TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 142, 17 June 1891, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Laxd and income tax,

Property tax doomed. 'Frisco mail to-morrow. Hard fighting in Syria. The estimates are out. Fighting renewed in Chili. 'i Star Summary to-morrow. ■* J. L. Kelly committed for trial for libel. Financial Statement delivered last night.' Rae-Greenway case over at last. Verdic* for plaintiff.

Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of many people. A fool always finds some one more foolish than himself to admire him.

Disabled steamer Pukaki arrived here from Ruesell this evening. We always find wit and merit in those who look ab us with admiration.

Beauty is the first gift nature gives to woman and the first she takes from her.

Society would be a charming thing—if we were only interested in one another.

What renders the vanity of others un« bearable to us is the wound it afficte on ours.

Druids' social tbia evening at St. George's Hall. Reed and Davidsou provide the music.

A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal' capacity.

One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has not more teeth.

Mr Justice Conolly notified thie morning that as Saturday was a Supreme Court! holiday there would not be any sitting ors that date.

In the DiTorce Court a decree nisi hast been granted in Loftman v. Loftman, a husband's petition on the ground of hia wife'e adultery.

The reported sudden death of Mrs Godkin at the Thames proves to be incorrect. She bae been unconscious for the past! forty-eight hours,and is not expected to recover.

The manager of the Costley Home acknowledges with thanks receipt of two packages of Marriott's rheumatic cure from Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. for use of rheumatic inmates.

Mr R. Rew, Victoria-street, has made an exceedingly large cash purchase of the well-known brand White Rose kerosene,lso per cent, test, and he is clearing out the lob at the low price of 12s per case. Members of the Dunedin City Council are indignant at the auditor declining t<3 pass an item of £5 19s for refreshments for members while making their annual inspection of the Silveretreanj water race.

Pefca Haura, a native belonging to the Te Aowera section of the Is'gatiporou, hanged himself ab Waitotoki, near Tuparoa, East Cape, on Monday. The body was recovered to-day, and Constable Gerrard, of Waipiro, has gone to make investigations.

There's a great difference in lampchimneys—depends on the glass. One pops whenever anything happens, sometimes when nothing happens. Another almost never breaks. Lamp-chimneys are like cigars, they cost so little apiece and so much by the year—the breaking kind. The other sort is like the measles—once ia enough. Can you tell them apart? The unbreakable chimney is the "Coronet," , sold by £. Porter and Co., Queon-streeb, and at their retail branches.—(Advt.)

Honest Tea is the best policy, ie exempli' lied by the demand for Arthur Nathan's reliable teas. Although only 2s and 2s 6d per lb, they contain the finest growth of fresh, fragrant leaf.—(Advt.)