TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 17 September 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i"CoLiEEk ßAWjr"'ftfcthdOpfipaßenas& - v • ProfeSeoi1 Canaris opsiig oh'^W'kdn^&fi „ : Deßtrdctive.floDiaflbbfchiaßhirie.^ Batch of football accidentsonSafctti'day! laafc... ■ ... . . " A Night With J.E. Goagh " at Pitt--stree^WesleyanSbhoolrbbnitd'-iiighfc"- >'! \Yaitemata Couhcillorsii*iyislfceii'-:.-Waitakarei"district on.Sattirda'y.'lasfc.-" * ■ The" unen3ployed"are 'meaiwiiii©!wiifr«r ing patiently for tHe promised work.' v: ; The Marquis of Queehsbeny, instead of ,r9turmng to Auckland, has gone frorri ' Honolulu to England., ' ' ' A branch of the National Bank is'to'bal established at the Thames in •. "Our Talker and the Yalkertip" is the title of a satirical ballad ,on G-aspariht's V .escape, published in, Wellington: ; ■■■■ • Mrsj Oliphant^has written iMorethan>forfr\' novels^-—rathermorethanoriefbr everyye» ■ of her literary life. • • v Afiinpipieiij; g re Lj[vetpb'bl>stree6'^las6:>'. nighb wdsi exbinguished iafter soms^^ damage ' .harf'teen^dbne'.' ".:';-;';';.' *■ -.;:' -' '""' i:/^'; X&[~hi: I ■ vAs:one; result of theEpglKhgnidiiticerof:: :Egypfiian! admiiQisfcratidn, • Between 2>0()O'; and 3,000 slaves are anhuSliy -^b-free in- 1' 'Egypt-: ■ ".''.'-''■'.'.'. ■:■■':.--I c^' -. :;•■;/ :-- '~;■■:. i v;?" . The|prpceedings,afc th^^^^ Savage. Cl«b,to-. night Will be largely iti the' nature of a rV hearsal for t the;' open nigh'ti "oil Ihofsday next/.-' ■.■:...- ' ..,.' .:° \. "-" '^' i ■ ... ] .'... Prince; Alfred,: eldfeatepn iof the .3sn&pt£ ; : Edinburgh, is now beifig fdnlled'liy-'a*: sergeant-major;.of the iS battalipt]t' quartered?; afc Coburg. ■ : : . .. , , . I "*J'---. Mount Victoria Pomaip-Bpai-d *inefe on ~'\ Saturday and oleefced Mr E. ; Batfcley*Claair': takn'/ and: Mir E. W. Burgees Secretary- >' ', I * 'JThb Mansion House Funil^of r^2ipoo haa^ npw'Been Handed"'6rer to* the Committeei'of.;'*■:■■ ; the Imperial Institute. " ■ •" : <«;■_.-. ■■■\ \ , •The annual profits of the thEee'lfeadmg;; brewing firms of the world are ;—-Gu'ihnees,I. £450,090.:'».,,8a55, t .£34o,ooo,^^Allsopp,*: / £204,000. . , ' _ , ' ' . ' A printing -.plant for^ the production'of, the Hew ; ';ouin^ v^*.'o.oye^^'h'brGazefc^"'; , • has been procured, and was, despatched from Brisbane on August,2s. .."" ', .'"' 'V , Brifci?k publishers^cSmi^ain;^:^ McCat'tliy's-"History of Ont-'O\rav.lELnae>" y spld: ih'Her Majetsty%d(iTOiiiibiiff*fbr^^^^ Bepurehaaed in Anierieafor2sGen{ai-: <', r^ : ■'..' John Brigtifc ia • conva&scang'ialowly' HJa^ : is so weak that ©veii.batbkjhair esercfee- ex-" ' baustsbim. r , . • . Henry■ .Poland, MIP., SJstcre£ary'.Gf*t'E© Feace Society, died.: in Xondfltton, AJigusfc' ' 21st. ; .Eight hundredi ittrokm^Cvra^^ in the r necenfe iiiandatian,; sis, '£bng -Taon, ' China. ' ,Th"c of the Bri|iyi:Slife' Daveuly;. Hall, sentenced*.to bohanged:i^nnmiering:; the^'(^^%:'da^g^^'iiie.: ; \(oyagf|.'i&Qiii, San; Francisco toLtverpopl^iraa:rfiapibfii,, AuguHt^ 20th. : . :..•, . . ' ■ .-■• ' obess iMurnam.en.ti, Aaignal; i9iby watrfafJ^en1 j -.;. by Gunsberg-, who won- tifairfcsen-ami. a-hal£ : games./ Mackenzie:won:favel^e. ..... : r . -. '; The /moa noTrhere ! -: A!fdHSil;'egg"in 'the: ■ ' Paris Academy cl 344 in.. Qn^'^yt'aiad'iSfflDii^anatiußr:. the original ' is *nppafod to have been 1.