TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Matabeles again defeated. Cretans appeal to Greece. Taviuni due from the Islands. Cargo steamer Waikato due from London. The Consulates in Crete are crowded with refugees. A decisive battle is expected shortly in Matabeleland. A daring " sfeicking-up " case is reported from Melbourne. The Governor goes to Oborohanga and Rotorua to-morrow. " To be great, you muab be guilty."— Sudermann's " Magda." Two white lepers died ab Little Bay Lazaret, Sydney, lately. The arrivals in the colony in April were 1,136, and the departures 1,680. The feeling in Pretoria is said to have become intense against tbe Government. There are 25 cases set down for hearing ab tha Supreme.Courb criminal sessions next week. The Rev. J. Blaikie was fare welled ab the Tabernacle lasb nighb. He leaves nexb week for Victoria. The s.s. Taupo is expected back bera early next week from her initial trip to Tahiti and Raretonga. He knew what he was talking about."Waiter!" "Yessir." " Have you any idea how' long my steak will be?" " Yeseir —aboub bhree-an'a-'arf inches, sir." The Maoris have been going in for brass bands enthusiastically of late. JKaikohe, in the North, is the latest sebblemeSblto stark the native band. Over £BQsh_s already been subscribed towards purchasing tha instruments. Mr D. Coe, settler at Pirongia, Waipa, while engaged on co-operative road work in bhe bush, hid a narrow escape from death the other day. A tawa tree was felled and in falling Mr Coe was buried under the head of ib. He was taken out safely, how* ever, and managed to walk home. The Wellington Brunner Relief Com* mittee passed a resolution to hand tha money to the Public Trustee, and to ask bhe Premier to arrange for the free administration of the fund, as the one per cent, estimated by the Public Trustee would absorb too large a proportion of the funds annually, ■ , -"'. y -. In Eastern countries medical services must be given to women by women, or nob at all. Io ancient Greece the objection of ladies to male doctors was insuperable; and thab the prejudice has in greab part vanished in the West is nob so much a proof of its unreasonableness as thab use has accustomed women to the absence of female medical attendants. Westralian miners are complaining that there are ne women on the goldfields, except ot the gold-washed variety, and the Coolgardie man, therefore, calls upoa the women of Australia to go over and help him. For many years statisticians; have been agreed thab there are too many women in the older Australian provinces, and now is the opportunity for every surplus female to go to bhe West. "Trilby" (says a Sydney paper) is neither a greab play nor a mere firework show. It is jusb a simple, unusual story, made more sentimental by music, of three men's honest affection for a weak-minded angel who gets bypnobised by a Jew under: garishly melodramatic circumstances. The vulgar mind appreciates only the Bhowy melodrama, whilst the better-class intellect ia chiefly caughbrby the play's pretli|;'«eiifei.-. nsenfc. Both varieties of -human inbor.-b are new and original. Esam and Arthur hold a sale of unredeemed pledges ab their mart on Monday next ab eleven o'clock.