TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 146, 23 June 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

PorjiTics to the front. ■ The Liberal manifesto. "Sir George Grey in the City Hall to-mor-i:ow night. * ' ■■' '. : i

" Pirates of Penzance" at the Opera House to-night. ' ; (

\ Calliope . Dock will be finished, in about two months. , ■■;■:'':-'-;

j Jubilee cantata at St. James's Hall tonight. .. !,_•»: ~..', Sad news about the Princess of Wales.; threatened with melancholia.

A few weeks ago it was reported that she was In a precarious condition of health, through anxiety over the mental and other troubles of her three sisters. -

Quite a; skeleton at the Jubilee feast! The San Francisco mail steamer is expected in soon. • '

Mr David White has been elected president of the Dunedin branch of the Educational Institute. '"

Carlyle's house in Chelsea is still empty j and for, sale cheap.', : i. -~ .: ~!".' '- '< Several landlords in T.-tussian Poland have' recently been murdere d by peasants.- ' "!" 1 Idler Yon Seyfried^ a nobleman of long descent, is the public executioner of Vienna.; ; Christchurch' fo'iks propose like Auck-v landers tp repeat-the' Juhilee. illuminations \ on Saturday nig Tit. ''-.-.- Reason why 'the City Council didyiioftt stop vehicular- traffic in Queen-street on | Tuesday night—there was moneyin it! , Omnibuses did a roaring, trade drivi%* up and down, th-g passengers viewing the ' illuminations on both sides at once. . I !?'£' Wh 'yte. M.H.R.; has been con-. faned to his room for over a week through illness. , . '

4 .Consf-able atPort Chalmers is missing,, and is f.upposed to have walked over the wharf, by mistake. ; , ,j Pa.: " Phwat is that ye are at, Biddy?"--f,iddy: "Sure it's a bottle of, ould; Kennedy's hair-resthorer oi'm putting, on me ould muff." . • , >

Mr Da-\*itt intends to make a tour of the i Highlands, including-Skye and the.other' islands where the crofters' movement extends.

Lord and Lady Brassey are expected Ih Auckland in August or September next. 'f In England, single women andwidowa;. havehad full municipal suffrage for eighteen l years. Mr. Gladstone says they exercise ib. "without detriment and to great advantage." ; ,; ' z \

The jewels recently made in Germany for the Empress of Japan are said to consist of a diadem, a necklace and several bracelets. Her diadem contains 600 diamonds, nine of which are very large. The late Mr F. A. Whitaker, of Auckland, was " converted " many years ago by Mr' (now " General") Booth, and for two years" laboured with him in the East London' Mission.

A Cambridge couple thought of coin- ! memorating the Jubilee by getting married, but had to defer the happy event in con--sequence of the registrar embracing the opportunity of taking a holiday. , .

About L 250 per month being spent, in charitable aid in Auckland at present. Advertising for a, wife is just as absurd as it would be to get measured for an umbrella.

So some folks think, but Hannaford fails ■ to see the absurdity of the thing, *and his • clients agree with him. ■ By the way, I see that in addition to' doing business without fees during tfia r present month, Hannaford* is presenting his clients with an elegant medallion of Her: Majesty. ■-...'..■ '.;.... _ ' _ -' .." :^ i i Proper sort of Jubilee gift. Messrs Rosa I and Glendinning. have given 20 pairs of blankets and 218 yards of flannel from their mill to the Dunedin Benevolent Institution.-

A little boy named Bell, son of a Church- 7_ hill settler, was saved from drowning in the.: Waikato River the other day by the brava, action of a native named Wiremu Kawahi. '

There are a thousand white mulberry trees ready for distribution in Auckland Domain. :.

■ Settlers and others who wish- to try the silkworm industry should apply for trees to Mr G. A. Schoch, Box 79, Auckland P.Oi. ■

A successful trial has been-made in Ger- -' many of a newly-invented device for steer- '■ ing balloons through miH-air, and the German Government have purchased the same for£so,ooo. ' ' .- ' ami

; Charles Ernest Towsey, a pupil of Dunedin High School, whose parents reside in' Melbourne, was accidentally killed yesterday by the discharge of a gun ' with which he intended to go out rabbit-shooting. ' The American Missionary * Society sent) five thousand pairs of trousers to Bnrmah last'year. This is charity which covereth a multitude of shins. - ~ ■;.>',-

Mr Parnell and other Irish leaders are endeavouring^ to form at Dublin a woollen manufacturing and exporting company with a capital of LIOO,OOO. "-■•• The Japanese Government is determined not to be visited by cholera this year. It has purchased fifty thousand pounds of carbolic acid in London, and has thereby advanced the price of the acid.* Skating rink opens at the City Hall on Saturday. Lots of fun to be got there !