TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 293, 13 December 1887, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Major Dane's lecture to-night. Second production of " Human Nature. , *! Public Works Statement delivered. Civil sessions open on Thursday morning* Bishop Cowie has gone to Bay of Islands. "Speech Day" at St John's College on 21st inst.

The Encyclopedia Britannica will be finished next year. Mr John Ross, of Sargood,.Son and Ewen, is now on a visit to Auckland.

The balloon for the Paris Exhibition of 1389 will carry 100 persons. There .are 163 male and 41 female prisoners in Mount Eden Gaol. Mr Geo. Holdship, who arrived from America on Saturday, is off to Sydney today. Six thousand singers took part in a recenb musical festival at Amsterdam, Holland.

Christchnrch City Council refused permission to construct another tramway through the City of the Plain. Who is the laziest man ?—The furniture man ; he keeps chairs and lounges about j all the time.

Before the century is out it is estimated that London will 'have a population of 7,000.000. A sum of £15,000 has been collected towards erecting a proposed Victoria Infirmary in the Queen's Park district, Glasgow. Tauranga Prospecting Association having over a large area, are asking the Government to send a geologist to report on the field.

A meeting in favour of the abolition of slavery was recently prohibited by the Government of Brazil.

The Ministers' Association throughout New Zealand are talcing combined steps to petition Parliament to suppress gambling. What kind of shot never made a wound, yet is often the cause of dyeing? —Shot silk.

Two children ab Martinborough are dangerously ill through eating some wild plant. Arsenic had been scattered aboufs tn kill weeds.

Melbourne Scotch Presbyters protest against Sunday trains and "shouting"— dacent folk should tak 1 their toddy at hanie.

Lord Ely is one of the few Irish landlords who get anything from their estates. He draws £23,000 a year from his tenants with little trouble.

It was directed in the poorhouse regulations of Ayr in the year 1759 that salmon should form the diet of the paupers twice every week.

Strawberries cost Is 6d for a two-quarb box in Wellington on Friday last, when Aucklanders' were being treated to better fruit for less than half the money.

■ Girls who wish to have small, pretbyshaped mouths should repeat at frequent intervals during the day, "Fanny Finch fried floundering , fish for Frances Forbes's father,"

Minister is attending the deathbed of an Airdrie coalmaster who had been a " boy in his day." Minister: "Are you nob afraid to meet your Maker, Mr Jeems?" Coalmaster : "Man, it's no him I'm feared o'. It's the ither fellow."