TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cold snap this morning.' l> ; . ; :.■ > The Edwiriian oracle was right. Nature transformed into a Freezing Company. r . . . Major Dane's lecture at the Tabernacle to-night. We are "all of us Dane in our welcome 'J of him ! -~- s .■■.. ■, .. ; ■;. ■ ~-. r "Foley's Festivities " open at the Opera House on Saturday. The "New Zealand Maccabe" is, sure of a cordial reception. 4;. s. . Last day for payment of water rates. ' Donald and Edenborough's store ; atf Tahiti.is called " the New Zealand House.". Last day for payment of wholesale'wine and spirit, also packet, licenses. j:-.v Machinery is now being imported into Melbourne for the manufacture ■ of ; Bessemer streel.. . . ■~ " '.; ; ■•' - : -' Dr. . Mary Walker is lecturing in - sir museum in Philadelphia, and her talks ort woman's rights are said to be largely attended. . , .1 . i •: - ,: l • Mr Dibbs and Mr Thompson clashed , iii the Nev/ South Wales Assembly the other night. " Falsifying accounts," " b—r-liar.'' That's all. , ,„ : ■; ■■:-.- . ,:.,'■-- -Aiim-i , Mr John Morrison, of is now making some of his patent fuel into bricks; ■ In Lyons, France, 6,500 tons ofcbriquettes are made daily. ■..;, The coal dust is -'first washed,. then 7,Tbs pitch and 2£.lbs : of< tat are added to 100 lbs of washed' dusfc,- then" mixed together and pressed with bricks,; at; a cost of about 13s per ton. In England; fii-e bricks are also used fortorpedo boats, and with great satisfaction as, to-results. Mr Morrison's composition, however, is different from either of the above. ... „;; '< More Jubilee bunkum—The Gardeners' Horticultural Society of is in future to bs known as the '.' Royal. "■'■" ... . .. .And Hasletb's new'hall■ in Eden -Terrace has been christened the " Victoria. , ' : • By the way, the opening of that excellent hall has been postponed" for a week—till the Jubilee paint is dry! . .''.'_ ";',' . ":..",' . The erection of the Jubilee Hotel at Newmarket is actively proceeding. ./■■ ',-:■■, " In Victoria the Land Department, collects 10 per cent, of the money paid into the penny weighing-machines. ','■■, ../,■■"■/ That's a good precedent for the Govern-, ment of this colony to tax the totalisator. Foreign missionaries' to' China now. have to show passports from their respective Governments.. . ' "•''.'.' ,?.' } '-, ■*•':.-• A report is to be submitted to'the/CJity Council on" the damage done by '.the", late, fire in the Council Chamber. ' ;'. " 7' Dunedin Medical Association' have ,re solved to start; a New Zealand ■ medical journal. - . , ';'..., A novel mode of fishing is frequently; to be seen in the Auckland Harbour. A boy goes out into a boat, his bait being a two pound loaf. With:the one hand he holds the bread and with the other, he ladles the fish into-the boat. .. / ./...; There are 16 persons waiting trial at Dunedin Criminal Sessions. -...•■-, - '■■..> • Be pleasant and kind to all those around you. The man who stirs his cup with 'an icicle spoils the:tea,..and chills- his own fingers. '_ ' , The gymnasiam at the Y.M;C.A. Rooms will beready for bpe«ing;this week. • :r :;"i! • Why is a lawyer like.a sawyer ?—Because whatever way he'turiis down must come the dust? i . ••:.'. !•;' :•> T;: ;-. Fifteen: lads are being trained at -the Costley Institute, Surrey Hills. 4 .'■'..! About forty members, mostly young attend the Shorthand class at the V.M.C. A. Lyttolton Harbour ' Board'have decided to soil their dredging plant. ■~ '■ Herr Tutschka's second chamber concert takes place to-morrow evening. ■ . . ■ At St. Pancras Workhouse, London, it was a custom in the tailoring establishment; to flog apprentices with a sleeve-board, weighing six pounds, the ?nodiis operandi being for several boys to hold the culprit laid on the table, while the others belabour him with the board. The" master tailor has been dismissed, but the schoolmasters appear to be little better, some of the boys being beaten black and blue. The Macandrew Memorial Committee at Dunedin have resolved to devote LIOO to a scholarship, and L 238 to a monument. It is bad reasoning which. builds up a" theory of life on the narrow ledge'of a passing human mood, and fails to take in the whole round of life. - < ■ ■ ■ j« 'ha Firth's new mill on the reclamation will be ready for roofing in a fortnight. . c. The gymnasium at Our Boys' Rest,-in Albert-street, is attended by about 300 lads over 15 years of age. On the ground floor younger boys are taught and entertained. A New York man can make whisky tha'o is harmless and non-intoxicating. His discovery, .it is needless to say, is a drug on the market. "■ ■■''■■ ***■•■ . Not so the " Chinese.brandy " just seized by the Auckland police, which is warranted strong and certain in its action. —"Was early man a savage?",;asks,;a magazine writer. That depends, on whether the early man had cold coffee for breakfast ! :,'..."., ..':, v ;.,,:'r..,-,:',■■>■-? ",v :'