TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 91, 17 April 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Dodbtfcfl weather again. Tasmania from tbie South. Tabernacle eoiree to-night. " Graphic " published to-morrow. English mail expected to-morrow. The Premier is again in Wellington. Mr Alex. Brodie's funeral this afternooo t Thamesites in town tn route for Cool* gardie. . Building trade is improving in New Ply* mouth. Congregational soiree ab Mount Eden thit evening. • The Governor was charmed with his visit to the Islands. His Excellency the Governor arrived in» town this morning. Chrysanthemum show on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sir Robert Stout arrived from the Hoi Lakes yesterday evening. A full bouse to witness "Madam* Favart" yesterday evening. Rev. John McNeil and his wife leave Auckland to-day for Sydney. Mr Gee gives his sixth popular concert! id the City Hall to-morrow evening. It) is believed that the Brazilian revolb is over, since Mello has surrendered. Agitation in Taranafci to abolish corporal punishment in the case of girls. The opposition steamers, Mararoa and Tasmania, leave for Sydney this evening. Sir Matthew Davies has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities £281,000, assets £32,700, A breeze ab (he Charitable Aid Board yesterday over the re-appointment of the CosMey Home cook. Sir Robert Stout lectures on " The Aims and Methods of the Liberal Party " in the City Hall this evening. The newly-formed Poultry Association met yesterday evening in Wellington, and adopted their draft of rules. Mr W. E. C. Moss, son of Mr F. J. Mosb, the British Resident at Rarotonga, ia leaving for Western Australia to-day. Views of the places of interest touched an by the Governor in his tour in the Islands are published in tomorrow's '• Graphic." The question of the pollution of Lake Takapuna was discussed at the meeting of the Devonport Borough Counqil yesterday evening. Mirabile dictu! Football has gone oufe of fashion in one town of New Zealand. Tha white walled city Oamaru prefers bicycling ' to chasing the leather. The Maori Parliament opened to-day at Gisborne, but the full number of chiefs waa not present, owing to some of them being detained at tangis on the coaat. In the old tiction they marry in the laab chapter and live happily ever afterwards. In the new, they marry in the first chapter and live unhappily ever afterwards; ■ The chiefs of Pondoland who opposed the annexation of the country have been deported. That is the way ; they manage a refractory opposition in South Africa. A writer in Taranaki ■'f.' News " says i "Mrs Mayor of Onehunga, J. P., by the enappishness of her manner will be 'fired* at the end of her mayoral term, and • tired 1 effectually." 1 At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of . Commerce yesterday it was resolved thai! the Chamber would eupport any feasible scheme for carrying out the improvement of .the harbour. ' Christchurch is going to Ijavo three now bridges over the Avon. ' The undertaking may appear large to those who are not) aware thab the Avon at Christchurch ia little more than a ditch. - . The Governor of Newfoundland has been forcibly excluded from the Parliament, which he h%d dissolved, the members of the late Ministry holding the Chamber and refusing to admit their successors. " You are very fond of tea," said a landlady to the new boarder when be passed up his cup for the third time. "Not at all," he responded, cheerfully, " but my doctor haa recommended me to try the hot water cure for dyspepsia." A baggy and pair of horses were recently noticed going at a tremendous rate outside New Plymouth, and upon being stopped tha occupants were found asleep. Even ,then they indignantly asked why they had been interfered with. In their efforts to extinguish the fira in Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'a stores, several of the firemen inhaled the fumes of some noxious acids, with the result thab they are at present suffering so severely aa to be unable to attend to their duties. A boarder at a Wanganui lodging-house | went out as if to work, but was exceedingly backward in paying hta bill. The landlord opened the man's trunk, and found a complete burglar's outdo. The boarder, after this discovery,- fled and has not been heard of since. ■ There are two men living ab tho present time who have beards over seven feab ia length. One is an Englishman, Mr Richard Latter, of London, who has a beard ten feet in length, and the other is Mr Lagrand Larow, of Missouri, America, whose beard is upward of seven feet long. ■ The hearing of the petition againsb tha validity of the licensing election and local option poll for the Clutha district came up yesterday, when the petitioners stated that it was the local option they wished to attack, and agreed that they could gain their ends more effectually and conveniently ia the Supreme Court. The average eiza of families in the various countries of Europe is as follows i~» France, 3*03 members; Denmark, 3*61; Hungary, 3*70; Switzerland, 3*94; Austria and Belgium, 4-05; England, 4*08; Germany, 4-10; Sweden, 412; Holland, 4-22 ; Scotland, 446 ; Italy, 4-66 ; Spain, 4*65; Russia, 4-83; Ireland, 5*20. A certain mother was the proud possessor of twins which were aa much like as two peas. One night she heard a series of giggles proceeding from the neighbourhood of* the twins', bed. " What are you laughing at there ?" she asked. " Oh", nothing," replied Edith, one of the twins, " only you have given me two baths, and Alice none." Madame Claude Bernard, widow of the famous physiologist, has received notice: from the police thab her dog refuge in Paris is a nuisance to her neighbours, and must be closed. Madame Claude Bernard's charity towards tha canine species.is (ftho " Daily Naws ". Paris correspondent says) in expiation of the cruelties of her lute husband in experimenting on dogs. Mr Gladstone, says the " Daily Telegraph," is stated to have risen very highly in the estimation of the Basques, because he spends part of his well-earned holiday at Biarritz ia endeavouring to acquire their language. Voltaire once tried the same feat, and left the result in a sentence. "The Basques," he said, "say thab when they talk together they understand each other. Do nob believe ib!" "Mother," said a little girl, looking up from her book, " what does 4 Transatlantic 1 mean?" "Oh, across the Atlantic, of course ! Don'b bother me !" " Does ' trans' always mean across ?" " I suppose ibdoes. If you don'b stop bothering me with your questions, you'll go to bed 1" i "Then does 'transparent' mean a crosi parent?" Ten minutes later thab little girl was resting on her little couch. Tried in the fiery furnace of • public opinion .'.^ and never found deficient. -».■■■, 11 •• Reliable "Teas. (AdvfcJ > ~