TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 181, 1 August 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Pinafore " to-night. Mr Gladstone is ill. Season of Amateur Opera. Arbor Day next Thursday. S.s. Ovalau is due hero from Fiji. A revolt has broken out in Albania. Morocco is defiant towards England. H.M.S. Orlando leaves on Wednesday. S.s. Tarawera from Sydney to-morrow. The situation in Morocco is still critical. Intense heafc is reported from New York. Another Russian expedition to the Pamir. The native game season closed yesterday. Count Hubner, Austrian diplomatist, is dead. Auckland boat tho Thames at football on Saturday. Auckland —Taranaki football match next Saturday. The lasb nights of Wirbh's Circus are announced. The Bank of New Zealand has had a successful year. S.s. Richmond is due here from Tahiti and Rarotonga. Change of programme afc Wirth _ Circus next Wednesday. Dobson-Kennedy Company opens in Auckland next week. The "sick man of Europe" has more trouble on its hands. Organ recital at All Saints Church on Thursday evening nexb. The Bishop of Tasmania leaves here for Melanesia next Friday. Mission schooner Southern Cross leaves here for Melanesia this week. Naval and military nighb at "H.M.S. Pinafore " to-morrow evening. A large cargo of oats has arrived from the Bluff by the barque Alexa. " Arrah-na-Pogue " will be staged at the Opera House next Monday evening'". Meeting of Liberal Association this evening at the rooms, High-streeb, 8 o'clock. American barquentine Abiel Abbot has arrived here from New York via bhe South. There was an unusually large atbendance at the Pakuranga Hunt, ab Easb Tamaki, on Saturday. H.M. ships Orlando and Ringarooma were visited yesterday by large numbers of Aucklanders. The Bank of New Zealand has nob suffered in any way through the recent financial broubles in Australia.

An unoccupied house in Grey-sbreeb, owned by Mr Parker, was burnb to the ground on Saburday nighb. Wirbh Bros.' show on Saturday nighb was witnessed by a very large audience— the largest house since the show opened in Auckland this season.

" I never argy agin a success," said Arte* mus Ward. " When I see a ratble-snaix head sticking oub of a hole, thab hole belongs to that snaik." The Northern S.S. Company will run a cheap excursion to the Thames on Wednesday, on the occasion of bhe Taranaki v. Thames football mabch.

Two vessels, the schooner Maile and barque Alexa, are to leave here shortly for Raine Island and Maiden Island respectively, to load guano for New Zealand.

Admiral Scotb will confer with the Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board on Wednesday with reference to the proposed erection of naval workshops at the Calliope Dock.

The nexb lecbure in the. winter course of bhe V.M.C.A. will be given on Friday night by the Rev. W. Morley, the subjecb being "Thirty Thousand Miles by Land and Sea.

A man named Thomas Ross pleaded guilty, ab the Thames Police Court, on Saturday, to a charge of deserting his wife and family. The R.M. reserved hia decision.

Capbain J. H. Tooker, formerly of the barque Mary A. Greenwood, wrecked on the South American coast, is now here in command of the American barquentine Abiel Abbot.

Emil Iverson, carter, in bhe employ of Mr Reid, grocer, Victoria-street, whose eya was injured by a boy accidentally striking ib with a catapult, is nob likely 'bo lose the sight of bhe eye.

Salvation Army girl (to woman wibh brubal husband):—" 'Aye yer bried 'eapin' coals of fire on 'is 'oad ?" Woman with brutal husband : —" No, I can'b say as 'ow I 'aye, bub I've tried bilin' wabter 1"

Ab Geelong (Vicboria) a tailor has received an anonymous lebter enclosing £10. Tha writer stabes thab 40 years ago he purchased a suib of clobhes, bub was unable to pay, and wenb bhrough bhe Insolvency Court.

Says Lady Jeune, wife of bhe well-known English Probate and Divorce Judge, in the " North American Review ": " All bhab .8 needed to ensure an entrance inbo bhe highest socieby in England is unlimibed wealth. Moraliby ie unnecessary."

In a breach of promise case in New York, bhe plainbiff was offered 200 dollars to compromise. " Two hundred dollars !" she exclaimed ; " 200 dollars for a broken hearb, ruined hopes, and blasbed life, 200 dollars for all bhis . No, make ib 300 dollars, and ibs a bargain."

A well-known American divine rebuked an ignoranb preacher for exercising the office of priesb. In defence bhe man said— " We are commanded bo preach bhe gosDel to every critter." " Yes, " replied the divine, bub every critter is not commanded to preach bhe gospel."

Two physicians ab the bedside of a patient disputed as to tho nabure of bhe disease. At last one of bhem ended the discussion by saying—" Very well, have ib your own way, now, bub bhe post-mortem will show thab lam righb." The patienb was somewhab discouraged.

Says an American paper :—" The steady influx of Japanese into the United States is not viewed with pleasure by the working classes, bub as cheapness appears to be bhe sole aim of a large part of bhe community their admission will probably nob be seriously opposed." Old King George, of Tonga, still enjoys good health, and although he no longer walks abroad, is to be seen frequently driving out in his buggy visiting his friends. "Oftentimes," says news from Nukualofa, " is the carriage stopped, and, Tubou descending, the kava ring is quickly iormed, and tho King is once more in his element enjoying himself with some of his old companions, and, although very deaf, lisbening as well as he is able bo the gossips who quickly gather round." Ex-Captain Verney, jusb released from gaol after doing a term of imprisonment tor trying to purchase a girl for immoral purposes, freshly bounced oub of bhe Army, and lately expelled from bhe House of Commons, is reported to be coming bo Australia, where the English papers hope thab he will "labour earnestly to redeem the errors of the past." There are many of his Mndjn the colonies already, and most of thorn labour earnestly with an eye-glass, anil sit on the Posb Office steps waiting for a remittance.