TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 185, 7 August 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Exjoyable weather. Te Anau left for Sydney. " Julius Ctegar " again to-night. Burns Club entertainment to-nighfc. Remuera Social Union dance to-night , Meeting of Auckland Saddlers' Union toy; night. , . Auckland bakers' carters have formed a union. Life is worth living With weather such as to-day's. Mr Mila'a lecture last night was fairly attended. Very successful entertainment in the Tabernacle last night. Tho King of Dahomey has ceded Kotonou and Whydab to France. Masters' and Engineers' Harbour and River Service meet to-night. The independence of Swaziland (South' , Africa) has been guaranteed. "Othello" will be played again at the Opera House to-morrow night. New Zealand mutton, prime selected, averages 4£d per lb in London. Tin is quoted ab £94 to £94 10s in Lon« ! don, and copper is £57 to £57 10s. Dunedin City Council have decided nob to establish a free public library yet. The Napier Fletcher Bill cases have all been decided in favour of the plaintiffs. London tallow quotations are : Best beef, 24s to 25s ; best mutton, 25s 6d to 265. The Dunedin Refrigerating Company have declared a dividend of 8 per cent. The Earl of Jersey, the new Governor of New South Wales, is a " solid " Conservative. . ! Charges have been formulated against the directors of the Kungitikei Fibre Company. ; Extensive precautions are being taken in, Egypt and France against the spread of cholera. H.M. ships Orlando, Royalist, Swinger,, Goldfinch, Cordelia, and Curacoa are now at Sydney. ! The German men : o'-war in- the Islands, will rendezvous at Sydney about the end of this month. A goods train ran into a passenger traiaj at Prince's Bridge, Melbourne, yesterday,; resulting in eight persons being injured. A kick from a tram-horee at Dunedin yesterday fractured the skull ol a boyi named Malcolm Ross, who is said to be dying.George Funcke, Constable McLeod'e murderer, was brought down from Dargaville yesterday and lodged in Mount Eden Gaol. Brailles system of education for the blind! is suggested as the best system for adoption in the proposed Auckland homo for the blind. " No, ma'am, I haven't any foreign birds, except (canaries," said the proprietor of a; bird-store to a customer, " and they were; born here." .' The success of the San Salvador troope still continues, and they have won four! more battles. The safety of Guatemala ia. endangered. i Captain Edwin wired as follows at 3.40 p.m. yesterday :—South-east to ease and; north gale, with very cold weather and; glass rising. Mr J. M, Gelling, late Town Clerk ofHamilton, is now manager of the coffee' plantation at Rarotonga for Messrs Donald' and Edenborough. The Bank of New Zealand Estates Com-, pany's debentures are quoted at 2 per cent.' discount in London. The public have been ; allotted 70 per cent. William Randers, an old German, left the Costley Home at Epsom yesterday, arid , . was picked up by the police wandering! about Onehunga last night. i It is asserted that German documents re-1 veal that -Prince Bismarck expended a mil-' lion marks in one fortnight for the purposeof bribing the •■' reptile press." , _ The Tasmanian Colonial Treasurer delivered the Financial Statement yesterday,' in which a slight deficiency is shown. Nα'' important proposals are made. " Take it twice during the night, if yon. wake up," said an unprofessional nurse, ac she left a bowl of gruel by a patient's, bedside, "and once if you don'b." • ; The essence of true nobility is neglect of i self. Let the thought of self pass in, and [ the beauty of great action is gone, like the , bloom from a solid flower.—Froude. ''' r There is no man whom Fortune does noft visit onca in his life; but when she does'.' not find him ready to receive her, she walks' in at the door and fliee out at the window; ; He—l don't see why you won't marry-V. man without capital if he has a good Mother Eve married a gardener. Yes, and the first thing he dfd was to lose his situation ! : : ; Intelligence is to hand from Pretoria, Transvaal, that the populace oppose the. Swaziland convention, and also that there is strong opposition to it in the Vclksraad (Parliament). ~ ■ , Pastor Birch presides £at the United Mis-:" sionary Meeting to be held this evening at the Tabernacle. By special request,-Rev. W. Slade, from Fiji, will give an address on "Mission-Work." Mr Woolnok, an officer of the German warship Alexandrine, who has been invalided in the Auckland Hospital for some time, left for Sydney by thes.s. Te Amaja. last evening to join his ship.; >. ■'^.fitiffi Dog-fancier : Yes,' madam, I have all: kinds of dogs here. Is there any particular-; breed, you wish ? ,Old Lady, (wop ree'de'thii; papers)": Oh, faßhidtoabl^ , - Leinme see an ocean greyhound. ' ' ". ' The second lecture by Mr Croeher.ott' " Electricity,•' takes place at the V.M.C.A.I Hall this evening, when much interesting: information will be given respecting the iri-j duction coil, the dynamo and electro? motors. i\-r. They say—we don't know who they arei) but whatever they say goes—they say thatM every shot of one of Krupp's newest gunal costs forty pounds —that is to say, -it costs? 1 this much at; one end of the shot.' What it-" costs at the other end, depends on how much the thing it hits is worth and Mrhabife. will cost to remove the debris. ' -, The Stanley Handkerchief, 6d each, to be had only from George Fowlds, Victoria Arcade.—(Advt.) .1 -'•■ The recent rains have done considerable; damage to the Thames and .Coromandel, road. Large landslips have occurred ia several places, and in others the road has been almost completely washed away, so that traffic is just about at a standstill. The damage is estimated at £850, and the County Council, at its meeting last'night, decided to make representations to the Government with a view to obtaining assistance to have the road made passable. White Blankets, 9s lid, and American Grey Blankets, 12s 6d per pair, at George Fowlds', Victoria Arcade. —(Advfc.)