TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 228, 24 September 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fine bub cloudy. : Tawhiao still nnbuiied. Spring haa set in in earnest. Talune from the South this morning. Native celebrations at Taupiri to-day. against Sunday trams yesterv day. ~ ' ~. ■ .■■ .■• •■;:■:■, ■■•:■,:.■■ The public school holidays begin to* day. • ■..'.-. •. ~. ..■■.■ , ..■; :■:■,■.. ■■ The fruit trees are now coming iutofuU bloom. . > King Tawhiao is to be buried on Wedj neßday. _■ ■ , Auckland Harbour Board meets to morrow. Russia is-increasing her fleet in Asiatic waters.' [ ■ " : ■■ • ■ ' ' , It takes 70,000 insects to make lib of cochineal. • The Westport coal export last week wa( 3,527 tons. Last week's coal export from Greymoute was 2,332 tons. : The devil is never kept away from church by bad weather. The soup kitchens of Vienna feed every year 228,000 persons. Dry books cannot be expected to satisfy a thirst for knowledge. Henry benefit concert at the Foresters" Hall to-morrow night. ; The British Government real £11,300 a year for waste paper. Of the population of India, 52,000,000 are engaged in agriculture. There are more muscles in the tail of a rat than in the human hand. ■ The schooner Awanui which went aahoro ; at Oreti Point has been floated. | Lore cannot be measured by the siza of ■ the vessel in which it is held. j It is necessary to moot good luck h&U-" way, but bad luck will chase you. i John Fullor's Popular Concert to-night promises as usual to be a success. The Maaßey Harris cultivator had n sue cessful trial at Mangore on Saturday. Grammar School pupils begin work again tomorrow after a three weeks' vacation. . Lemontey : Of all heavenly bodies, tho beaviesb is the woman we hayo ceased to love. ■■•■■■ •■■ ■ ■ ■■' '-: ' •■. :.■■■■■ ■■■ ' ■.■■ ."v: The opposition steamers all made good runs across from this port to Sydnoy kWi time. New Zealand horse Mutiny won re steeplechaaes at the A.J.C. ft Sydney. Anon : The whisper of a beautiful n can be heard farther than the loudest call of duty. ■ ' One. hundred new volumes have jastr arrived to swell the number in the Freer Public Library. < A conversazione in connection with Sfa. Paul's new church is to be held to-night in the Choral Hall. At nearly all tho churches yesterday, reference was made to tho proposed Bunday tram service. There were a large number of entries on < Saturday for the coming show of the Auckland Kennnl Club. Mozerai: Men always say more evil of woman than there is ;.. and there is always more than is known. . . A. Ricard :, Won prefer ub to cay a little evil of them ■ rather than to say nothing of them at all. ; The Belle Cola- Concert Company, Irons the South, bound through to Sydney, ar« pasoeng^by blioTftluno. The Beaumont Family wi*k tiioir>q^% entertainment open at tho Opera House ih« wards the close of this week. Judging by the number of blossbtaa qxi tho trees in the orchards in the suburbs tha fruit crop should be a good one. The passenger' list of the lonic which arrived last evening at Wellington from; London was not a very heavy one. " Monowai," co well known as th* same of a lake and the Union Company's big steamer, is a mixture of Latin and Maori. A coroner's verdict reads thus :—" Thai deceased came to his death 1 r6 drinking, producing apoplexy in tho 14, of the jury." The body of the late Mr J. J. Swinner* ■ ton, of Devonport (who died suddenly at Christchurch), waß buried yesterday at the North Shore. The Mayor of ■Westpe has presented the award of the Humane Society of Australia to John Williams and Charles Fallen for saving life. ' The Southern mail which is usually sorted on Saturday, owing to the late arrival of the steamer from New Plymouth was uofi delivered till to-day. A clergyman writes :—•• A young woraaa. died in my neighbourhood yesterday, whila I was preaching the gospel in a bosatly state of intoxication." Mr C. M. Lepper and Mr F. W. Atkinson, of Taranaki, are passengers by th<r e.s. lonic, which arrived at Wollinpttoti »8t evening from London. Rapata Te Ao, Southern Maori M.H.E., who had been up at Taupiri attending Tawhiao'a tangi, loft for Wellington again, via the West Coast, to-day. The prevailing interest in Rarotonga and! Cook Islands, South Sea Islands, just now is to substitute British money for the debased South American dollars. The Canterbury Progressive Liberal A*> sociation has endorsed the resolution of • the Chamber of Commerce re -aa International Conference on the b'isX bi-metallism. The manager of the Costley Home ae< knowledges receipt of the linuai monthly parcel of illustrated and other papers from the members of the Working vb t for use of the inmates. The reading of romances will always b« the favourite amusement of women ; old, they peruse them to recall what they have experienced; young, to anticipate what • they wish to experience.— Ricard. * It has been decided to convene a meeting? of the representatives of educational and other bodies to consider the question of altering the constitution of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College. A movement is on foat, in Christchnreh r to start a school of domestic instruction, to bo under the control of subscribers; oi not less than ten shillings per annum. Th& Government are to be asked for a granb oi £150. The Mayor of Dunedin is moving in the direction of calling for competitive schemes [for the disposal of sewage and drainage, embracing the city and suburbs, to be pro. bably carried out by the Drainage Board, Dunedin. . Dynamiting fish is a practice which is frequently indulged in in the colony. The Government notify that " a reward of £10 will be paid for ?uola information aa will load to the conviction of any person who commits the offence of using dynamite or other explosive substance to catch or destroy fish in the provincial district of Au » a penalty of £20 oi- two xnontha' hatd labour.