TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 146, 21 June 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

'Frisco mail due to-morrow. Vi

Gum market firmer this week. Attempted suicide this morning. *' ■ Stevens has died at the Hospital - Baby Ogden takes a benefit to-night. Dead bodies found at the Great BarHo Invitation ball at the Zealandia Rink _k?_. evening. "-«

Detective Chrystal married yesterday afternoon. •■,-'.: *■»

Lecture by " The Vagabond " next Mon day evening. ' . Meeting of dentists on Monday evening at Sharland's. ... -. &

Mayoral dinner at the Auckland Club last evening. ,■''..., The warship Olga has sailed from Sydney for Germany. *

Kaikoura arrives frorh Wellington early __ to-morrow morning. .. ... ' J *.

The strike of sailors at Liverpool and the* Clyde is collapsing. It is said that Mr F. Lawry will second the Address-in-Reply.

One of Captain Wissmauh's missing steamers has been found. Dr. Macgfegor, the eminent Presbyfeian divine, has gone South. ■ ,-, .'..■.:.•- .. Eaglo license questioa to be brought before the Supreme Court ■ Howard, connected with the ' electric sugar frauds, has been found guilty. The remains of . the Confederate ram Merrimao have just been sold for old iron. Ponsonby Musical, Social and' Literary Society already numbers over 100 members. The Gallant Tipperary- Company at Otago have crushed 2590z of gold from 473 tons.

Herr Krupp says that since 1870 he has supplied on an average 1,000 guns a year. The bridge over the Indus at Sukkur is at present the largest railroad bridge in the world.

The crusade of the Russian authorities against the Lutherans is being carried on very fiercely. VVe have received one pound for the wife of -he unfortunate mate of the Zillah from "Sorrowful." '.

In Canton," China, .250,000 people live continually upon boats, and many never step on shore from one year's end to another.

Sorrows of the Cross-eyed Man.—"May I have the honour of the next waltz with you." Two ladies (eagerly rising): " With pleasure." Boggs has a faculty for getting things cheap. The other day he had a beautiful set of teeth inserted for nothing. He kicked a dog. It is rumoured that Miss Nellie Stewart has been forbidden by her medical advisers to return to the stage for a period of at least two years. The Victory Masonic Lodge, Nelson, have adopted a resolution in favour of the proposed Grand Lodge, and' will send delegates to the convention. King George 111. of England had a watch not larger than a five cent piece, which had 120 parts, tho whole not weighing quite so much as a ten cent piece.

The total cost of the Paris Exposition ia expected to be £2,000,000. The Governmen. contributes the greater part__and_,tl—>. _,i*~r __-_'_rf»~i~<»<'"^-**»™~— ™-«——■*"-...../•. A popular vote has been taken in Pennsylvania on the question of prohibition, with the result that it was negatived by a majority of two hundred thousand. It is feared here that the postponement) of the Sugar Convention Bill by the English Parliament will lead to the eventual abandonment of the Convention altogether. A young man advertises for a place as salesman, and says he has had a great deal of experience, having been discharged from seven different situations within a year. \ \ The ladies—bless them—will be interested to knov that there are quite a number of interesting tit-bits of society gossip in the "Family Friend "this week. Now ready. \ \ * Major-General Edwards .'left Hongkong for Australia on Tuesday. ! He is the officer who has been invited to make a periodical inspection of the Australian local forces and defences. \" | ' A jubilant letter lias been received in London from Mr Dilloa giving a glowing account of his success, in Australia, and forwarding £1,200 from Melbourne in aid of the League's funds. Mr Joe Tizard, the popular skipper of that vigorous young fCotball club", the Selwyn, is the subject of an illustrated biographical sketch in the Friend" this week, just issued. \ It is stated that Miss Phjllis Broughton, the actress, has finally settled her action against Viscount Dangan, and accepted £2,500 and costs in lieu ot the £10,000 which the defendant at first agreed to pay. The British Royal Commission appointed in connection with the Melbourne Exhibition, intend to send Sir G. Verdon, their representative in the colony, a handsome present of plate in recognition ok his services.

The Government of New South Wales has decided to renew the San Francisco mail contract for a year, subject to the approval of Parliament. The agreemenb provides for the exclusion of Chinese crews from the mail steamers.

A dispute has arisen over the musical instruments of the Wellington Garrison Band between the trusteees on the one hand and the commander of the district on the other. The latter wishes them to become the absolute property of the Government. The trustees object to this, and have called them in, and now hold them. A tjioroughlyenergetic canvasser wanted. Apply box 350.—(Advt.) Country customers should look out for A. E. Fenton's price list of drapery and clothing in this paper to-morrow nighk— Advfe.)