TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 7, 9 January 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Salvation Army wedding to-day. Last night of the Jungfrau Kapelle. Sale of Raven Hill estate to-morrow. The report of a fire at Wactu bush ia unfounded. Minister of Lands leaves Dargaville for Auckland to-day.' There are 159 males and 33 females in Mount Eden Gaol. City Guards defeated the Orlando team in the rifle match by fourteen points. Complications are arising re the sale of tho LaMonte furnace at Karangahake. A. Battery goes to South Wairoa on Saturday to fire a match with the Wairoa volunteers. Benevolent Society benefit dramatic performance in St. Matthew's School-room tomorrow night. It may be said of a man successful in love : He came, he saw, he conquered, and she concurred. Andrew Williamson was badly cut about the head yesterday by a fall, and was admitted to the Hospital. Tennis players are not particularly objectionable memoers of society, even though they are always on a racquet. In 1838, influenza was so prevalent in New South Wales t:.at 10,000 people were affected, and very many died. • Sir William Fox is to speak at the Salvation Army meeting to-morrow night on "Army Work on the Other Side." It is said that to please tlie Kaiser many of the families of German nobles in Berlin have dispensed with Frenchmen as cooks. A demand was made on Mr Eowldes for his promised triplet bounty, but as the triplets were 21 months old he declined to pay. She : " Do you believe in marriage with a deceased wife's sister?" He: "Well, I should if your sister were my deceased wife." A carter named Mitchell is in tlie Hospital suffering from cuts on the head, sustained through being thrown from his horse. Several miners have left the Thames for Broken Hill, under engagement to Proprietary Company, and more will probably follow. Mr J. Matson, of Christchurch, has sent to Melbourne five merino sheep averaging 1481bs, and 10 Ka_iDshire Downs averaging 2101bs. Sir Frederick Whitaker was to arrive afj Wellington by last night's train, and a meeting of the Cabinet was to be held this afternoon. Carlyle says : "A man who sings at his work is a good man." Maybe so. But a mosquito, when he sings a serenade to you at night, is after your blood. Littld Bess : " Fred, I'm to write a composition on dogs. Tell me something to say about dogs." Master Fred: "Well, Uea3 are always about dogs." Young lady physicians are multiplying throughout America, and, as a result, it is said tho young men are becoming more sickly than they used to be. "Papa, where's atoms?" "Atoms? I don't know, my boy. You mean Athens, probably." ' : No, I mean atoms—the place where everything is blown to." It is rumoured in Wellington that when Sir Frederick Whitaker is elevated to the judicial bench Sir Robert Stout'will be called to the Legislative Council. The type-writer now ir such common use date? back to 1714, when Henry Mill got a patent for it in England, but it waa not really made practicable until 1867. The iate Miss Mary Macpherson, a wealthy Scotchwoman, left a sum of £5,000 to be expended in erecting a statue of Robert Burns in the city of New York. Charlotte Roderick, a single woman, was received into the Hospital yesterday, from HendersoD, having been scalded by a bucket of boiling water over her back-. An alarm of fire was given last night in consequence of a curtain taking fire at the house of Mr Jones, in the upper part of Vincent-street. No damage was done. Mr Richmond Thatcher, well - known amongst the theatrical and journalistic professions in Australia, is said to be in a sad condition in Sydney at the present time. Lord Tennyson has, it is said,written two or three lyrics for Miss Mary Anderson, who is proceeding to the United States to perform a series of Shaksperian characters. Sir Henry Parkes recently stated that in New South Wales there -were 34,000 persons in the service of the Government, or, of the males over 18 years of age, 1 in 10 was in its pay ! Circumstances alter cases. And thero are quite a number of lawyers prowling round Auckland to-day, who would like to get hold of some cases that would alter their circumstances. A stump orator wanted the wings of a bird to fly to every village and hamlet in the broad land ; but he collapsed when a man in the crowd sang out: "You'd get shot for a goose before you flew a mile." Te Kocti arrived at Kihikihi on Tuesday evening, with a large following, on the way to his settlement at Orawa, over the Punui. He said he had just come from Rotorua, where he had been on no political business, but to see the people of that district. At a meeting of the creditors of Thomas Stout, a clerk, at Dunedin,. the bankrupt called Mr Kembai, a "skunk," and Mr Kemball retaliated by a severe blow on the nose, which brought the blood in a profuse stream. After the Emperor William had visited the Pope, His Holiness is credited with saying that the Kaiser " is a bad son, and will make a bad monarch." He further re marked that he regarded the Emperor as " a very odious fellow." With this opinion all Englishmen will agree. The Earl of Fife, who, it is rumoured, is engaged to be married to one of the daughters of the Prince of Wales, is.no youthful Adonis, bub a gentleman of forty years of age, with an income of £72,500 a year. He possesses a landed estate of 249,220 acres. The family name is Duff. Wanganui. regatta programme is as follows :—Senior Fours Outrig, one and a-halt miles; Maiden Fours Inrig, one mile; Ladies' Plate, one andla-half miles ; Champion Sculls, two miles : Senior Inrig, two miles; Junior Fours Inrig, one and a-half miles ; Double Sculls, one and a-half miles. Hon. Mr Richardson was so impressed with the rich character of the land he passed through, that he promised Mr Dargaville, who met him at Maropiu, to have a road constructed from the head of the Kaihu Valley to the settled district of Hokianga, which will bring the same within easy reach of Auckland. The origin of the fire at Mr W. E. Knott's grocery store, Wairca South, has not yet been discovered. Mr Knott's people were roused up out of bed by some ladie3 and gentlemen who were returning from a dance at the Ostrich Farm, Whit" ford Park. The fire had then got such a good hold that nothing could be saved ; even the books were destroyed. Mr Knott estimates his loss at £140, as he had no insurance on the stock. Cement, quality guaranteed.—J. Wilso and Co.— [Advt.] Country customers should look out for A. E. Fenton's price list of drapery and clothing in this paper to-morrow night,— Advt.)