TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 268, 14 November 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

More suicides. Mental depression. Bishop buried to-day. Two " Lords'' seriously ill. Harbour Board meeting to-morrow. Ferry-boat lacing to be considered. Four "Chicago anarchists have been hanged.

Meeting of Industrial Association tonight. Kerinadecs and King Country at the Institute.-

Yachting season opened at Wellington on Saturday. Five gum-diggers charged with stealing and eating a cow. This may be "figuratively" expressed thus:—"5-8-1."

Tulma natives threaten that gold prospectors will be cut down like pigs. The Auckland Grocers' Association holds its annual meeting to-night. _ Scab has again appeared among sheep in Marlborough provincial district. A lot of gunpowder was wasted at Whablvvhafcih'oe on Prince of Wales' Birthday. Undecided whether the Maoris were honouring the British Heir Apparent, or observing the anniversary of the death of Tv Tawhiao, the heir to the Maori throne.

The inquest on the three men killed by a fall of earth in a railway tunnel near Invercargill has been adjourned for a week.

A claimant to the Derwentwater estates was defendant in a District Court case today, which is reported in another column.

Woman is mortally afraid of a mouse, they say, but a mouse-tache doesn't scare her a 4'

Keen competition for Wellington Mayoralty: Mr S. Brown (the present Mayor), JY.Ir Thos. McKenzie, and Councillor Petherick are candidates.

Harry Kerr, aged 9, and Maud Pilmer, aged 11, were drowned in a creek near Timaru freezing works on Saturday evening last.

Cheese from Gore, Otago, has fetched £3 per cwt in London, and has been pronounced equal in quality to the bssb American.

Two fires reported from Christchurch— Mr H. Carson's ten-roomed house at Sydenham and Mr Jas. Williamson's seven roomed house at Lakeside. Insurances—National, £400 ; New Zealand £250.

The tricolour flag was adopted in France in 1789 as the badge of the National Guard —white representing the old monarchy, and blue and red the City of Paris.

John Bennett, aged 29, an African seaman on board the barque Cingalese, has been arrested on a charge of stabbing; a shipmate, named Alfred Giles, at Wellington, yesterday morning. The wound is nob dangerous. . '. -..;,-»

Maxwell, the condemned murderer, was visited by large crowds of people in Sb. Louis gaol. Many asked him, "Are you the feller what put the other .feller in the trunk ?" and on being told that such was the accusation, they remarked : " Gosh, you doa't look like a cuss wat u'd do it!";

At Christchurch yesterday the police arrested two men—Thomas Carmody and James Mitchell—wanted by the Melbourne police, on a charge of obtaining £100 by the "confidence trick." Carmody had been committed for trial in Victoria, and abscondedfrom bail. Mitchell had mauaged to elude Mie Victorian police altogether. ■