TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

; I Bio Pump stopped. . Trade at Lovuka is said to be improving. ; The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12 per cent. A "Chinese quarter" is establishing itself in Taranaki-street, Wellington. The copra yield of the Friendly Islands this year will be heavy. Ponsonby Choral Society's first concert to-night in All Saints' schoolroom. ; No dividend this year for the Kaiapoi i Woollen Factory shareholders. The Greenwood family had a bad time of it in Nelson. Mr Seaver returns to Sydney on Wednesday. The Wellington press says the local Chinese are not immoral. Innate quarrelsomeness of the Wellington footballers again made itself apparent on Saturday. " Dad " Forster, we are glad to hear, is a good deal better, and bis cheery face will be seen about agftin in a day or two. Archbishop Redwood visits Rome shortly in connection with the Canonisation of Pere Chanel, the martyr. A volunteer muster will take place on Queen's Birthday, and a feu dejoie will be fired. The lineal heir of the Crown of Tahiti is feeding pigs for a Chinaman in New South Wales at a salary of 10s per week. It is said that three members of the English football team intend to settle in the colony. Mr Giles, who has represented the Union S.S. Company at Tonga for seven years came down by the Wainui for a change. Reg:. Rede, Oscar Balfe, Lizzie Lawrence, and Ella Carrington are members of C. H. Taylor's "Called Back" company, now playing at Broken Hill. . Mr 1 ord, Fiji manager of the Union S.S. Co., who arrived this morning per Wainui, was banqueted at Levuka prior to his departure. " Weakness in the spinal column of his ledger " is the attar-of-roses way they have of announcing defalcations of public officials in Australia. An Englishman has been arrested at Samoa on a charge of killing a Samoan, and a judge of the Fijian Supreme Court has gone down to Samoa to try him. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon on the remains of the child Homan, who was overlain by its parents, and a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. In view of the enormous crush expected at the football match next Saturday it is suggested that admission tickets should be sold at the stationers' shops during the week. Application for employment on the Waikomiti relief works must be made to Mr Wickham, RelicvingOfficer,High-street. There will be work for about 50 men for six weeks. Thus the " Herald's" correspondent writing from Wellington ;—" Sir Robert and Lady Stout are now attending the sitting of tho Court of Appeal. Judge Williams and Mrs Williams from Dunedin aro also here for the same purpose." '■■ The new Russian gun-boat that is to travel the Pacific-is a very powerful vessel. She is 100 tons larger than the Nelson, steams \\ knots more, carries heavier armour, and has breech-loading guns as against the Nelson's muzzle-loaders. In Masterton not long since tho owner of a Chinese garden impounded a horse than he found rolling among his cabbagee. When the mud came off he recognised the animal as his own, and had to pay the usual fees before he could release it. Women's frills! Writer's ills, judges' pills, lawyers' bills ! Talk about weemen's roights indade ! Faix"the've" got thim now, so they have whin they're admitted to the Binch and sit as gintlewomen of the long robe among the divil's own. Buyers of drapery and clothing should read Fenton's list of advertisements in the " Wanted " column. Goods almost given away. Country people take note.— (Advt.)