TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 141, 15 June 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bbacikg- weather. Mining business dull. CarVHertz drawing well.. Snazelle opens here next week. ' Two Pacific mail-boats on Saturday. S.s. Duke of Buckingham gone gouth. elections approaching in England. ■ The last nights of Wirbh s Circus are announced. Ovide Musin Concert Company arrive on Saturday. ' Volunteer inspection parade will be heldthis evening. ..... Final pulls in international tug-of-war on Saturday evening. ■ Pargo-Bteamer Maori goes hence to Picton to load for London. Of the twelve largest cities in the world, three are in Japan. Additional gas-lighting arrangements for the city of Auckland. Next Monday is the anniversary of the > accession of Her Majesty. The city water supply at the Western Springs is now up to its overflow level. - , ', Bangalore (India) cotton operatives geb five pence a day (12 hours), and work every ■'""',-. Successful new programme at Empire Variety performance in Abbott's Opera ■House. It takes about three seconds''for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other; Twenty tons to. the acre is the return 0f..-..-'; potatoes from about 15 acres of land in the "Oamaru district. A man named Chas. Blue waa committed for trial for breaking into and stealing ab Diinedin yesterday. An electric expert says that no light has been found that will penetrate a fog better than the old oil lamp. Auckland University College Debating •-, Society will debate General Booth's immigration scheme to-morrow. This week, the Committee of the Auck- ~ land Society of Arts arrange preliminaries for the art competition for the ensuing year. , y gM A new shirtmaking log is being compiled '//■',- by the Auckland Tailoresses' Union to meet the requirements of -the Auckland , trade.' - \. '. „ ,y: There are several thousands of tons of old iron rails for the Onehunga Ironworks waiting to be shipped from Brisbane to the y Manukau. An Australian contemporary says thab y the Castlemaine (Victoria) Eire ; Brigade '• burned out lately to.pub out the Aurora. Australia. '.-'■-'• \ ■ A two-year-old boy named Watkins was scalded to death ub North-Easb Valley, Dunedin, yesterday, through tailing into a boiler of hot water. >'< Good progress is being made with tho rehearsals of "Pinafore" by the Auckland Amateur Opera Club. The opera will be produced at the end of next month. ; What is officially called the inner circle of Loudon y now contains ; 4,221,452 souls. But, inclusive of the outer circle, tha metropolitan area contains 5,656,000 ?, people.' '■■ ■ ': ' ■;'}*•?;• Within the last few days nearlytwo hun« dred wage-earning women in the clothing ';,'•' and shirt trade have enroled themselves aB members of the Auckland Tailoresses Union.: './;''> -•.-'•■''■•'.- - / •:•- An F old Maori: named Jacob, who is re- ■ ported-to »be ;,over 120yyearsyoid,ydied^b^y- . ; Kaipukapuka, near Bell Block (Taranaki), . i lately. Ib is stated that he saw Captain Cook'sship. , .;■ Fifty additional gas-lamps are to be y erected in the city, 15 of them to be in Queen - street. The additional lighting - arrangements will be in force aboub the end of next month. y ' <y The " Journal of Inebriety " calls attention to the fact that the use of tobacco and alcohol by railway employees is liable, un- i consciously to themselves, to produce colour-blindness. . ' The six candidates selected by the City . Council (out of 50 applicants) for the post of lady assistant at the Free Library have to appear before the Library Committee in person to-morrow. The Executive of the Auckland Em-f ployers1 Association have defetred the con-, sideration of the tailoresses' wages in Auckland until after'a further conference with Miss Morrison. Tho Auckland Employers' Association have appointed Messrs Graves Aickin, F. Rowe, and the Secretary a sub-commitbea to bring up a reporb on the commercial aspect of gambling. An excellent oil-painting, by Boulau, of date 1710, being a representation of a lady :; and boy wibh a bunch of grapes, has been sent to the Auckland Art Gallery by the representatives of the late Mr J. Williamson, of Onehunga.

Jako Ikenstein: "Repecca, on mem knees I imblores you to pc mem vife!' Rebecca Lowenkrantz : "Slake, gib oop! Vat vosh you dinking off? Dose bants gost more as 125." Presumably in order to make campmeetings more sober, the Virginia Legislature has passed a law prohibiting the salo of liquor in tbe vicinity of camp-meetings or other religious services held in the open air, under heavy penalty. According to a Melbourne paper "the ItaliaWd*Arbisticb' Operatieo ' considers tbab the only one of the Company that has done any good in Melborno is the oneuwbo married a pasbricopko." One of the troupe ■pP ladies utwedd^ bourne. _

Ab the Sydney Police Courb ten members of the crew of the British ship British Commodore wero charged with refusing duty after having signed articles, and each was sentenced to eighb weeks' imprisonment. The men most emphatically refused to ship, alleging the vessel was unseaworthy. The inmates of the Wellington Benevolent) Trustees' boarding house are dainty in their tastes. Seven pounds nf pork sausages for a recent Sunday's dinner were thrown oub by one indignant old gentleman. It appears bread is frequently thrown into the next yard, by, the inmates, as they like fresh bread. Miss Morrison and Miss Birley were kepb busy all day yesterday enroling members to the Auckland Tailoresaes' Union, and they believe that at the end of the week few (if any) will be found employed in the clothing and shirt trade outside of the Union. The entrance fee has'been leduced to 6d for one week.

During the hearing of the' evidence ab the Arbitration Court in Ballarat, an expert deposed that a gallon of whisky cosb the publican about 16s; retailed out in ninety-six drinks, it gives a return of £2 Bs, or 200 per cent. Beer cosb ls ljd per gallon wholesale, and, retailed, ib brought in 4s per gallon. Temperance drinks and cigars each gave a profit of 100 per cent. At Wellington the other day a wellknown counsel, examining the plaintiff in a breach of promise case, inquired of her : " Was the defendant's air, when he promised to marry you, perfectly serious or one of levity or jocularity?" The complainant replied : "If you please, sir, it was all ruffled with him running his hands through it." " You misapprehend my meaning," said the interested counsel. " Was the promise made in utter| sincerity?" "No, sir, ib was made in the waahhouse," replied the plaintiff amid roars oflauahkv .*'-•*-■. '".:■.. :&&■■ -y "' ~^i^'