TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 84, 8 April 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Am Exhibition open daily. 03car Wilde has been arrested. Premier concert on Wednesday nexb, t Strained relations between France an^ A England, ' > Mr! John Fuller's first concerb of tho * season in the City Hall to-night*. A Meeting of the association for the pro* t motion of technical knowledge this even, ing. ". \ ."■■:-' ■•■' The police are taking care thab the clow ; season for oysters ia the Manukau is observed. ' Pirani, M.H.R., has in conjunction with*A; his brother purchased tho "Manawatu ■Standard..";, - The West End Rowing; Club intend, to,; have two stump outriggers built by Messrs* Logan Bros. - \ Ai • Assessment Court sab to-day, when the objections to the valuations in South Ward: were dealt With. ; * _ : The dentists defeated the chemists by. one run in a cricket match^layed in tho i Domain on Saturday. *. The Shaw," Savill and Albion Company's ' • steamer Gothic arrived in Wellington'yes* J terday.from London, .- f Mr Justice Conolly is in town, havingarrived by the Takapuna from New Ply? mouth on Saturday night. Wesbport exported 5,113 tons of coal lasV week, while Greymouth exported 2,333 tohß' of coal and 203,010 feeb of timber. Mr Murphy in his v service last night at' Avondale, spoke of the marked increase of Sabbath desecration in Auckland. The Sb. George's Rowing Club,leave~by; the Takapuna this evening forfthei^ictOn A regatta, in which bhey will tako part. A young man named Allcock; of Capelstreeb, Arch Hill, died ab midnight from tha effects of a fall from, his horse yesterday evening. '.-•■ . _',:.. ' A cricket match took place in the Domain on Saturday between representative teams' from the " Herald " and Stab, and ended in a draw. ■'':■: ;,',:... , ',' '..'-'A. '» '' Thero was an alarm of fire on Saturday caused by a chimney in the residence of Mr - Andrew Dunn, Nelson-street, saving' caughb fire.. ...■:':■.>.■:-:■:■■. Ib is reported thab peace negotiations between China and Japan have been stopped' owing to the xebehbion of Port Arthur by;: the Japanese. , , * . It is said that some of the Sydney unemployed speak of sending a delegate to] America to collect subscriptions on bebialf of the Sydney nbein'ployed.' '•,)'-? The annual exhibition of the Canterbury Society of Arts '-. was opened on Saturday.The exhibits are? much fewer in'number than those of the Auckland exhibition. He—" Why do* you wish you had been born a man?" She—"A man has.somo one big annoyance every day, while a woman suffers from forty odd little ones." ' ' The Wesleyans of the North Shore have erected a new school-house, and a sale of * work is to be held on Wednesday, in the Devonporb Public Hall, to assist in paying, for the same. Tho Boers spend no less than 3_ millions sterling a year on intoxicating liquors— thab is to say, aboub £16 a head.'; The, average for - the United Kingdom is not ' much more than £3 10s. ' ' A /There was a special meeting of the Auck« land Trades, and Labour Council on Satur--'day to instruct the three delegates who are to represent the Council at the LabbuVCdti■terence" 'in"*' ClirJetGhurcb ' dnrjng"J!jt9fc«r week. _ A" The Masonic Newspaper Company (Limited), whichxhas been formed to ac-. quire the copyright of the New Zealand' "Craftsman "and remove the. place of publication from Auckland to Wellington, is to be registered forthwith. " Now, waiter," said a new customer in an eating house, where he waa more than";, doubtful regarding the quality of the fare, .*.* here's something for you in advance."''' ''Now," looking ab the lisb of "dishes', A : "whab would you advise?" ; Waiter-. (coa«A'A fidently)—" Anobher restaurant." '*• A very graceful and generous act on tha part of the Earl of Aberdeen has been the; promise to educate and maiutain, until the age of twenty-one, the two sons ot. the late' Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada. This .offer by tho Governor':General- has been greatly appreciated by> the Canadians. ... Mrs Penfield—"My husband has feund>AA way by which he says I am of t the greatest A help to him in his literary work," Mrs. Hillaire—" How nice that musb bo for you^ my dear ! Bub how are you able to do ib ?"/ Mrs Penfield—','As soon as I see him at hia A desk I go into another room, and keep per-* : 't'ectly quiet unbil he has finished." ;-. WhenMr Nesbib,; tho well-known Ader* laide Q. C., was in ", London recently, a gentleman at one of the Bohemian clubs inquired, •" By the by, old man, whab place ia Adelaide the capital of?" And while tho lawyer was trying to swallow his indig-' nation and speak coherently,-Mr Harold Frederic, the author, remarked, .^ If it's a secret, you know^ we don't- wish to press' * the question." >; • "•..■-:'■■•''./'■■■-'■''A.-..■*,