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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 289, 5 December 1889, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

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Stanley has arrived at Tsda. Caledonian meeting to-nighfc. London wool market is very firm. The new constitution of Japan establishes religious liberty. Rowing Association annual regatta on Saturday next. The Hon. Mr flisjop is quite recovered trom his rheumatism. About £25 worth of fish passed through the fisbmarket last week.* Five new churches are being erected in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Tonks and Co.'s bankrupt) stock was disposed of by auction to-day. A splendid vintage is anticipated in bofch France and Germany this season. Rickards' Comedy Company give a' matinee performance on Saturday. The Young Men's Christian Association in Tokio, Japan, numbers 2,500 members. Lord Onslow, family, and suite inspected H.M.s. Lizard and Opal at Dunodin yesterday. Mr Westenra has been re-elected Chairman of the Charitable Aid Board at Chrisfcchurch. A Belfast firm has just made a vessel 582 feet long, 100 feet less than the Great Eastern. The Lyttelton Harbour Board have voted £50 "to the Sailors' Home, which is not selfsupporting. ';: Mr Charles Atkin has been re-elected Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The Bairnsfather concert at the Ponsonby Hall was postponed on account of bad weather. The boy bakers in San Francisco's industrial school make bread for all the public institutions. Mr and Mrs Newton have been appointed to thecharge of the Christchurch Orphanage vice Mr Brownie*. Decree nisi was granted in the Chrietcburcb Divorce Court in Duncan v. Duncan and Ryan yesterday. The attendance at the Exhibition yesterday and last evening numbered 5,807, of which 2,464 paid in cash. In computing a man's age, Chinamen always reckon as though be were a year old at the time of his birth. Cholly: "Which is wight, 'I don't think' or 'I think not? , " MissFlyppe: "In your case either." Conference of Licensing Committees re licensing of railway refreshment rooms will ■ probably be held to-morrow. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Hospital Board ~ Mr F. Jones, M.H.R., was elected Chairman. This morning the Wenona, barque, from Newcastle, and the Jessie Niccol, schooner, from Long Island, arrived in port. President Harrison : 3 message to Con- '""* gress contains a recommendation in favour of granting liberal mail subsidies; A merchant of Christchurch speake of an acquaintance who has run up a big bill at his store as " My trusted friend."' The House Steward of the Hospital thanks the children of St. Sepulchre's Sun-day-school for a gift of flowers, and Mr Churchill for a parcel of books, for use of patients. L Young Blif kins went out shooting lately, and shot six times at a bird before he discovered that it waa a piece of mud on" hie,, eyeglass. The Government are now considering an amendment of the Cattle "Act, by which Inspectors would have power to deal with diseased cattle exposed forjsale. The Hon. Mr Mitchelson (acting Premier) and the Hon. Captain Russell (Colonial Secretary) are expected to arrive from the South on Sunday next." It has been diecovered that the cash boys were very lazy in the days of Job; for he says, " All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change comes." Unskilled labourers of Chriatchurch are taking steps to form a union. It is said that journeymen bakers will shortly be organised by delegates from' Melbourne. The Union Company's* steamship Waihora, which arrived last week at Wellington from Sydney direct, broueht 160 passengers, viz., 60 saloon and 100 steerage. Fifty - three bankruptcy petitions have been filed during the eleven months of tha year now completed, at Wellington, as against 65 in the same period of last year. , Young minister : " I don't think I need put on the gown, John. It's only an encumbrance." Beadle: 'Ay, Sir, it mak'a ye mair impressive—an' ye need it a', sir, ye need it a." ■ The annual meeting of the Wellington Rifle Association was held on Saturday. Sergeant Kuchin, of the "D"> Battery, wins the Association's belt, which npw becomes his own property. He also takes the President's Crip. ' ■*>•->? Replies have been received by the Wai« kato Hospital Board from' several hospitals, stating that the salaries of their medical officers amounted from £150 to £275 per annum, with private practice: in all cases, and residence in others. '' ■■':• Postponement of the Timaru Corinty Council's statutory meeting on account of the exhibition threw out the yearly election of the Charitable Aid Board representatives. Only two out of nine menibere have thus been elected, and the Governor must appoint now. j vi'ir . The first butter made in Mason Strutbers ? Company's dairy was presented yesterday to the executive of the Exhibition. Messre Briscpe and Co.'s dairy factory has bee a making cheese for some days past. 'Mr Burt's dairy, making the third in the Exhibition, will be at work in a day or two. A man who was given to drinking could not pass the , public-house without entering it for a glass of beer. : On one occasion he managed to do so, however, and was bo delighted at having succeeded in performing such a meritorious action that he went back to drink it* health in a glass of whisky. Doctor: "Well, bow's the > ague ( thw morning?" Colonel: "I'mbetter, but.wiff> is worse." " Worse, eh ? Did she t«ka i£u quinine and whisky I prescribed ?" " Well — er—you see, doctor, I-thought, beinff only a woman, she might not be able ta stand ib as well as a man, you know, and so she. took the quinine and I took tbV whisky." At the inquest on the body of the childl discovered in the back premises of JohP Jackson, Ingestre-street, Wellington, evidence went to show that Mre Jackson; had been prematurely confined. A verdicf was returned of found dead, and that there was no evidence to show whether the child was dead or alive when placed in the closet The first of the special musical festivals at the Dunedin Exhibition was held last evening, ; when "The Creation" was rendered by the choir and-orchestra. There was the largest assembly yet gathered in the Concert Hall, and the performance was an unqualified success. The soloists were Dr. Maitland Gledden, Mr Edward Hill and Mies Katherine Hardy, all of Welling- . ton. . - ' -.■': <■■:■- ■ Before the departure of Sir Harry Atkinson for Tasmania, a consultation of medical men took place as to the nature of his malady, and it was unanimously agreed that Sir Harry Atkinson is not eufferifijg from any organic disease, jand that the^my^ remedy for his disorder is a. state of boinplete repose, for a_cpnsiderable time. ' ■ *v