TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 217, 14 September 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather cold aud-clear, Thundersterni and hwvyrain ia'Woikatt . on Wednesday. General _ Bqukoger •.. moans ■ to ' xiiii Sweden. ' ■ ' ' ' " '■ "Coining events cast their ■ehadq'ws bo His Worship, ijayor Crovvtber ! Hats off I ; nlfin^fl ' ■ ■' ■ ■■■' ■ ■' ■' ■'' ■>'.»'■■'■■■ ioeaianci lasi uiontli, and none arrived Geo. Doad/ a former Tkiiucs mhiuc hu diqd in South Africa of typhoid ft v< ' Tran3vaal Government ' fwill sulfcufflßP'^' Di'nizulu to the ritbh^|^SH^^^p Auckland's grand old mim ha^n'f, ■» ' " dog's life "of ,ib. 3le h as agam beeii * badly bibfcen by an uncollared cur. Id i.s reported thab.gold'-has"-been'die- :-'i covered at Cape Sudesfc, ou the etißt Icolfc of New Guinea, and a j usl ],a^ set in} 1 No necessity to rush there! 1$ is only ' somebody's little joke ; there's bfea-W^^H gold whero (herei'sa "New Guiii^'iopn't) ' Mrs Runciman, wife of Captaia KuucUiJb man,of Marsh Meadows, W.-til.-ii,, :,.-,- f'^Hfi died j aged 60 yeans. ■, Mr Gladstone.has 'been iutovviewtd'Afflflnß tho Sugar. Bountyy-TreaVrfVttt.iwhen'-aS^|^i to express his opinion," ho '^ve;ifciiiS.VaS» answers/ «* ; ', 'l®M|i Mr Silvester Davis, of ilumilion, has b^e'Kjffi busy for;/ the last fw^daysVsiippiym^^iß-1 order for 30,000 bricks' to the Tefj^ra^iH Gold ixv.d Silver -Miuiiig Company, ;Vt'aio-' «j rongomai. ' ;]:l l Ti'*f^^^^^ Tlio Marquis of .Que«nsberiy : is[]cxp^tg|[il to take part ia tho J'akuumuj IJmib*oluJ)S[ffi; meet to-morrov/. ' IWBKSStBK Mr R. 8. Smylbe, t(tbjmuch-trav|ijed| i keepl; traveHiu^ still like a .veritable \hiif~: k errant. He has now • nno <o^\'^lJintjt,on."feJjiaH| An old resident of NelßonJl TfeomasttiohA^ffl Ferris, was found dead iv bed TyesWday v . J.ast month the'.mpyepijfcb of yopulatum j'' resulted in a serious loss tothe colony.-: Tie $%i arrivals numbered 688, :tnd tho dopai-turij-i ■'.:?: 2,184. The departures jvere principjtUy for ;?'■. Victoria, 1,220, aqj Kv:\v iV^ftleeji,^;!' Mr Strickland, nianagQrpflNew.Zealami.':;. Shipping- (,'ompauy, vißited the.JCalliope . Dock yesterday and expressed,- liirase'lf ■ \--J' favouvably/iiup'ressed'nijh- thatrimjjortaut» i; Stonebreakers in Auckland distilcfc:aro : offered 4s per';ya(d by tho district engineer "■.. if they go out .to' St.^Anne's/JJridgeji^S Mr W, Tonks, brother cf Mr Digby Tonks of Auckland, hasfitarted bu&ingse-iiv^ Christchurch as head-af ;thj;,' firm' of|Bknk?, Norton and Co., vauction(Jers,:/lan^Sp2aiaj commisE ion'agents. > Mr Edwards, «, Metliodi?fc pu.Vbon'^JjS| Napier, lately preached ix sermon on'the subject of—" ivissing all ■ tlie Wprld" Over,; : Biblicalwiso and Otlioriyiso.:'V .'■ ;'•-.'; Tho costs allowed to Gapfein Llacgregor. ■% in tho cross actions between himself apd /^ tlio Northernl Steamship Company reacai..."';' the total of £\W S,- 9d. !.f'-'--f^i;': - Tho town of' Alexandra, paVits qwn'peti- V 'vion, has beau takon undei\tlie conVrbl.;6l :■ tho Waiga County^ui.pEcfctcncii-;td3c^| tinmna under a local boara. > ■ Comi'oi t ye, Now Zealaniieri!- Tho public..'. debt per head of Queenskiad is how greater. ■. than that of any of tho other colonies. "-.■■■'■; ' ■'■• Mr Stuart Cumberland (the thonjtiSSl reader) denies the truth of the report fcliufc; ' ' he was arrested in Bohemia for; ridiculings.!! • the Austrian flap. ,' - '< V ' Dr. Charles I'crry, who, \va| t : h9 frsfc. i: Bishop of Melbourne on the subdivision .-of' I! the see of Australia, has suffered a severe > paralytic stroke, but) is row recovering. ~ Mi-Charles Power, of Maryborough, (Q.),. j once a commercial man, next V (solicitor, ;. and now a member of Parliament, promised that he will make, law cheap. - More Powers to him! A Melbourne gentleman, writing to »'> relative in Christchurch^ states' that. Baibtffife Rothschild andjSbus'-havo .already inves^|;W: 6even millions -of: money iu'liind in' tbj^ colony, and their "agents arc buying up?;*' 1 great quantity of the available land that.:'. comes into tho iparkot. .'''!s££|jjf Great enthusiasm was displayed;-at-;tho; '?• meeting of the British Association for,;thci : Advancement of Science on the receipt of ■ ; mossage from tho Australian Society in rol,;' sponge to oho &ent from London. They have caught, the .retrenchment; craze in Sydney. ' Things are cub so .'me •" now in the N.S.W. Supremo Court that) the Sheriff's coachman acts .ib a!oourti|;,; attendant; and thu usual oiticialc: hiixo been,, superseded by'day-wages wen',. . '■ Tho Canadian railways have "doubled ,io ;: length in ten years, being now 0ver12,301);----miles. Tlie number of passengers carried, fl has increaaed by 66 pev conti, and tin-- [ number per inhabitant by 50 per cent. .; Yeb they have not al,'! railway- Reformer 'K>i iii Canada. ; - ' ' ■■ ;'.'. Country customers'should look oat for> A. E. Fonton'K prico list of drapery and, clothing in this paper to-morrow n.ighb.~ ; , (Advt.)