TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mail boat in. Weather still fine. The new owner of Kawau, Mrs Thompson! is expected here in May. When is a bar of iron like a bod note?— When it is forged. Amy Shenvin's company give an extra concert to-nigh fa. There were 1,650 people at the Rink last night, of whom 750 skated. King John, of Abyssinia, is again parleying for peace with the Italians. The Premier of Servia has been clothed with the garment yclept ye sack. What kind of paper tells you who you are ? Tissue ('tis you). Why is a talkative young man like a young pig?— Because if he lives, he ia likely to become a great bore. Jake Kilrain thinks he can knock out Lee, the Australian, and give him two . ounces the best of the gloves. Miss Amy Sherwin sings at the Opera House to-night and leaves by mail steamer at midnight. The oldest known bearded woman has just died in the Pyrenees. She had exhibited ' herself in the village fairs for sixty years. An elderly man named Thomas Rudd has been missing from Wellington since Wednesday last. The members of the Government were in Cabinet all day yesterday arranging business for the session. In the event of the Mariposa not leaving before the concert Miss Amy Sherwin has consented to appear with them. It is believed on the continong that Queen Victoria's visit strengthens the chance of peace. We rise to ask " How ?" The Bank of New Zealand shipped 3,9450z gold bullion, valued at £15,780, from Hokitiku yesterday. Mr F. J. Moss, M.H.R., will meet his constituents at Parnell Hall on Wednesday evening, at eight o'clock. It is now believed in Berlin that the improvement in the Kaiser's health is only temporary. Miss Caroline Heath, known as the Maid of Kent, recently died at Maidstone in her ono hundred and tifth year. Her Majesty has four yachts which originally co^t £276,000, and the average annual outlay on. them is nearly £35,000. A social in connection with St. Mark's Church took place at Newmarket Hall last vening. Reports have been receded from the Brazilian Government denying the rumours that natives there had been poisoned. Mr fciamscn Fox, a civil engineer of Leeds, has given £30,000 to provide a parmanent iitme for the Royal College of Music at Kensington. • The oily Schools Committes met yester- ; day, when arrangements were made for the ' opening of tho .Napier-straet School on Tuesday morning, iViay Ist. The London shipping ring now admife that outside shippers have a grievance, but , owing to contracts they cannot comply with the shippers' demands. A proposal is to be brought before the House of Commons providing for the emigration of children in the industrial schools to Australia. Lord Randolph Churchill reays that the norrfulfilment of- the promises made by the - Unionist party to support a scheme for the local government of jj reland is endangering ; the position of the party. President Carnot has been "rubbing it in " to Boulanger in the South of France. He said the present Government was able to defend the Republic against enemies both within and without France. Wellington is revelling in the details of a spicy divorce action, in which a Marton publican is the petitioner, and an exemployee of Nelson, Moate and Co. the co-respondent. The "Bankersl Monthly" states that P. D. Armour and Co., Chicago pork- : packers, did a business in 1887 footing up to ' £12,000,000. This, it says, is probably the ■ largest business done by any one commercial house on the globe. In Cromwell's time the gates of Hyde Park were guarded by porters carrying j lonp staves, who prevented anyone from ' passing in without paying his reckoning— a shilling per head, and sixpence for a horse—and who enforced strictly decorous behaviour. v There are in Norway 2,180 lepers. The numbers in Spain and Italy are considerable. In the Sandwich Islands the disease is so prevalent that the island of Molokai is set apart for lepers, who are under the direction of a French priest. In the Seychelles Islands leprosy is also common. I passed the Agate gates, and, oh! A vision wondrous sweet Broke on my tranced gaze, and so I turned me to a seat. ■ I could not guess what they were at, But someone unawares Removed my chair ;«when, lo! I sat Upon the Jasper stairs! Now showing a new lot of Ladies' Jersey Jackets, 50 styles at 14s 9d, worth 255, at Fen ton's, draper and clothier, 250, Queen - street, next Tuttle's, photographer. — (Advt.)