TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 76, 31 March 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

«, Poxso. by Prohibitionists beaten. How to make a toast.—Lay on the butter, A drum full of sound without beating..* The drum of the ear. . The Emperor of Germany is suffering from insomia. H. M. s. Orlando will enter on her commission for Australian waters on April 25th. The Mount Eden reservoir will shortly ba available for fire purposes. General Boulanger has withdrawn from the contest for Savone. H.M.s. Nelson is to be presented to the Australian Governments. The Gladstone party will not offer any opposition to the local government scheme. Seyyid Khalif succeeds to the throne of Zanzibar. Bank of South Australia has paid a dividend of 6 per cent. J. Cass, a brother of Berry Cass, well known in this city, was found dead in Christchurch yesterday. The freedom of the city of Birmingham has been presented to Mr "Joe" Chamberlain. Mr J. H. Muliins has been appointed by the Governor to the vacancy on the Parnell Licensing Committee. The colonies are invited to attend fch. Spanish Conference anent fraudulent wine marks. , y The officials guilty of complicity in tha Devonport dockyard frauds have been dismissed by the Admiralty. Mr Bernard C. Molloy, M.P. for Birr, King's County, will arrive here from Sydney on Tuesday next. The Melbourne Opera House had a narrow escape of being destroyed by fire on Thurs- ' day night. "Whitebait at Greenwich" at Newmarket Hall 6y amateurs on Tuesday evening next. Two festive young men from Kaukapakapa have been committed for trial at Helensville for setting fire to a haystack. £20 is still required to complete the purchase of Mr Gifford's picture • for the Art Gallery. The grand - stand at Potters's Paddock, Epsom, will be completed in time for the Onehunga races. Five Christchurch families are now on their way to Omapere, Bay of Islands to settle their. W. H. Jones, a veterinary surgeon from Hawera, has ba&n arrested at Wellington on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. A concert and dramatic entertainment for the benefit of the Parnell Christian Doctrine Society will be given on Tuesday evening next at the Newmarket Hall. The skipper of a Chinese steamer has been fined £420 at Sydney for permitting seven Chinamen to escape from the vessel without paying the poll-tax Our Agent-General has interviewed M. Pasteur,' and appears satisfied that the introduction of microbes is feasible, asd could be used with safety. A Wellington railway stationmaster who had embezzled moneys entrusted ta his charge has been released for six months on probation. What is the difference between Pears^B soap and an Arab steed ?—The first washes ' thei beautiful ~'gttd' theoth&fr' scours the plain. The five men charged with taking part in the recent fatal fight in Victoria have been released on their entering into recognisances to come up for sentence when called upoiju The amount of Sydney municipal frau _js is likely to swell to £100,000. The' booka and vouchers which were missing from the municipal offices have been discovered in the storeroom of the Town Hall.