TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 267, 12 November 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Pantomime at the Opera House. j New minstrel programme to-nighfc. ; t - The Widow O'Brien will soon be. ii£ ( town. ' ] * To-day's .races postponed for a week. , Clerk of the weather and clerk of,thecourse not in accord. , , ,-■ , There will be a salei of dogs at the city kennels on Monday. ' ?. Rob Roy's foot will be on his native heafch, f on Wednesday next;.; ■,"' ,; },■ There are to be races at Tβ Aroha on 23rd.: December : £120 prize money. JBt. Otago Dock Trust loan has been succeSlF fully floated in London. ; Our San Francisco Bishop was a " high " P dignitary, judgmg by the condition of hisj body on arriving here. , F. Arthur's! house at Whataiutu, Poverty j Bay, has been,destroyed by fire. The funeral-of the lafce Mr Henry Niccol | yesterday afternqon'was largely attended. :', Auckland Agricultural Sopiety -prants | £100 to pay up arrears, friends of the,, farmer, come to the front! It is that if. this sum of money is] * I not speedily forthcoming the projected '|' show in.March next will not come off. .* ', ,'.' j! Waitotara election petition has ;been.: c fixed for hearing on the 30th November at !- the Supreme Court, W.anganui. V jr It is asserted that during Mr Gladstone's r last administration he prohibited 130 plib- "t lie meetings in Ireland. Since then the Grand Old Man has seen j,the error of his ways, and has made further t , progress on the path of freedlom. Rev. G. B. Monro lectured on Livingstone" at St. James's Hill lastj{'. night. " Belshazzar's Jeaist" was eung.By r a choir. Te Aroha residents indulge the hope thab" daily commuiiication Auckland will ;i soon be re-established. "■ : ■ , " ,* The Tdries who ■ prophesied the ruin of ;; England with cheap md universal educa- ;i tion now offer to make it free. / |," . j Mr Turner has disposed •of the' Wharf !( Hotel Resfeaurant. Jt will be opened as, soon as possible. >.' , • / ? Cemeteries were established,in France in.' 1804, and in England ijii 1532,;t0 supersede - the early Christian custom pi burying churches and churchyaicds. r At,the Minstrel performance at the Agri-: • cultural Hall to-night the performance will r include the Mri&\ Belles, French cornice,: ■ and the Mohawks grand march* by 24 of the company. ; ," . V ,\V . , ...j ,^: Onehunga ironworks will • soon .b^trttS&^ at work making bar iron out of scraps with^^* , an admixture of iron eand..'/ Mr Hughes with 22 workmen from Sydney are carrying on operations..", ;". V ■:,•;' ■ '•■" ' ,"=■■■■• ;i ,:\"