TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 134, 6 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wbt. M Graphic " published to-day. Derby day in the Old Country. Last week of the Steam Riding Gallery* Ants have a regular system of Bporba, lot eluding races. West Australian Government ia going t« establish a mint. Close Beason for eeals has been extended to September 30th. Large double picture of new St. Paul's ie to-day's "Graphic." The slave trade in Nyassaland has re* ceived a death blow. Reduction of teachers' salaries carried at the Board of Education. Grand National Meeting ab Ellerslis postponed till Saturday. The French are attempting to annul the Anglo-Congo agreement. Lodge Poneonby, N.Z.C., had a large and successful meeting last night. The Hungarian Upper House has agreed to pass the Civil Marriage Bill. Herr Zimmermann's concert will tak( place to-night in the City Hal). The House of Commons has adopted thl principle of graduated taxation. The Governor, has accorded his patronage to Mr Leitch's farewell performance. An elovator is to be constructed fot carrying passengers up Mount Calvary. Faning and Mooney's Minstrel Company will open to-night for the farewell season. His Excellency Lord Glasgow, gives a dinner at Government House this evening. In engineering enterprise one man is killed for about every £50,000 spent on the work. The Ashley Licensing Committee decided that no license should be granted to Cheviot. The new French Premier declines to permit pope or priests to intervene in French politics. The American strikers are carrying away tbe mine ownore, and demanding lansoms for them. Big discussion ab the Harbour Board yesterday over the question of selling ths Calliope Cock. There were forty-three applications for tbe position of assistant storekeeper to the Harbour Board. The Rev. Father Kearney, who came to the colony as chaplain to Archbishop Redwood, is dead. A bank manager in Buenos Ayres has committed suicide, after embezzling a. quarter of a million. Colonial liability in the proposed death duties causing quite a commotion in thfc House of Commons. Lord Glasgow presided at the annua< meeting of the Auckland Ambulance As* sbciation last night. Nine members of the Whibehead party in the New Foundland Parliament, have been unseated for bribery. The Bishop of Melanesia will be welcomed aba conversazione at the Choral Hall on Monday next. Eight teachers were granted leave of absence by the Education Board yesterday on the score of illness. Mr Herbert Jones lectures to-night in St. Mary's Hall, Parnell, on "Our Country, the World Wondorland." He : " Those men have not been fishing long." She : "How do you know?" He: " The bobble is quite full." It is said that a company has been abarted in London to work fche quicksilver lodes in theTßay of Islands. :- r In Germany, ib is stated, there is a doctor to every 3,000, in France one to 1,800, in England one to 1,600. Anniversary soiree of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday-school will be held this, evening in the schoolroom. All Chinamen start the journey of life on equal footing. Rank is always conferred by the Emperor, never inherited. Refuse hops, hitherto throws away ie breweries, are now converted.into a good article of paper by a foreign chemist. Somebody has estimated that a man who lives to be sixty years old has spent) seven months buttoning his shirt collar. It seems to me that these " suicide clubs " mi»hb be made excellent institutions if tha public were allowed to select the members. A sensation exploded—Ninety per cent. of the " tree-smearing" in India waa caused by cattle rubbing againsb the trees. The Auckland Harbour Board 'yesterday decided to continue the contract of IL Richards for Bweefting the wharves for oner year. The Rev. S. B. Fellowes says that tha Germans appear to be keeping their Mew Guinea territory for strategic purposee merely. The number of unemployed in Wellington is said to be increasing rapidly. Many mechanics, painters, tailors, etc., are in real distress. . ~ , , Sergeant Clarke found a purse contain' ing money in the street last night, and fcopk ib to the police office, where ib now awaits an owner. Several cases of cruelty to women and children were reported at the last meeting of the Society for bhe Prevention of Cruelty to Women and Children. The increased culbivabion of poppy in ths various parts of Europe has, tit is said, led to a marked growth in bhe percentage of opium contained in honey. The City Schools Committee ab their meeting last nighb discussed the advisability of an instructor of swimming being appointed for the schools, Turpin, of the great gun fame, has nob succeeded in coming to terms with tha Germans after all, and has made an offer bo the French Governmenb. The Minister of Education has appointed Mr Hague Smith to fill the Beat on the Thames High School Board of Governors made vacant by the resignation of Mr G. S. Clark. The Central Quadrille Assembly held their fortnightly social in St. George's Hall,' Newton, last night,.when, despite the unfavourable weather, there was a fair number preßenb. In certain parts of Africa cows rato higher in the market than women do. Among the Massai a woman is worth only five large glass beads, while a cow is worth twice that number. Yabsley : " You Bay that you wouldn'b marry any bub a womanly woman, but what is your idea of a womanly woman?" Mudge : " One who would think I was tho smartest man on eartb." A meeting of all interested in the forma* tion of a Mutual Improvement and Friendly Society in connection with the St. Matthew's parish will be held in the parsonage on Thursday evening next. Military command by word of mouth is being abolished in the American Army, as difficult! to hear and easy to misunderstand. Officers are to use whistles instead, the whistle being fixed into the hilt of tha sword. Mr Jinks: " I don't know how you will feel about it sir : bub the facb is that my wife, your daughter, is a dreadfully hard woman to live with." Mr Blinks: " I can sympathise with you, sir, I married her mother." The total cosb of providing for tbe English ltoyal Family is £585,592. It ia a fraction over £d of income tax, and would ; Cosb, if divided equally amongst) all tbe in>4 habitants of tho United Kingdom—men, j women and children—a 6rifla lossJbaa, $jgLJ