TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 165, 12 July 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Stab Summary. Woman advancing. Orange anniversary. Orange soiree to-nighb. Another female suffrage debate. Outward 'Frisco mail Saturday. Alameda from Sydney to-morrow. Opera House temporarily closed. Steub v. Seddon again in the House. > Gatling guns ready for use in 'Frisco, West Coast wreck not yet cleared up. Opora season is to be resumed shortly. Terrible earthquake in Constantinople. Supposed case of Bmallpox in Taranak. % . > Labour battle imminent) in San Francisco. * The flagship Orlando has gone to Samoa. ' Sliakspere's plays are beiog produced in Japan. The British minb coins twenty-five ton* of pennies every year. A million American Knights of Laboui are expected to strike. A lady had her pockeb picked at a recent! auction sale in Auckland. "The enigmatic Growther" is whab st Wellington paper calls our ex-Mayor. Mr F. La wry thinks that there is bribery carried on in every Parliamentary election. The remains of the late Mr Charles Turner are to be sent to Honolulu for interment, "We have seen Bellamy's closed one day ' and opened the next." The McGuire,. M.H.R. Count Tolstoi is writing a " cosmopolitan drama " which he saya is to be the laßt of his works. Three young men charged with assaulting Constable Finnerty are remanded till Saturday. Last year 3,341 vessels passed through the Suez Canal, of which 2,405 carried the British flag. Hone Heke, Maori member, thinks women should be admitted to Parliament. Kapai te wahine! The .second reading of a Bill to admit) women to the General Assembly of New Zealand has been carried. A man was fined $15 and costs in Chicago the other day just for kissing his sweetheart in Garfield Park. " I know thab to^some members of the House the evasion of a statute is of no moment."—Sir Robert Stoub. « Oranges are recommended as a remedy for the alcohol habit by a writer in the Louisville " Courier Journal." " The House requires a greab deal of education before it will be fib to receive women as members."—Saunders, M.M.B. There is only one thing worse than the man who laughs ab his own jokes, and that is the man who won't laugh at you re. Dr. Newman says Mrs Yates, Mayor of Onehunga, has as much independence as a momber of Parliament. We should Bay so! '•• A woman does not love a man accord* ing to the fortune be has bestowed on her, but according to whab she has bestowed on him." " / A French paper says thab there are bub four survivors of Napoleon's Grand Army. The four veterans are said to be centenarians. Miss Beaconhill: " Are you interested in psychical matters?" Charley Bleecker: "Oh, yes! I spend half my time on a wheel." ■ / . . , < .■". :". • »It is all nonsense to say thab New Zea* x land is leading the civilised world in political and social matters."— Captain Russell, M.H.R. " Women have domestic duties to per* form which are more in keeping than, having seats in the House." —• Maaeey, M.H.R. Washerwomen are treasures ab Johannesburg, South Africa. The charges, says a lady writer, would almost appall a mil* lionaire. The German Government has decided (it is said) to send five warships to Samoa at an early date, and also a regiment of infantry. Japan has ordered to be bnilb in England a firsb-class babble-ship of over 12,000 tona displacement), 14,000 indicated horsepower and 18 knots speed. . " Some men throw their lives away. Ib is nothing bub the lock-up to the gaol, back to the reclamation, and to th*e gaol again." —Magistrate Northcrofb. There is in Naples a band of thieves who, like rats, frequenb bbc underground sewers, - and bore their way into shops for the purpose of robbing tills and goods. ' " I have never concealed from myself that the proper and reasonable tax for in* comes like the Duke of Westminster's is 208 in the pound." — George Bernard Shaw. A red-skinned fraud is being exhibited at the Antwerp Exhibition as "Sitting Bull." The genuine old Indian chief weub to the happy hunting grounds many moons since. i Captain Muller has collected £16 Is 6d for Mrs Hoare, wife of the captain of the Tamaki Packet, and handed the same to her for immediate wants. Other friends are now collecting. . Aba meeting of the Beresford-street Congregational Church last night, it was decided to offer a call to the Rev. G. Burgess, who has been ministering to the church for the last twelve months. . The twelve sperm whales driven ashore near the Kaipara Heads were sold by the Maoris to a Helensville settler for £21. The fortunate speculator Bhould make,about £1,000 out of the whales. The German Emperor energetically con* tinues his efforts to induce the officers of the army, especially the young ones, to be careful with their money, and, above all. nob to live beyond their means. The Meriden, Conn., Wheel Club has found it necessary to adopt a rule providing for the prompt expulsion of any member who shall be caught smiling at any young woman from the club windows. The remains of the late Capb. R. Bruce were accorded a military funeral ab Te Awamutu, Waikato, yesterday afternoon. About 500 persons were present. The cuttomary three volleys were fired over the deceased settler's grave. A Berlin newspaper, "Der Socialist," ia on the poinb of expiring from a peculiar cause. Owing to ibs Anarchistic opinions being too freely expressed, the publishers and nearly all the writers on the staff have been pub in prison, leaving no one to work on the