TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 110, 9 May 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Grimina:! session resumed. Football season opens to-day. t Transyu al Joan subscribed, eight*f oicL Another: fatal acident at the Wailii mine. Special sermons on the Bible to-nios* ■ row*'; ■"-'■■ *- ■ ."• ; • ■•'.. ■ ;. •" • ' :'• Irish Land Bill read a second time by; 443 to-26 votes. Bavarian Band in the Albert Park to« morrow afternoon. , City y. Newtpn was the principal football match to-day. Co-operative furniture factory started with a capital of £25,000. J : • ! Davra : Someryille, charged with arson,* I was to-rday released on probation. Ma theson'found not guilty after eight minutes , deliberation by the jury. Russia ha# re-occupied the positions she ha!d previously evacuated in Manchuria..; - * ■;-■; It is reported that, Turkey will invade Bulgaria, if the Salonicau outrages are repeated. .* An English mail, via Suez, eLated London , April 3, will ai'rive here on Monday, illth inst., per Zealandia, i . To enable the. children to go- potato ; . pickingj the Kaiapoi school, Cantex'bury,,'" has been, closed for a,fortnight. .V ;; During the month of March five \. Chinamen arrived in the „, colany ~-afld nineteen took their departure. : Mrs Johnson,, of '"LjFpper, Queen-street, : is ih ,the Auckland hospital, '-poisoned., it is believed : not fatally, by match-heads. i The Veuturjil took; the first, shipment of binder ■ twine manufactured in New- ; Zealand ever made to the United States. j . It is estimated that the estate of the; late Mr George Scarfe, of Aidelaide; is •Trorth betwe<?u and 000. ; '■- It is significant that the Italian fleet will visit. Spithead; Avith the Japaneso 'fleet in July, and that the King will review: both. , ■■■ . 3lr Frank Brennan, solicitor, was run 0A 7 er by; an engine at Yass,' New South, Wales,- railway station a few .days ago and killed. ■An aged Maori named Tommy Te _-. Waaka committed suicide near ,'Little :Riyer, Canterbury; oh' Thursday, by ,shooting , h imself• "The Professorial- Council of Canter- 1, ! bury, College has elected Professor C. H. H.. Cook as its representative on the University' Senate. / , v - The OtagO: Cremation Society is en- o |deavburing to obtain a gi-ant from the 'Public Health Pepartment for the erec-; tion of a crematorium. During the first three, months of the year'there -were 165 cases of burglary ■ and stealing, reported to the metropolitan police. The arrests were 104.■'■! .