TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 184, 6 August 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bea _Ti-tj _ day. Manapouri in from Sydney. Richmond leffa for the islands. Te Anau for Sydney this evening. Large sale of Italian statuary to-day. Silver is quoted at 113 cents in Nefl. York. Auckland Tabernacle entertainment) to*' night. . Meeting of bakers' carters to-night r$ union. . Thirty deaths have occurred in from sunstroke. Last performance of "The Cannon'g. Mouth " to-night. *' Candles and Footlights " again ab thg[ City Hall to-night. The death rate from cholera at Mecca has increased to 500 daily. Dr. Dawson had a large audience at hut " Medical Talk " last evening. The Auckland Amateur Orchestral Society is about to be disbanded. The assent of the Queen has been ob-' tamed to the Anglo-German agreement. - Captain Logan, of the s.s. Manapouri,' gives an address -in the Sailors' Home to* night. The Turkish reserves have been called ; out, the authorities fearing a rising ia Ar« : menia. A prince has, in reality, need of bub eyed and ears; his mouth only Berves him for smiling. Robert Funcke, who killed Constable McLeod, was yesterday committed for trial at Dargaville. I Lodge Ponsonby, 1708, S.C., has decided to throw in its lot with the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand. j At a mass meeting of Arabs at Zanzibar, the non-slavery degree recently, issued by the Sultan was accepted. To have received many wounds will make - you a hero in the eyes of some, while others will regard you as an invalid. Acclimatisation Society have lately liber*' ated about 400 trout in the streams ab * Patetere, and 100 at Lake Takapuna. Many persons criticise in order not t_ seem ignorant ; they do not know that indulgence is a mark of the highest culture. ; An American bridge-jumper, named Mc-i Affrey, jumped into the Charles river, ait -' Boston, from a height of 150 feet, and was killed. ;• The Queen of Space. "Inana,"*still con* ." tinues to mystify those who attend her daily levees by her marvellous evolutionsrm the air. An assemblage of men is an accumulation of __olian harps, whose notes are discordant * or harmonious, according to the way the-' wind blows. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society are going to import 5,000 brown troub from' Otago for a breeding establishment aft Takapuna., '~.-. Twelve brace of quail for Norfolk Island) were shipped in the Mission schooner' Southern Cross lately by the Acclimatiaa-' tion Society. " '! Man is an enigma from his birth to h_fi death; one thinks to understand him by dissection—a child breaks his toy to see what is inside. To be the friend of a Sovereign, one musftl be without passion, withoub ambition, with-; oub-selfishness —fore-seeing and clear-see*; ing—in short, not.a man. -■--', The members of the "A" Battery are notified that' an inspection parade will' take place to-morrow evening at half-pas. seven o'clock in the Drill-shed. „, No. 10 Loyal Orange Lodge will hold their anniversary ball on Tuesday, August ■ 12th, in St. George's Hall, Newton. • A. good programme is provided. i Mr J. T. Garlick, who has resigned the? presidentship of the Gospel- Temperance Mission, has been thanked* for his past services and elected a member of the Mission , Council. In the New South Wales Legislative As*: 1 sembly notice of motion has been given \ that an address be presented to Her Majesty praying _ha. the Government be informed :of the intended appointment of a Governor to the colony before tbe appointment ig ; finally made. In the Victorian Legislature, Mr Munro*; leader of the Opposition, moved that, the financial accounts are manifestly unreliable, and that they be referred back to the a J Government for correction. Mr Gillies* i,: Premier, announced that the motion would . be treated aB one of want of confidence. : " An American paper sums up the state of' the joke market up to date, giving the following quotations :—" Sealskin jokes .are now put away in-camphor for the summerServant girl jokes, like servant girls, come "*""■ high, but we must have them. Fun about I spring poetry is somewhat frayed at the edges. The subject is too serious for proper humorous treatment. Spring chicken jokes are tough."

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