TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 34, 10 February 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sydney mail to-day. Go and hear the phonograph. Hospital inquiry re-commenced. Manapouri for Sydney to-night. Auckland Unionists won't unite. Madame Patti arrested in Berlin. Wainui for the Islands to-morrow. Kakanui Relief Fund is being raised. Threatened colliery strike in America. New Italian Ministry has been formed. Volunteer inspection parade this evening. Lord Onslow will be here about the 21st. Three shipping managers elected to Harbour Board. Mr M. Niccol re-elected to Harbour Board. Another Tarawera victim found at To Wairoa. Wellington offers £130 for champion yacht race. Barque Prospect cleared for New York with flax. Phonograph entertainment is very successful. Barnett's pork butcher's shop is to bo reopened shortly. Sir George Grey leaves here for Sydney on the 24th inst. Dr. Haines married Miss Isaacs yesterday. The race problem in New Zealand is to pick the winning horse. If a lovely woman smacks me on one cheek I will turn her the other also. A telephone message is one of the things that do not go without saying. When a woman wants the earth it is with the view of giving it to some man. The railway men at Cardiff have decided to remain neutral in the labour troubles. To-day is Edison's birthday. He was born at Milan, Ohio, forty-four years ago. How we admire the man who happens to catch us when we are doing a good deed on 1 the sly! , The receipts of the French Treasury are larger than those of any other civilised ' nation. Board of Conciliation meeting adjourned becadse Unionists won't sit with Knights of Labour. Messrs E. W. Alison, T. Henderson and C. V. Houghton returned to Auckland Harbour Board. The Pope intends to issue an encyclical letter advising the French Catholics to adhere to the Republic, Sir Harry Atkinson and Captain Russell proceed from Wellington to Sydney by the s.s. Mararoa on the 16th inst. Ib is a sad reflection on human nature that almost any crooked transaction can be squared by a good round sum. Just now the travelling public consistmainly of experienced couples who have been married ever since Christmas. A conference between the United States and Canada on the subject of reciprocal trade relations will be held in March.. Capt. Edwin wired as follows ab 4.10 i p.m. yesterday:—"North to easb and south east gale with rain, and glass fall." Lord Salisbury has thanked Signoi ' Crispi, ex-Premier of Italy* for tho friend' ship he showed toward Greab Britain. The world never knows whab loud prayers a man.can offer until he is called upon to pray for the sins of his neighbour. He knew him.— "Have a cigar, old man ?" "No ; I swore off for a year," " Oh, well, a week longer isn't long to wait. Take it." < It is said the devil finds plenty of work for idle hands to do : bub he hasn't got in on bhe modern tramp to any very large extent. Our people are by no means agreed that we want Canada yet, though doubtless we must have it eventually, says an American paper. In the event of a struggle at Hull th&seamen and dockers will appeal to tho Continent, America, and Australia for assistance. Money i& not essential to happiness, but there is an indefinable something about a big bank account thab at times is very refreshing. '; Twelve thousand coke men in Pennsylvania (U.S.) threaten to strike. Eighty thousand colliers will be affected by their action. A Russian Jews' Colonising" Society baa been formed in San Francisco for the purpose of bringing over men to engage in agriculoure. Imports into the United Kingdom for January show a decrease of £4,400,000, and* exports of £1,750,000 compared with January last year. Signor Rudini, the new Italian Premier,' adheres to the Triple Alliance. Rudini's > programme includes improvement of the relabions wibh France. Mr Thomas Mackay, formerly West' Coasb Settlement Reserves Commissioner, is appointed the third Commissioner on the Native Titles Commission. The new colour of Pabti's hair ia described by the Boston " Herald" as Skaneateles, " because thab town is the next station beyond Auburn." Sir John Macdonald has issued a manifesto declaring bh.--Canadian Government will develop tho resources of Canada as an integral part of the Empire, and denouncing the 4ww vmeatmm'Utt^iwU veiled tr6_.-b__ Nine of the crew of the barque Orion, from Glasgow, have, been landed at Mel-, bourne, suffering from lead poisoning. Metal is supposed to have been contained in the sugar supplied to the ship. One man has since died. The Hon. W. Copley, Commissioner of Lands in South Australia, left Hokitika for Greymouth this morning, en route for Wellington, where he meets the Minister for Lands. Mr Copley anticipates leaving Auckland about the 20th, on his way home. Sir William Cumming, who was alleged to have been detected cheating the Prince of Wales ab cards, has issued five writs for slander. Sir Charles Russell has been retained for the prosecution. His Royal Highness has been subpoenaed as a witness. Madame Adelina Patti has been arrested at Berlin for breach of contract to sing ab St. Petersburg. She was admitted to bail. Pabti's jewels were seized when she was arrested, and the prima donna had to deposit the amount of the claim to get them back. George Petrie, a young man, eon of Daniel Petrie, of Southbridge, Canterbury, was drowned on Sunday afternoon while bathing in the Rakaia River. He was seized with cramps and washed into a hole. His body has been recovered. His Excellency Lord Onslow leaves Wel« lington to-day via Napier and the Hot Lakes for Auckland. The Hon. Mr Cadman is to meet His Excellency in Auckland towards the end of the month, and will escort him over the Thames and Coromandel goldfields. To-nighb, at the City Hall, the farewell benefit tendered to Mr Travers- Vale will take place. A varied programme has been arranged, including the initial production! of the petife vaudeville, " Billing and Cooing," Maddison Morton'sfarcicalcomedietta* "John Dobbs," and Snazelle's world famed humorous recitabion of "How Bill Arl.—_ Won.the Battle of Waterloo." ms