TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 2 May 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Shooting season opened. May Day past. Anarchist celebrations in Europe. Weather in Waikato is very cold. Opera Company doing splendidly. Paris in a state of siege yesterday

" Mignon " at Opera House to-nighfc. World's Sculling Championship to-day. Hon. A. J. Cadman has loffc ior Otoro* ha HoSpital and Charitable Aid Board met °Anarchists aro being arrested all over "s.s. Richmond leaves for tho islands tomorrow. .-- -J X. [_ Mrs Osborne, tho jewel thief, is said to bo out of gaol. . , Eight-hour demonstrations in London yesterday. , . S.B. Upolu duo from the Islands on Wednesday. Sir Wm. Fox's golden wedding anniversary to-morrow , . Great preparations in Europe tor the Anarchists yesterday. General Perk in, of the United States, is at preeent at Rotorua. Great military precautions against the European Anarchists. "The Bohemian Girl" drew a crowded Opera House »n Saturday night. A benefit to Mr T. Makinini takes place in the City Hall this evening. Mrs Earl, the young wife of Mr F. Earl, solicitor, died last evening, aged 20. G. JVI. Kingston, a well-known cyclist, leaves Dunedin for Sydney to-morrow. Rev. J. Berry says there aro embryo gamblers among the Cost-ley Home boys. Further charges of corruption against Canadian politicians. When will thoy cease ? Hon. Mr O'Connor, New South Wales Minister of Justice, is in the Hot Lakes district. Rev. Berry gave a stirring discourse on "Gambling" at Pitt-street Church last J evening. The working miners of Charters Towers (O.) have £340,000 at fixed deposit in the local banks. Sullivan and Stanbury rowed for tho championship of the world on the Paramatta today. Mr F. J. Moss. British Resident for Hervey Group, leaves Auckland for Rarotonsja to-morrow.

The " bank " failures in Melbourne and Sydney arc said to have thrown aboub five hundred banking employees out of work. The amalgamation of the Union Bank and bhe Bank of South Australia in Adelaide will probably create one hundred and fifty additional vacancies.

The Queensland Government is already being , flooded with applications of would-be '* slaving' , recuiters for the Polynesian traffic. In old days the farewell of each of theso gentry used to say, " Well, if the islanders don't mardor you, the Queensland Government will hang you ; so good-bye for over, old man." In response to numerous inquiries as to whether the Mikado Club will be carried on as usual this season, the secretary (Mr 11. Lutr.aden) states that the first social of the season will take place on or about the 27th of May. It is requested that those who are desirous of becoming members should make an early application, as the dumber it limited. Tho Dr. Burns monument at Dunedin was formally handed over to the Dunedin Corporation on Saturday L*y Mr Robert Chapman. Complimentary addresses were deliverei by Dr. Stuart, Messrs Oargill, Cray, Russell, and others. Mr E. B. Cargill, a son of Captain Cargill, who had been associated with Dr. Burns in pioneering works, said it was in no narrow spirit of sectarianism that the enterprise was taken in hand. Says a Sydney paper: " The British cablegram tells us that the loyalty of the Sultan to British interests in connection wii h Egypt is doubted." Which is a truly British' way of putting it, and aboub 88 reasonable t\s if fome cableman had expressed his feors that the Australians weren 6 loyal to the Chinese in Australia, or thab France wasn't loyal to the Germans during ;he invasion of 1870. When the Englishman annexes another man's land witnoub ;he slightest shadow of reason or law, he ilways feels hurt when the previous owa'er en'fi "lo^ftl."