TAME TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 135, 7 June 1895, Page 1

TAME TALK.

■ Football ab Potter's to-morrow.' | Oscar Wilde is picking oakum in gaol, I The Passion Play, at the Opera House t&§J evening... '!■'■■ ■ : • ' • , iv.- .... Races at Ellerslie to-morrow $nQ ' Monday. -\ Supreme Court criminal .session still going on. ■ Adelaide has floated a 3| per cent, loan-©! £311,000 afc par. ■ ' v-.. Pollard's Lilipnbians open in the Opera: House to-morrow. _^ Mr Lawry, M.H.R., spoke ab Waita'a Hall, Mount Eden, lasb nij;ht. . s ? --, When one is intoxicated by laugb.ing.gaa oughb one to be called aiHiiehb ? Some twenty persons applied.for relief4d •. the Charitable Aid Board yesterday. .-■■■■>; ■■"■ ; A eaboplefof the Taranaki oil may ba seen ab Sharlaud'e, in Shortfand'Bbreeb. Daring murder .at Maeterton yesterday' afternoon, A man shot dead in the sbreeb. Mayor Holland; does not) believe that every man should have a vote ia municipal;;«;'elections. The New Zealand postal notO3, issued under Acbo^Parliament, are now ready for circulation. \ ;■ ">-^^>! The; sanitary condition Gf the city waS; > discussed ab the meeting of the City Couni cil lasb night. ■ t.\ '.. ' ■'"- i The Technical School will be.opened bti ."■':'-' Monday;, nighb by the President),", Bit) MauriceO'Rorko. X. * • The Canadian Parliament, by a majority^ of 58, has thrown out a Bill to extend bha i <■..■ franchißa to^omen. ■: < " ;< One and a-half inches of rain fell daring j the twenty-four, hours prior to half-paab, nine yesterday morning.- ' •""--., ■ Councillor Courtney says there are drains^ in Ponsonby thatany doctor would consider enough bo cause a plague. t The Auckland Chess Glub held Ifcs annual meeting yesterday, evening,' when cerfcainj formal business was transacted. . " Onebunga having failodi to appoint a day, for the half-Holiday, an Order-in-Council fixes \Vednesday for shops bo close. Mr Farrell thinks thab the Ccancil; should, on behalf of the city, control the, tramways, light and water of the city. ' The South Australian 'Parliamentopened yesterday. The- reciprocal treaty with, New Zealand was mentioned in the Governor's speech. ■■•'■■■• '■■ ! , Lord Hopetoun has been praising tlia' noble qualities of the. Victorians to bis Scotch friends, and predicts a greafcfttfcura for the colony. >i The Miners' Conference fitting Tat Paris' "]' have as yeb been unable to come: bo ail ,'..-. ; agreement as to the besb method of1 improving the condition of the trade. Mr Lawry thinks it very probable that a scheme for borrowing for the construe- > bion of railways will bo submitted to' Par« liaruoQb during the coming session. Too City Council" has agroed to . tha extension of the lease for the; • tramways asked' Tor. on behalf of a: proposed com« . pany starting electric cars in Auckland. ■ The Gazette contains; proclamations of the Merivalo Estate, - Southland, sas Crowa ' land ; of fcho chauge of name of Gr^ytown, Otago, to Allanton, and Oxford, Auckland, to To Rau. - '\ ,£A Smith-,-"! say, Jones, I don'b wanfeffiTO " your old cans and boots and thingsibhro^tr over into my garden."" Jones (hia neigh\ 'bour)—"You haven'tgob■'em all; 1 divided*. them equally with Browu, on tho othor ■eide:" " ■ It is related thab a lieutenant ot a qua boat found the responsibility o£ a mediciner chesb too much for him.■'•; immediatelylh^ % was off soundings the gallant officer mustered all hands, and divided the con* tents of the che3fc equally. , % A woman and her husband in Chrisb-;' church have been awarded £600 damages by the Supreme Court in an action broughb byj her against a local firm of drapers for injuries received through a roll of mabbing in the defendant's shop' falling on her. First householder.:. " Didn't 'ib ever, ': sbrike you thab your servant is) imper-, tinently inquisibiye•?!'■• Second householder r "My dear fellow, it's only tho way,of;a privileged old family retainer ; why, would you believe ib, that girl has been with ua over six weeks." The Town Clerk has written to Sir Georqa, Grey asking him to obtain if possible copies of the last two volumes of the" Voyage of>'■•-: ■ H.M.S. Challenger," for: the Free Library,' which aocording to Chamber's Magazine for. April lasb, has ju&b been -issued, and Boma copies are ' now ; being distributed (free) by the Home Government. The cos1; is stated to be £100 per, volume. Libble Girl—"Mrs Browri^-ma warita to> know if she could borrow a dozen eggs. She wants to pub 'em under alien." Neighbour—"So you've gob a hen sitfcing, have - , you ? I' didnlb know you kepb hens.'' Little Girl—"No, ma'am, we'don't; buft • Mrs Smith's going to /end us a hea that's going; to seb, an1 ma thought if you'd lend us some eggs we'd find a nesli, : ourselves.": . . — A servant at a London hotel hadcharga on one Bpecial occasion of the hate of the guests who went in 'to dine. His accuracy and promptness in giving every man- his own chapeau as came oub of bhe diningroom exeiced one gentleman's curiosity. " How did you know so well that this was my hab?" he asked. A smile lighted up bhe face of the man of brushes as he bowed politely. "Sir," he said, "-I'didn't know; it was yours ; but ibs bho one you guv me'!" Jusb bought, an English traveller's stock of ladies'plush mantles arid clobh jackets, afc 50 per cent, off Home prices. Selling at half-price. See windows. Wilson, MoCullagh, and Co., Queen-streeb.—-(Advb.) '