TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 110, 9 May 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Heavy rain lasb'night. Much neoded for cho water supply. ■■' „ "Singer's art exhibition ia open everyday in Queen-street.. > -. , ...The Criminal Cpnr 6 Sittings opca on the 3rd-of; next month. Excursion for school children to Te Aroha by rail on Saturday nexb.,, ■ , : The Hauroto brought) an English mail from, Sydney lasb night. Second day of the. Auckland' Trotting Club's Meeting on Saturday next. The Sb. John's Wealeyan Church, Pon- - eon by,,held its' annual soiree laeb evening. Mr, D. B» CruickaHank died very eud-..:. / denly at his residence yesterday-evening. The crisis in the Eaabia practically at an , end. Russia has stopped her preparations for war. ' ■ . .MriDayid-Goldie, accompanied by Mies . Gpldje, loft by the Ocalau for bbc Islands yesterday. The second of Mrs Bagot Birch's eni*xbainmonta cotnoa off on .Monday week in ;, the City Hall. A boy named Berbi©^Anderson,met with a somewhat painful accident at Tunis, Thames, yesterday. ■ : The Volunteers have now jasb £100 to. , spend on the Drill-shed- building as the .? result of the bazaar, The Devonporb Navalß paraded in the Drill-shod last nighb under Lieutenant" CornmanderParkar. . ( . v . ,Tht) anniversary of St. Stephen's Presbyteriau Sunday-school, will, bes.held,in the Poneonby Hall .to-night. : ; ■ ; The Governor and party,expressed ihe'nj- '.' ! selves very, pleased wich. their visit) to bha ; Nihotapu Falls yesterday. , , The Band of Hope Union bolda its annual , business meeting this evoning in the Weeley,Hall, Karangahape Road. . /There was a large gathering' ab the tirgt of the.Maritana Socials which -was held in > t Sb. George's Hall, Newton, lnat nieht., ; Madame Golde'natedt and Mr Montßg'i" give a grand dramatic and musical entertainment in the Opera House next Monday. In spico of the cutting off of the water-••-: supply lor a portion of tho day in th<? suburbs, the consumption of water ir, Parnell has actually increased/ . . The English cricketers, who have arrived in England from thoir visit.to Australia, de- < * clared thenißelves charmed, with the hospitality extended them whilo in tan colonies. Owing to the increasinßcoldnesß in the . weather, the attendance; afi the public bnthe has fallen very low. ; .The;custodian hna commenced to pub tho place in ordor for next season. Plankington— "I understand , that you had to go to law about thab property, that was left'you.-JHadyoU: a smart lawyer 1' Bloomfield— "I should say I had. He ' ow.ns the property now." ■, '. ; - Si?ter: "You have told me her name, -; ■ yet I know .no more than I did before. lei < " she .beautiful?" Brother : ~<, " Beautiful t ..Why,-she could mako even the "pr<--e ,- fashions look artistic ?" On Monday the, following games will be playerl off at tho Auckland, Bowling CluD « green for Major Pirie's.consolation' prim :— Holland- v. Thomson, Hogman v. Meunie, ■.., ■ and Oliphanb v. Moritzaon. ~ . : Upwards of; 300 persons, includi/iir His Excsllency the Governor, Lady Glasti'W. and party, werei preao.'nbin,b!be ; Choral Hall, llasb night, whon tho,. Ht. George's Rowing j Club.gave its annual dance. ' Brown (filKog- bhe'Stoekinge): -My icon i? I caught in the rab-trap.- Thw is aiiic^.placa to set bucli a.thing. Mrs Brown It, l7ffi^gsi £&. tpjbellyouy, pnyrdear,^ thab^Johnnlo^afliid he wa9 going toVatali'SanbaClausT" ' ' English..traveller—What is tho matter? I Valet—Oh, sir ! Tho vessel has struck ca I a rock and is sinking... English travoikir— How annoying 1 My dpctor, has forbiddea me bo swim so soon after.baying dined. !>■ ; 4lHere I have to talk bhreo long hours . before you will'even lebme have a dollar." "Well, isn't bhat protty good pay for do in 2 wbabjypu take a delighb in? You would talk anyhow, even if you didn * ireo & ! cent." ■: . v ,_,; ~ , ■~,-■„ • .■..••.■ ** • Mr AIL Hill, bhe clever young musician and qpmposer.is at presenb ,up be ! holiday visit from Wellington. Ifc is (probable thathis iriends will have the ojjporttjpity of tiear.ing.tiim in., public during his sbay hero. . : . j^*. A certain Glaseow,,Councillor, on beHigpromoted to. boiliedom, gavo a. gra^d- « supper, ab which his healbh w*r in connection with his new digniiy. Iv tho course-of his. reply belaid, "I canna bull sayrm.kind o" entitled to the honour, lor I've gope-through a.the, various ptages o' degradation to reach ib " , ..MrCaine, of literary fame, was related Isp the late Tho Vtolemor was, as all know ,who knew him,,; an inveberato punster. Dining with'Mr Caine t| - and making his, quips, the hoab . said, "Graham, with all your.wit,,it would^take even you some time to make ,a p^n'ju^on - : my name." "Indeed !" eaid v G'rabam, lookiDg up quizzically. " Don't"*'bo in" a hurry, Came.''