TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 204, 1 September 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

" Wanda," by George Leitch, at the Opera) ' House. ] A leech should make the public " bleed.*') War to the knife ! Three fiteamers char* j tered by the Seamen's Union, to run in or>j j position to the Northern Steamship Com* , t pany. j '■ «rT,,? e Queen has ♦^nked the citizens o£ l Wellington for their Jubilee conerafcohv > tions. German annexation of Samoa is per- : sistently rumoured. There will be trouble 1* with the natives if the Germans hoist their flag. The man Davies who was missing front . Castile Point, Wellington, has turaerTnp all ' right. r I Something like '• Protection." The Taa* i manian Government intend to impose a tax ! of £26 on all commercial travellers comin* ( from other countries to do business in Tast L • mania, I Miss Ada Campbell, the Australian lefei * turess, was lately in San Francisco delivering a series of lectures upon "Social1 Science,' " Truth versus Christianity," andl kindred topics. According •' to the " San Francised Chronicle," she was under engagement to lecture at England, and also to correspond with the Melbourne " Herald," the Napie* "Evening News," and the Wellington ! "Evening Press." ™ j Annual football match, Beef v. Beer.took , place yesterday: Beer won by eight The knights of the cleaver are anxious to meat their opponents again. They never sausage a defeat as yesterday's before! Sir George Grey has a curious theory: as to the effects of oatmeal diet on Scotchmen ; it makes them thriftless, ambitious* and fond of luxuries in their later years. He means that it makes people " stout ;**. look at the effects of Lamb's porridge meal! King Pomare V. of Tahiti has beeal divorced by his Queen; quite a comic opera' incident. i William Stanley, the man so well-known in connection with the Monnt Ronnie trials,' has been arrested in Sydney on a charge o£ forgery. ° j The telegraphic chess match, Dunedin v.InvercargiD, ended in a draw—each side winning three games. :] A Thames paper says that the committecf of the forthcoming fancy dress ball in con-j nection with Princes-street socials have de-' cided to exclude barmaids. Dunedin Benevolent Committee offer 4s a day to the applicants for relief who are able and willing to work. No Auckland candidates have yet ad-' dressed the inmates of the Old" Men'a! Refuge, although the Premier says they are; entitled to vote. Oh, their votes will be looked after; * little beer and baccy goes a long way with! some of the veterans. 3 More mineral wealth in Auckland districif being developed.. Coal deposits at Bom-' jbajjr are believed 'to be of great valued aholboring operations are to be started. '.•'. ".'* C. H. Davies, a Canterbury farmer, was' found dead on the road near Kaiapoi. on' Tuesday night, haying apparently fallen1, from his cart while returning from market, j Wild cats give some trouble oh "Sunday!. Island, lately "annexed "by New Zealand,' : and the settlers are engaged In a war of extermination. : '"" J , A catastrophe is impending therefore j '. cataclysmic times for the feline pests. This is what Beecher said of the Sunday, question :—"There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out)1 all the sins of the week." At Dunedin, yesterday, the certificate of' the Royal Humane Society of Australasia' was publicly presented by the Mayor to D... G. Stephens, who was instrumental in re-i storing to animation after two hours' continuous work in the case of Agnes Ferguson, ten years of age. The girl's father and five other children were drowned on the occasion. A good kind of " retrenchment" is the curtailing of irregular expenditure, and the Controller-General is showing zeal in that) and other commendable directions. He has informed Lyttelton Harbour Board that he must disallow certain sums voted to the widow and seven children of the late Pilot Reid and to Captain McLellan, The Controller further stated that unless Parliament allowed the amounts he would next year surcharge them on the members when the payments were authorised. Another letter stated that the Board could not overdraw at the bank, and if it did the members would be similarly surcharged.