TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 147, 24 June 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The New Zealand G.O'.M: Sir George in the City Hall to-night. Interesting budget of mail news. Exciting collision at sea — the; Celtic' running into the Britannic. Oh, the Celtic crowd, have been pitching into Britannia for a.long time. More noise : than nuts, however. i Prince Albert Victor goes to Dublin on j Monday next to represent the Queen at the ! Jubilee rejoicings there. j Hope the Celtic element will be kept in proper channels on that occasion. ..•■■' j There were 800 guests at; Sir, William j Jervois's Jubilee ball on Wednesday night.' Sign of the dull : times—The Police Court ) has not done a bit of extra business over i the Jubilee. . c . ' ... ■■'~■ I " The battle of the programmes " gob : into the R.M. Court to-day; the Bulletin 1 got the worst of it. ' ■ , And Mr Wifcheford has now. absolutely secured the righb from Mr Abbott to dis- ' tribute programmes at the Opera House. ■ ; " More and more ;" candidates for! election are becoming plentiful. . » The Criminal Sessions open at Wellington on 4th July ; only eleven charges against) nine prisoners., . ~ . ■:. Forty thousand tons of stone are wanted for Greymouth breakwater. Information from St. Petersburg states that the Russian Government is about to take steps to expel from the western provinces of the empire all German subjects. ; Operations at Taranaki Ironsand Works commence to-day. Mr Hipkins is sanguine of success. . • ■. . There had been no rain at Greymouth for a month until yesterday. •< ■ " j Hope that a change has now taken place, \ and that Auckland will get a respite from ] the state of deltige she has enjoyed for some ! time. : - ■ : Almost as bad as in the days of Noah ? Ah, no. The Women's Jubilee offering to the' Queen consisted of a sum 6{L50,000. In. addition, the members of the Royal household gave her a present valued at L 4,000; j The treat to 30,000 children in Hyde Park was originated by the proprietor of j the London "Telegraph," who gave LI,OOO j toward it. The Dukes of-Bedford and ■ Westminster gave LIOO each. " .; Americans offered £40 for windows along j the route of the Queen's progress to ; West- i minster Abbey. ; >'■■: •■ , ■ •-■• ' i Mr C. O. Davis is still very seriously ill. j The Tramway Company are extending their lines to the Queen-street Wharf. The Sultan of Morocco recently punished one of his subjects, who persisted in smoking in violation of the recent decree prohibiting the use of tobacco, by having his lips cut off. -•■ ■■■' . ii' . ■' ■•- > , The new Ponsonby reservoir is expected to be finished by the beginning of Septem-'; ber next. • . Constable, Porter of Port Chalmers, has been drowned in the harbour; it is supposed j that he accidentally fell from the wharf while! making his rounds. • -••<-■ Paora Tahere, of Orakei, would have come ; to Auckland for the Jubilee demonstration! but was prevented by illness. • : ; ■ ,; ;£ j About L 1,400 damage was done last ! night by a fire in Tirnaru Woollen Factory. ! Judge Williams has decided at Diinedin that the publication of "fair and-honest comments " on bankrupts' statements are privileged. General Schaw, of the Royal Engineers, passed through Auckland on Wednesday en route for Whangarei. The wise man knows the fool, but the fool knows not the wise man. .' The Perpetual Trustees Estate- and Agency Company declare a dividend of 4 per cent, for the past year. The committee of the Political Reform Association are still Avrestlincr with the subject of retrenchment. At the meeting the other night, a member threw a bombshell-into their midst by advocating the income, and.land tax as a true measure of reform. ' ~ : Messrs D. Goldie, Theo. Cooper, and A. ; Boardman are to report on retrenchment in_' education expenditure. ■ ■.■ . j"j :A; friendly treaty has been arranged between China and Portugal. " Earthquakes have repeatedly occurred re- ; cently at Aden on the Red Sea. Entertainments to-night \ include the " Pirates " at the Opera House and "Britannia and Her Daughters " at St. James's Hall. • ' .. - ! (lf |, ~ . ' .../;..:. , Onehunga watenvorks, which are to cost £5,400, will be completed by,the end of thie year.- .;.- , ;; : , ;.,,; r ,] ~-, „ f , ~f