TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 207, 6 September 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

« . Westealia arrived from Sydney. Auckland Institute meets to-night. Italian warships have been fixed on at Crete. "Dr. Bill" at the Opera House to- , night. S.s. Anglian due this afternoon from the South. A water course—a series of temperance lectures. The Westport coal export for last week was 6,133 tons. Ideas are a capital interest only in the hands of talent. Of all ruin, the ruin of man is the saddest to contemplate. Active hostilities are in progress on the Afghan frontier. Supreme Court Criminal Sittings were resumed to-day. Mr Tallis Trimnell. the well-known musician, is dead. Tasmania wreck nautical enquiry will be resumed next Friday. Flattery is like Cologne water, to be sniffed at, not swallowed. To remember—to forget. Alas! this is what makes us young or old. Is a bride to be called a blockheads-imply because she is wooed an* one ? That happiness may enter the soul, we must first sweep it clean of all imaginary evils. Another robbery has taken place in Auckland, boots' being the booty this time. An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette. Amy : Mabel, do you ever think about marriage ? Mabel: Think is no name for it • I worry. " What is the stuff that dreams are made of ?" passionately inquires a poet. In one brief word—pies. Mr Thorpe, of Ellerslie, had a narrow escape from being gored to death by a bull on Saturday nijrnt. Captain C. E. Hood, late of the steamer Anglian, arrived here from Sydney this morning by the s.s. Westralia. I would fain coin wisdom—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. The shoe worn by a horse is a wrought iron shoe, but when the horse loses the shoe from its foot it becomes a cast iron shoe. The Maritana plain and fancy dress ball will take place in the Choral Hall os Wednesday, and is expected to be a great success. An Italian ship which arrived at Sydney a few days ago from Valparaiso, brought across a shipment of 400 tons of hay, the produce of the South American republic. Last week, the sum of £469 was paid by tbe Union S.S. Company in wages, to lumpers on the Auckland wharves, shipping business having been unusually brisk. Mrs Dando was alighting from her carriage at the Congregational Church, Oneliunga, yesterday, when she fell on the kerbstone and fractured two of the bones of her left arm. " Your father has an idea you are going to marry a worthless, good-for-nothing fellow; but, aha! I will fool him r " Gracious ! you are not going to break off the engagement, are you ?' Detective Herbert is now stationed in Auckland, instead of on the gold-fields, instructious to that effect having been given by tbe Hon. T. Thompson before" he left for Wellington last week. At the Manawata and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Society's meeting, it was decided to hold a ram and ewe show, giving substantial prizes, about the first week in February. "You can't alius tell whah ter put de credit by lookin' at de surface," said Uncle Eben. "De cork on de fishin'-line dances aroun' an' 'tracts a heap o' 'tension. But it's de hook dats doin' business." Miss Florence Esdale, an Auckland young lady, has secured a three years' engagement with a London music hall syndicate. She will take a leading part in a Christmas pantomime at Bradford of this yearThe Arehibald-Currie steamship Darius arrived at Madras on August 25th from Sydney, Newcastle and Melbourne. Her Sydney agents are in receipt of advice that she had a prosperous voyage only losing three horses out of her shipment of 406. . At St. David's Presbyterian Church yesterday five elders, Dr. J. S. McLaurin, Messrs James Miller, Peter McNab, Samuel McAuley, and Charles La Roche, were ordained, and Mr John Burns was inducted. The Rev. R. Scott West conducted the service. Special services were held at the Oneliunga Wesleyan Church yesterday, in celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the Sunday-school. There were large audiences at each service, and the sermons were preached by the Revs. S. Lawry and W. J. Williams. It appears that Mr W. E. Payne, Auckland City Treasurer, was not actually dead when tbe last cablegram regarding him arrived here from London. He died yesterday. The output of gold from the Rand dis- - trict (South Africa) from January Ist to; June 30th totals 1,358,4310z, comparing with 1,054,5030z for a like period in 1896, and 1,113,5470z in 1895. The increase for the whole of the present year promises to be at least half a million ounces. On her last trip from Sydney to Van--couver, the R.M.s. Miowera delivered her mails nearly three days ahead of time. On August 31st the mailboat returned to Port Jackson, having given another illustration' of her excellent steaming capabilities, themails being landed a day and a-half in. advance of contract time. A useful caution to the drawers of cheques is deducible from a recent decision. of the English Court of Appeal, which, while reversing the judgment of a lower court, really presents no new aspect of the law. The gist of the matter is this? That if drawers of cheques send them by post in discharge of debts at the creditors' request the act of posting* is taken as a delivery of the cheques, even if they be stolen in transit. Without such request, however, senders are responsible for risks of loss. Now opened a very extensive and choice collection of newest black and coloured dress fabrics for the coming season.— Smith and Caughey.—Advt.