TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 179, 31 July 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Big strike impending. Eight hours system at stake. Nasty knock for our old nobility, A ducal personage knocked over by sot. a i water. A blindfold pig-bunt took place aba I Southern rink lately. Champion gold mine, To Aroba, sold in England. The polling on the proposed £2,000 loan j by Onehunga Borough Council takes place ' ; next Saturday. "Physician, heal thyself."—Two Auckland doctors have been seriously ill. Lightning can be seen by reflection at tha j distance of 200 miles. 1 Dr. Alfred Wright, of Te Aroha, has'j 1 gone to Westport to practise his profes- ; sion. The latest figures show that there ara i 16,449,990 Sundays scholars in the world. Now we want an Archdeacon to tell u» ■ • the net result in ' juvenile immorality !' The Government of Zanzibar offer to': make full reparation to Italy. | 'Big Mick,' a well-known Mount Coolcj guide, has gone up higher than the topmost 1 . glacier ; he died yesterday. Rinking is carried on wibh much zest at Whangarei, the floor of the spacious Volunteer Hall being usually covered. More juvenile immorality in public schools! Amanda Taylor, a miss only eleven years old, is teaching school in old Kentucky. Warrior Wellington, of Poroti, may yet be spared to fight another day; his arm is to be amputated. ; Onehunga possessed a newspaper as far j ' back as the year 1864, "The Onehunga Warden and Manukau Telegraph." Iv some strange way the power to accumulate money seems to dwarf tha power to elevate the soul. Not guilty was the verdict, in the case of 29 Chinamen charged ab Wellington yester-. day wibh playing fan-tan. lb is being urged that bhe boarding-out' system should be established iv connection.:; with Lyttelton Orghanage. • Mr aud Mrs Hampton, Picton-streeb, Auckland, celebrated their golden wedding bhe obher day, when there was a large gathering of their descendants. Many a man is ready enough to give you, a lift in this world, 2_rov.ding he can do ita with his foot. A lad named John Cookson, son of a Soubh Canterbury sebtler, was killed. onj Sunday last by being kicked on bhe head-| by a horse. .■', ! , Polibical Sbump Speaker (coming home in, a greab rage)—My dear, look ab me ! I havei been egged again. Wife (weeping) —Oh," John, I—l1 —I wouldn't care so much, b—bub,: you know yellow isn't a fashionable colouri this year. A petition to the Charitable Aid Board isf being signed praying for the establishment of lady visitors in connection with tha, Lyttelton Orphanage. This is evidently because of recent accusabions of ill-breab-menb of orphans. Miss Saratoga—"ls O. Shaw any relative, of yours ?" Miss Wauka Shaw—'• Ob, yes ; i he's a distant relative." " How distant ?" j " He's my brobl.cr, but he is the yo'tin^ Wi of nine children, and I'm the eldesb." Principal Grant, of Canada; says he haa' never seen any. city of its size where thei-9. are so many good-looking women as, in Dunedin. This suggests two thoughts : (lj. Dr. Grant's wife does not travel with him* and (2) he has never been to Auckland. The Prince of Wales has seventeen brothers-in-law, sixteen uncles, fifty-seven cousins, and fifty-eighb nephews. He is a near relative of all the reigning families ofi'j Europe. " .1 olih," said the wife tenderly, "promistt| me that if I should be taken away you will, (nevermarry NanceTarbox." "Certainly, Maria," replied the husband, reassuringly^ " I can promise you that. She refused mothree times when I was a much handsomer! man than lam now." | The directors of the Roslyn Tram Com-v. pany, Dunedin, reporb that the year's j operations show a credit balance of £845, J out of which bhey recommend a dividend t<_^ be paid of 5 per cent., the reduction of tha, accident account by £100, and £200 to baj devoted to depreciation. The number o£| passengers carried was 314,634. I