TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 161, 10 July 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Opera Company gone. ~-*'-. j Burns Club meet to-night. - ' i |_ Circus is still drawing well. Next attraction is Mr G. Miln. ; *' Waihora arrived from Sydney. , Manapouri sailed for Sydney last nign}.,;? Madame Pooley left for Sydney last even* '"Temperance Hall entertainment toDi Concert in aid of Traant School to""opera Company had a great send-off lasb m "Hamlet" at the Opera House on Monday ni Th_ bow that is always bent slackens or Take things as they are and make the best of them. , ~, ._ . . _ Each day is a little life ; our life _» but * day repeated. , _, ._____■ Public meeting Chamber of C(»WWrO« this afternoon. . ~ -, . Brigantine Sarah Pile arrived from Rarotonga this morning. ■ _* ■' Bishop Selwyn, of Melanesia, is now ftl Mota (Banks' Group). 7 • . Jubilee Industrial School for Blind is to - be opened in Auckland. . Beware of borrowing; it bringeth care ny night and disgrace by day. ~•■■•« » Dick Feltus is missing from the 0.A., Prison Gate Brigade Home. Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others. Next meeting: of New Zealand Rifle Asso» elation takes place in February at Napier. Dunedin City Council are proposing to establish a Free Public Library of their own. . There is no purer way of having everybody's help thau by trying to help everybody. ... =; He who puts a bad construction upon a good act reveals his own wickedness of heart. • •»■■■■? General Edwards, who recently reported on the defences of the colony, has arrived in London. - Negotiations still proceeding between j Mercantile Marine Officers' Association and shipowners. _.-■ There are to be large additions made to the Commercial Hotel, Whangarei; it. is said 12 or 13 rooms. ~ „ / _.! ; 1 The Christchurch Charitable Aid Board has decided to board out the Lyttelton Orphanage inmates. -m * The Dargaville paper ssys Mr J. Trounson will .contest the Mavsden seat at the - next general election. .j > 1 The French Chamber of Deputies, majority of 33, has refused to discuss the; - sugar-surtax this Session. 'i . ', Intense heat continues throughout the; : United States, and many additional deaths,; : ? by sunstroke are recorded. >v ._.;_,' -'■'.■ ': Two young men, named Neill and R. Joss, have been drowned at Stewart's Island! f through a boat accident. . * The Gospel Temperance Mission offer* capital programme for to-night's meeting; . at the Hall, Albert-street. ;./ The directors of the Union Bank of Aus< tralia have declared a dividend of 15 per cent., and carry forward £15,000./. / The Government have bpughtTihe- Whan , gamata No. 6 block,; adiaceij|'rto,the Ohinemuri goldfieldsj frp'4 the natives. v Sir George Grey' still continues to the collection in the Art Gallery. latest contribution is a box of curios. , ' Neil Matterson and J. R.- Brown have arranged for a sculling match, to,. take place at Sydney on August Bth, for £200 a side. *.;■»■ .- ; .■ ';-,- At the Sydney annual sheep fair,, Ta3* manian rams fetched from 1 to 100 guineas, .'-. : i the latter price being obtained for the rata Hero Prince. • The city authorities notify that the half* _/j yearly accounts and balance-sheet, ending •■ ■:-. •51st March, are now open for inspection; at ■ the: Council offices. *, ■:'>■■.■..■ -(-iyx -rM Willie—l wish I'd been Adam. Nnrsev* Why ? Willie—He never had to be a Baby and have a big, strapping, woman like you; to wash hiß face. * Ladies' night at Beresford-street Mutual ;, Improvement Society this Prdgramme will be provided by the ladies, and a lady will also preside. Mr Connolly, United States Consul, has promised to supply the Auckland Photographic Club with copies of Anthony's "Photo Bulletin" regularly. . ij The Turkish Porte demands the evacuation of Egypt by England, but granting' t her unlimited right to reoccupy in tho event of any internal outbreak. The London "Financial: News;" in refer- -• _ ring to ithe annual report of the Railway Commissioners of New. South Wales, considers it eminently satisfactory, ; ■ Mr A. Cairns, Chairman of the Crimean' Veterans' Association, proposes calling a < meeting to assist in raising funds for the relief of the Balaclava veterans. The return from the Puhipuhi Caledonian' stone treated at the Thames is reported to be 2oz of gold, and a quantity of silver tor the ton, a ton being the quantity operated- *- upon. News from Solomon Islands by mission schooner Southern Cross states that " headon there. In Ysabel Ysland lately a village with 30 souls was destroyed. ' . /If You • "How are you getting on house ?" "I have had to tear it all down." - j " What was the matter ?" "lb wasn't'built the way my friends wanted it." It is considered likely that the U.S. Con- % gress will agree to the compromise ar- j ranged by the Silver Conference, though, I the Democratic party are very angry.that 1 free coinage was not enacted. The arrangement is to come into force 30 days after: passing --.... . > , , There is a bar of silver bullion exhibited | in the window of Mr H. R. Cook, iron- t monger, Whangarei, 750z wei_ht, the pro-, , ! duceof 35cwb of stone, and Mr Harrison, H who went to the Thames School of Mines J in charge of the stuff, is still of opinion that > i ■ there was much of silver lost in the process. Mr A. Elliott, of Kamo, formerly SHeep ] t Inspector, and Mr Trounsen, of the Paparoa settlement, are spoken of aa ] 1 likely to stand at the next election for the; ' Mareden seat in the House. The latter is known at Whangarei as a cattle buyer and butcher. ' ' ' '- , t The roads to the North of Whangarei .; going into the Puhipuhi are in a shocking j state. Such is the effect of the increased \ traffic. Nob so bad, however, as in thewinter of 1853 in Victoria, between Melbourne and Ballarat, or Geelong and Bal-. larat, when the road was a mile wide and; one sea of mud. One could steer by the . bullocks'heads sticking up.