TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 246, 18 October 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cantata to-ni^ht. Vesey Stewart back in Taiiranga. A brilliant spectacle—A diamond eyeglass. Crosby has started a coach between Waihi and Paoroa. Things are looking up in tbo Cambria s^ain. °Death of a. litfcle girl ab Parnell from diphtheria. ' . _~. There were 144 divorce cases in Chicago last July. Visitors at theFresli Water BathsmcreasX $h- i)ixon, M.P. for Edgbaston, is in Wellington. , "Bedouins of the Desert' at the Opera House to-night. 0 Battery and Engineers had a successful drill last night. One Tree Hill roads have been undergoing improvement. m When a woman is married she is nearly, I always miss—taken. The Crown land open fo sale at Oropi is belli;,'1 quietly taken up. Master Max well, who was injured at Tauranga, is considerably better. Roman noses may be aristocratic* but betting men prefer a straight Lip. The frisk Jubilee Singers have been drawing big.money at Broken Hill. Major Dane has been lecturing in the northern district of Australia. Mr Percy Smith is in Tasmania, but returns to Auckland next month. Could a newspaper in the coopers' iv- : fceresta be called a barrel organ ? Some Auckland youths apprenticed themselves on the Diamond before she left. It is expected that the Californian grape crop this year will double that of last. The body of Matthew George, drowned in Lake Ellesmere, was found near Inveli. Cousins and Atkin are building two. omnibuses for Napier and one for Auckland. Wedge sentenced to two years and nenwood to one year, at Wellington, for larceny. , Basement of the new prison is expected, to be ready for a detachment of prisoners shortly. Watson and Denny's gold-extracting plant for the Paroquet! mine imported by the mail boat. Mr A. J. Vegan is visiting Auckland in ' the interests of the Australian Mining Standard. i J. W. Heath, shoemaker, Rangiora, died 1 suddenly, aged 70. He held medals for Afgan war of 1839. Sarah Maloney, who jumped over the brea&twork at Freeman's Bay, has been sent to the Asylum. London religious papers are discussing the probability of Mr Spargeon going over to the Presbyterians. Tennyson must be an Irishman, or why did he write, "If you're waling, call me early, mother, dear." Yacht Matangi has become the property of Messrs Wilson and Wiseman, while Mr Stone has the Tawera now. English ladies discard stays when playing lawn-tennis. They say it leaves them more free. Of corset does. Dr. Campbell has arrived at To Kopuru for the purpose of giving,a farewell banquet to his late employees at the mill. Mr Matthews, the Me" manager at Te Kopuru, has severed his' connection with the' Kauri Company syndicate. _ ; Was Eve high or low Church ? Well,--that has never" been settled, but Adam thought her " Eve-angelical." The Aratapu sawmill has again started to prepare timber for shipment. The Glaucus, steamer, is expected there to-day. The manuscript diary of Major Bridge, formerly of the 53th Regiment, has been added to the Free Public Library. Mr Chas. Arnold was up at 'Brisbane, "Hans the' Boatman" drawing good bouses right up to the end of the season. Captain Humphries, Under-Secrqtary for Defence, is expected here on Saturday, in connection with military land claim business. Humane Society's medal presented afe Dunedin to Jas. Cannon, who rescued Miss Jeffreys at Ocean Beach, after a young man, John McCutcheou.had been drowned in the attempt. Dr. Bake well says that Sir Morell Mackenzie by his skill and care prolonged for several months a life which would have been inevitably sacrificed to the savage and barbarous surgery of the German doctors. A trial has been made in Boston of another electric motor. This time it is ona called the Hewins, and it is said to run up certain steep grades at the rate of three mlesanhour, with the ex\Q diture of 20----horse power. Waikato Farmers' Association Committee will recommend that the Association .shall not go into a trading1 business, but act as ageat for its members in the purchase of seeds, manures, etc., in wholesale lines, and in the cheapest market to be found.