TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 263, 29 August 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sigjsjs of war in Europe. ' ;' Retrenchment with a vengeance ! Criminal sessions open on Monday nextv Diocesan Synod in session ab Christchurch. ' Tableaux vivants afa All Saints' to-morrow night. • A Berlin bank has mounted itaßoursa messengers on tricycles. • . :;:■ The stranded barque Kate Tatham is to be floated off. The English football team are to play Napier on September 15. Father Prendergasb, of Napier, has» been removed to Sydney. .■-,"; ~; j : • There are nearly three hundred thousand Chinamen in the United States. / London's fashionable fad just now is Mr : Edison's perfected phonograph. Tolstoi, the famous Russian novelist, is now being pursued by mad-house keepers. The Government of. Servia imposes an import tax on bustles. Is that why the Queen got divorced? , Nuggetty gold is being found at Mahikapawa goldfield; but don't" rush," gentlemen ! It is perfectly proper to ■ carve put your own fortune, but you should not chisel other people in doing it. . George Earie has been > committed for trial at Rangiora, on the charge of cattlestealing in Canterbury.'.':. The pin factories of England, Holland, . France, and Germany are said to turn out 77,000,000 pins daily. . ,' ', Auckland City Council have imitated the tactics; of President Cleveland,- and "dished" the Ratepayers' Association by their retrenchment resolutions. Nearly 35,000 people live at Portsmouth . on wages earnedln doing some kind of work on England's big guns. '. The Primate of New Zealand has stated at Christchurch that he does not intend : resigning until after the forthcoming session of the General Synod, There is an Indian tribe in California consisting of one man. When he dies his , language will cease to be spoken. The Auckland Girls' High School is to be reopened on September 17th by Mr J.-F. Sloman and Miss E. M. Taylor as a select1 day and boarding school. : It is stated that Sir A. B. Walker, of Liverpool/a brewer, has offered to build a cathedral in that city at a cost of £250,000. Some of the religious papers object de- " cidedly. ■ Chinese miners receive about 7^d per day each; the pony and mule drivers lOd per '. day, the enginemen lOd per day, and the ■'■- Chinese deputies 4s per day. < The Buenos Ay res '' Standard " announces that 300,000 • negroes from the United States, with a capital of 2,000,000d01., are ■ about to emigrate to that republic and form an agricultural colony in thS,Chaco. . Auckland Lunatic Asylum was yesterday' -. visited -by I)r. MacGregor, the Government; Inspector, who was accompanied by Mr- F. '* G. Ewington, official visitor. There is still , a lack of accommodation, but the institution ' ia otherwise much improved. / ' Sir Edward Baines, the oldest journalist,.... in Europe,1 is eighty-eight years of age, . He began his 'career as a reporter oh the "Leeds Mercury" before Queen Victoria ', was born, and-whilst George 111, was still ■ ' ••> upon the throne. , i. There is no period in the career of the ?%r bustle that, appeals bo strongly to the sympathetic ] side, of man's xiature -as when it just reaches far enough abaft the1 weatherboard of the umbrella to catch the sogging rain drops as they sog. : / ' The following' is one of a batch of some 400 " excuses "recently sent by the Napier- ' street School headmaster to the Chairman : of the City Schools Committee : —■.' ' To teapher of Napier-streot Schoolr-Pleasec^-mi-se Richard;for staying from school to buy new shoes.— His Mother." , Country customers should look pub for . A. E. Fehton's price lisb of drapery and clothing in this paper td-morrow night.— (Advb.)