TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 226, 27 September 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_* , Mother, is the battle over ? Bet your boots it is ! " It was a noble victory." City West—David and Goliah. " Railway Reform " of no a-Vaile ! Ponsonby—The Wright man in the Wrong: place. | Parnell—Moss elected; no need to Sey-1 mour. J Newton — The Ministerial scapegoat.: " Alas, poor Yorick !" j Waitemata—The Monk beat the Reader; always said he Wood ! j Ejected from Eden—Oh, what a " Fall "j was there, my countrymen ! "j The gray mare was not the better horse", in that case. The voters were well " Shep-! herded." j " Pale death with equal foot," &c—When j Connell and Mitchelson met at Waikomiti I they stood on an equal footing; they polled ] 21 votes each. Marsden.—The sturdy country electors "took the bull by the horns." Sent him to Old Hornie, eh ? Manukau—Jolly Sir Maurice in again. Considering his liability to bronchitis, it would have been cruel to leave him " out in the cold." Rodney—The Palmer sent on his pilgrimage, Colbeck called back, Hudson a bad third. So Moat it be! j Bay of Islands.—Hans Breitmann "has strong hobbs dot Richard's himself again."! Lundon just missed it by an "ell." Lun-i don is undone ! j Max Rinkle will tell the audience how he; voted at the Agricultural Hall to-night. Keen contests in Franklin North andj South, but the Major has a clear " Major "- ity In Waipa, while in Waikato Mr Whyte 1 makes his opponent rustle (Russell) around ! j At Thames the gallant Colonel comes victorious out of the Fray-sir; but atCoro-j mandel Mr Cadman's antagonist has not; proved "the real Mackay." The Kelly Gang have " stuck up " Tauranga. Last night of the musical drama of " Guy i Mannering " at the Opera House. ' Rev. J. S. Hill gives his last cookery! lesson at the V.M.C.A. Rooms to-night, j prior to leaving for the South, An English gentleman not long ago ad-. vertised for a general servant " who must be a plain cook and an earnest deist." Mr; Hill probably wishes to qualify Auckland; girls for such a situation. j Another Maori perjury case before the^ Supreme Court. -As counsel-for the defence) have mercifully withdrawn, the jury will* not be punished very severely. i When it comes to trying to find a Scotch j Jew guilty of perjury the Court seems to! be powerless. Thanks to the learned Earl, " the Campbells are coming" off Scot! free ! , Caution to little boys who think it is a j smart thing to jump off or rm a, cart in j motion.—Two accidents from this cause are reported; a .boy named Davidson, of One- j hunga, and Henry Co wen, of ?i.\Tewmarket,' are injured more or less seriously. ! A recent writer states tha Jo "in the city ! of New York, there are 3.2,000 children; under twelve years of age v 7,000 of whom, have no shelter, not knowing at morning! where,they can sleep at night, and the restji having shelters revolting to behold." Yesterday Mr Dever.eaux, an old settler j at the Hutt, died suddenly after register-) ing his vote. Decerned had been ailing for' sometime, andw^s aged 65. Hhe voted <! .on the right sir„ e , his friends will say—; Ditlceet decdrur/i est pro patria mori. ! The Christchurch elections are said toj have passed off quietly, with the help of j "a li„fetle egg and flour-throwing." At! Napier, Mr Ormond was stoned by an ex- j ci-p;d mob. T_tev. R. Dale, the noted Congregational-; is.t, has arrived in Melbourne, and it is< 'understood that after a stay there and ab Sydney he will pay a visit to New Zealand. At Christchurch yesterday, nine cyclists competed in the 50-mile bicycle race. The .race was won by R. Bargrove, Pioneer Club, who started from scratch, and did the fifty miles in three hours and thirty-five minutes, lowering the record by eight minutes. Now that the Stout-Vogel Government is no. more, those " booming times " are invited to come on. The following remarks by Sir F. Dillon Bell are commended to the attention of croakers:—"lf you are inclined to doubt the possibilities of the future, turn your thoughts back to the dawn of this century wheri the first census was taken, and bear in mind that there were fewer people then in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland than there are now in the colonies of the Empire. Yet at that time England owed a thousand millions of money, and had overcome a world in arms." ! " Mamma," said a little three-year-old, j " my mouth always feels hungry, as if ib] wanted something always in it." Thej punster mutters something about "all of a I twist," who was always wanting " more." j