TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 241, 12 October 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

g 4 'Frisco Mail expected to-morrow. Rugby Union sports to-morrow. Miss yon Finkelstein on Monday. Strong upward movement in bops. Property tax forms are being issued. Auckland sheep district gazetted clean. City Guards have a daylight parade tc; morrow. Children's matinee.at the Opera House tomorrow. Bank of New Zealand has written off £3 per share. Wizard of the North concludes his season to-morrow evening. Mr Ludlow, who shot himself at Helensville, died this morning. Tauranga intends to hold a regatta on the 30bh of next month. Alcestis sustained damage from gales on her passage to Lyttelton. Mr Christopher Greenaway objects to pay rates on tenantlcss houses. London has at least five flourishing and well-housed clubs for women. Authorities have impounded 77 sealskins found on the schooner Awarua at the Bluff. The goods supposed to have been stolen from a house in Liverpool-street have been found. The next half-yearly sitting of the Court of Appeal is fixed for Friday, the sth of November. The Bank of New Zealand will declare a dividend at the half yearly meeting on the 22nd instant. More than one-half of the scholarships given at Cornell this year were won by female students. The Minister of Education arrived afc Christchurch yesterday and returns to Wellington to-night. MR PARNELL AS HAMLET. The " Times "is out of joint, Oh! cursed spite That ever I was forced with it to fight! John Striblery fell from the topsail yard of the barque Chili off Cape Egmont, and was drowned. Lieutenant Ansell was presented with an eighteen years' long service medal at the A Battery drill last night. Thomas Wills Mander, of Hamilton, has deposited specifications for invention of a watertight butter box. During the last 15 years the excess of births has been seven times greater in Germany than in France. A further consignment of humble bees ,was sent to Tauranga, but 16 out of 24 were dead when the box was opened. Rev. A. Cory, vicar of Tipton, and.the holder of moderate High Church views, has been recommended for St. Peter's, Wellington. The Spaniards must be a cynical people, or they'd never have such a proverb as "A woman's tears cost but little, but bring her much." The removal of the Auckland Girls' In« dustrial School from Kent-street to St. Geof-ge's Bay Road is notified in the "Gazette." Captain Clayton, of H.M.s? Diamond, has promised the boys of Kohimarama School a complete set of cricketing appliances. " Papa, why do they always call a railway train "she?" "Because it takes three or four mra-to manage her, my son," replied Mr Bawdle, glaring towards hi- wife. Postmasters:—o_ Bell is appointed to Churchill; M. Hanson, to Ngaroto ; J. Curtis, to Point Curtis; T. E. Clough, to Te Aroha ; J. P. Vause, to Te Awamutu. Gunner Peter Weir, of the Thames Navals, has decided to take part in the Melbourne Centennial Rifle Meeting, aud will accompany the Auckland repiesentatives. Mr Calder has sold i>S tons of potatoes, some in Waikato and some in Auckland, which, after cost of freight, commission, etc., have netted him au average of £2 15s per toTi. After a woman's rights meeting it was remarked—-" The coming woman will not marry until she is able to support a husband in the style he has been accustomed to at; home." Mr Wesley Spragg, manager of the New Zealand Dairy Association, has deposited specifications of au invention for packing butter, cheese, or lard, or dairy produce generally. Judge: " What sort of a man, now, was it whom you saw commit the assault ?" Constable: "Shure, yer Honor, he was a small insignificant crayther—about yer own size, yer Honor." In a school—Teacher: "Supj.o^ing that eight of you should together have 48 apples, 32 peaches, 56 plums and 16 melons, what would each of you have ?" Pupils (in chorus) : " The stomach ache." William Gordon, of Auckland, who has been living for some time past ill and in a state of destitution in a whare above Oxford, is being sent down to the charge of the Waikato Charitable Aid-Board. Work of repairing the cable still proceed* ing. Officer in charge of Wakapuaka advised at 5.58 p.m. yesterday : " Repairing ship has now buoyed end of old cable. Hopes to pick up new cable to-night." Tommy went fishing without permission of his mother. Next morning a neighbour's son mcc him, and asked—"Did you catch anything yesterday, Tommy?" "Not till I got home," was the'Vatlier sad "response. At the Rangiora sports, A. C. Wilmot broke the New Zealand cycling record forlo miles, doing the distance in 31min 171-sth-sec, beating Bean's record by lmin 42 3-sth sec. He rode a 55-inch new Rapid racer. Mr J. C. Booth, the contractor for the Government works on the Kauiwhaniwha Road, pitched camp with six or seven men on Friday, and has made a commencement. of the work, which it will take some three months to complete. .'.-' ....;...,.,..;.;._. The wheat and oat crops in the Te Puua district are looking very well. In addition to these, a considerable area will be planted with maize. The area under crop this season in Tauranga, Te Puna, and Te Puke will not be Jfar short of 3000 acres. Commandant Booth has communicated with Ins father, General Booth, for au extension of his leave, and is likely to visit the Australian colonies, returning to Auckland via Sydney, in order to proceed on his contemplated trip to the United States. Mr Brain recently finished the ere tion o. a tramway on iron piles at Motiti for Mr Douglas. The tramway is 250 feet in length, and has four line 3of rails, on which runs a cradle on 16 wheels, which carries a punt. This punt carries 16 head of cattle. ".'■■:>. h ' "-.:' Country customers should look out, for A. E. Fenton's price list of drapery and clothing in this paper to-morrow night.-— (Advt.)