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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 286, 2 December 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Heavy gale. But little damage. Mail steamer late. " Union Jack " at the Opera House. New Zealand hemD is quoted at £28 5a to £29 10s. The Bland Holt dramatic season concludes this evening. New Zealand cheese in London is firm at an average of 435. TheGoodDie Young—This is particularly true of the chickens. The sneak thief has transferred his affections to Grafton district. A Party Question—" What time do you, think they will have supper?" At the London wool sales, there is every, indication of prices hardening. " One scraper is enough ab the door," said the footman to the blind.fiddler. A man who used a stone jar for a pillow stuffed it with straw to enchance its comfort. ■ The feeling in Congress at Washington in favour, df the free coinage of silver ie increasing. The Mayor of Bristol has agreed to act • as arbitrator in the strike among the local dock mea. A judge addressed a prisoner : " You are ; to be hanged', and I hope ib will be a warning to you." An advocate of * capital punishment' argues that the gallows is calculated to elevate mankind. At the London wool sales, foreign buyers have secured fully three-fifths of the total quantity offering. Mrs John Hooper, of Mungaroa, was seriously burned by her clothes catching fire while papering a room. It is reported that Edison has discovered a process for the economic treatment of New Zealand iron sand. Chief - Detective Browne has received tidings of the death of his brother, Mr John P. Browne, of Dublin. ■ There are over 7,000,000 pores in the human body, and yet we are surprised because some men are sponges. Lord G. Hamilton expresses the opinion thai the Irish be dangerous to Australia it allowed- to dominate. .■•« , "There's a queer'roomer afloat," re- ' marked the hotel porter" as he fiehed an' insane suicide out of tli6 bath-tub. A dying humorist" requested thati no one should be invited to hie funeral, as it was a civility he could never repay. Dr. Shortland is a passenger from, Sydney to England per P. and O. s.s. Britannia, which leaves Sydney on December 7. At Boston on Friday last one million dollars' worth of property was destroyed by a fire caused by'the electric light. " What) is always a woman's resort when sad and troubled ?" " She takes to tears." " And a man ?" \" He takes to beers." ■: Youth is the time of hope. When a man ; gets a little older fee stops hoping, and .. begins reaching out for whatever, he can get. ■ ' ' " . ■*:.• Dom Pedro, the deposed' Emperor "of Brazil, has arrived at St. Vincent, where he disembarks, i and will come on to Lie- . bon. ■ ;, . - , : , . An additional 4,000 votes have been received by the Dockers' Union in favour of the surplus being devoted to relief purA. domestic servant who accidentally scratched her fingei? witjb a. pin had to have the injured digib amputated at the Hospital* Charles Lesurer,alias Leslie, has been committed for trial at Dunedin, for stealing £40 ' from Thomas Wilson, a new arrival, by the ' confidence trick. It is stated that the engine on the 7.15 p.m. train from Otahuhu on Saturday set ' tir6 to growing grass in five place distance of one mile. *v- ; "Those coming in after the speaker has • ' commenced," said an Irish minister, after introducing a lecturer, "are requested to do so as quietly as possible.' , A Shining Example. -Wilkins:■': " They cay that Longtung is one of the lights of . the new debating society." Bilkene: " .Well, he has gas enough to be." Speaking at Lincoln, Mr H.(|Labouchere, M.f., in referring to the alleged scandal ab a West End Club, insisted that the police ;" should thoroughly sift the charges. The copper companies have abandoned the action taken to compel the directors pf the Comptoir D'Escompte and the Societedes Metaux of Paris to fulfil their con- * tracts. ■ ■.■■■■' Two of the knives which belonged to Dr. Cronin have been traced into the possession of Coughlin, the detective who is now on trial charged with complicity in the murder. It is said that a circular saw cut a man in y = two while he was talking politics, and he was so absorbed that he didn't notice the . little incident until he had finished the argument. A terrible explosion occurred on Saturday at Marseilles. From some unexplained cause 300 barrels of gunpowder aboard a ship lying in the bay became ignited and exploded. No further details are to hand. J. A. Laurie, who was sentenced to death for the murder of a tourist named Rose,. at Goatfell, island of Arran, some months back, and subsequently reprieved, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. Hiddlestone, the well-known cricketer, charged with embezzling a sum of £6,250 from the Department of the RegistrarGeneral, New South Wales, has been found ■ guilty, and sentenced to ten yeare' imprisonment. The prospectus of the Colonial Securities ■ Trust Agency, with a capital of £1,000,000, has been issued in London, and a company " for the exploration of unknown parts of Australia has been registered, with a capital ;- of £100,000. Inspector Clifton, of the Stock Department, leaves Wellington for Auckland in a > day or two to relieve Inspector Bayley. 5 During Inspector Clifton's absence Wellingt6n will be in charge of Inspector _ Drummond, of Wairarapa. f In summing up to the jury in the case against those charged with the murder of . » Dr. Cronin, His Honor denounced the Clan-na-Gael for inducing the police to cup. J ' press information respecting the discovery '■■' tq of Dr. Cronin's knives, c- A symphony in red—Mrs Honeymoon: y) " Algernon,, dear, I wish you would put on * your red necktie for dinner." Mr Honeymoon: "Why, my love?" Mrs Honey- - moon: "Because we are to have radishes, 7 tomatoes, strawberries, and claret." ' The Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, President n of the Local Government Board, Lpndon, has refused to start relief works in order to ,c assist the unemployed, but is willing that jj l the Emigration Committee should be re\jl appointed. Trade is now somewhat a- brisker. • _ Mr Forbes Gordon, who lately lefb ! S Kihikihi for the Auckland Hospital, suffering from almost blindness, has not sue- ."■ ceeded as yet in gaining admittance, pend— J 1 ing tbe decision of the Waikato Hospital to guarantee one-half the expenses of h.osct pital maintenance. , ' The Melbourne " Argus "commend a the pertinacity of Sir F. D. Bell in urging the •> Imperial Government to legislate in connection with the investment of trust funds E.. nnd unclaimed dividends in colonial stock. he It goes on to say that but for him probably nothing would have done to meet the views of the Colonial Govermoentei -".