TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 56, 7 March 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Toxgarieo goho South. Evangelistic service to-night. . -A Christchurch is organising' a ParneU fund. ' The police cannot find any trace of Brad* a bury. Auckland Navals go into camp next ' Saturday. Great' Barrier excursion postponed till Easter. . . f Paikes is forming a new Ministry in New,-; South Wales. _ ' " Pi Cup cricket matches will be continued on Saturday. , j; The rumour that Mr F.- Larkins has, married again is ttntrue. ;).- It is stated that the estimate for the re- 7" pairs to the Dart was £1,000. The Germans have reoccupied Bagamoyo, on the Zanzibar Coast. The Maori football team beat Halifax by a goal and three tries to nothing. Sunday Island, KermadecGroup, has been set apart for leasing for small runs. On dit that 80,000 people in Melbourne have no settled means of subsistence. The Queen has started for Biarritz, a watering place in the west of France. Hamiora Tuki denies that the Uriweraa offered their active services to To Kooti. It is proposed to sell the Tikitere geysers and adjacent wonders to a Sydney syndicate. . Gisborne Gas Company have reduced the price "of gas for cooking stoves to 8s 4d per 1,000 feet. Wellington citizens entertain Sir William and Lady Jervois and family at lunch on Saturday. You never hear the bee complain, Nor hear it weep r.or wail; But if it wish it can unfold A very painful, tail. Hokianga, Otamatea, and Whangaroa Crown lands are to be offered for sale on the 26th inst. The man who falls out of a balloon realises the gravity of the situation before he has dropped five mile 3. The German press regard President Harrison's inaugural message as arrogant and unfriendly in tone.' Mr Josiah Martin visited the Wai-o-tapu Valley on Tuesday, and succeeded in taking ( some excellent views. Captain Sommerville marked out the ranges for the Rifle Association meeting at Blenheim yesterday. Charles Duval, the actor, committed suicide on board the steamer Oceana while passing through the Red Sea. M. Pasteur has cabled to Syiney s urging' that tho Rabbit Commission should come to a decision upon his proposals. The only wheat in the Sydney market at present is from New Zealand. Tuesday's quotations are still maintained. . Robert J. Smith fell down a.shaft at Hokitika through the breaking of a rope yesterday, and died from the injuries. Bishop Selwyn has recently had left to him the handsome sum of between £50,000 and £60,000, from the family of his first wife. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Co. has declared a further dividend of 5 per cent., making 7| per cent; for tho year. Out of thirty-one cavalry regiments— 18,300 non commissioned officers and men —in the British army, 6,500 aire without horses. It has been decided in the London Law Courts that a person who is photographed has copj right in his or her own face or figure. An empty kettle never leaks ; and many a man obtains a reputation for virtue simply because he has never been exposed to temptation. A preliminary meeting is to be held this evening to take steps for re-organising the Caledonian Socials which were so popular last year. Herr Eitgen Richter calculates that Germany has a war army of 3,513,416 drilled men, besides the reserves of the Landsturm. The shipment of butter sent Home by the Arorangi realised £5 Ss to £5 16s per cwt. This time last year prices averaged £4 5s to £4 15s per cwt. The Duke of Sutherland, who only recently became a widower, has married Mrs Blair, daughter of the Principal of Magdalene College. The expenditure on outdoor relief by the benevolent trustees at Dunedin is estimated at £807 more than last year, the total being £11,057. "Truth" says the Queen is cross with Prince Albert Victor for appearing at a ball during the first stage of Court mourning for Prince Alexander of Hesse. Five thousand pounds which have unexpectedly come into the hands of the Melanesian Mission are to be devoted to the purchase of a new mission steamer. There is a popular impression to the effect that a woman cannot keep a secret. Yet, whoever heard a woman say that her new black silk was partly made up of the old one? A farmer named Duncan Campbell, residing at Hampden, attempted suicide by cutting his throat yesterday. He is expected to recover. No reason can be given for the act. The crops in Oamaru district have been gathered in splendid .condition. v .,Th . y&ld of cereals will "fee "good, but owing to the dry weather potatoes are not expected*to yield heavily. "Never sit down where a draught will strike you," says a health paragraph. Certainly not. Especially is it very unhealthy to be struck by a sight draft for £500 when your balance is 2s 3d. Mr Hayter, the Victorian Government Statist, estimates the population of Victoria on December 31st last at 1,090,869 souls— 581,353 males and 509,516 females —as against 1,036,i19 at the end ol 1887. The Sultan of Turkey's chief confidantes are his mother, his barber," and one of his youngest wives, who is a Georgian, and these three are extraordinarily important personages in the affairs of State. Lord Knutsford has agreed to lay the correspondence re the appointment of Sir H. Blake as Governor of Queensland on the table of the House, provided Mr Henniker Heaton withdraws his motion for its production. Tin assays have been made at Invercargill, and a samp'e of undressed ore gave a button of 30 grains, representing a yield of 30 per cent tin. A sample of the same ore well dressed gave a button of 66 grains, representing 66 per cent. tin. Mr D. T. Arnott, son of the proprietor of the "Irish Times," is now in Auckland. Ho denies that he is here to ascertain the state of feeling relative to the Home Rule agitation in Ireland. He is on pleasure bent, and is also seeking information respecting our capabilities for settlement of immigrants. , The condition and management of Dunedin Hospital are giving rise to animated discussion. At a medical of the medical staff of the Hospital to discups the necessity for reforms, it was resolved, "That it is desirable to have a system of trained female nurses." This was carried unanimously, but there was considerable diver r sity of opinion as to the merits and defects of the present system. The other and more- important questions were adjourned till Monday next. "That invalid wife, mother, sister, or child can be made the picture of health i with P.. So tile's American Hop Bittera."