TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 67, 21 March 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Royal Combdy Company arrived,

" The Magistrate " at the Opera House, Last three nights of Fryer's Circus.

Meeting of the leather trades tonight. Protection wanted for shoemakers and others,

" There's nothing like leather." That's awl ! c*

H.M.S. Nelson is now in Sydney,

The reign of force 1 Cloture in Parliament ; coercion in Ireland.

English Consols are steady at 10H,

Goldsmith was paid £60 for the " Vicar of Wakefield."

Sir W. J. Clarke on Saturday laid the foundation stone of Professor Strong's Australian Cburch

The London " Lancet" reports a cae.o of delirium tremens iv a youtij^ girl, caused by chewing too leaves.

Mr Stanley is tho first journalist offered the freedom of the city of London.

Very light criminal business at the Supremo Court sessions opened this morn-

The amount subscribed at preent towards the Imperial Institute is £100,000. In the cricket match at Melbourne, Smokers v. Non-Smokers, the latter made 803 in their first innings. The Hon. John Ayde Dougiaa retires from the post of Agent-General of Tasmania in July next. (W ->,

Among the attractions at Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition will be a collection of native weapons, implements, and buildings. There is a movement in Baltimore to do away with emblems of mourning for departed ones. Black is only worn to tha grave.

Mr Robert Kettle, the Grey mouth baker who mysteriously disappeared, has been found drowned ii> Sawyer s Creek. Some of the most efficient members of the Czar's " Secret Service " in Western Europe are said to bo women.

The ball in Gladstone Hall, Northcote, to celebrate the opening of the new apr»~-'' " to Northeote wharf, takes place on ~ .-neßday evening next.

It was lately ascertained that there were about 10,000 men unemployed in Bylney, including 3,000 labourers, 700 engineers, 900 stonemasons, 1,400 carpenters, and several hundreds each of various other trades.

Mr Sandford, the British Commissioner to the Adelaide Exhibition, leaves for Australia by the Austral on April 22nd. A gigantic native boy, Warramung, who at 17 years of age is nearly 6ft. 6in. in height, and growing still, will be an object of admiration at the Adelaide Exhibition.

The Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. k and 10 per cent, of the reserve fund has been placed to the contingent account, making ample provision for doubtful accounts.