TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 172, 23 July 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

" Othello " to-night. 1 Manapouri in from Sydney. Plotting in the Argentine Republic. New National Party formed in Auckland* Mr J. T. Arundel leaves for Sydney tonight. Final performance of Wirth'a Circus last < night. Additional news from Tonga is awaited with interest. Sailors' Home new Mission Hall opened this afternoon. Mission schooner Southern Cross has lefb for the Islands. New Zealand Assets Company issue their prospectus to-day. " Romeo and Juliet" at the Opera House on Friday evening. t Barque Gotha has left Kaipara timber* laden for Liverpool. Annual meeting of Anglican lay readers at Blshopcourt to-morrow. Colonel Maitland, late of tha Grenadier Guards, is now on. half-pay. Lady Wasteneys returned from Sydney this morning by the Manapouri. Mr R. Rose is elected' President rj_ the Carpenters'aad Joiners' Union. j a « . Though boys with hearts of feather Can contrive to make things whirl, They'd rather be together— With a pretty little girl! William Cooper, of Auckland, carter, has this day filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. Would not the surest way to exterminate * chimney-sweeps be to make a clean sweep of every one of them ? If possession is nine points of the law, couldn't it be made perfectly legal by "stretching a point"? •* Nature, lest woman should be utterly.an enigma, denied her the sense of humour ' and the sense of honour. It was Richard and not .Robert, Irwin who was fined at the Police Court oa Monday for drunkenness. ■ ; Major Wißsmann, owing to the state of hia health, has applied to be placed on the German army retired list. Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd inspected the Auckland Infantry Volunteer Companies at the Drill-shed last night. • Wife.—Who will mend your clothes when lam dead and gone ? Husband.—Nobody. I'll be able to buy new clothes then. It is announced that Sir James Fergusson, the British Policical Secretary for Foreign Affairs, marries Lady Dewshire. r ,: : On sunny days it seems to us The promenading swells, , . Excel old Millet's "Angelus" In bringing out the belles. * Botanist—This Miss Harlem, is ,th_ tobacco plant. Miss Harlem—How interesting ! And when does it begin to bear cigarettes ? A crusty old bachelor says that " love is " a wretched business, consisting of a little sighing, a little crying,a little 'dying,' an_i a deal of lying." , A man baa just taught ducks to swim in hot water, and with such success that.they lay boiled eggs. Who says this is not an age of improvement ? "" Citizen—What's the latest news .'ab'dojb the railroad accident ? Reporter—Good news. One of the directors of the line' was on board, and received fatal injuries. ,_,.,-, The Rev. J. Berryi senibr Wesleyaa ■ minister for Wellington, has received an invitation to take" charge of a Melbourne church after the end of the current year. . The London ** World" states that al-,' though there are many aspirants to the Governorship of New South Wales, it ia difficult to .elect a Governor who ia likely, to please the colonists. A fire occurred at Tararu yesterday, by which a two-storeyed barn, containing 8 tons of hay, belonging to Mr Francis Mc- 4 " Cormick, was destroyed. There was no insurance. The lose is estimated at £100. - The criminal business of the Napier. Supreme Court has ended, after a two days' sitting, the shortest on record.!. It-wan all but abortive. 'Three prisoners were'.ac- •<" quitted, two pleaded guilty, and one was convicted. ' - : w " Will you please' insert this obituary notice.' writes a correspondent to the editor of a provincial paper. " I make bold to ask it, because I know the deceased Had. a great many friends who'd be glad to, hear of his death." A very, enjoyable social in connection ' with the Druidic Order, took place in St. George's Hall, Newton, last evening. Capital music, by Reid and Davis' band, and good catering by Bro. Sbainton, satisfied the party assembled. M. Stambouloff, the Bulgarian Premier, has offered if the Turkish Porte will sanction Prince Ferdinand's appointment to the throne of Bulgaria, to place 60,000 troops at the disposal of the Sultan in the event of Turkey being attacked. Magistrate; " Well, Patrick, what have ' you to say about stealing the pig ?"' Patrick : "Well, y'r honor-r, ye Bee, it was jis. this : the pig tuk upon him to sleep in my bit of a gardin for three noighte, .y'r hoiin'r-r, and I jist sayzed him for the Tint!" Mr William O'Brien's book, " When We , Were Boys Together," Is the talk of the the season, and they say the manuscript) alone weighs nearly seven pounds. "Anj|; - now William has married a paragon''of' wealth and beauty. Oh, what it is to be_j|, talented patriot! -••■ ->•"-" " Tr, " Miss Mabel Andrew who so cleverly played the part of Dukeof York in "Richard the Third," will be remembered as having-, played with Bland Holt's Company. She 1 took last night's part with only a single rehearsal, and her performance was a good one for such a little girl. A young man, named Joseph Hawkins, assistant in, a bookseller's shop at Napier, who was suffering from congestion of the - lungs, yesterday got out of his bed, and, •■ eluding his nurse, escaped. His body was subsequently found floating on the surface in a well. It is supposed he was delirious. , The Duke of Cambridge stated he was - disgusted and ashamed of the Guards who mutinied, and regretted that they wore the uniform of Grenadiers. After twenty-five years' connection, he disowned' the battalion. When sentenced, those convicted of mutiny threw their medals across the parade. i Mr J. Cowan, member for Yatala (S.A.), and Mr Burrimore, an electrician, were killed yesterday at Adelaide at the railway crossing. The hor__ they were driving jibbed on the rails, and an engine dashed into the vehicle, smashing it to atoms. Both gentlemen'were killed'instantaneously. A certain paper mentions that a wellknown parson was going home the other!' ■ night, after having been out to see a friend,- v when three men picked him up and committed an aggravated assault on a brick '. wall with his head. From what we under* stand, the parson was a little used up when . the curtain fell, bub we believe we are right in saying' that the brick wall was so badly knocked about that it will have to be - pulled down and rebuilt.