TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 168, 16 July 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sm-endid weather. $ " Faust " to-nighb. Opera season resumed. Great railway strike ended. Mrs Tamer sings to-night. " Charley's Aunt" next week. Cholera in Russia and Germany. S.B. Upolu arrived from the South. Auckland Institute meets to-night. H. M .8. Rapid arrived' from Lytbelton, Members etill wrestling with poli tics. Wreckage belonging to the cutter Paka found. Phonographic exhibition in Newton, next Post Of&ce. Dilke's son, a furious Tory, is just «nter« ing politics. Auckland University College Council met thia afternoon. . Gladstone is the oldest) Prime Minister England hae ever had. Ife is nob » rare sight to see in Paris usinjr false teeth. S.A. Government thinks of introducing compulsory military service. Fully 20,000 persons are annually killed in India, by venomous snakes. Oscar Wilde : "To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulfh ing." The genial Lohr arrived to-day with letters of introduction from " Charley's Aunt." Prince Bismarck owns $50,000 worth of stock in the street-car lines of Milwaukee (U.S.A.) * Mrs H. B. Stowe, the writer of trUncle Tom's Cabin," is very old now, weak in her • mind, and poor. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Wellington, Hawera, and Woodvillo, at) 7 a.m. on the 10th insfe. Mr Saunders, M/H.R., says some mem* bers speak fourteen times on the one question in the House. * Mrs jMcNair, a Scotchwoman, of God* manchester, near Montreal, has just com« pleted her 110 th year. ¥ Ono writer has estimated that in ten years the whole wealth of the world will be in the hands of 10 families. Parkes refers to the JN.S.W. Treasury Bench as the Dibbo- Government's "besmeared and dishonoured seats." Mr J. St. Clair, the enterprising advance agent for the Montague-Turner Opera Company, went South to-day. Two hundred women have been put in charge of as many small railway stations in Victoria, whereby the department saves £30,000 a year. " The speeches of some members of the House are far more dangerous than any article in the ' Journal of Labour.' "—Hon. Mr Montgomery. The second exhibition of the Wellington Art Club was opened by the Governor last Saturday afternoon. There are some throe hundred exliibibs. The Christchurch Temple of Truth cosp £5,200 to build. The money was chiefly raised by voluntary contributions (£73o£ and debentures £4,957. j Mr Walter Bentley is about to make another dramatic tour of New Zealand, with a company of 21 artists, opening at Danedin on the Ist August. Latest suicide* Walter Thorn, an eleven-year-old youngster, at St. Lajß,;^: renco (Qj; *''Tiled of lire;"-raiWU njHflp was the reason for hia departure. HF™^ St. John Ambulanceclasses are advertised to commence this week at Municipal Buildings and Ponsonby, Dre. Dawson, Knight and Sharman being the lecturers. Street bands are not permitted in Gormany, unless they accompany processions. In Vienna, the organ-grinders are allowed to play only between midday and sunsob. A pavement) of granulated cork and pitch has proved a success in London. It affords a good foothold for horses, and the noise of traffic is much less than on other pavements. Daring May 210J pints of wines, malfe liquors, and spirits were consumed in tb.B Wellington Hospital by 30 patients, being about 7 pints for each, on the advice of thtt medical staff. Microbes, ib has been discovered by & German scientist, can be fired from a rifle along with the bullet. Every day the hoary romance of glorious war is being sliced off in big junks. '■ A number of Quakers, from all parts of the country, are to found a colony in Marion County, Oregon (U.S.). They have secured 2,200 acros, over half of which will be planted in fruit trees. In eleven years past the number of deaths in France has exceeded the births. In 1891 the excess of deaths over births was 10,000. An actual decline in population has been only prevented by immigration. ' Landlord : " Madam, I have come to inform you that I have raised your rent." Tenant: " Oh, heaven bless you ! I have been wondering day and night for a whole week how I could raise it) myself !" The Mayor of Dunedin will propose at the next meeting of the City Council " That, with a view to reduce the burden on ratepayers, legislative power should be sought to consolidate some of the loans." The number of men employed in Welling* ton on the construction of the " Queen* Drive "is 103, of whom 37 are married and ' have dependent on them in addition ta wives 102 children. Good progress ia being made with the work. Captain Kelly, of the ship Westland, now in the South, has brought out witb. him as a gift to a friend in the North ,' Island, a very fine collio dog, whose grand- ' sire, Metchley Wonder, was a celebrated dog, his owner refusing £800 for him. The Sydney Active Service Brigade is now "laid for" at public meetings by s> , rival organisation, the Mosquito Club, whose short and simple political croed consists in throwing the Active Servica Brigade men down the steps whenever opv. j portunity offers. A sure scheme to beat the faro game wai disclosed in Tacoma (U.S.) Two masked men approached the gaming table, as if about to lay stakes on the cards. Pointing pistols at the dealer and banker, they hurriedly swept $1,760 into their pockets, and then disappeared. A Buffalo (U.S.) clergyman latoly preaohsd an impressive sermon to a lot of poor children. Most of thorn were without warm clothing, and some without undorclofehing or acockiagg. Yet the clergyman epeut three quarters of en hour in advising theft: to renounce tbo luxuries and empty p'aatiuree of life. A young married women who sued hei hiifband m the Magistrate's Court, at Wellington last tvesk, for failing to urovida for hw, steted as cno proof of defendants DPglect tbafc so lax was he in providing far die home that on one occasion he would not give bcr a sitting hen, and she therefore eat on the e^gs hevseif and batched out tbo chickens—Wellington "Pott."