned Arthur Crawford had wandered • away in a nude state, but subsequently returned for his clothes, and went off again.He is supposed to ba iu&tne, and search parrieß are out. The following has been received by iha publishor of the "New Zealand Favaaeri" with numerous other' lattsrs to the camei r effect:—"Dear Sir,—Enclosed please find a postal note for 10a, my subscription fur 1887 to your excellent and valuable periodical, the 'New Zealand Farmer.'--Wishing you all the Buecesa you so well deserve for publishing this moat interesting agricultural paper, I remain faithfully youre, Ernst Esosteb. Helvetia, January 7th, 1887." ' .. ■ ■■