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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 2 January 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.. Outward 'Frisco mail. , Safe robbery a t Onehunga. ■ <■' I Ventura passed through for- America. Oiaces, picnics, and excursions again to-day. > The Powers recognise Spain's right to intervene in Morocco. : 'During the three days of the A.R.C. races at Ellerslie the-sum of £54,170 was put through the totalisator. 'Severe lighting has occurred again m Venezuela. President Castro defeated a revolutionary force, on whom he inflicted'heavy'loss. . ! A Belgian fort on the frontiers of the Congo Free State and Uganda has been captured by the natives, and two officers have been killed and eaten. •The first-class yacht race at the Waiheke Regatta yesterday was won by the Thetis, with Thelma second, - Rainbow ' third, and. Volunteer fourth. ! The ■ coasting schooners race at the Lytteltoh annual regatta yesterday was won by-; the. Amelia Sims, with, the top- - sail schooners Ronga and Jessie Nicoll second-and-third respectively. •Mr Chamberlain says South Africa must sooner or later federate, as Aus-tralia-has done; "the Imperial Government <would- heartily rejoice when a united- people- demanded a new constiIcution." • The following notification regarding the cable' lines-is forwarded'by the Telegraph Department;—" Brisbane notifies Berne- advises that the cable from Assab \ to Maseouah (Red Sea) 'is interrupted. , Rangoon- -advises * that"" the ' "Moulmein route to Si am is right." On- one of-the hot days recently Mrs Niehoils,- of Pukekura (Waikato) was . astonished♦■tO--see , "a , sparrow's nest at the top -of tree' 6h j her place 1 in a,', bUze.- • 'T#f- birds 'must have';c6mman- I desred- a- thatch , their building ' niaterial; tutid the h'eaf ignited it.