TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 234, 4 October 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

RotomA-lANA gone South. Call of Is in the Old Caledonian. Athen__um dance on November Ist. There are 150 males and 20 females in the Gaol.

One touch of humour makes the who.9 world chin.

Women book-makers have appeared iv Liverpool.

Eagleton has patented a Perfection Hair Restorer.

Awards in the five-mile skating race deferred.

Mr Valentine, M.H.R., has returned South.

Sard, the musician, composed only in darkness.

Prohibition meeting at Ponsonby last r .glib. Chief-Detective Browne has arrived to take charge here

Lord Colin Campbell is going to India to try and practise law. City Guards' judging distance parade next Saturday. Buyers Bank of New Zealand shares at £7 10s this morning. "'"""y^I

Mr and Mrs E. Withy leit yesterday fdr England and the Paris Exhibition. Professor Anderson's season at the Opera House will be for seven nights only. The erection of. the roof of the new Custom House has been completed.

Men will work harder for a day's pleasure than they will for a week's wages. Seventh anniversary of the Cambridge Tabernacle celebrated last Tuesday.

It is not the intention of the Government) to advertise volunteer parades this year.

Insurance business has been exceptionally disastrous during the present year.

The whole of the nurses who underwent examination at the Hospital last night passed creditably. Mr Pond says that on the Saturday before he left Melbourne, land was sold by auction realising J. 300,000.

Subscription dance in connection with Ponsonby Social Union to take place in three weeks.

James Barnstable arrested at Hamilton for stealing a flask of whisky from the bar of the VYaikato Hotel.

Europe produces altogether 190,000,003 tons of coal per annum, of which more tliaa half comes from England.

John Carisidy, butcher of Ohaupo, broke the small bone of his arm by a fall while skylarking.

Emperor Frederick died within thirty feet of where he was born, and exactly at the same hour of the day.

Mr C. H. Brocklebank left for Melbourne yesterday to represent Auckland in the Centennial chess competition.

M r and Mrs J. Dilworth and Hon. George McLean were' amongst the Mararoa's passengers for Sydney. Paparoa settlers have condemned the dismissal of Mr Elliott, sheep inspector, and demanded his reinstatement in oflice.

The South Pole Expedition planned several years ago by Dr. Neumayer of, the marine observatory at Hamburg, is likely to start in th 3 spring. Murdoch, the celebrated Australian batsman, is about to return to New South Wales and it is bis intention td spend some of his time in the cricket field.

The salaries to be given to the Queensland Railway Commissioners are:—Chairman, £3,000 ; the other two commissioners, £1,500 each.

Clarke's All Star Company, under engagement to Mr Abbott, have concluded a successiul season at Dunedin and gone to Cbristchurch.

The Queen has become so partial to Indian servants that another detachment of these menials is now being selected iv India for the Royal household.

Tradesmen's weekly half-holiday successfully inaugurated at Invercargill yesterday by procession and spor__!, but some shops opened after sunset contrary to the spirit of the movement.

Rupert Robert' McMillan, formerly a medical "student, was missed from Berwick, Upper Taieri, for a month, and his body has now been found in a lagoon. Drink set down as the cause.

Mr Pond has decided to adopt Mr Valentine's suggestion, and set about the devising of a suitable " cheese package," which will render that service tothecheeseindustry for export purposes, which has already been rendered to butter.

Half of the land of the Roseneath estate, the tongue of land between Oriental Bay and Evans's Bay, at Wellington, consisting of 104 acres, fetched £4,850, or £48 16s an acre. It is simply a cattle run at present. The purchaser is Mr J. R. George.

The following Wellington volunteers intend to go to the Centennial Rifle meetingat their own expense : - Lieutenant Davy, Petone Navals; Sergeant Kuchen, "D" Battery; Volunteer Wilson, City Rifles; Vol. Ballinger, Guards; Williams, Navals; Scott, "D " Battery.