TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 210, 10 September 1897, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland city loan proposed. Steamer Flora has left for Fiji. Tasmania enquiry resumed next Wednesday. Last day of the Supreme Court criminal session. " Arrah-Na-Pogue " again at the Opera House to-night. Sir Walter Buller left on a trip to Fiji by the s.s. Flora last evening. Nuttall has defeated Cavill for the swimming championship of the world. ' Mrs Matson has been returned at the head of the poll for the Parnell Borough Council. At the Supreme Court a young man has been sentenced to four years' hard labour for assault and robbery. The streets of Auckland are to be lighted with incandescent gas lamps instead of the present lights. Captain E. Stottleft for Fiji last evening by the Flora to assume charge of the interisland steamer Maori at Fiji. The Government steamer Hinemoa ; arrives here this evening from Gisborne i with additional witnesses for the Tasmania J nautical inquiry. I On Wednesday night, at Whangarei, a banquet was given to Mr R. Thompson, M.H.K., by the Whangarei County Council, Mr G. Ross, Chairman of the Council, presiding. ''Didn't I tell you that if you went swimming again I would punish you?" asked the stern father. " I didn't forget," replied Johnnie, whose hair was dripping, " but I can't swim a stroke." " Matches are a nuisance, anyway you iix them." " How?" " Well, if you only take one to light the gas with it invariably goes out." "Yes?" "And if you take two you always have to carry the other one back." _Nonie : " Is your husband as shy now as he was before you married him ?" Laura : "Almost, for then he used to hold his breath with fear, and he does it just now the same when he comes home late from the club." The Elam School of Art Exhibition was well attended yesterday and closed in the evening. The exhibition of drawings and paintings was visited by a large number of Aucklanders during the three days it was open to the public. A large amount of excitement was caused in Paeroa on Sundey by a rumour that the bullion at the Waihi Company's office had been stolen, and that two men had been shot in the fracas. On making inquiry, however (says the Paeroa paper), we learn that there is no truth whatever in the report, and that it was circulated by some busybody who had nothing better to do. AVhat is the difference between men and horses? One striking difference is found in the fact that as soon as a man gets broke he is worthless, whereas when a horse gets broke he is worth more than he was before, '' You will be sorry for the way you have neglected me when I am silent in the tomb," said Mrs Peck. " Think of fchat." " My dear," said Mr Peck, as innocently as he could, " I cannot imagine such a tiling."—" Indianapolis Journal." At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society the curator reported that ova collecting had finished for the season, the total number obtained being 2,050,000. Mr George Knowlton has sailed,by the Tongariro for England on his mission to collect game, birds, etc. It is expected that owing to his special knowledge and experience in game rearing, the percentage of birds landed will he greater than is usual in ventures of this kind. Captain A.G.S. Hawes, H.B.M. Commissioner and Consul-Generalat Honolulu, who died last month, entered the Royal Marines December, 1859, and retired February, 1809. He was in the Japanese service from January Ist, 1871, to January 31st, 18S4, and was then appointed Consul for the territories of the African kings and chiefs in the districts adjacent to Lake Nyassa, January. He was employed on special duty at Zanzibar from December 30th, ISSS, "till June 15th, ISB9, and was Acting-Agent and Consul-General there, being afterwards appointed Consul for the Society Islands (Tahiti) and then for Honolulu (Hawaii).