TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 257, 31 October 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hallowe'en, S.s. Wairarapa in from Sydney. Chinese steamer Taiyuan goes South. tF^, afternoon. /'.*• Masonic Hall fancy dress ball last r was a great success. Auckland rifle representatives '^ j astl night for Melbourne. Rob Roy Dramatic Club per .. f - ormance j n the Opera House on Friday r exfc _ Professor Carrollo, who ie f fc lO r England last night, returns in Ap^ Mr Bronafield, colic: jt ' orj j 3 (;0 liavo hl - g leg amputated close Co the fa^ j oint< Sir Geo. Grey f\d preside afc the annual conversazione cy 'the V.M.C.A. on Friday. Mr Twopjdhy will not take the active manazeniOut of tho Dunedin Exhibition. South., Eranklin Mounted Infantry will , attend the sham light ab Mangere on the i 9th. ' "-.hirty - one horses are left in for the \ Melbourne Cup, to be run on Tuesday i next), I An attempt has been made to have the historic gallows tree on Hampstead Heath ! cut. down. ; London 'buses are to have the electric \ light, and tlie storage battery will be under I the driver's seat. j Twenty inches is said to be the narrowest i gunge of raiiroad doing regular business in \ the United-States. , Applications for new issue of Bank of ; New Zealand shares closed yesterday. They came in freely. A Southern paper suggests that Sir Julius Vogel has aspirations to theGovernorshijj of the colony. The man who can't sing and won't sing deserves the eternal gratitude of all his 1 friends and neighbours. ; A copy of Mr Donnelly's book, which has been the subject of some controversy, is now in th. Free Public Library. The natives of Madagascar have given : more than £800,000 ior missionary work I during the last ten years. M". Chevreul, the centenarian chemist, ' says that the modern dyer controls 15,000 1 different shades of colour. Miss Windred, the new lady superintendent of the Hospital, is expected from Melbourne on Monday next. Mr George Rignold has secured the right of Madame Midas and subsequent plays by Fergus Hume and Phil Beck. Gold watch valued at £14 to be given to the winner of the quarter mile race at the Amateur Athletic Club sports. Wanganui Education Board appointed a committee to report on the proposed establishment of a Girls' High School. Professor Baldwin's clairvoyance stances receive largo patronage from the clergymen of Ad £> laide. Where are we all going to 1 A few short weeks and then for sport! How welcome's tho vacation To teachers, boys and girls—in short The bored of education. Mme. Patti's castle in Wales is adver. tised for sale. Tho reason given is the fact that she is being robbed by her neighbours. "A married man,' says one who knows, " can always pack a trunk more easily than a bachelor can. He gets his wife to do it for him." A society journal informs us that "when a gentleman and lady aro walking up the street the lady should walk inside ths man," The Old, Old Story.—She .early in the evening) : Good evening, Mr Sampson. Same she (later in the evening) : Goodnight, George. According to the Wairarapa " Star," the Maoris predict a very dry summer, the signs that lead them to this conclusion being in their opinion unmistakable. .. South Auckland Racing Club sketched out the programme for the race meeting of the 29th December at Claudelands, the stakes amounting to a sum of £270. The Maoris have defeated the Northampton footballers. It is satisfactory to heaC: of poor New Zealand being ahead in something.—" Sydney News." The boring operations at the Western Springs for an extra supply of water haves not been successful, owing to the nature of; the rock. A shaft is now being sunk. Mistress to Servant: Did you tell those; ladies at the door that I was not at home t Servant: Yes, mum. Mistress: What: did they say'? Servant: How fortinit! Preparations have been made for th<|f s .| Hamilton Light Infantry Volunteers to pro-?] ceed to Auckland on Thursday, Sth November, to take part in the review at Mangere.: Before yon call attention to the fact that.; a pig has no use for his tail, please reinera-: ber that you have two buttons on the lower! back of your coat that don't button anyj: thin.,. We notice in a recent Greymot.th paper the death afc .Sydney of Mr Thos. Kennel., formerly clerk of the Greyiuouth Court, and brother of the late Warden Kenriek, of the Thames. Guest (suspiciously eyeing the flattened pillows and the crumpled sheets) : "Look here, landlord, this bed has been slept in." Landlord (triumphantly): "That's what it's fur !" Fritz Emmetfc is not dead. He has jusb given Mr S. W. Smith, of Leeds, England, £1,000 for "Plinlimmon," the finest St. Bernard dog in the world and winner of the 100 guinea challenge cup. Messrs Hisfcer and Elliott, two gentlemen who have been inspecting the quicksilver deposits at Ohaewai on behalf of Australian capitalists, leave for Sydney by the Te Anau. Dunedin Manufacturers' Association decided to cordially support the Exhibition, but decided to urge on the Committee the desirability of securing a site for a perma.;.nent building for industrial purposes. :- Martin Siu_.oi.sen has found it necessary to terminate his contracts with his lately imported troupe of Spanish Students and Dancers in a rather abrupt) manner. Mr, Simonsen pays each member of the company a sum sufficient to enable them to return,' home from Melbourne. ; - An Englishman who was spending his summer holidays in America last year, hap-: pening to take up a little book on geography "for the use of schools," saw the following question and answer :—■" Where is London, ." "lb is the chief town of a small; island off the coast of France." F. M. Stowe, of Winneconne, Wis., has solved the problem of tempering brass. He has shown an edged tool that will cut a seasoned pine or hemlock knot without affecting the tool, and the various tests he has made prove it superior to steel for cutting purposes, as it takes altogether a finer edge. A youngs man was detected in pocketpicking (writes the Paris correspendenfc of a contemporary). He decamped, but was followed. Encountering a group oi bicyclists and tricyclists, he knocked some of them over ; confusion ensued ; he jumped on a bicycle minus its rider, rolled like tho new Edinburgh express into Paris, sold the machine for 300f, and invited a police officer whom he knew to pass the evening with him at dinner, and who finally saw the scoundrel unconsciously off in the train for Belgium.