TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 215, 12 September 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

More football. '■:■} Big lot of "drunks." " When tlie cat's away," etc. Wheat is still rising in price.- ■ A warm sumxner is predicted* ■■■-~'...,.•:■■ Depatations to the Minister of Public Works. ■■ - ■•;.:■• - .v. ■ ':;.:-• ;/: '■';-■■■■ "■:"'' West End Rowing Clab eafcertaminenb ~ to morrow night. "King of Jerusalem "is one of fchefitlew . of the Emperor of Austria. ■ , . In ten years sheep in Tasmania have decreased by 284,000. , HoniT. Fergus has been inspecting the tI , Lyttelton defences. By the coal miners'* strike^Newcastle, ■• loses £15,000 in wages weekly. ■■;■.• There are now nearly 14,000 depositors in Auckland Savings Bank. r; r; » The total area of land alienated from th© Crown in Victoria^is 26,267,021 acrfe. • LordCaiTington Bays he will nob leavei ; ; New South Wales until his term as Goverj nor expires. ■ '': ■ :'''::-': The Maoris near Hawera attributed tha « I recent eclipse of the moon to the death of j'TitokowaruiI;^;''.' -\^'.'- - ■ '■''>'- •:_. ,-, ( : ;■"; '-1 ! The hops of the Mayor of Adelaide era .; very popular. By the way, His Worship is -■-:,< ■a'brewer, ''^-',: ■-■-^ ;--\ :: :?,:xV: ■■■■':::1;■ ;>-;■' -:.' ,< What next? The announcement of an . auction ;eaie at: Ohaupo "'on Tuesday next ■ says that there will be sold "20 freah .- females, without reserve." The local matrimonial agent shbuldbe on the sppt, and prevent the consignment falling into tho, hands of Mormon elders,:who-. have been very active of late^ ;,■ ' ' The-whole, of the site ■of Adelaide was originally soldfor£4,ooo. It isnowestimated ■ ■ to'be worth£li,ooo,ooo. ' »■ The degradation of the Britishpeerage ; continues. Lord Tollemache has become a ..; brewer andowns 69 pubs. '■.-. *'"".■ : / : The first telescope at Galileo was made from part of a lead organ-pipe, in each end of which was cemented a suitable spectacle ' ; 'glass.', ~,, ": ... , . ,;,'.', ~' ': ~'; ~,'". ; .;,., '\r " Mr W. McGregor, Special Commissioner for' New Guinea, has proclaimed the' , sovereignty of Her Majesty the Queen oyei" : British New Guinea. ■ ' • -" • - Thd "Philadelphia, Press " Bays that the ; Emperor of Russia and the King of the Sandwich Islands drink regularly to excess : and are victims of 'delirium, iremens. '; : '■■ • The Queen and: one or two members of the royal family are desirous of learning ' Hindustani, and a young Indian prince is ; coming to England to act as instructor to these royal students. ■■■ < ■■ AtChristchurchJast night) a six-roomed i; house owned by Mrs Lamb was burned down arid two adjoining houses damaged. " Insurances, £250- in the New Zealand office.-;,,; . . , ■ , n , '__ " ;■' ~-- -1 In Sydney DivbrceiCourt-recently, Jus- ' tice ; ; Windeyer heard a case ih>iwhich the ; respondent bore the ; Scriptural name of Mary Magdalen, and one of the co-respon-dents was named Splompn. " :The "Spectator "supplies its readers with a brand; new copybook sort of defini- ' tion of the word "jockey." V" A jockey," itsays, '"is, as a rule^ an".undersized; out : plucky lad,who rides immature horses in-■.< useless races for gamblers to bet about." At the age of seventy-six years, the poeb Browning doe 3 not look 'to be much more than forty ; nor does he act so. - He goes everywhere and sees everythingi Within a lew days h6 went to the funeral of Matthew Arnold, to the Academy, the " Grosvenbr arid the New, to say nothing of numberless " at homes."