TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 140, 15 June 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

C o _p and fine. Vesuvius is active. Madame Cora to-night. H.M.S. Curocoa arrived. Hawaiian revolution feared. London 'bus strike nearly over. New Union steamer Talune arrived. "Jack the Ripper " reported caughb, - Buffalo Minstrels opened successfully. Jubraj, of Manipur, sentenced to death. Crimes Act partially suspended in Ireland. Municipal Conference sitting at Wellington. public Service Association meets tonight. Queensland shearing strike is nearly at an end. Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one elao can consistently. Mr Thos. Macky, the well-known Government Native Officer, is dead, aged 65. " The man desires the woman, but tho woman's desire is for the admiration of the man." Riki Paaka, a well-known native chief, died at Paeroa on Saturday. A big tangi will bo held. Twenty anarchists who were discovered with dynamite in their possession have bson arrested in Vienna. It is tho unmarried lady who can give her sisters points on tho art of how to manage a husband. Germany boasts the healthiest army in Europe. Belgium is second best, and England comes in third. New steam yacht now building at North Shore for Mrs Buxton, of the Ivawau, will be launched next week. Field-Marshal Weuse, of tho Austrian army, has committed suicide. The cause is attributed to poverty. The Postal Congress at Vienna has fixed the fes for international money orders at 1 per cent, on tho value sent. A severe earthquake has been felt at the base of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, and the eruption of the mountain is increasing. The schooner Dunedin, at the Hobsonstreot Wharf, is receiving a thorough overhaul, aud has had her new masts stepped. An immense meeting of laundresses was held in Hyde Park, London, yesterday, whan resolutions were moved urging shorter hoars. President Balraaceda, of Chili, has rejected the American proposals for an armistice between the Government and the rebels. A South Melbourne Salvation Army captainess, ere leaving for Brisbane, was kissed by five hundred women at a farewell levee. She lives ! Thoro are at present about 125,000 Jews in the Russian army. Thi3 number includes tho 46.0J0 Jewish conscripts drawn last spring. The Hon. .7. J. C. Abbott, Q.C., who held the position of Minister without office, has accepted the Premiership of the Dominion of Canada. Many shopkeepers in Madrid are closing their places of business as a protest againsb the proposed increase of note issue by the Spanish Government. Drs. Baker and Buckmaster, of Simla, a mountainous district of the Punjaub, India, have been successful in the endeavour to cultivate tho leprosy bacillus. The English Government has decided to Withdraw the Crimes Act from operation ia Ireland, except the County Clare and a fewbaronies in Galway and Tfpperary. Major Anderson, who has taken over the military stores in the Auckland district) from Major Gascoigne, left for Wellington by tho s.s. Takapuna from Onehunga. Tho employees of tho London General Omnibus and London Road Car Companies, who were out on strike, havo accepted tho latter's terms and have resumed work. In metal mines in Hungary the average daily wage for adults.is from Is 4d to Is 6d. Ih coal mines the average daily wage is 2s to 2s 6d, and in iron mines it is Is 4d to 2s. Mr Hanningfcon will give a lecture on the " Holy Land," illustrated with fifty coloured views, shown by limelight, in tho Baptist Tabernacle to-morrow eveniDg at 7.30. Max O'Roll, paraphrasing a familiar sentence of Carlyle's, sarcastically remarks that " the population of the United States consists of over sixty millions of people— mostly colonels." Violent storms have been experienced in Galicia, Austria, and one village has been entirely swept away. Serious loss of life has taken place, and 50 persons are known to have perished. The trial ot the Jubraj or heir apparent (Kula Chandra Singh) for the complicity in the Manipur revolt concluded at Calcutta on Saturday, when he was found guilty and sentenced to death. M. d 6 Lesseps and other members of tho Paris Board of the Panama Canal will be prosecuted in consequence .of the last issue of capital when the Company was known to be in a critical condition. One of Mr Jay Gould's whims is to constantly refuse to attend the American courts as a juryman when summoned. For this little idiosyncrasy he is said to pay as much as £600 a year in fines. Cast an eye of suspicion upon the man whose beard hangs limp and straight from a tallow-coloured face. He usually roba the widow and the orphan, and always takes round the plate in church. The cricket team which Lord Sheffield is bringing out to Australia will lea ye London for Melbourne on October 2nd. Messrs A. E. Stoddart (Middlesex) and O. G. Radcliffe (Gloucestershire) have joined the team. The French fleet in Chinese waters has been ordered to rendezvous in the vicinity of the Yang-Tso-Kiang River, owing to fresh excesses committed by tho Chinese rioters, and tho fact that the latter are being assisted by Chinese troops. Last night Constable O'Brien arrested a religious maniac in Freeman's Bay. The patient wa3 cavorting around and stating impressively that he was the Supreme Being, and should therefore not be touched by any common member of the force. Baron do Worms, Political Secretary of the Colonial Office, has informed the Hon. Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, that all the defence needed at Porb Darwin at present is jus.t sufficient to defend the places where the cables land. The Clutha and Matau Agricultural and Pastoral Association (DunerHn) have declared in favour of a license being imposed on stallions, provided the fee is paid to the local Agricultural and Pastoral Association, to be offered by them as prizes for the best entires travelling the respectivo districts. The Italian Government has consented to a number of agriculturists and experts in fruitgrowing emigrating to Northern Queensland, and it is expected that aboub 350 settled ab Piedmont and Lombardy by the agent despatched from London by Sir James Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, will leave for Brisbane towards tho end of the month. The memorial service in Westminster Abbey, London, yesterday, in honour of the late Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, was a remarkable and impressive ceremony. Her Majesty the Queen and tha Prince of Wales were represented, .and all tbe members of the Cabineb and a large ' 'number ? of members -oj tho^Hotwafl^Cjamr^