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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 156, 3 July 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

4 Dreary weather. To-morrow is the "gai-orlous fourth." Copsewood— Policemen's babons. The body of a drowned seaman has been ] found on the beach near the Bluff. Ib is sbated that there are 67,000 men idle in New York. The maximum wages of workmen in Holland are 60 cents a day. John Ruskin is nearly restored to health* and has resumed his literary labours. Political Financial Reform Association have scored heavily off the Premier. Major Isaacs has promised 500 shrubs for the Hospital grounds. Maintenance of the education system ; intact affirmed by monster meeting last. . night. | The labe Renata Kawepo, of Hawke'sßay, for many years always kept £10,000 in nobes in a safe at his residence. . ■ A tender for rebuilding the Wellington j Opera House aba cost of £6,655 has been ! accepbed. ;| Asbestos clothing has been used by the j , Paris Fire Brigade with success, and is soon ' to be adopbed by bhe London firemen. Another sign of collapse—An Auckland agent has been appointed for the Canadian medicines. The performance of "Elijah" this evening by the Choral Society commences at 7.45. Noah was doubtless the only man who has ever seen a full house on nothing but pairs. The Declarabion of Independence will be read under the American flag at the Pier Hotel at noon to-morrow. Mr Reid, an old resident of Taieri, is supposed to have perished in a snowstorm in that district lately. There is a chance of a New South Wales syndicabe purchasing the Ngakawau coal leases near Westporb. Mr E. Mitchelson has commenced the preparation of the Public Works Statement. We have been away in the country for rest and change. The waiter got the change and the landlord the rest. The Shah of Persia has requested the ladies of his harem to learn the piano, and promises prizes for proficiency. Mgr. Persico, the Papal legate to Ireland, was once acting parish priest at Sillery, in the Provinco of Quebec, Canada. The great military chiefs of Russia have unanimously declared that the country would not be in a position to attack any European Power for a long time. There .s a proposal before the Hamilton Borough Council to reduce the Town Clerk's salary from £150 to £125 per annum. The Black Sea and Azof Canal Company, with a capital of £3,400,000, is about to begin cutting a canal across the Crimean Isthmus. Miss Mabel, aged four, standing on a hall chair, talked into the telephone: " Hello ! Hello ! Hello, Central! Give me Heaven ; I want to say my prayers !"' Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be rumin j ated upon till all vicious parts be extracted. The Tasmanian Parliament has just added.' £100 a-yte&r tothe. salary of the General Manager of Railways, Mr F. Back, formerjy - manager of the Christchurch section of the New Zealand Railways. An American man and woman two hundred miles apart have bean married by telegraph. We have many misgivings for the fubure of a couple that begin life on tick. . ." July sth is the twenty-third anniversary of the foundation of the Salvation Army by William Booth. During last year 458,000 open-air meetings in connection with this world wide organisation were held. Two girls named Flora Evans, aged 17, and Cecilia Morrow, aged 14, have mysteriously disappeared from the house of Mr George Jones, Mount Roskill Road. The two girls only arrived in town on Sun« day from Lyttelton. Work on the ship canal to connect Manchester, with the sea in being pushed with a" rapidity that astonishes the British papers, and a great steam scoop that bites out four tons of soil aba mouthful is pictured as very remarkable! The Wellington City_ Council threaten to resign, because a meeting of ratepayers de-' " manded the withdrawal of the Wellington Corporation, Leasehold, Drainage, and' Financial Bill, which the Council had caused to be introduced in the House.^ Three international exhibitions will be held in Europe this year—in Denmark, Belgium, and Spain. The one in the latter, which will be held in Barcelona, is the first enterprise of the kind in which that country ever engaged. Concrete paths,cost.—Wilson&Co.—(Ad.)