TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 78, 1 April 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bright weather continues. ■All Fools' Day.' : '' ', ; Art Exhibition opens on Wednesday. ""' ' Last two nights of the Opera Company. , Paruoll defeated Gordon on Saturday and secured tho cup. All tho coins, etc., stolon from the Museum have been recovered. Monthly meeting of Lodge Ara in fch« - Freemasons' Hall this evening. There was a -bumper house to witness *• La Maecofcte " on Saturday. Thar* will be about 300 pictures on ex-... hibition this year in the Choral Hall. Preparations are already being made for the Auckland Chrysanthemum Show. Grand farewell concert of Mr E. Steven- ' son in the City Hall on Thursday next. I i Petjty-officer'Gr. Spinley, of the Ponsbnby" * Navals, was tho winner of the Clark Cup. ! Mr Murroll, New; Zealand manager for '"' Messrs Huddarb, Parker, and Co., is now in : town.-.--,., .',: - ' „;:-^: ■: , ...'■ : .. -. ' ; The Assessment Court sab to-day for th«t ' purpose of hearing objections to the valuation list. ■ . ; ,-.', '■>»■•. i It i 3 said that His Excellency Lord Glaß* ; gow will open the bazaar in connection * with the Drill-ehed. *■;, " A young man named Leopold Neumagen fell over the wharf on Saturday eveniug, but was speedily rescued. . ..._. o'The Bricklayers' Arms Hotel, Chapel- . street, was broken into on Saturday night *'.*• and a sum of money stolen. ' '" Thore was a good attendance at tbo meeting of the North Shore Amateur Ath- , lotic and Cycle Club on Saturday.- . h • The proposal to raise a loan of £1,800 to-' supply tho Arch Hill district with water,), was riot carried at the poll on Saturday.: ' The Rev. E. \Valker, of the New' Zealand Alliance, ia on a short lecturing tour in the district between town and the Kai-. l , para. .'"V ■ •-' ■ ■ ■■■ >'.-■■-. ■■ ■ :■- -tfy ■■■. ~. Both the Government;pomologisfs will be present at tha Intercolonial, Conference of" v Fruitgrowers to^ bo hold ab Hobarb on bha 22nd i'hst. ' ' ' " ' ' •- ' A motion in favour of Home "Rule to England, ■ Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, 1 has been carried in the House of L-ommone ( by 12S votes'to 102; ' ' ' ' l '.' Tho Government has granted-;:£.1O towards ■ tho expenses of a delegate from the Auckland ' Fruitgrowers' Association ito tha:" '...: Hobart'FruitConference. " '/.'■"" ; v ""; > Tho export lasb week of the. Westporb * ;; Coal Company was 3,416 tons, and Of the Cardiff" Coal "Company 1,035 tons. Tha' Groymouth coal export was 2,928 tons, and . the timber 'export feet. ' The Bishop of Melanesia iiibV the'VSfe.; :" Barnabas' Associates and those interested in ,';. : the Melanesian mission thisafterrioon at t)r. '- ; " Kiuder's, Re'mue'ra.'andsubmittedaschemej f : for the' exteusibn of the Association'^, fieldl': .of.work. *.. .. '" ' '■'" i. ' : v' . ■."'., \ ' The* Baroness BurdetbCoubts -is 'very}! fond of all kinds of animals and birdsi Ac: her Highgateresidence, Holly Eodgoj*there; . is an extraordinary collection of them, in- .. oludinjj goats,' llamas, donkeys, robi&B,v cockatoos, nightingales, etc, .' . It is the opinion of; some'clever women' •. thab the profeasioaal success of ,their. ■■; sex, ia nob afc all';conducive to matri-;' mony. The average' working f woman does not marry. " { Men, they say, admire' * arid'- esteem" ths' workings woman;-; sh^ i»I spires their respect, holds their confidence, . I appsal^to'itheir^inEeri^c^'l^b^ ! their hearts. ' < " X ;Ib:,is alleged ■ that* iti large jirovinciali idr^ssmaking and millinery establishmonts, .;, in bhe Old Country, pressure-^nob only-; moral bub physical—h; brought to bear on . the ypung ; ladieß who .sorve'in the . 'Vtry-l ': jngon", departments in .order, toenaiire an slim, and thin waiab,; the. better to. show o'tF the mantles they* puh on-for the* v. alluremenfei of. prospective > purchasers.', Their employers' motto ia : "Tho Blimmer the waist the higher the wages." . ; '