TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 195, 20 August 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Vive le tomahawk 1 . ■■■ ,"■■ .'• ■ < '■';'•■ i A Mount Pleasant tragedy. ■ ■; Herr Schmitfc's benefit to-night. Floating Debt—A mortgaged steamboat. The Premier of Tonga ia back in Auckland. ■:■■:'::■ : ■;''! ■■.-■;'■ ■■ ■;' '■• ''. ;" : ,'' '-r-l'":} V . "Hans, the Boatman" opens here next. Monday. ' . ' ' Thames, borough survey will be begun' next month. ' . , " ' ■ '- ".■'■ Always shooting, and for ever making' Mrs.— Cupid. .' ■ ■ ■ '■-■ , Letters patent are asked for ' Vazey'a - "universal metal polisher." The ti-ade of Tonga; has more than, doubled during'the last six months. :: i ; VThe senior Admiral of the British Navy; ( Sir ,l?fov6 WalliSj is ono. hundred years old.; It is calculated that £10.000,000 will be • spent-byTisitors to thO Melbourne Exhibition.-' ■ ■-;. ,; ..'.... ...-.-.. «.■ --.'-.- .:•-■.:!■■■<■. ;-■?*:■' /■The University of Bologna" celebrated its;! eight hundredth anniversary on June 12th.',' Captain Wing is dead. Let's hope he? has now got a pair of wings. ■' ; > >■ Shares are now being allotted in London'in the Champion Gold and Silver Mining. ' Company. ' , David jQnes, of Auckland, is the iciven- * tor of an automatic, blind cord rack, and'1 the "good-night anti-burglar automatic? sash-fastener." Burglars may go to " Davy* Jones's" after that. ' /; ■' ' Pettengell boxed a negro at Dunedin on' Saturday night, knocking him out in six; : rounds.' ;-' ■ . . ■. ■ • ■ ; ■ ■ -- ' . .' *'- ■ f ■Mr J. C. Firth -has undertaken to carry: free of cost, from Paeroa' to Auckland, ores' intended for Melbourne Exhibition. V * Mr Tyser, of Tyser and Co., has joined' the Board of Directors. of the shipping iing;, in London, and will undertake the management of the New Zealand shipping. i ■'"' ■"' '-.■ The average annual rainfall on the' higher slopes of Guadancanar, on the Solo-' mon Islands, is between 400 and • 500? i inches. That of England is tliirty-twq inches. ■ ■ :■'' : ' ■ ■ ■ '< The_ plenipotentiaries at the Sugar-; Boiptics Conference^ after a prolonged',sitting, have adjourned untile the 27th"'in-V ij stant, and; in the meantime the questions' raised will be referred to the respective'1 Governments. • *. ".. , •Women are becoming addicted-;to theusß> of weapons. ,; There -is that ".pleasant"^laffair1 at the Thames,^ and: the -duel by* •Fronph ladies reported to-day; . Lately; xw a Lithuanian town, two young women;;'-' who had quarrelled over a love affair, agreed' , to settle their differences'by a knife duel. -: '- They fought, and both ■ were badly' wounded. , .>'■ There is a blacksmith; in . Ghrisfcc'liurch- 1 can turn a shoe in one heat. - Well,'theroi' i is a man jn Aucklandcan turnv clip, n't'and* have it ready for driving in one heat.; That': ;" knocks " Christchurch. Ker. Mr Moultou left Tdnga on the lltß* ■ ! ilist. It is stated: that amongst those who^ saw him off, were 132 native women, all of>-' whom he ealuted in Scriptural stylewith; , "aholy kiss?' before embarking. : ■;.i ■ A cynical Englishman^ who has been; spending some time in ISTew York city, says" that half the citizens are honest and'rb-" • Duja,bje..;.peop i le, .bwi.-ihe other-' half are;; jjoiiticians., -~ .. .. „. *" '„,. '-.J f'^ero^ls'a rhymo for the seasons^xt-liibHii •'' may siipply the.place of the ■ usudl weather V proverbsI;—'^'>:':*:■■ ';?■).■- l- v' ■:---^ : ■;"•■■■ :.-n ■'r!-i':: Autumn—Wheezy, sneezy, freeiy..' '. ',' , Winter—Slippy, drippy,.'nippy. ! Spring—Showery, flowery, bowery. ; ']} Summer-^Hoppy, croppy, poppy. , ■:, \^.■..'.; The Tongan Government- have: declared .; / war against Cliilian dollars. King. George: ■'. has issued a proclamation making. English^ German, and American money legal »in -, the1 ; kingdom, and has.issued another.proclama« ration notifying that on and after the. Ist of January, 1889, Chilian .money; lwill- not ■ be >' ; accepted as legal tender, in any .department, of the Government service. .[ ■.-'' .;■: CQuntry.customers should, look biit: for '. A. El Fenton's price list of drapery andi ■;,"; clothing id this paper to-moxTow r nigh6;-~*' ;(Advt.);.'';;'. .' ...;. ■'■•■•- : ' .■ r ■ •- • ; -:-. ;" •"- : "'-•"*;" ■'•' ':' x- * i—'•' ----•'-'-• -y ■ W