TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hooray ! Big Protection majority. Moss has at last voted in the biggest lobby, The Christchurch bar mean to perpetuate Judge Johnston's memory. Mr D. Blair, of the timber syndicate, was , a passenger to Sydney yesterday Roller skating rink opened at Onehunga last night. The Thames Choral Society have successfully rendered Haydn's " Creation." A small boy reaching for a high closet--3 shelf makes an excellent strainer for jelly. c "Mr Perkins, of New Jersey," will be 3 found on our seventh page to-night. !, Probate was granted recently in Mel-, •■ bourne to the will of the late Hon. Henry ~ Miller, the amount being £1,300,210. The death of Bismarck would cause more commotion in Europe than the death of all its crowned heads. Miss Yon Finkelstein is lecturing in Melbourne with great success on " The Haunt 3 and Homes of Jesus." Through a dynamite explosion at Dun- .. edin, a man named Jas. McLeary had his left hand blown off. A Melbourne paper makes marital law > " martial " law. It's all the same, but wo i jusb thought we'd mention it. The Hawera County Clerk has been com- " t mitted for trial, there being £520 shortage in his accounts. Since the foundation of the colony, 2,236 lives have been lost through drowning in our rivers. Some scamp recently decorated, in tha . night, the great door of the Sing Sing, T N.Y., Prison, with the legend, "Hair cub while you wait." 3 The vacancy in the representation of the City Council on the Harbour Boar,dthrough Mr Waddel's death, will be filled at the next meeting of the Council. The straw packing of exhibits from New : Zealand is to be burnt at Melbourne, so as to guard against the introduction of the Hessian fly. Tom' Holt, late of the Warren, Sydney, 1 and John Austin, late of Barwon Park, Geelong, Victoria, have each been debited with having introduced the rabbit to Australia, but " The Bulletin" finds by the cargo-list) of the first fleet (in 1788) that five bunnies were introduced then. Mrs Sackville : " Why, how do you do, my dear Mrs Cudley ? Delighted to see you. Shopping, of course ?" Mrs Cudley : ; " Just a little. You know Mr Cudley has ' been a little unfortunate in his business lately." (He failed for half a million.) Mrs Sackville : " I know, but how much more you must appreciate things when you have to pay cash." , "It's foolish for us to quarrel, dear," said a lady to her husband. " I know it is," he responded, fondly; and the past was forgotten in their complete reconciliation. :: Presently she complained of a pain in her side, and he told her that she wore her cor- - sets altogether too tight for health or com- . fort; and then another quarrel took place, of course. A negro went into Mr E 's office for j the purpose of instituting a divorce suit ;, against his wife. Mr E proceeded to question him as to his grounds for complaint Noticing that the man's voice failed him, Mr E looked up from his papers, and saw that big tears were . running down over the cheeks of the applicant for divorce. " Why," said the lawyer, . " you seem to care a great deal for your wife. Did you love her ?" ." Love her,'sir ? I jesb analysed her ! This was more than professional dignity could understand, and sMr E laughed until the negro, offended, - carried hi? case eleewhere. '; The Mikado was. until recently, sacred to the photographer. However, a German - determined to secure a portrait of his lineaments, and did it by secreting himself in a - ship he was about to inspect. When the 1 photographs were exhibited in Tokio the j Government was horrified, and to save international complications the German Minister ; purchased every copy, destroyed the negatives, and paid the photographer a good . sum to make himself scarce. , Wife of yonng literary man: ' Why, I George—ten pounds for that magazine story ! How long did it take you to write • it!" Young Husband (nonchalantly): "Oh, ■ I don't know. A couple of days, I suppose." 5 Wife (exultingly): "Five pounds a day! 5 That's thirty pound a week, and one hun- , dred and twenty a month. Twelve times one hundred and twenty is nearly fifteen * hundred a year. Why, George, we can - keep a carriage just as well as nofc !" At 1 this rate when would George have time for carriage exercise ?