TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 138, 12 June 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

—, «»— Mr P. Galvin", author of the valuable "Handbook of New Zealand Mines," was a passenger to Sydney per Tarawera this afternoon. To - clay is the last performance of "Borealis." Good house last night. According to T.B.H. the Tasmanians are pining for the Hannaford light. Mr Henry Ridings is very ill and nob expected to recover. Dunedin artisans want a duty placed on reapers and binders. Moro than 2,000 electric lamp.? are now in use in the Coal mines in England. A child has been accidentally burned to death at Invercargill. 11. R.R. the Landgraf yon Hesse arrived by special train from Oxford yesterday afternoon, and was met by Mr Watkinson. • Major Walmsley, of the New Zealand Stud Company, is at Cambridge buying horses for the Indian market. A Timaru miller has been fined £1 and cost 3 for moving a railway truck from th© railway line without permission. The Kennedy has not yet been got off the gravel bank at the mouth of tho Hokitika River. '. Church music in New York employs nob far from 2,000 organists and vocalists, whose annual salaries amount to £50,000. Professor Simmonds, who gave an exhibition of fancy skating at the opening of the Auckland Rink, has been appointed manager of the Wellington Skating Rink. Mr Alexander intends taking a benefit with the " Colleen Bawn" before leaving for Sydney. His Myles na Coppalleen is worth seeing. Rev. J. S. Hill, in the course of an address to the Dunedin V.M.C.A., mentioned'that he was President of the Auckland Football Association, and that in the Northern city swearing on the football field was strictly prohibited. " What are you making such faces for?" said Mr McGilder to Mr Dago ; "there ain'b nothing the matter with that cigar 1 gave you, is there?" "No, I guess not, Flip," replied his friend. "Do I stay here, or do I go out into the yard to die V At Invercargill last night the Fire Brigade Demonstration Committee resolved to ask the members for the town and district to use their influence to have the Government grant of £250 to the.United Five Brigades continued. Hard indeed are the lives of some of the English working population when,one reads of women-makers of quill toothpicks being paid 5d a thousand—l,4oo reckoning as a trade thousand —Is 3d a day being tho maximum of her earnings, working hard from early morn until latest eve. .;. Mr W. P. Reeves " got off" a Latin jeu d'esprit ab the expense of Mr Scobie Mackenzie in the House the other night— "Victrix causa Diis placuib, sed victa Scobei," i.e., the victorious cause pleased the gods, but the conquered cause pleased Scobie. A naphtha reservoir is to be constructed in the harbour at Odessa at a cost of 2,500,000 roubles. It will have a projected seawall I,2ooyds. in extent. In this reservcir the oil will be pumped direct from the tankholds of the petroleum vessels running between Odessa and Batoum. Fair hostess: " Now, Mr Borem, you musb spend one more evening with us before we go into our new house." Mr Borem ( graciously ): " Most certainly, with pleasure. When do you move." Fair hostess (doubtfully): "Pa is uncertain just when that will be,- but nob for a yeai: or two at least." The exhibition of a fish recently opened at Havre, France, includes many poisonous varieties, some of which are poisonous Tdien eaten, others merely venomous. In the Japan Sea is found one of the former class, which is sometimes used as a meaias of suicide. It .brings on sensations like those produced by morphia and then death. Joshua Jones, the old New York millionaire, whose death is just chronicled, actually found money a bore. " Well, that is too bad,' he indignantly exclaimed, when told that his brother had left him his fortune. '•' While he was alive I had only my million to take care of. Ib wasn't enough that I should watch my own, but now I musb look after his !' . The movement for disestablishment in Wales has secured a noble though unwilling convert in Lord Aberdare. It is, he says, with deep regret that he has become convinced thab he can no longer support the exisbence of the Establishment in Wales. Only the sense of what is jusb and right—of whab is absolubely due bo the Welsh people—has led him to the conclusion thab complete religious equality must be conceded to his fellow-countrymen.