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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 193, 15 August 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Dean returned. Herbert successful. Buderet of cabloa. Sergeant Murphy died afc the Thames. The British Government paid £110,000 for the Brennan torpedo.. " Bohemian Girl " very successful. It will be repeated to-night. Seventy pounds were found in Dean's possession when captured. The Shah is to have the Order of the Bath, He is said to want it badly. Professor Fischer's pupils held averysuccessful fancy dress ball last evening. The strongest passion jn the human breast is the passion for getting, orders to the opera. Edison has experimented with 1,200 difForent kinds of bamboo alone in making carbons for his lamps. A man at Sale, Victoria, was fined the other day for stealing gas. The report does not say that he wa; a parson. A new comet has been discovered. It Iβ to be annexed by the Salisbury Government on behalf of Great Uritain. The latest description of a kiss is "the anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction." At. the recent Carnob procession through France, the President kissed a number of fish-wives who came to welcome him. Mr Witheford left for Wellington* today in connection with hie scheme for utilising surplus labour on the goldfields. The grounds of Government House are being put in order by a number of hardlabour prisoners, under the charge of a warder. At a farewell meeting yesterday at Invercargill, Principal Rainey was presented with an elaborate album of New Zealand , scenery. One of the largest shareholders in Mount Morgan has insured his life for £20,000, involving a yearly premium of £1,700. A Melbourne insolvent has deponed that) he lost £580 overboard whilst sea-sick. The Bankruptcy Court can't extract half as much from him. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s direcb liner Aorangi, which arrived at Wellington on Tuesday, is not to come to Auckland aa was surmised. In the House last evening the Premier read telegrams from Lord Onslow, stating that the " progress begun last nighb has continued all day." On the anniversary of Waterloo the Queen sent a basket of roses to the Earl of Albemarle, one of the few surviving officers who took part in the battle. The Dublin Corporation sent a donation of £1,000 to the Relief Fund for the Johhsonville sufferers by the recent flood in the state of Pennsylvania. Eight and tifty persons applied for 600 shares in the New Zealand Farmers' Co-oper-ative Association at Christchurch. Tfie number issued is only 3,000. Amongst the latest novelties of the " Piga in Clover " class, a new puzzle—The Labyrinth—has been introduced by Messrs Longbottom and Mercer, Elliott-street. Mr John Duthie, the present Mayor of Wellington, is about to form his ironmongery business into a limited liability company, with a capital of £80,000. -.*• The eggs of the now extinct tnoa measured 10 inches in length and 7 inches in width. What a material effect say a hundred of these would have at an election. It is announced that the new Governor of Victoria—the Earl of Hopetoun—intends keeping "great state" at Government House, Melbourne. No less than 30 retainers are to be sent out. A start has been made by Mr Knight, the asphalter, with a party of men, on the asphalting of the .southern pavement of Patteson-street, from Drake-street to the junction of College Road. Applications are invited from certificated persons to take charge of the Donnelly Creek Quartz-mining Company's mine and battery, also amalgamator, receivable by the legal manager up to 7 o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, 21st Aueust. A man named Robert Davidson found a dynamite cap at New Plymouth; and being ignorant as to what it was, examined ib with the aid of a needle. The cap exploded, and the tops of one thumb and a finger were blown away. The Christchurch "Star" last nighti published an interview with Mr i'red. Hobbs, ex-mayor of Christchurch, in which he forcibly denounces the drainage system of Wellington, alleging that it is carried out contrary to all rules of hygiene. The local industry of rabbit-production in N.S.W. seems to have been a. paying one. In one holding, the vent of which was £98 5s 4d, £1,330 of rabbit-extermination subsidy was paid, and in another case, where the rent was £685, the subsidy amounted to £12,292. In view of the spread of American scale blight, etc., the Christchurch Horticultural Society last night decided to invite answers from growers all over the colony to questions asking for information as to composition or name of specific, date on whictf applied, mode of application, result, cose stealing. Mr b.ae. bullet ; hple ttou'h I'and'Tave Information to the Si ? c" when an officer discovered partupf ihi olrcaso with a bullet-hole in it^b P °At e a l meeting of delegates of the Christchurch musical societies last night a letter w a« read from Santley's agent stating thab Santley intended to come to New Zealand in February or March, but thab he had . made no arrangements with anyone for his appearance. The meecing decided to continue negotiations. The Australian cruisers are to receive aboriginal names: Boomanoomana, Yarrangobilly, Croagingolong, Woolloomooloo, Queanbeyan, Tumberumba, Murrumgundi, Wollomombi, Yarramalong, we believe. Just think of being asked for a round dance by the navigating lieutenant of the Woolloomootoo !