TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 269, 15 November 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Few amusements. Wet and windy weather.. Captain Edwin right for once. Mr H. N. Abbott is back from Sydney. Majerom Company open here next Mon* day. The Greenwoods opened at Wellington last night. The Governor patronised them, and many M.H.R'sweie present. The Mayor of Devonporfc declines to bo re-nominated.

Misses I'erman and Roberts, of the Mohawk Ministrels, take a benefit tomorrow nighfc. Messrs Wingate, Burns and Co. have opened a branch shop in Otahuhu.

A joke will never gain over an enemy, bub ib may lose a friend. Need tor " railway reform," in the matter of speed, on Auckland lines. The other day a trolly overtook the passenger train in a race from Franktou to Ngaruawahia. Beach and Hanlan are now located at the Nepean, in active training for the coming championship race. Some Waikato "jokers" are in trouble > through exhibiting a bogue "Saurian' monster " at Hamilton.

Some old dinner customs still prevail. The Romans used to recline at their banquets, and the habit of lying at public dinners still prevails. Conde conducted a memorable campaign, at 17, and at 22 he, and Turenne also, were of the most illustrious men of their time.

A shepherd named Taylor was found dead at Makaha, Hawke's Bay, yesterday. He had evidently fallen over a steep cliff and been killed.

The latest unofficial estimate of the South Australian wheat crop gives the yield ah two bushels to the acre over an area of 2,000,000 acres, and the estimated surplus at 436,000 tons. The report of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company shows that, after making all due provision and writing off' £1,000 for depreciation, there is a profit of £2,788. The directors recommend the payment of 8 per cent, dividend, and the carrying forward of £548.

The Charitable Aid Board at Napier have discovered that a woman with a good farm and property at Woodville, worth at leasb £1,200, with liabilities of only £79, has been in receipt of 30s per month from the relief funds. Other instances of abuse have also been reported. What next? A Japanese professor of chemistry, To Nishigawa, is staying in Munich with a commission to study and report upon the manufacture of Bavarian beer.