TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 231, 27 September 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_TALK Weather broken up. ' City Council to-nighfe. Tanpiri tangi is over. Warm words in the House. Debate on the cheap money scheme lathe House. Tawhiao's body is eaid to have been secretly buried. Annual meeting oE the Amateur Athletic Club this evening. A Cash Amateur Cycling Club has beea formed in Auckland. ~ . Quarterly meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to-day. The members of the Auckland Rowing Club meet to-morrow evening. Mr A. R. T. Haultain has been presented with a purse of sovereigns. An old Maori tohnuga performed occult rites at Tawhiao's funeral yesterday. Akarana Amateur Dramatic Club per* formance at St. George's Hall to-night. New Bign of the approach of summer —mosquitos. So says Falmerston "f3taa< dard." ''.' ,: ■ ."' ';v.■ .; ; v Thp annual meeting of the Auckland Cricket Association will be held to-morrow evening. ■■.:■ ' . A hawker and pedlar is a man with »- basket or. a barrow, bub nob he who uses a bicycle. . ■/ At the meeting of the City Council this evening the Sunday tram service will bY diacusaed. , ' ; A women's court has been formed in connecfcion with the Oamaru Foresters' Lodge.,; Forty wotnon were enrolled. , 'j Thero is a probability of English cricket-' ers visiting New Zealand. Bub £1,200 for for four matches is rather stiff. : The Tartars take a man by the ear to invite him to eat and drink with them. No need to do that in Auckland ! The Volunteer Officers' Conference has nob yet finished its labours, and will noa report to the Conference till Friday. Legislation Council again threaten to imperil the passing of the Lands for Settlement Bill by numerous amendments. Weather. Fresh sample. Surely every-1 body ought) te be satisfied now.. We havebad changes enough to euib all during the past three weeks. . ,\ The Fielding "Star" says Palmersfcon North had a narrow escape from being designated "Ujiji" when the choice of name was being made. . •".; Hobart " Mercury " says than tha mem' bers of the Medical Congress, to bo held in New Zealand, have " a high old time " in, store. Everything to them is free. A year old boy, son of Alexander Bain, of Richmond Grove, Southland, has died ) from phosphorus poisoning, he having eaten the beads of: two matches. The "Southland Timea" to-day was printed on' paper made ab the Mabaura Falls Mills, being the first time thafe colonial-made paper has been used for such a purpose. The Druids'.Ball Committee mefa en Tuesday evening at the Newton Baths. When the returns had been handed in, ft . was found that the ball of 1894 had proved a financial success. - Mem. from ."" Christian Outlook ";— " How ib must puzzle the angels to understand whab somomon mean by their talk in • prayer meetings , when they see how little cash they pub in the basket." Some shallow, sentimental women occupy most'of their time in doing ■fthab they should not do, in repenting of it, witht t superabundant ;-tears* wandin-continuing;;* ~ their offences.—Juuius Henri Brown. Captain Newby, of .the .bargvie Helen Denny, which arrived ab Nelson from London lastl week, is suffering from an attack of inflammation of the bowels.' His heart) is also affected, and his condition is serious. Yesterday His Worship the Mayor presented Ernesb Wm. Montgomery with the . Royal Humane Society's certificate for. rescuing a young, woman named Margaret ■ Bell from drowning in Auckland Harbour lasb January. , ,: ir The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candour, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesby—a woman has each of these bnb once. When lost, she must) , simulate them the rest of her life.—Ratif do la Bretonne. '..:■' To all the whims of woman a clever man will first say yes and then suggest the motif of a no, allowing them the free ;, exercise of bhoir right of changing their ideas, resolutions, and sentiments to in- -, finiby.—Balzac. Two prisoners named Frank Bird and William McLeod, sentenced by the Hold. anga Bench to six .months' imprisonment! each for larceny, were brought bo Onehunga from Hokianga by the s.s. Kanieri last evening, and lodged in Mount Eden Gaol. At the quarterly speed examination of Auckland Shorthand Writers' Association, held last evening in Sb. George's Hall, one candidate, Mr C. Abbott, succeeded in passing ab the speed of 80 words a minnti*. Messrs Jarretb and McLean were the judges. " The life of a commander of a volunteer company in New Zealand is as near the position of a common drndge as anything else. Between the Government and a company a captain's position is between, the devil and the deep sea."—Christchurch "Truth." . Sunday 1 July 15th (says an English paper), was St. Swithin's Day, and rain fell; bub the superstition about the Sainb being a rainmaker has fairy exploded. Statistics extending over 20 year^show th»6 the greatest number of rainy days have followed a dry St. Swithin's. An old man named Williim Roberts alleges that he was knseked down, robbed and injured in Hobson-streeb lasb night by two men. He was taken to the Hospital, suffering from injured ribs, and later on the police arrested a man named Lawson in connection with the affair. ■ ■ A battle with slugs—"R on S" victorious* Ask your grocer for square tin.— (Advfc.)