TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 168, 18 July 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

. _-—- " Merchant of Venice " to-night. Mr R. Turnbull, M.H.R., is dead. To-night Mr. George Miln plays ShylocfcJ Dunedin " slavics " have formed a union. | Downward tendency still in kauri gum market. ! Mr Miln makea a yery good. Marc Antony. Wirth Bros.' benefit at the Circus to« morrow. Another good programme at the Circus to-nigh.. New Zealand Defence Report for the yeafi has been issued. Auckland Naval Artillery parade to-night j for inspection. i Tasso B. Hall re-opens on Monday* Hobson-street. R. M.s. Alameda, with the mails, is e_«pected to-night. • Edwin Harrow has presented an amusing petition to the House. Auckland shopkeepers are complaining of genteel female shoplifters. Girl named Susan Allwood broke her aria at Hamilton on Wednesday. Little girl named Kate Hayes has b_e_t very severely burnt at Hamilton. Permanent Artillery were testing the electric lighb at Port Cautley last evening. Annual soiree of Devonport Congregational Sunday-school was held last evening* The telephone line from Mangonui to Kaitaia, in the North, has been comple.ecl. Newmarkec Borough Council met laab evening, but little business was tra_u_<_ acted. Mr George Miln declaimed Marc Antony _ oration in splendid style last evening in " Julias Csesar." Rev. T. F. Robertson lectures on ! "Hampden and the Puritans" at tha V.M.C.A. to-Bight. During the past 8 months over 100 miles of telephone lines have been constructed in the Auckland district. Section Ib, Block 14, Kaipara survey district, has been proclaimed as a public library jite for Helensville. The roads about Whangarei are very muddy. Puhipuhi is not accessible oxcept for the regular mud waddlers. A clerk named Hatton was knocked down by a coal train at Newcastle yesterday and. cut to pieces, dying almost instantly. ..■'.' The Rev. T. F. Robertson's lecture on "Hampden and the Puritans," at the V.M.C.A., at 7.45, will be worth hearing. The Dunedin Charitable Aid Boara have decliiaed to admit the " harmless imbeciles ".,, cast on their hands to the Benevolent Asy« lum. At the request of the Presbytery, Rev.' C. Worboys will visit Helensville and tha neighbourhood and conduct service tomorrow. It is for tbe whole of New Zealand that Mr Bridge water # haß been appointed agenfc for the Howe Company boot manufacturers, England. The return of New Zealand Governmen. lands Bold and territorial revenue for tha quarter ended June 30th, is shown to bo £73,748 5s 2d. Mr Alexander Aitken, auctioneer, wished to notify that the auctions of houses foe removal advertised for removal, will be held on the ground. .- Several other, candidates are spoken of as likely to run for the Mareden seat, Mr Moat and Mr P. S. Brow_w_ai_nty: chait_nanjf_^_ A discovery of gold at Umbenembika (South Australia) has caused a considerable rush. Diggers are deciding priority in pegging out claims by drawing lots. Several offers were received for Lot 227 a, Whangamarino parish, by the Crown Lands Board yesterday afternoon, and it was decided to offer it on yearly occupation lease. The Puhipuhi Prospectors are forming; their company. Scrip is worth ss, it ia said, now in that claim. The Caledonian mine are aiso forming themselves into a company. • . Mr J. A„ Tole, barrister and solicitor, notifies over our leading columns that he has removed to offices in the New Zealand Governmen- Insurance Buildings, Queenstreet, opposite to the Arcade. At Sydney the chief gold-mine quotation.. are :__ Broken Hill Proprietary, £12 19s j British, £2 12s; Central, £8 7s; North, 18s. South, £5 4s ; Block 14, £6; Block 10, £9 Is 6d; Junctions, £2 5s 6d. A policeman having offered his hand .a a young lady, which was refused, be arrested her. "What is the charge." asked the sergeant at the station house* '' Resisting an offer, sir," was the reply. Eight million acres of leasehold areas, formerly devoted to pastoral pursuits, hava been offered for selection in New; South Wales; The rush of applicants was bo , great as to necessitate balloting in almost every case. . 108,681 ounces of gold, valued at £434,386, were exported from New Zealand during the, half-year ending June 30th. The total value entered for exportation from the colony to the same date is £46,086,577. ' „■__,_.,' The cook of the barque Kate Tathami which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday from the Mauritius, a German named Goddard Elvers, committed suicide by hanging himself to the beam of the galley, on May 29th during the voyage. Mr Northcrof t, R.M., at the Thames, has given judgment against the defendant i_ the case Henry .Driver v. Raihi Tini Poaka, for £90 due on a p. n. signed by Poaka's father, now deceased, on a block of land to which his son has succeeded. "Pat, is this true what 1_ hear ?" "An* what's that, yer Honor ?" "• That you are. going to marry again." "That's so, yer Honor." "But your,first wife has been dead only a week." "Sure she's as deadi now as she iver will be, yer Horior." Mr Todd, South Australian Superintendent of Telegraphs, thinks fehe Eastern Extension Cable Company may possibly hava chartered a Bteamer from Banjoewangie, which will arrive at Port Darwin to-morrow or Saturday with a batch of cable messages for the colonies. An editor, wishing to give a milliner a " puff," wrote that he was glad see her stocking up. '_?he next time he met tha milliner she assaulted him with an umbrella, and threatened to tell his wife. The newspaper tbe artido over several times before he could understand why aha was so wrathy. " Oh, George," she murmured, " 1 know you are strong and will .protect me, yet even n6w, as we recline in this swinging hammock, I am surrounded by fear.' " Fear, my darling ? What fear can surround you ?" " Atmosphere 1" she chuckled, and the hammock broke down to punish her. There was a good attendance at the Gospel Temperance meeting last evening, when Me_sr» Field, Best, and McKinnon gave short but instructive addresses, and a' good programme of songs, readings, and: recitations, was rendered. Mr C.G.Hill pra-i sided, and some pledges were taken at the! close. A meeting of delegates from Friendly, Societies, embracing American. Order of Oddfellows, Foresters, Manchester Unity Oddfellows, Druids, Rechabites, Hibernians and National Order of Oddfellows was held] last evening. The business was merely o£J a preliminary character, a future WMti-ftf bewg cg»eid9red_4viMble_