TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 202, 28 August 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Hans "all round. A splendid play. . I Unmatched—The spinster. , " !'■' A Non-est Penny—a lost one, - ■■> . : " Pastor Spurgeon on " Sleep " to-riighfci : He does not ' usually send hearer?, to sleep.-..;.! ■..■,■■., ■~■■ '•. •; ~■ ' ;;:■■■ < ; Retrenchment meeting of City, Council '-- to-night. ■ ■ ;, : -■'; ' War is feared between France and Utaly. , , "Just before the battle." between English.*; ■■'■■ and Thibetans. . ,< ■;' ;t Over 300 horses (shipped from Auckland to India to-day. , .'''-■'» There are nearly 36,000 Germans resident in Paris. Guinness and Co.'s brewei-y- business 'is. { valued at £13,000,000.- :. ~ . . > ''- Time V flies''fast.. The only fellow who j can beat it is the musician. . *>. > ■ : Wan ted, an expedition to - rescue the • rescuers of.Stanley's relief expedition. Astatue ofQueen Victoria is about to be I erected at Bristol, -: : r.:": ■■■:<i ! -. [:;. :•■■■ , : ; . A canal across Italy; is'; being planned to connect the Adriatic and , the Mediter- • •■.,.., -• ranean. ; '■":---'; i;i' :"..:"' '-■"'.. '■' '■ ■;' ,r.: ';;. Dr. MacGregor, Inspector; of Asylums, is how in Auckland on his periodical visit.'----j The death is announced of General Lord' j Alfred Paget, equerry to the Queehv '!' '.~' ]v ' I• A law limiting rimber-cutting: operations ■ was lately passed in Prussia, to' protect) forests, v,. '. .r >. .■ ■■. ■ ' The steamer Groat Eastern has been 7 beached in the River Mersey, prior to her! demolition. , A rolling stone gathers no moss, bufc young athletes may gather something from Mr Moss at the V.M.C.A. to-night." ...:"• The geological character of the rock on, which drunkards split is said to be quattji.: Messrs J. A. Pond and S. Percy Smith have gone to the meeting of the Australa-L sian Association for. the Advancement o£ Science at Sydney. ;. _ " '■'.■•■■ " : During her recent visit to Glasgow, Her Majesty was presented with a loyal address by the Freemasons of that'city. I It is proposed to drain the Clutha river, in ! Otago, by damming it back at'its source, ' arid then to make a thorough search of its j bed for gold. /'■ ,■■'■■'■■ ■ -' : , ' ! The special session of the; Cape Parliament, convened to reconsider the African' i Customs Union Bill, has now passed:ttie:i ; j measure. ■■; ■ : ,' '< •/ ■ '■'■: .■■ ■■ ■'■■■■. _. ■ At Opotiki, Judge Wilson, of the Native' ! Lands Court, has given a decision awardj ing the GamS.ru "block of'loo,ooo acres to v | the hapus of "Whakatohea, The latest meteor story is one that is ' alleged to have fallen near Kiev, Russi^; and whichi when broken open, is aaid to1 have been found full of small diamonds/ : In Auckland, in the month of July, there_' were 82 births and 25 deaths. In Wellington, the birfhs were 90 and the deaths 44,' I while in Dunedin there were 46 births and' . , j 20 deaths. : , \ '■ : '':: Old lady (on her way to church) —" Don't" you know, little boys, that it's wicked to' ; ■■■,■ ; play ball on Sunday ?"■ Little boy—" We, | aih't playin' f we're only practisin' for to-' I morrow's game." ■ "'( ', ' At Wellington, Gustav Krohn, aseaman' ; on board the barque Clan MacLeod,; which arrived froraiNewf York last \yocki hias laid5 ati.infonnatibn.againsfi' CaftTi'in MacLeod, accusing hiiii of assault on the liigh seas. li^Tiry Dickson Adams, a 'labbu^ei", Was! arresied at Chri«tchurch last night, on a" telecram from Timaru, on suspicion oi" having forged three cheques, for £6, £4, andan unknown amount Hesayshe Came from Mastcrton. I Sir Henry Parkes tells how ononeocca- | sion, when travelling in New South Wales,.' j a Customhouse officer of German extraction insisted upon examining a hand-bag carried by "the Gladstone of Australia.'. I Sir Henry, though not a first-class Teu-' ! tonic; scholar, was not to be outdone in* , i linguhtic acquirements, and so turned on I the officious official: with the Svbrds " Goo- ' tamundra, Tumbarutnba, : Wagga Wagga,; ■ '■ Gundagai," which had such ah effect on tho ! plethoric German that he dropped the bag, | "made tracks," afid has never been-heaid ■of since. ■■ !.'..■. ■.:■ ' , ' '•-