TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 82, 7 April 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

" • /. ' Call on Howey Walker and he'll explain How teeth can be extracted without pain. Dry canteens are to be provided for every military unit raised in Canada. The Presbyterian Church at Island Bay, Wellington, was burned down " last" night. All intoxicating liquors hare.been banished from the Royal household by King George V. j Xew lists of contraliand, with conditions as to export, have teen gazetted'ia New Zealand. Great benefit is accruing to the State of New South Wales from the splendid rains which are falling.- T .''.'.." "W.'.'.' ".'-"r The English mail, via which left here on February 23, arrived in London on March 30. Kearly 400,000 men, most of whom are over the military age, have enrolled for. Home defence in Great Britain. The Harbour Board has deferred for three months the question of alterations to the Calliope Dock machinery. '". Henry Mitchell, one of the pioneers of the Hot Lakes district, died at Ohlne l ' mutu yesterday, at ;th« .age.of: 81 years;;! The increaee.in .the r'a-table value ,of; propertres in Auckland CHy, ac indicated by the last valuation, amounts to £35,176. The Prime Minister announce* that more wheat will have 'to- be "imported from Canada; to cover a shortage ex< pected, before next harvest. Xo fewer than fourteen motions censuring the Xew South Wales Government are being discussed t>y the Labour Conference now-sitting in Field-Marshal' yon der Goltz, the Gerr'. man at the head, of affairs. in_ Turkey, -who recently returned to Berlinj is now on his way-back to Gonetantinople. Many leading scientists have-endorsed. Sir William Kamsay?s ..protest against Germany being \allo\ved to Tepeive ' unrlimited quantities, .of which can be manufactured intoexpiosiyee.....;,.,..: In addition to .being worried about money matters tie late A. E. tie "weji known "Englisn-cfickeJef-wle committed suicide,.'was suffering .from pneumonia, which increased'Ms'depression. . . :..;_. ::'.% ; ~'z; Jjeseribing the..fightjng.;n_.the".Cari pathians; the corresppndant saye. that if the defence" ot once fails, there will ibe "no force-suffi-ciently strong -to 6top the Russian ad? vance across the plains of Hungary. ' JChe gold Karp on xi green ground. 6£. * Ould Ireland_was_hQisted..*longside;:.tlm Union Jack in the trenches on, St. Pat-" rick's Day, and everybody sang th* Rational Anthem: This ; unrehearsed action "sounded - splendid," writes -ak officer. • .« .;. .i'\l.""" *■ A problem placed before tbe Auckland Harbour BcaTd yesterday.for serioue coneideratvon was a fetudy of the. eet :6f: the , tides in tire liarbour in relation to the tide deflectors, -with a view.to obviate - any; backwash, of eewage into the ha?- ~, bour. •'.. ' J , - '"." .•-;: .!.;-..-_ -.■-■. -.-.:..':'_ .; -; i - "sodises.about the epic nature of"tie.war and the "privilege of taking part in it, "and winds up in this very Iranian sirain, "Yet when"one'isin : auled:"out'- i of-;bed'in. ; the" morning"'these"liigh' "falutin* viewa vanish at once. a -' - "■" • - ■ _>■ <-~ m ; ' The excise returns for Great-Britain for I December-and January- show , that"'Leer lessened', "there lias : been an 'astonishing: increase- in tTie amount of spirits drunk. This change is . said-to be due to the increased taxes . placed on-beer since the war-began; ' New-South/Wales farmers who are •■'.■.; holding.on to their wheat in the hope of making-a rise "have ljeeii.'.warned'ihat "if , they do ridt'puf'their'graiti oh the marKet .win r sei2e"it. _ "Wh"en:giv- ! ' ing..tliis .warning; ithe . AttprneyjGeneral : of. the. State._.ir«ntiQned._that._there was. :- ;engngh~wneat \ii the meet re-r-. quirements,Hbßt-tlMt" the-action of these hoarding farmers"was causing the (Sorcra- '■' ment some inconvenience. ' ' ■ At :, the. .annual.- -conference of . the ; Catholic Fedefatibh ,lfi"''Sydhej r tEe' dele- '- gates" discussed 'tKe readiSinenaa{r6n''pt .. : tuerJSdTCi:Ze"aiaM;T-gdetatlbn/'fS"r;:7t . suppreesibn' of.Ttlte;,distribution. ]', of;;in- .._■■■ ; d'e:ce.nt:lH.?i9tute;:v.~~lt"sr»;."inOTj;joJ«fd •' that -fche,;Xew South- ,Wales_ br»neh had succcsgfully protected against the showing of-films- t with;indccent'-l*ndeneie3/ and-the hope was expressed that etrin- . gent -measures would-ie-ta-ken-by,the : Government Jα the direction .euggested by I'lie JCc-ar..'Zca'laii3 "Jbody." ~. "'""" '.-'. r We- -want- -€«r•thoae■ whe«would_Ji4ie-'ta ■Bβ),-to call-and-see-iis'.bef of go' Sym'Oncls Jstreat.^-(Ad.).. . ■, - Byeroft's -Ideatfttfilfc-Arrpwroofc-.Bi* euits for-: baby.- Cri^p, .dainty r delickiui. \ > .'AU-grocers.'STlAd.)..;. .. ......'.„.„*. %£.'.