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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK. 'Fbisco mail to-morrow. Outward mail to-morrow. Board of Education met to-day. Monowai from Sydney this evening. __ • S.s. Ovalau leaves for Fiji tomorrow. Myra Kemble Company doing very well. Serious floods and loss of life in AmericaMore fighting is reported from J Venezuela. ' : Barque Grasamere has arrived here from Newcastle. Hon. Mr Cadman is ab Rotorua, on hia way to Wellington. ; ., <> The French have been fighting f tbe pirates in Tonquin. t Wo should all be perfect if we were neither men nor women. j__s long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusion. Another of the Devonport parish socials will be held this evening. -*s Caledonian Society's [ social will be held this evening. _ lb is proposed to issue a weekly football journal in Palmerston North. Thoughts are blossoms of the mind, and deeds are tho fruits of desires, ■ Welcome Home, cutter, of Sydney, is believed to have been losb ab sea. "Tremendous efforts are being made to get murderer Deeming reprieved. Very welcome rain fell last night in the districts of Mangere and Papatoitoi. Nearly 4,000 acres of Crown lands were taken up in the Hawke "s Bay district last month. Hons. Messrs Cadman and Carroll are expected to arrive in Wellington on Sunday next. Tenders are called for the supply of 12,000 sleepers for the Whangarei-Kamo railway extension. Mr W. A. Murray, of Waikato, who has been in the Hospital for some time past, ia now almost; recovered. Eloquence should prevail by gentle suasion, nob by constraint. It should reign, not tyrannise.—Pascal. • However high the barriers of exclusiveness may be, the rams of money will soonbeat them completely down. The ladies of Te Kopuru (Kaipara) held a Leap-year ball on the 12th inst, which was very successful, as well as amusing. Mr George W. Jones leaves Auckland tomorrow for San Francisco, to take up a position on the Stock Exchange in thab city. Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under tho wrinkles of age. One is lost in them, the other is hidden.—F. PetitSenn. Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., arrives here to-morrow from the South, en route to Fiji by the e.s. Ovalau, for the benefib of his health. The New Zealand Governmenb have as yet heard nothing from General Booth regarding the Salvation Army immigration echeme. There are many unemployed ab Napier. A number were recently senb to Wairoa (H. 8.) to get work, but they found they could get none. The tannery of Mr Webber, of Onehunga, which was lately destroyed by fire, is being re-orected, and will resume operations at an early date. The ice caves on Mount Egmont, which have been exposed this season through the excessivo molting of the snow, are reported _to.be a .very beautiful sight. fa. The'two largo ridings of Clive and Havelock, Hawke'B Bay, weie originally assessed underthe land and income tax at£1,210,324, but are now reduced to £1,071,378. Tho engine lately built ab the Newmarket ' works seem to be a success, judging by tho heavy loads she brings up the incline of Green Lane with such ease. Mossrs E. W. Alison (Devonport), T. Leigh (Wade), and S. Vaile (Auckland), have been appointed a Board of Review under tho Land and Income Assessment Act. Arrangements are being madeat Wellington for the reception of Lord Glasgow, the new Governor. There will, be a public half-holiday in honour of bhe occasion. Messrs T^ios. Jackson, R.W., J. H. Mandeno, J.P., and J. Walton, J.P. (Te Awamutu), have been appointed Licensing Committee for tho licensing districb of Kawhia. The Bishop of Waiapu thinks thab the prohibition of the liqour traffic in New Zealand " has now come within the scope of practical politics." It's a far cry to prohibition yet, your lordship ! Next year will be the jubilee of the establishment of the firsb Oddfellows' Lodge in Now Zealand. Thero is a movement on foot for tho establishment of a Grand Lodge of l|he order in this colony. Tho late Hon. J. Martin, M.L.C., of Wellington, has lefb a fortune of £120,000 in property to be divided amongst his ten children. Tho funeral of tho late Knight took place at Wellington yesterday. Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother ; in those six words lies whab the human heart contains of the sweetest, tho most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. —Massais. Ac the Glen Innes criminal sessions, Coleman, the driver of the train in which the accident happened to Sell's Circuß, waa found not guilty of manslaughter. The charge against Kelly, the guard, was withdrawn. There is a fireman in Islington who advertises himself" as having saved '63 lives. As a matter of fact, he once carried out seven cats from a burning house. There is nothing like counting all the chances. The headstones at the graves in the Symonds-sfcreefc Cemetery of the officers and men who were drowned in H.M.s. Orpheus on the Manukau bar in 1567, have been re-paintod by seamen from H.M.s. Ringarooma. After "Hiawatha": — He killed the noble Mudjokivis, With tho skin ho made him mibcens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outsido; Ho, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside ; He, to get the cold side outside, Pub the warm side fur sido inside ; That's why he pub the fur side . inside, Why he pub bhe skin side outside, ■ Why he put them inside outside. Editor E. T. Gillon, of Wellington, actios as ageub for the Dramatic Authors' [ Society, sued the Dobson-Kennedy Com--1 pany at Wellington for £2 2s, fees for playing Gilbert's" Pygmalion and Galatea." 'He was non-suited on tho following grounds :—l. Thab no power was given him to sue in his own name. 2. That no '. evidence was given that the ownership of the copyright interest was vested in Mr 's Gilbert. 3. That there was no evidence ' that the defendants had acknowledged any • liability. , 'From North, from South, from East and West . A .Nathan's Teas aro souj?h t, Because all find they aro the beet. With money can be bought." (Advt) f __«_________.___________________———• ;PBAB,SV. SOJfcP., Fair White Hands, v "'"*' • Bright Clear Complexion,,'. , 1 Soft Healthful Skin. :„- ---: P'^B-V.&S'^-WMPJ' I Adelina Patti writes:—" I havo found Pear'iBjOftß ma^less fog thaJH_l_^__4Qß}-_riC^a I.T1.T