TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 5, 7 January 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Teachers' examinations begun.. Supreme Court C|yilSeseionatoday. United Christian Conference commences to-night. Ships Duneijin and Waitaugi arrived from Lendon. Last three nights of the Jungfrau Kapelle. Mr Shannon, the soft-goods expert, is in Auckland. Gale at Wellington yesterday and squalls at Dunedin. The echo is very polite; it always returns your call. Special services were held at Epiphany Church last night. "I don't stand upon trifles,'as the man with the big feet said. Michael McDermott had his injured eye taken out at the Hospital yesterday. •Salt air is oftentimes trying to the v ice, yet most singers like to go to C. Friendly Societies' gathering to be held in Parawai Gardens on Easter Monday. Rev. J. S. Hill presided at the evangelistic service at the City Hall last evening. The Mahangi defeated the _ leetwing in the yacht race at Lyttelton by lmin. 44secs. Lieu tenant-General Cunliffe, who arrived by the Mariposa, intends to tour the colony. Alexander Beattie was found drowned in the Awamoko Creek, near Oamaru, on Saturday. Hon. J. P. Lesesne, the new American Consul-General for Americaj passed through by the mail steamer. Bishop Cowie will be welcomed by a public conversazione on the evening of Tuesday of next week. Two swans which were received by Mr B. C. Roberts from Waiuku have been liberated on Lake Takapuna. James Wallock, a New South Wales engineer, is at work upon a steamship which he says will make 60 miles an hour. • It is believed that the human bones found on the beach at West Coast near Waitakerei lakes are those of a Maori. A chiropodist announces on his business cards that he has " removed corns from several of the crowned heads of Europe." A Kawakawa correspondent writes thab there were high jinks there on New Year's Eve, only rather too noisy to be pleasant. London and Liverpool are both at the level of the sea. Glasgow is 30ft above it, Manchester 50ft, and Birmingham 300 ft. Stranger : ' You don't look very happy, friend. Met with some heavy loss ?' • No, sir, I have just retired from business to enjoy life.' Minister of Education claims that he has made a saving of £60,000 in the expenditure of the Department, without impairing its efficiency. Every man is fond of striking the nail on the head ; but when it happens to be his finger-nail his enthusiasm becomes wild and incohorent. The Wellington "Post" is hysterical because Lord Onslow, the new Governor, proposes to make Auckland the first point of landing in the colony. The Wellington "Post" has been told by a well-known grocer of Lambton Quay that he has sold three tons of butter at a price equal to Is per lb in London. Mr W. Kelly, M.H.R., writes to the Tauranga paper stating that the Hon. Mr Richardson has definitely arranged to visit Tauranga on his return from the North. Small boy named Munro was fishing from the wharf on Saturday when he fell overboard, but was rescued by Mr F. Baxter, second mate of the barque Natal Queen. The bush between Oropi and Rotorua ia on fire in half a dozen places. Mr Douglas's house has been burned down, and a few burning trees are falling across the road. John Dowhurst, who has lately been acting as private tutor at Omarama, fell out of an upstairs window at the Criterion Hotel, Oamaru, and died shortly afterwards. The Under-Secretary for Public Works has succeeded in settling the outstanding matters between the Government and the directors of the Rotorua Railway Company. The office of the District Engineer having been permanently closed, Mr Hales has been appointed to the charge of the Northern section of the North Island Trunk Railway. It is stated that the candidate for the Railway Commissionship whose name has been forwarded from the Agent-General in London, is a Mr Rees, of the North-western Railway. Mr T. H. Barstow, later manager of the New.Zealand Government line of railway between Picton and Blenheim in the South Island, has been appointed manager for the Kaihu Valley Railway. Judge: "Prisoner, the evidence shows that you brutally assaulted the plaintiff. Have you anything to offer in extenuation?" Prisoner : " No, sir; my lawyer took all the money I had." One Christchurch firm alone estimates its profit out of the wheat rise as worth £15,000 for the season. Very little profit will go to the poor farmer. The lucky middleman scoops the pool. At an inquest at MosgieV the Coroner said there was nothing criminal in a medical man refusing to attend a case ; ib was only a moral duty.. >He was no more bound to sell his advice or knowledge than a lawyer. " I don't say marriage is a failure," said Adam, candidly, as he sat down on a log just outside the Gai'den of Eden, and looked hungrily at the fruit on the other side of the wall, " but if I had remained single, this wouldn't have happened." Master W. C. Wilson, 14, son of Mr J. L. Wilson, of Remuera, died yesterday from acute diabetes, which developed itself very suddenly. Deceased was a stron», active lad, and competed at the school sports two or three weeks ago. Ib was reported in Cambridge on Saturday that a large totara bush at Waotu, containing nearly 2,000 acres of this valuable timber, was on lire, which nothing but a fall of rain, so much needed throughout the district, can save. At Oamaru, on Saturday, Detective O'Brien made a seizure of about half-a-ton of tobacco, on which duty had not been paid. The tobacco was consigned by rail to a tobacconist, and must have been smuggled ashore at Port Chalmers, or somewhere near that place. Mr John Maxwell proceeds to Brisbane, with which city he intends to establish, if possible, a wholesole- trade in Tauranga cheese and butter. In preparation for this trip he has lately been purchasing cheese and butter, and he will take with him two tons of the former and over a ton of the latter. There are in Dargaville, according to a contemporary, the two largest and best equipped hotels in the province, outside of Auckland city. These have both been crammed with visitors during the past few weeks, and hundreds of persons have had to be refused beds. Each of these hotels has taken considerably over £1,000 in cash within the month, and this is not an exceptional occurrence in Dargaville. Cement, quality guaranteed.—J. Wilson andCo.—[Advt.l Country customers should look out for A, E, Fenton's price lisb of drapery and clothing in this paper to*morrow night.— Advb.)