-hoiCgg crlaibiixl.i three fciuwss &h bi^.* as iui a&tricli. ": '^rr.;'<T*^McslSip3l ■$&*■ 'oiZakm! ■';&lm6b'::,'bf:! :"'" t:' about >3>ooo laS ,irajther.B by;road, for h tlie - Auckland naarkei;. -;-'He-experts .'top save::' niaepenco?p«c- bead;? bytdrisdng them in-. stead of sendii^ by rail X ami land the.sheep ;■ in better conditioa. > A few Auckland citiieos- have. purchased:: \ Sendersony the objecfc' being to go ;ayste- ■ : . oiatacalfyiinto fi-uit-gEpTßxng^ arid ultimately ; , toerec*afettifcpreseridng-factory.. ' '.- v-_ >\\: ,!The Jbalf^yearly geraeraltfmeeding-ofithe;• ■ Bank. of Now Zealand-will be .held; on the 22nd proximoV and they special. meeMng oat Spdproximov. . --•-'' .t^j^-r.,-: ;■ .:■;:/ 1 >.,..>•.;:,,'■;.--« ■ •=■• The.":6cand Duke Alexis, brobhm-of tho CSsar,:. & said -1 b bb able' to "drink morfl : ■ jhainpaTOetnan^anjrQthei'European prince, aven in Russia.. ■ . ; . : Where is the clock? is the all-absorbing auostiion. with, the habitues of Auckland POlio*Gotorb.. The jiew-i clock- has ul ready it3appeased,and! the- Court is agaiii withbut; fcimel. DtwM'orell Mackenzie- jjurposes" to issue bis book daring- the latter part of October. Th^yolvtme will'contain less'than one hundred; pages*!''*i Proofs will be corrected arid air&b|eciii;onab.fe maiiter cut out by Queen V£bfcbir£a: ami asrf dauglit^,; tlie : ex^Sm-f: The Royal library.'!at! .Monaco, which ife one &t t!h& ifiiieei in: fcbe' woflfli ;HasJb6en overhaalbd'during thelast;thcfeo years;:|«idV; ifcis fdond to, contain upwards of 750,000,, volumes and 24,.000 manuscripts. * * Deacon's wife (in church, nudgilig- her hnsbftnrt): "John, rouse yourself; : - the1 Bimlsrterhos' got .to- the word, more and; lam doaev.*^ Deacon1 (in an inqjatient :,: whisper): fckWhjaitdo you want to disturb me for'"whejithb,-seitmbn isn't half over-?" London /despatches of Augusb 18fch say, .- there is mtwsh gossipVover the reported con-. version of Vtetoria'u daughter Helferex,. now, Princess Christian^ to the Roman Catholic faitK The Queen has-notxJeoied.it.:-.■ , . , " Cholera hroko jut in the l^rtngoesft ttan'sport India btnirid 'from Morocco to, Mbzamboquev and according to a dispatch of-,Atig(tst 24fcli A therel -\yore" tTifttv-eighti eases within twent-y-four ljOUiCtf, twentyfour of which were fatal.. . ' i.Th'e-Ch.ristchiir'eh.' Cathedral,: Cn'apte'r-has decided to restore the spire in. eto«e;.ac cording to a design by Messrs Mounfiord and Dobison^ The masonry will be Jles s massive than that destroyed, and the iron cross lighter. ■ " . A duel was foughb at Cannes^ Pramje,. on August 16ch, bebAveen two women of good families^ Pistols were : used.. One \vaa wounded in the- citest^ and the other in the, aim, . Ifc Vas a toy® m>^S':.' All tjliedetails of the- epde vvere s(j?a.puloHsly obssrved;. A Christehurch man ** doing " the' Kx--hibition,:; i at, : :MelbQar.ne < ; says ;■■'''ln'my ; ; " strolls throiigh' the> streets I. have made ifc niy business'to coi»parethoprice.s of articles in the shop windows wffch the prices I havi % st)»u in Christclmu-h shops. As it rtilo J find that prbteefewa .^as not; caused • tbe •piciees to be feit^^vS !l few instances they are loweiv^wi «» * rale they appear \o be mueh'on a par wit-h o-ara." tJauntCT: custoiiiei:^ oat for-": A. E, Fentoa'a p^eo list, of drapery and clothing in ihis p^gfiP ;inpnw nighb.— ;.' (Advt.)