TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 236, 3 October 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cold bVeeMi. ... ■.-. China invaded. - ; . . s The Japa are advancing. ■ \ Stab Summary to-morrow;. Rival steamers gone South. S. a. Taraweralefb for Sydney. ; *' The Czar has gone to the Crimes. ; ■ ■ Japanese army is marching on Pekin. \ \ ; A Ruaso-British " incident", is cabled/* / Mrß Besant's firat lecture in Auckland ot » Saturday night. - M < . .» -r Auckland, Presbytery sab from b'ix o'clock till ton lasb evening. ' *•>' * Diacugßion over the Auckland—Taranakr railway i.n the House. • ? T .* ' Daily executions in the Chinese army-* pourencouragerlesautres. , ':•.£■ ■A start- has- been madeto lay the largflt water mains in Karangahape Road. ■■ ' A £4017s dividend waa paid in one racflt at the Hawke's Bay races yesterday." :• t Anon: Who takes an; ee^by, the tail, or r woman ab her word, soon finds he holds nothing, '- ' '], . ■ ~ ' { . From Tutuila the Samoaq■• VTim§s": hepirs of further fighting an.d tho loaa ot; ■two'liveV.'"''.. V "■'■••'■ \ :"'■':. ■: ■'•v^ ; :6';,; The now town clock i^rapidlyiappro^chVt ing completion. The dials have now beett' placed in position. ' ■ .\ , . < Auckland wtieelmehliotd-i* meetingthif; evening for tho purpose'ef; making'arrange** menfca for the opening of the season.;»' ■ ■■■.f. Ernesb Longfellow, a:son of the poeb»f who resides in Manchester, Mass., h&s -not. literary ability, bub ie'an extraordinarily^ good painter.- -''■'■ .s •■ ■~• ■.■; •■■■' is It is rumoured that Russia U negobiabing for the purchase of most ot the Portuguese colonies, including Gofi in Hindoßtanl and Timor, Eaßb Indies. " , "'■[''■■'■'. '■'■ I The members of th# Ponaonby Football} Club meet in the Oddfellowa' Hall this { evening for the purpose of presenting the; trophies won during the past season.^ < '■ VVomaa to the front again. Miss t Iz». Coghlan, M.B. (Sydney), and Miaa Gracai Clara Stone, M.B. (Melbourne), have been; appointed medical referoeß to the A.M. P.; ■ Society, i 'V, : - ■/■■', v- ■' At the Foresters' Hall to-night,- Mf Aldridge gives ■" A Lantern Tonr Througbi Paleebine," with over fifty coloured vie#s» and several sacred musical items. Admia* sion will be by silver coin.. ■ ' . Ab the Supreme Court, Wangahui; yesterday Arthur Hickford,. who pleaded guilty, to a charge of attempted suicide, was brought' up and released on suretie* ■ amounting to £150 for his appearance when called on. , ;

A fine model of Sfe.Paol's Cathedral, London, is at present) oh view in Queenstreefc. It is made of rkanri gum; arid presents a handsome appearance, j The model is the work .of Mr Charlea White, of ih« Thames Hospital. . ..■'.'. "Man," Bays. J. A. Balfour,."is na longer the final cause of the universe, tha heaven-descended heir of all the ageß. Hitt very existence is an accident, his history a brief and discreditable episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.',' ■'-'? The Weet End Social Clubwind np their very successful season on Friday next, by a plain and ice cream ball in St>. George'e Hall. Tho ball promiaoi; to be a^greab success a,nd . should be quite,. •&; nbVelty.: &, limited number.of tickets will boaßSued. At the Acclimatisa'fciqn , Society'-yeefcer* day, ib was reporto'd fchat only^' six black partridges and ejieht' jfepaul partHd^ea had eurrjved out of a consignment of. fifty game birds from India, shipped at) Calcutta to Auckland. Cause : Our climste;

The ease with which a ScTflpan can pro* cure abundanco of.food 'nurtihc,' indolence. The work of two days suffices to meet t"ha requirements of Beven,» and' he deemV' ib folly to exert) himself. " White man a fool," says he; "he work after ho eat dinner." '

Experienced dry goods shopman: 11 Ladies, have you seen this pattern elsewhere ?" Ladies : " No, we came to you first of all." Experienced shopman,: " Then pardon me if I decline to show ill to you, for if you have just begun shopping you will not buy. here." ,; . / ■ Portraits .-of Sir Maurice O'Rorke, ifayor Holland, Messrs Udy, Dilworth| Gerald Peacock, Jackson Palmer, tyev. Vf; Williams, Bishop Cowie, J. A. Tole, and others appear in the "Graphic" this week in the article on the University College. Thereto also a fine picture of the college buildings. The Young People's Association in cpn-^ nection with the Mount Eden Congrega* tional Church announce a " Shakesperian " entertainment for to-morrow evening.; The" different scenes will be interspersed^ with songs and other musical items. Admission^ is free, and the concert commences at 8' o'clock. . ' ..

With regard to the destruction of eeveii or more villages on about five, miles o£ coast line at Falealili about the time Abua was shelled, the Samcan " Times " states that this damage was dona by a pirty of rebel Atuana returning from Aana after, peace had been arranged between Savaii and Aana. ,

Some time ago the English game of cricket was introduced into Samoa. Cricket became throne, absorbingjnteresjj 'oftße natives, $very r village took' to ifc Not eleven a side,; bub thi*Bj*and forty, aod in one instance two hundred played. Matches lasted for weeks, and ajl vprk, w,as •tor fcfTe time neglected'l^ft&^l&ut.^■-•!,-.. : The''appointment oFLord. Wolsolsyas % field-marshal is supposed to be flipfnificSnt. It is asserted that the Puke of Cambridge intends to resign as Commander-in-Chiel of the British Army, and that the post will be offered to Lord Wolseley for the limited period of five years, at the expiration of which the Duke of Connaughb will succeed him. . ;.■:".'"■

The present executioner in Germany, Herr Reindel, performed his one-hundredth execution recently, and numerous telegrams of congratulation were Benb to him from various parts_of the kingdom. An hour before the execution he received as a tokec of felicitation and good wishes a superb basket of Marechal Niel roses. Roses to a hangman! ■ '

The editor of a Transvaal paper, out o1 curiosity, recently measured a few young Boers standing in front of the. Petersburg Courb-houge. The list was topped by at strapping fellow aged 19, ab 6fb 6£in, and? then came one at 6fb 4iin, fire at 6ft 3in, four at 6fb 2in, seven ab 6fb lin and threa little ones ab the level 6fb. That's a bettor average than even bush Now Zealand can show.

Nob many people know how the name of Bloomer came to be applied to the style of womante dress sometimes called the divided, skirb. Mrs Amelia Bloomer, after whom the garment was christened, resides wibb her husband in Council-Bluffs (U.S.A.). She is now 76 yearß old, and carries her years easily. It was in 1851 that she began to wear the costume which is now known throughout the English-speaking world as the bloomer.

Talmage on the Tarawera eruption: "I* seemed aa if all the hyenas of rage were snarling ah all the flamingoes of beauty. The lake hissed as with ten thousand serpents when tho hot boraba of the moan - tain dropped into ib. The malodorß of burningr iron oxides and magnesia and chlorine and alumina and sulphur filled all the regions approximate with suffocation, strangulation and asphyxia,'"' Bub where w&s at the timg ? v