TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 144, 18 June 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wet and cold. Legislators flitting. . % . Session approaching. Supreme Court proceeding. S.s. Ruahine due from London. Parliament opens on Thursday. Kerei Kaihau awaiting sentence. Deputation to tho Mayor to-day re cit^ loan. Members congregate at Wellington this week. Maori obstructionists at the Supreme Court. Belgians'are making advances in Central Africa. Parnell beat Graffcon footballers easily on . Saturday. * Ship Euterpe arrived from Port « i Chalmers. ■ ' Suburbs footballers scored their first wie on Saturday. To-day ie the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The coal export from Wesbporb last week was 4,209 tons. Signor Crispi has escaped another assasiu'a bullet. / , . Mr Thos. Lonergan, tailor, Wyndham* street, is dead. ' Largest attendance of the season at foot* ball on Saturday. .* ■ t Auckland tinned mullet is coming inter favour in Honolulu. Bishop Wilson, of Melanesia, preached to large audiences yesterday. , ■', Dr. Talmage will deliver his first -lecture at the Opera House on Thursday night. . The coal export from Grey mouth lasfa week was 3,901 tons; timber, 161,300 feet. The 8.8. Taviuni replaces the Upolu in the Auckland-Tonga and Samoa trade next month. y «. r When money talks even the purist does not stop to criticise its grammar.— "Puck." Louis H. Bertrand has been,released from gaol at Sydney after 29 years' im« ... priaonment A Christchurch paper says that "the slowest train on earth is the alow train from Timaru to Christchurch." Even the worst man has some redeem* ing trait. Jabez Balfour, it is allegedg took a cold bath every morning. . .'; ■;'■■ 0ut0f.1,292 answers to letters sent to Kansas farmers asking if farming paid, 1,251 answered emphatically " no," i Mr Walter Impett has been appointed agenb in Auckland for the "Triad," a < musical journal published in Dunedin. - A Sydney suburban solicitor and a medico, brothers; named Cromwell, claim to be direct descendants of the Protector. A man named Henderson committed suicide at Catlins (Otago) near the co-^ operative works. No particulars aro to hand. Mibb Julie Albu, the well known and talented singer, was married at Ssn Francisco lately to Colonel Geo. Macfarlane, of Honolulu. • The Wellington City Council intends to promote a local Bill this session, giving them greatly extended powers of enforcing sanitary reform. Mr W..S. LaTrobe, M.A., ex-University « scholar, left by the Monowai on Saturday. : en route for England, where he intends tar pursue his studies ab Cambridge. __"ReßJijaiul-"O»»«<«M*»^ "sawTTtheTwife as she rose ;jn.i the. night to? : rifle her husband's pockets. " I've had rest, and now I think I'll have a little cfiange." , > , Hard on Fathers.—Winks ; " What's thet-f matter, old boy ? You look as if you didn'b get sleep enough. Got a new baby ?'' , Jinks-. "No. Got a daughter old enough; , to haVe callers." . , ~ The Thamoa natives, belonging to the ' Ngatipaoa, Ngatimaru Ngatitamatera, andt Ngatiwhanaunga tribes, aro signing a petition to Parliament against the proposal to rate native lands. t . ( . .. :■ ! Member of the joyous hunt to lady guest: -- "Are you a judge of horse flesh, Mra' Fl utter by ?" Mrs. Flubterby : '•! caVb cay that I am. I haven't tasted any since we were in Paris, over twenty years ago." * . . / Tho Adelaide Civil servant who has suffered most by recent retrenchments is Dr. Patterson, the Col. Surgeon, whose salary (£950) has sustained the reduction of £350 a year. Ho has been nearly 30 years in the service. MrCarew, S.M., at Dunedin, refused a re-hearing of the case in which a man named Louis Spedding was charged with, taking a£l note from a girl, on the plea 1 that he would change it for her, although fresh evidence had been obtained. Three Mormon missionaries who have been labouring amonssb the East Coast* natives, left for San Francisco on Saturday by the R.M.b. Monowai. They wera accompanied by native proselytes—a Maori named Hirini Wahangi and his wife and three children, who have become Mormons. £160 worth of gentlemen's studs boughb at Edwards and Bennett's sale at) a discbunn of 75 per cent., now selling at Geo. Fowlds' sale ; also Is lid neckties, good styles, for 18.-(Advt.) A considerable proportion of gentlemen's umbrellas were included in McArthur's stock of £600 worth, cleared by Smith and Caughey at less than lauded t coab. They- . are now offering a strong gent'a reliable umbrella at 5a 6d, 6s lid, 7b 6d and 10s 6dt . —{&dvb.j You cannot get anything better for youß money, so don't be deceived. Ask for " Reliable "! Tea, and take no other. (Advt.) 3