TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Oppressive weather again. Well done Canterbury! . Another fire at the Thames. Mararoa wont South to-Gay. Body of Robert) Mellia found. Borough Councils meb last night. Sir J. Hall is travelling over the colony Crisis in Italy. Revenue in a bad state, Childs, the American philanthropist, fa dead. The Timaru dredge has arrived ab N«w« castle. , , The Alhambra Company had a full housa yesterday. Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met) yesterday. Vaillanfc, the Anarchist, baa been executed. The Pope ia making arrangements for a successor. Determined burglary ab Cambridge on Saturday. There were two eurvivprs in the wreck of the Gazelle. Palmer v. Monk ab the Supreme Courb again to-day. Sharland and Co, have given an 8 per cenb. dividend. Some improvements are beiDg made in the Western Park. An English crickeb team is coming to-, Australia next spring. Sanguinary encounter in Brazil. The Loyalists lost 200 men. The Imperial Passengers Acb ia being strictly enforced in Sydney. A stable was burnt down near the Pah/ Farm, Onehunga, last nigbb. An elderly man, named Wm. Jones, died suddenly at Blenheim yesterday. He that will nob freely and sadly confess tbab he is much of a fool is alia fool. English and American war vessels will patrol the Behring Sea fishing grounds. Cardinal Vaughan suggests Social Unions as an antidote to Atheism and Communism. Six of che sufferers by the Liberator frauds of Jabez Balfour have become insane. It is expected that the Hon. J. S. Ward will leave Dunedin for Wellington tomorrow. Meeting of Regatta Committee lasb nighb to settle up matters in connection with the recent carnival. , Burns Jones, the well-known artist, baa been made a baronet, Mr Jones has relatives in this city. The Premier informs Professor Aldis bhab the Government acted only as an agenb in his appointment. Some of the New South Walea farmers wish the present duty on breadstuff's made permanent for a time. Admiral Mello has recovered from hia wounds and has re-assumed command of the rebel force ie Brazil. 58,000,000 gallons of water were supplied to the Auckland public lasb month. One gets thirsty in this weather. It is said that the Brazilian Government have seized an English vessel with dynamite on board for the rebels. Very suspicious fire in Lower Hobsonstreet lasb night. Happily extinguished before any damage was done. Candidates ab the licensing elections will have to deposit £10, as in the case of aspirants for political honours. William Johnson, charged with attempted suicide ab Tapu, was discharged ab tha Thames Police Courb yesberday. Dr. Wine notifies thab he has returned to Auckland, and may be consulted ab his rooms, nexb the Savings Bank. The late Mayor of Newton, Mr S. C. Brown, was presented with an address by the Councillors yesterday evening. There being a deficiency of £10 in connection with the recent Regatta the Committee have decided to make it good. Two marines from H.M.s. Curacoa were brought back from Onebunga yesterday, having left the vessel without leave. Ib is said thab Tahiti is to be the future hcrae of King Behanzin, of Dahomey. The French are going to deport him thither. The coroper of Melbourne says 90 per cenb. of the corpses of infants he has examined meb their death by wilful suilocation. Mr Bell, the member for Wellington, has been awarded £1 as damages in the libel case he brought against the journal "Fair Play." The jury returned a verdicb of "Found, drowned " in the case of bhe man named. " French BiU," whose body was recovered in the harbour. A large house in course of erection ia Dunedin took tiro yesterday, and some damage was done before the flames could be extinguished. Several of the men from the Curacoa, whose time of service has expired, leffe yesterday for tho South en route for England. Jolly tars ! * The Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association is in a flourishing condition with a membership of 201 and a credit balance of £369 3s 3d. Mr T. W. Galo has been elected the Chamber of Commerce representative on the Wellington Harbour Board, and Capt. Ross to repreeent the payers of dues and owners of ships. A " Voluntary Tribunal of Arbitration " has been formed in Melbourne, the object of which is thab merchants and others may settle their business disputes among themselves and nob go to law. " Leb me see," said a minister who was filling oub a marriage certificate and had forgotten the date, " this is the fifth is ib not 1" •• No, sir," replied the bride with some indignation, " this is only my second." The Dunedin University Council have sustained a loss of £200 a year on the letting of the Benmore Run, and £150 on the Museum Reserve. It has been decided to hold a special meeting to discuss ways and means. Human remains have been found beneath a house in Invercargill. No clue as to how they came there can be found. Tho house, which is one of tho oldesb in the town, has always been tenanted by respectable people. Owing to the enforcement of the Imperial Passengers Act, a large number of intending visitors to New Zealand* were unable to geb a passage from Sydney by the Hauroto, which arrived in Wellington. laso nighb. In connection with the recent discussion in London on bhe New Zealand Football Union, the authorities of the latter poinb out re the suggestion of the English Union relative to the increased representation of the larger provinces on the Council, that ib has already been granted. An attempt will be made to havo tha last Wednesday in October seb aparb aa Eight Hours' Demonstration Day throughoub the colony. The Committee in Wellington are moving in the matter, and if they are successful in getting thab day adopted they will ask the Government to make ib a general holiday. A lady in the Old Country, contrasting the free condition of the women of New Zealand under the present law with thab of Englishwomen, asked her husband, a degraded punster, "And tell mo why wo cant bavo a vote, too, like thorn?'"' •• Why, my dear," said ho, •• ib only re. quire* aome more Zealand energy on yo\^ pAXh