TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

French flagship gone. , . May Day to-morrow.' Opera and concerts to-night. " Bohemian Girl " again to-night. Horticultural Show at Ouehunga. European Anarchists threatening. Shooting season opens on Monday. Small people like to be made much of. Disastrous fire in an Amorican theatre. MrM. J. Moore is gazotted postmaster at Arch Hill. " Mignon " at the Opeva House on Monday night. Mr H. Poland is gazetted postmaster ab Terarenga, Auckland. Miss Amy Yaughan'ss concert in Lornestreet Hall this evening. A good quality Solomon Islands wife is worch 10,000 cocoanuts. " II Trovatoro " went exceedingly well at tho Opera House last night. Admiral Parrayon has left for Tahiti in the French warship Dubourdieu. "0" Battery Cup rifle competition ab Mount Eden Riflo Range to-day. As soon as a man acquires fairly good sense, it is , said he is an old fogy. The whole day staff on tho telepLouo exchange in future will bo females. Mr E. W. Humphreys, ex-M.H.R. for Chrisfcohuroh, is dead, from cancer. Woman is a conundrum which a man cannot guess, but will never give up. The Hon. Mr Seddon addresses a public meeting at Kaitangata (Otago) to-night. Up to date the Waihi gold mine, Karangahakc, has yielded £55,513 from quart/, crushed. The largest library in the world is said to be the Imperial, at Paris, which contains 2,000,000 volumes. ' Tho postage stamp will be fifty-two years old on May Gch. Its inventor was a printer, James Chalmers, of Dundee. Mr Sanford, of Rakino Island fame, has removed to Auckland all his fish-smoking eheds, and is pushing this industry. Italy can't keep up her army. It would be well if she and other European Powers were to disband their immense armies. In tho Sahara desert the sun may be boiling hot, but not unfrequently the temperature at night falls below freezing point. Java is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, having thunder storms on ninety-seven days of tho year. Some forty or sixty young womon are to bo employed in the telephouo exchanges in the colony from the first of next month. A now Liberal newspaper, published in English and Maori, will shortly be started in the Horowhenua district, Wellington. Messrs W. Gardiner, W. Meara, R. Hall, H. B. Morton and W. Wall have beea elected to the One Tree Hill Road Boad. Sir Georgo Groy visited the French flagship Dubourdieu in the harbour yesterday, and was received by Admiral de Parrayon. The youngest son of Mr Haluck, draper, of Hamilton, broke his arm on Thursday night whilst ab play, but is progressing well.

An incipient fire broke out last evening at Onehunga in the premises of Mr Stevenson, photographer, bub it was quickly pub out.

Money orders payable in Australia, Tasmania, and in New Zealand will be issued or paid in those places after cho lab ■ prox. Lieutenant-Colonel Fox m the new com- ■ mandanb of the New Zealand forces, is due I in Wellington to-morrow from London, via : Australia. '• Mr Buick, M.H.E., lectures on "The Exiles of Erin" in St. James's Hall on nexb Wednesday evening, under the auapicea of the Irish National Federation. The building of the two wings of the i Government Insurance Buildinas at Wei- ! lington has been started by Mr Carmichael, ; the contract price being £13,000. The Devonports Borough Council invite applications returnable noi later than the 30th of June for the position of engineer for waterworks and water supply for the borough. Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board aro borrowing £4,500 from the Government on the security of their endowments, in order to enlarge their Hospital buildings. The American brigantine William Phillips (Captain J. H. Potter}, a wellknown visitor to Auckland from New l r ork, has been totally wrecked at Capo Henry, near New York. The man who should invent a machine so that people could put a penny in the slob and pick out a name for the baby would surely make a fortune—it would take so many to get a name to suit. The Wellington City Council will introduce a special Bill, empowering them to borrow £150,000 for drainage, £12,000 for ! the repayment of overdraft, £13,000 for baths and recreation ground, also a further sum of £25,000 for drainage, if necessary. The Rev. R. Coffey, minister of St. Mark's Anglican Church, Wellington, generally known as "Hot Coffee," has raised his voice againsb those of his congregation who attended the Rev. Mr Grubb's evangelistic services in the same city. A Sandhurst (Vie.) grocer charged with Belling " temperance " drinks with 13 per cent, of alcohol in them, called a witness, " who dritiks nothing bub my currant-wines, and never feels any ill effects." The witness turned up very drunk. Fioo of £30 I with £5 5s costs. A Wellington housekeeper notifies in her advertisement that " Members of Parliament are nob taken in." In Washington (U.S.) members of Congress are always required to pay in advance. They are the only class to which no boarding-house female will give credit. In the Native Lands Court, Auckland, yesterday afternoon, succession in re.°poco of 130 acres land at Maraetai was accorded to Ropata Makiwhara and Henaro Makiwhara, descendants of a sister of Wateue JVlakura (deceased), three-fourths to Ropata and one-fourth to Hen are. Aleck Forbes, a member of the Eastj Christchurch Football Club, was kicking a football in the club's practice-room, Pyne's I Buildings, Christchurch, when he stepped through an open French window and fell 15 feet to the around. He received injuries to the head, and is in a critical ptate. A cable message from Hobart announces that the iron barque Laira, bound from Dunedin to Fremantle (W.A.)i has put into Hobart for repairs, after a terribly stormy voyage. The Laira is very well, known in Auckland, having formerly belonged to Messrs Stone Bros., of this port. ■ A telegram from Hokitika says that a ■ miner named George Pinn, working in a [ sluicing claim on the right-hand branch of the Kanieri, was severely injured by a fall of eaith. His log and ribs were broken, and ho was very muoh bruised. He was ! carried a long distance by mates, and con- • reyed to the Hospital. It is expected that \ he will recover. Richardson, tho manager and proprietor of the Sydney Deposit Bank, ha.s been sen- • tenceel to four years' imprisonment. Tho • Judge rightly pointed to the fact that ho { had trader! with a fictitious capital of s £20,000, and that he had go conducted his • business that he was only able to return Is j per £of deposits amounting, by the last) quarterly return, to £75.000.