TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 108, 7 May 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cloudy and mild. ... . ■ ■•"'' Hoops are in. " '; Dance at Governmenb House to-night. Mararoa from the South this evening. The Antwerp Exhibition has been ■:.'')},. opened. ■ '!_ More train-seizing by the Coxeyites in ' America. $ The question of the hour—in Onehnngs ; ■ :1 —drainage. • !' Howe-Spong Company open to-night in ' \ the Opera House. The "Elijah" in tbe Choral Hall to. morrow evening. Another bullet-proof dress has been in* vented by an Englishman. , V The French have decided to have A Minister for the colonies. •■ White Star liner lonic, from London, arrived early this morning. Sports on Saturday in aid of the Garratt fund were a decided success. The Seddon Ministry completed ita firsb 1 year of office on Wednesday last. J Mr L. D. and Mrs Nathan leave for Australia en route for Europe to-morrow. The Greymoutb coal export last week was 2,749 tons, and the timber export, 175,496 feet. ' f The Grafton football team won the footballers' race on Satnrday in the Do- , main. '! The Calcutta correspondent of the " Spectator" predicts another Indian , mutiny. , _\ A dinnef was 'given in bbc Northern % Club on Saturday evening to Mr L. D. J Nathan. *1 The resigoation of Sir W. V. Harcourt v at the end of the session ib persistently J rumoured. ._, \- m Mrs Sealy^ who was taken to the Hospi- J tal on Friday, in a weak condition, died '. thero yesterday. ',! Special notice is called to a testimonial of the success of E. Hare's electric treatment in today's issue. First Association football match of the season on Saturday, when West End defeated H.M.B. Rapid. i The Parnell Wesleyan Church held special services yesterday in connection with the anniversary of the Sunday-Bchool. ■' -, There has been a row in Hokitika because tho local papers do not give longer reports ot the borough council meetings. Splendid flow of water, estimated ab , 3.000,000 gallons daily has been struck ab W oolarena, in Queensland, aba depth of 2,500 ft. . : / Dr. Stenhouee, of Dunedin, has been denouncing the Kindergarten system and the extension of free education to secondary • schools. At a meetiDg of delegates from various friendly society lodges, it was decided to establish a friendly societies dispensary in Wellington. Between Papanui and Christchurch, on North line, the Railway Commissioners now: ,: v sell packets of tickets to compete wibh the tram lines. Mr Fish, Mayor of Dunedin, is going to bring before the City Council the question of tbo efficient inspection of meab by erecting abattoirs. The Mayor of Christchurch has opened a subscription list to raise funds to provide work for tho Canterbury unemployed during the winter months, _ "' '_. , Women are taking an active parb in thi-*' hostilities between the strikers ab Scottraile ;, and the police, and one woman has been *\ sbob in the struggle. Captain and Mrs Holdaway, the new divisional officers, and Captain Harlow, of the Salvation Army, were welcomed ab the Barracks yesterday. Local papers say that the feeling is very bitter in Hawke's Bay between the supporters of the rival candidates for the - Bishopric of Waiapu. Melbourne- N "Argus" eaye:—"Victoria is losing largo, number of its tobacco smokers and alcbhol consumers, owing bo the rush to Coolgar^ie." - ;|! Mrs Jenkins, cbarg-sd with breaking and i entering, will have tor^pswer to a serious budget of charges. Sfcoiwas in receipt of fl charitable aid, ib is said.\ * ;<| Sunday trains have been, discontinued on the Wellingtou-Manawatu\Railway. Will they be renewed during session time for convenience of members 1 \ The Westporb coal export las|i week waa -. 5,143 tons, of which 4,602 tons'vweie from the Westporb Coal Company, and. 541 bona from the Mokihinui Company. \ The Governor and party, on their recent shooting excursion bo Dargaville, sho* over Messrs Harding's run, and the biggesfe bag made in one day was 15J brace. } There was a large attendance of the Wniversity College students and their frienojs ab the University buildings on SaburdayX^ night, to welcome the new professors. Codling—*-• Why did you speak to thab f bowid twamp, dear boy 2" Softly—" Why shouldn't I, old chappie? He isn't in twade and he doesn't work faw a living." They say in Wellingbon that the Governmenb intend to ask the Institute of Journalists to deal with the "Evening Posb" in i -regard to the publication of Colonel Fox's letters. Yesterday afternoon bhe members of the Hebrew community presented Mr L. D. ; Nathan with a complimentary address in recognition of his services to the Synagogue. Mr Lee Smith, New Zealand's delegate bo ; the Canadian Conference, ia to make full inquiries as bo the possibilities of opening up trado with San Francisco and obher "r>% ports in New Zealand coal. Aba special meeting of the Rngby Union held ab Dunedin on Saturday, the motion bo affiliate with the New Zealand Rugby Union was rejected by a majority of one* the voting being 23 for and 24 againsb. A hooded buggy belonging to Mr Murray, cab proprieter, and driven by bim f came into collision with a lamp posb on the Beach Road yesterday afternoon. Tbe wheel of the vehicle was broken off and Mr Murray thrown out, bob he was nobeerionsly injured. ' Tbe labesb addition bo Americana abroad is the smart saying of a NewiYork girl to an Englishman who took her__jn to dinner. " I sometimes wonder whab becometf of all the peaches in your counbry," he asked. " Oh, we cab whab we can and can whab we can't," answered the ready-bongued maid." p " Time I was oub in Colorado," said tha man with the ginger beard, *•* I was chased by tha Itijuae inbo a cave, nnd had to stay thero thrne months without anything te eat." Here the man with the ginger board looked round defiantly, expecting eomeons to doubb his assertion; bob, as no one j spokti, he continued: "I E'pose I wotild ha' starved if ib hadn't been for my wife aud family back East. Whenever I would pit to bhinkin' of bhem, a big lump would the rigbb up in my throat; and by , swallerin' thab I kep' myself from etarvin'." - ' "._.».■ __ ■- ■ in i ■ ii. ■