TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 125, 27 May 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Blowing. Rotomahana in from Sydney. The Ringarooma leaves for Lyttelton boday. • Birthday honours showered over tha Empire. The banana crop in the islands is looking very well. • '. : The football mabches ou Saburday wera largely patronised. The Newton larrikins aro particularly subdued nowadays. Mr William Waldorf Astor has an income of £1,600,000 a year. ' ; Mr John Birch gives his third popular concerb this evening. The Napier and Devonport Chess Clubs are arranging for a match. A dissolution of the Home Parliament is regarded as very probable. Some men never learn the difference between education and conceit. Case of alleged smuggling of tobacco being dealb wibh by bhe police. Russia's intrigues in the East are said to be disheartening the Japanese. • The self-denial week in aid of the.Mel- ; bourno hospitals realised £2,000. Oscar Wilde has been 'sentenced to, two years' imprisonment with hard labour.' j Mr C. E. Jones lectures in the City Hall I to-morrow on Parliamentary Side-shows. Organ recital by Mr Arbhur Towsey it. St. Matthew's Church to-morrow evening. Men show their character in nothing more surely than in what they think laughable. The only love in which a man haa no rival is in the wonderful love he generally has foe himself. A lady teacher haa been found drowned in Invercargill, under distressing circumstances. Mr H. D. Bell, M.H.R., has.been advocating the severest measures for the control of the liquor traffic. The War Office has accepted a tender foe the supply of Joshua's Australian brandy to the Department. The French BudgotCommittee is strongly hostile to M. Ribot's proposals, and. insist on economy being practised. , There was a large attendance in the. Choral Hall on Saturday, at the second performance of the Bands of Hope. Volunteer Draffen made the highest score ab the annual competition of the City Rifles . on Saturday for tho belt and medal. Lord Rosebery has granted the widow, of , tha late Righb Rev. Dr. Pearson, formerly Bishop of Newcasble, a civil list) pension of £50. The annual distribution of prizes in connection with the Hebrew school took place at the Synagogue Chambers yesterday morning. An agitation is being carried on in India urging Great Britain to retain Chitral, 'as both cheaper and safer than to abandon ib as proposed. The Marquis of Breadalbane has refused the Governorship of New South Wales.-^ Many applications havo beenTeceivedrfor the position. The Government has taken formal possession o"f the Midland Railway on the ground of breach of conbracb on the part of | the Company. The Governmenb refuses to concede the suggestion of tho British Home Secretary that bhe request for the extradition of Dr. Hertz bo withdrawn. ' \ The impgrb'.dufiesib^ "* Tahiti. Society Islands, on all goods othei* than French landed in the French islands in the Eastern Pacific. Seventeen new names were entered on the roll of the Auckland Technical School on Saturday evening, making the total of intending students seventy. •The neighbours of the present Lord Tennyson think ho is a great poet. One of them recently remarked to a stranger: " He carries on the busiuessnow." The Westporb Coal. Company exported 4,250 tons of coal last week, and the Cardiff Company*499 tons. Greymouth shipped 2,608 tons and 71,756 feet of timber. Mr Lawrence Cussen, Government Surveyor in the Waikato, has beon sent by the Government to the Urewera country in connection with the triangulation survey. There was a large audience at the Opera Houso on Saburday to witness "Life for ■Life." The piece will be repeated to-night, i and to-morrow " The Sunny South " will bo sbaged. Magnificent specimens of alluvial gold j have been brought to Perth from McPherson and party's claim (Siberia). Altogether 3000- have been taken oub, one piece weigh- | ing three pounds. The tenanb farmers of Timaru, ab* a meeting held on Saturday, determined to , do their besb bo geb the Governmenb to pass the Harbours and Education Reserves Bill and the Fair Rent Bill. The British Chambers of Commerce waited on Lord Rosebery, bhe Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the PostmasterGeneral in support of the resolution at tha Canadian Conference favouring a subsidy to Pacific steamers. O'Brien won the League Wheelmen's Mile Championship Test Race at Sydney, beating Mclnnes and , Lewis. He will; therefore, represent New South Wales in the Australian Mile Championship to be run in Melbourne nexb Saturday, A man named Patrick Sullivan accidentally fell into the harbour from the Queenstreet Wharf early yesterday morning. "Constable Flavell heard the splash, and assisted to recover the man, who goto on to the watermen's step 3 none the worse for his dip. ■ '.:' J... The honeymoon is threatened. A correspondenb of a London contemporary proposes its abolition, or atleasb its reduction bo a period of two or three days. He himself has jusb returned from his wedding brip, dispirited with the weather and the expense. Mr Hyman Marks has left £5.000 for tha establishment of a ward in Christchurch Hospital; £5,000 to be invested for tho benefit of destitute patients ; £2,000 for the relief of tho deserving poor in Canterbury ; and £500 to tho trustees of the Jewish Congregation in Christchurch. Mr Pauley ha 3 been talking aboub tha marvellous success which has attended the production of "Charley's Aunt." He said it had made more money than any piece ever produced. He had twenty-five com-, panics playing ib now in various countries of the world, and up to bhoopresent bhe play had made over half a million of .* money. By command of tho German Emperor, the officers una mon of the Berlin garrison have been forbidden to smoke in the principal streets of the city. This prohibition is said to have been issued in consequence of irregularities in the salute offered to His Majesty and the members of the Royal family. Up to 1864 tho Prussian soldiers wero not allowed to emoke in the streets of any town or village.