TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 18 September 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Stanley is still alive. And "kicking" too—at the Mahdi. The Colonial Secretary has gone Sojith, Taberhaelo tea-meeting this evening. Lecture on " Psychology■" at V.M.C.A. Mr Meadows, • irom London, is now in Auckland. - -1 '■ - Prof. Canaris, the " prestidigitatenr,"! • arrives to-morrow. * ~: Some folks want to know why he should be pressed to dig atatur! The Mayor of Auckland leaves to-morrow' m a tour of Australia, , ? • Auckland ought to have a> grand exhibition in the Jubilee year—lß9o/ - ' ' : ■ • .-■ Sir Harry Atkinson bos ruled that live ■ 3tock are not subject to thbh primage duty.', , The oldest titled person, in England ,is : ; Viscount Everly, aged ninety years. ■ _.'.- Mr H.N. Abbott, 6f,the Opera House, has pfone down South to fetch up Clark's All Star Minstrel Si* -*• • Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, iis'tlie: only woman's college in Scotland. - ). Mr Gordon, Inspector,,; of Mihes;; .leifti ? Wellington for Melbourne Exhibition pesterdayafternoon. < .-■■-"■ 7'[ '.",.- It is repbi'ted that there; liaVe ■ bben large* withdrawals of gold from ■ the Argentina:: Republic/v. V.--;: - '!:> 7- -7' ■i'< ■ '»■• ■ Here is a puzzle for smarts boys : " Pains. pour for jackass a are you and backwards : .his read to try will you doubt no." ■ A boarding-house keeper' at Masterton is trying to have.the skating -rink- there' jlosedi as a nuisance and injurious to his aUsiness;'':'.!.:I:,-.'1!'- \y\:' .:■ ' '. New South, Wales has 3"373 persons'to* v bhe square mile ; Western Australia. F *44 j Victoria, 11-79; New Zealand; 5-788 ;' Tasmania, 5402. ; Miss Campbell, late matron of Auckland/ Lunatic Asylumjwas presented with a silver tea service and a complimentary address by - the female attendants. '-;/ ;_i7 -.<■:<■ '-~■■■'',-' Michael Davitt is writing a history of. the National League, with a'view to dispel* .rroneous impressions' respecting fche aims" and operations of the organisation. ■ • Miss Amy Vaughanj: with her:" CapahdJacket" Company of entertainers,' has started a season in oTaranaki, , If your hat blows 'off in ■ the street, follow;, it placidly and with gentle dignity. Some--body else will chSsbitfbr you. ' ' - * New Plymouth folks ara grumbling be- - cause the pru hirig-hook has cut - off some of. their trains .connecting, with Wanganui, Waitara, and Haw era. ' . * A clown while doing a hand-spring in a circus in Chicago di .located his neck, and reb-iced wahii applause from' the.audibnce.. ■Mr .Mitohelson thinks :that;';the. newi: "'■.■■7 about the United States Government grant--ing £10,000 a : year-subsidy vtoi the; San* i Francisco Mail (Service, is too good to Le; true.-'-,; :■'.'-..'■"'■'-,,\: ■ '^,;> : i;:!',','oV; ~^,-.';.' j.'.,;, ,l. J.. Commandant Booth, who is toarrive here next webk from England, is the" cpming- "■ General" *in succesaion to his! -fathbr, ? and is. said to be a man of cohsiderfible;: ability. '• - The time required to count; 1,000,000 i sovereigns at the rate of three a second^ 12' hours to the clay, would bo 7d, 3hr, 35_iin and 33 l-3rd sec. It's "handy to know this" in the-event of having a thilHon left to one; The annual meeting of the''Australasian' 7 Association for tho Advancement of Science" will, in Mew Zealand's. Jubilee; ■ year"{iß9oJ, be hold in this colony. Umbrella borrowers, who always forget their obligations to return thb rain protee-" tor, should take warning; ; One of theinafc' Hamilton, Canada, has just been sent to • gaol for a year. ■•_-: ' The Tauranga Acclimatisation • Society last week received in splendid condition a consignment of 8,000 trout ova. TheSociety intends : soon to< introduce tho bumble bee into Bayof Plenty District. Aunty— "Here is an apple,;-Johnny. Share it with your sister in a iJ Christian spirit.". Johnny^—"How am; I,do that, Aunty?" "Offer^herthe largest piece." Johiuiy, handing the apple to his sister, " There, sissy, you share like a Christian^" At a rebent meeting of the Church Synod; in Christchurch, a speaker remarked - that many people living in Sydenham had- paid for plots in-the Cemetery, and: Aaia! been buried there. How they this remarkable performance was not stated. The Benevolent, trustees at Dunedinfwith a View 'of preventing overlapping in administering charitable aid, have communicated with the clergymen and others asking for lists of persons relieved,: which-will be' compared with the books of trustees and. information exchanged. ~ ' f •i" The Manaia'Dairy Company'haye passed a resolution selling the factory, ■ land arid plant, which cost £1;150, for £500; which; will just cover the outstanding liabilities, and paid-up shares. £1,150, therefore,-re-presents the joss after two years' working. ; The new cathedral church of St. John's afc Napier is how rapidly approaching com--pletion, and a great deal of the interior work is finished. It is inspected by many, "visitors who, (according to'the; Hawke's Bay "Herald") express unbounded surprise at the size' and beautyiof the buildr Ing, ;■ which is ; generally pronounced to eclipse Chrißtchurch Cathedral.