TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 10 May 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■'Market-day.. ~;-;'.:-:■•■•■;■■;■:-";'-v'-'-y . ■ ~■, v - y-;a Bright,\;ool wdStyier. f Union Parliament opens tG-nighb. There is a talk of laying electric tramways in Auckland. . ' "-> . ■■■•■' Amy Vaiughan'a Amazons at the City Halt ta-morrow evening. - . : A The '" A " Babbery of Artillery paraded in the Drill-shed laab night. A: despatch containing the Erteaditibn Treaty with Germany is gazetted. ■; The" Tariff ; Commissioners are now in Wellington preparing their report. Tho Union Steamship''Company's steamer > Taupo arrived from Fiji lasc highfc.. It is reported that "a quartz reef has been ?1 discovered in the Urewera country. It is proposed to form the present Whangarei Town Board into a borough. 1,320 sacksof pumice were shipped by the * Mahihapua to Wellington yesterday. . The Auckland Band of Hope Union held its fifteenth annual meeting last night. Tenders will be called at once for the repair of the dolphins at Calliope Dock. ■ ■ Scene, in the House of Common?. „' O'Donovan Kossa ejected from the gallery, i Meeting of the Workers' Political Keform League in the Foresters' Hall to-night. '"Mr Adam 'Cairns took his scab at bho - City Council-last nighb and; was "welcomed^ * * by the Mayor. .: The residents of the capital of Nicaragua hav.e subscribed the indemnity demanded by the British. - Concert in Sb-XJeorge's Hall .bo-nighbiii ',:■,: ;|i aid of the widow and family of the late" - Byron Hilditch. . .. The firsfof the Devonporb socials will bo held to-night in the Holy Trinity 1 School* ■ ■ room, D.c yon port. , * ' A prisoner under sentence of seven years ' for burglary, escaped from Wellington Gaol '. yesterday afternoon. "A Christchurch firm lately senb one .of ■ ! Ltheir steam chaff-cuttera to Scotland,, to the , order of a gentleman in Kinross. './'; I Queen's Birthday Gathering singers .ar9 I reminded that practice will be continued ; in Wesley Hall this (Friday) evening, i A dinner-party will ba given at Governj'menb' House ithis evening, ; for which a numberot invitations have been issued. The Gazette notifies that :W.. E. Dixon; of 'Sydney,; is recognised as Hawaiian Coosul-General for the Australasian colouioe. i The total imports into the colony during the quarter ended Alarch 3lst, were valued at £1,755,672, and tho total exports ab £3,564,840. ... ' " A large number of pupils have enrolled themselves in connection with the classes ' to be established by the Auckland Technical School Association. ! The lands of J. C. Anderson, of Stirling, jin the Molyneaux district, are declared in-■. footed places under the Stock Act, as it is reported swine fever exists among thepigs. ,; ; Owing to failing health, Mr: Thomas Seaman has had to resign the offices heldby him' under the' Birkenhead Council. The workhas been entrusted to his'son, Mr.T. ~ W. Seaman. ■■■'■,■ i?1 : ThePibt-streeb WesleyanLiterary Society held, their usual weekly meeting last even- '■ . ing,-when Mr N. A. Winter, 8.A., read an excellent eesay upon the "Advantages of ' Discontent." . ■ The beneficial tendency, of the legislation of the presonb ftovernme^b was discussed an tho mooting of tho St. Alban's J-itoravy Association la^D night. The' o< "l-l^. *, "i~ iri'-the^affirmabive. " • ' - ■: Head Mistress : ;■" Miss Balfour, 1 aaw >N you kissthab Tarleton boy. What is the ■ meaning of 'that?" Sweeb Girl Under-, graduate :" I can spell it, Misa Grayson, but I can't define it." .. , Ab the meeting of • the City Council last' night, Mr Hewson withdrew his motion, requesting that' the motion asking'tho, Mayor U> declare Wednesday afternoons a ■ half-holiday be rescinded. ■■ ' •; Wellington heads tho list of the towns of, . ' the colony for the value of imports durihfr the quarter ended March 318b 3 and Lytbel-:■■■■■. ' ton is top in exports..' The figures are respectively £486,037 and £722,079. . ■ ~ In bis budget, eubinitted lasb night;. Mr Reid, Premier of New" South Wales, intimates the intention bf:bhe Government to wipe oub the whole- of the- Bibbs duties, and substitute a land tax of a penny on the "^ £ with an income tax. ■ • ; ' ' Tramp (to pretty cook):" Shay,'will you bo a siether to' me ?" N'orah' (flirtatious) :■ " Why don'fc you ask me to marry • ■?"■ Tramp : " Becaze, if yewas married 1 you'd lose-your place. Bub ye can -foQcl ~ : your relatives. Oi want a meal, nob'a : woife." Ib is calculated bhab by constructing a dam ab'the Nihobapu Falls, sufficient ;wator would be obtained to supply iVuck- , land for nine months of tho year without : usiug pumps, and thab the supply would ba ample for the requirement) of the- city during the next 50 years.' •"If," said'her father, "you succeed ici making £10,0G0 during the nexb two "years out of youjr business yoli shall have my daughter. If you fail—" -"But I;shali nob fail," interrupted the youthful suitori enthusiastically. '• Will you kindly'tell me," queried the old financier, coldly, ' ." how you intend to make such a-sum of ' money without.", . .