TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 142, 16 June 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sir G. Grey opens the Masfcerton Exhibition at the end of next week. - The late train to Otahuhu on Wednesdays has been discontinued. Parson Hill was a visitor at the sitting of the House yesterday. Otago University object to the proposed Fair Keats Bill. The next movo of Mr Salmon, of th Columbia Rink, will probably be to Japan. A correspondent suggests thatlhe Mcl- , bourne Exhibition should bo called tho Centenneries. -j^ .„ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile m Agency Company's dividend is Pa|||ki§f . A°» the Company's oiiice on July 2nd. W "' . - Lost by a iluke !—tho s.s. 3|awea, acc«B- ---! ing to those who believe "In the anchor theory of the accident. Mr J. W. Can- has been appointed an*# ordcial visitor to the Industrial School, Kohimarama. The following names were recently announced as those of clergymen officiating in | a Baltimore church: — Hevs. Fumess 4 Bellows, Sparks, Burnop, and Greenwood. " The Golden Chariot" will be the subject of Pastor Spurgeon's morning sermon to-morrow. Has lie had a tooth pulled by the lady doctor ? A meeting of Waikato teachers and others, to form a branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, is to be held ab the Cambridge schoolhouse this afternoon. The Chinese Conference have arrived ab the same decision on the Mongolian influx as was come to weeks ago by the Auck land Trade and Labour Council. The Victorian Government give a granfP of £300 per annum in aid of tho SalvaHion, ■ Army work, and a free pass over the railways to the " Major." j|h The police report submitted to the MoW giel Licensing Committee showed that out) of a population of 2,000 in the district, there had not, during the year, been a single arrest for drunkenness. The inquiry before Major Gudgeon into the allegations made against Constable Mitchell by Mr R, A. Wight, re theKomata rape case, is proceeding at Paeroa with, closed doors. John McClean, a Manaia settler, was lost whilst cattle-hunting on the slopes of Egmont, in the bush, from Monday until Friday last week, subsisting on berries, and part of the time on the flesh of cattle killedo The highest recorded balloon ascent was by Glaisher and Cox well from Wolverhampton, England, on September 5, 1862. They rose to the height of seven miles. According to Glaisher, in 3,500 balloon ascensions only 15 deaths have occurred. Two kegs of butter, 1511b net, sent Hon|e by Mr Walter Crump, of Tikorangi, and sold at Liverpool at the beginning of tho year, realised 112s per cwt, and the neb proceeds to him were 9§d. Mr Crump has sold the same class of butter in Waitara for 4d. " No, my deal1, your papa is nob to bo seen to-day. He is just now turning himself into a veal cutlet, breaded." By which Airs Polkstreefc meant that her good husband was getting drunk in the cellar and' rolling in the sawdust. "Who was1 the wisest man?" asked the Sunday school teacher. " Solomon," promptly responded a little girl. " And who was the holiest ?■" " Moses." " Moses, what makes you think so?" •'Because w often hear papa speaking of ' Holy Moses."' Mrs Finnigan; " He's no better, Docthor. You told me to give him as nj&ch of the powder as would lay on sixpince'i I hadn'b .Mgfa. a sixpence, but I gave him as much _as would go on five pinnies an' two hafpinmes, an' it's done him no good at all, at all.' Correspondent of a Sydney paper writes : " Sir,—ihave noticed different challenges in your paper from men wishing to ride bucking horses. Now this is something new. I will wager £50 or £100 that I will produce three colts that will defy either of them to catch, saddle, and ride, which means to stop on them. If any of them mean business, by calling on or writing me a match can soon be arranged.—l am, &c."