TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 145, 20 June 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Parliament opened. Governor's speech elsewhere. City South Licensing Court. Warm work for the Bench again. Lady Loch and Lady Lytton are twins. New Zealand mutton is scarce in London, New gold find promises remarkably well. Splendid assay made the other day., Rich return.

New Zealand cheese is quoted at 45s petf, cwb in London.

Mr J. Firth died suddenly in Cookstreet yesterday. Immeuse crowd at the City Hall to hear Dr. Macgregor. • Calliope Kane is described in England as "Kane and able."

Henry George will arrive in Sydney about Christmas next.

A Sydney man who has just "gone> bung" owes his milkman £120.

Married or not married ? Read the answer in the •' Family Friend " this week.

Queensland's Chief Justice, Sir Chafles Lilley, was once a private in the British army.

James Anthony Froude has written a romance. We have read it; it is called " Oceana."

Mrs Humphrey Ward is alleged to be' earnestly opposed to thepolitical enfranchißement of women.

There was a large attendance at the opening of the London wool sales. Merinos are in good demand. A Melbourne suburban undertaker is ad*"vertising for a partner with " the ability to improve the business." He wants a doctor.

Ladies are invited to the meeting to be held ia the Catholic Institute this evening re arrangements for the reception of the Irish delegates. ~"■ His physicians-have ordered the Emperor

William of Germany to take complete rest, and ho will start on a .fishing excursion to Norway on June 30th.

A pleasurable form of healthy winter' "> amusement in gymnastic exeroiee. Full particulars are published in the •• FamilyFriend, " which is now ready.

The butchers of London are indignant a(f the Prince of Wales' statement that a leper is employed in the London meat market, and deny the truth of the assertion.

It is understood that the Customs authorities are now working up cases against two of tho largest Dunedin breweries on a charge of defrauding the revenue. The Rev. Father Egan was a passenger by the steamship Te Anau, winch left tor Sydney yesterday evening. He will probably be absent from Auckland for six weeks.

To-morrow (Friday) evening, at the V.M.C.A., the Rev. Dr. Hooper will deliver his lecture, " 1 a'esfcino Past and Present," the second l«coure of the winter course.

Sir J. Fergusson stated, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, that President Kruger disclaims auy intention on the part of the Transvaal to interfere in Swaziland.

One of the? railway guards, Thos. Manning, mot with a nasty accident at the Huhua Railway Station. He got the two first fingers of his right hand crushed between two buffers.

The Dunedin Exhibition building is making steady progress, and is likely to be completed in due time. "No lees than 120,000 feet of timber was taken to the ground during the past week. Mr Walter Grey, of the firm of John Grey and Sons, rcrated water manufacturers, has purchased the business of Hamilton's cerated water manufactory, Wellington, and proceeds to Wellington next week to take over the business.

The Maoris beat King's College, Paramatta, yesterday, by 21 points to nil. The result of the game was contrary to expectation, as the college team was considered one of the toughest the natives had to meet, and the Maori team was rather weak.

Ebhel: "Do you think he loves you, Nellie?" Nellie: " Ob, I'm certain of it. Why, he wants to marry me so much thab he has borrowed money off papa for us to. get married on—a thing his proud, sensitive soul could not brook if he did not lovo me."

The Cambridge Native Lands Courb has adjudicated in the cases of the Maungatautari blocks Nos. 1 and 2, some 5,000 acres altogether, which had for years been teft in uncertainty, granting certificates to eighb claimants in the one block, and to seven.: and a-half claimants in the other.

The balance-sheet of the Wellington Woollen Factory shows the result for the year to bo satisfactory. £2,000 is written off as depreciation. The payment of 8 per cent, dividend absorbs £2,390 ; £2,000 is carried to the roserve fund and £3,696 to the credit of next year's account.