TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 279, 26 November 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

MAjEßOsis? ferewellvpecforinajiee.; "The MaikefdßaU" at:the Opera Houe^ Fortieth' 1 nigfct of the Mohawk Minstrek * A mOTe^ttrUctive ; programme than evei ,- ® r S e iaterfall, Amazonian march, and __ ballet tdlnight. «.•,«.- » Cure for-the Codffir moth-Sfcarvatipii< stop its" grub."' ' '; '' f, - '\ ■' ":':, J,' j ■■■$'■ The Wtjslyan District) .Meeting at>';»«« Plymouth closed yesterday. Auckland Amateur Opera Club meet tonight for practice at St. Andrew's School*. The Victorian wheat crop will average 14 bushels to : the acre this season. Munfo; the Scottish dancer- appears -at Kawakawa on Tuesday evening nexfc In Octote last them were 121 births alia 27 deaths lii; Auckland. '_ ,; . '. ■ A risefof-10s*per, fson-in galvanisediroti *» - reported Jromitpndqn/ '* -". '~.*• -. . Quarantine precautionsagainst? smallppx at Melbourne have hqw been relaxed. Laet month* Auckland hkd a lower death rate than other of the leading cities of this colony. • ; ; ; i The Naval-Defence Bjil hats been, passed through all "stages -of the Victorian Legislature. ''" ''H-i *,' ; '■--' ' '■ : - •' : In the Queensland Assembly, s a lob of disgraceful scenes have occurred over the same measure, the opposition being vety powerful.. t • - "■ 'V ' ' ; •*"* ; A man panied- John Power, a .settler *afe ; Omata> Tatanaki, r was -killed yeetefday by' falling under the wheel of his bull6ck l dr3y. Bay bf/Islands district means to '.'take the cake " -for fecundity. The local 1 paper gravely^annpuaces l Mrs.'Kelly's C6w had twins" last week." / More iind more!— The following .birih notice appears £ -In : the "Luminary."— " Moore.—At Kawakawa, on October 16fch, the 3. BL Moored daughter. — The cry is, They come, they come, and still they come." The same paper, jocularly referring to the 'the'increaseln thepbliee force,; eayft.^'* A|, feussell, 'the wives *of Constables McGjlp'and McGrath, each-of a son ; and at Kawakawa; , the wife of Cdinstable Goughlan, of a daughter. All ■ tlie \ same week. ; God ; bless'the little dai-linga, •The daughter might make a lady detective • . \ some day; .we have quite enough constables , for ma!ny years'to come." • ; • J Patrick Fergusons charged ton with'working the?" three card trick ,, j on board the s.s.'Tβ Aiiau," and swjuidlifig' some of the passengers. : * ■ : '- ; 3 TheEnglishcrickefcers are keptbusylin Australia. Vernon's team is now playing an eleven of Shaw and Lifywhite's ;teain are Splaying 22 of Gympte, Queensland. <*' J v « . Messrs Gojpeman iand Glegg, per^mbula- , tor manufactureEsi"; seek ;leti§irs patent*for a J patent! double or single foldiiig awning. ' \'r>! •. '■■'•'■•'•:' ■..-. r *'■{ No coal at Newcastle! The Railway Detenders'for the supplly' of 10 tons of " firewood " suitable for locomotives, to be delivered at any-station on the Whah^^#sß^jSoh,-^up-till the ist-lof .-" January. • • - '- ' At a meeting; of the Pharmacy Board "of New Zealand held in Christchurch laet week ib was decided that. there should be %o competition for Uie boar*d ? s gold medal prize, ae,only one candidate had notified his intention of competing. Mr lloberfc Schofield, dyer, Onolnmgii, is inventor of a new "egg-producing food," whatever tliafc may bu. Is it something to supersede fowls ? At Invercargpl yesterday, summonses were issued against L. F. Drew, maater of the schooner Awarua,of Derry Castle fame, and Denis Foi, his mate; charging them with a breach of the fisheries regulations, having killed .ten seals at Auckland Island on 15th August, furtherj with having 176 sealskins on board the vessel on 22nd August, the sam^Taeing l close season. The charges willTbe'hjeard oh-Tuesday.:'