TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 8 March 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Greeks took 35,000 Turkish prisoners at Janina. • Sydney gas strike settled. Men- return to wotU to-day. Japan is raising lonas totalling thirty millions for public woTks. - The general strike in Belgium has been declared off by the Socialists. The small steamer Red Pine has been wrecked at Stephen Island. Sydney telegraph.hoys threaten .to ' strike for a minimum of £1 a week. Wilding, Doust and Alfred Jones "will form Australia's team for the Davis Cup. ' Hart, the Australian airman, is arranging for a Sydney 'to Melbourne flight. Ex-Detective Miller has been unconditionally released from Rotoroa Island. . King's College swimming sports in' Albert Street Baths on Monday evening. Auxiliary Hospital Fund demonstration on the Domain to-morrow afternoon. The Liberal Press in Germany is protesting against the war-tax in time of' peace. - From 1904 to 1912 assisted immigrants to the'number of .24,585 arrived in New' Zealand. , Dry weather, regarded anxiously by' farmers, is regarded with jubilation by the flaxmillers. ' . Girls' Grammar School swimming ' sports will he held in Shelly Beach Baths, • on Monday afternoon. The Minister for Public Works "(Hon. W. Fraser) intends to visit North Auck- '. land during the last 'two weeks of this-; month. _ ii"' The Turks took 600 Servians prisoners : , during the attack on Scutari. It is re--ported that the -whole 600 were since '' murdered. .... „.- It is fifty years since Queen Alexandra," arrived in-Brftain. At her request the ' jubilee will not he marked by special , celebrations. Members- of Harbour; Board paid an ■ official visit to Tiri yesterday, and were " pleased with the -success of the new •Morse installation. ' ..? TJ.S.S. Co.'s Maitai, which, recently entered the East Coast" service"; in pl'ice of the Tarawera, will arrive at Auckland • .to-morrow forenoon. " T""'.'.''* It_ appears that Chinese shops* are legally entitled, to- sell cigarette-rafter the hours when - -tobacconists close,, though British subjects-are-riot.- - ~~T' To-day is the 112 th anniversary of the Battle of Aboukir, at: which'TSif "Ralph Abercromby landed in face of the French and compelled them to quit Egypt. * Devonport ratepayers last 'night r for- • mulaied strong prbtest-against Borough . Council's proposal' to dedicate electric - power rights.'to.a private.company."..*'';T2" ■People of "West Tamaki are. interested in suggestion, received 'with some- con- ' fidence, that there is to be a more fre- ' quent ferry service to St. BelieT's Bay. Conference of delegates from the ; various acclimatisation bodies compris- ; ing the Auckland Society was held in ■ Te Kuitl last night to discuss matters that will be brought forward at the Do-: minion conference. Minister for Marine yesterday granted the Batley settlers a new wharf on .the . .Otamatea. River,, to cost about x 000,.. • County Council to undertake responsi-"' briity for maintenance. ' '' The Railway Traffic Department's for- *'. mer offices, rendered vacant when the staff'shifted their-quarters over to the ' new Post Office building, will be utilised ' for the growing needs of the parcels * , office. '- Cruickshank, Miller and Co. are open, have always been open, and will keep • open in new premises.-:—(Ad.) Percy J. Blundell, .the well-known tenor . from 'London,-is due-to - arrive by-.the : s;s. Maheno, with the intention of imakv' l ing his..home in Aucldand, "jo" we; trust: at.. an. .early, date, to .-._ experience 'thY! pleasure* of hearing this -TenoTvned" - singer.—'(Ad.) ■ ; - •.■;■ '•