TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 215, 9 September 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mr Justice Conolly has resigned. Fatal fire in a boardiug-house at !Taihape. ■ Ivump'o Tareha has won tliG golf championship of New Zealand. No trace of the Rev. J. M. Marshall has yet been discovered. "- ''The Christian" by the Woods-Wiil-liainson Company to-night. The mystery/as to the -whereabouts of the Rev, J.'il. Marshall remains complete. ! A fourteen-year-old boy, after saving the lives of two of his friends, was him-, self drowned before their eye?. Mr Fowlds presented a petition from J a number of Auckland citizens in favour of the repeal of all vaccination legislation. • . I Under the new fishing regulations trout-fishing licenses wifl be obtainable . from post offices in every district in the colony. ■ ■ ■ _, '■ ■ Not unique, but a warning. A Worcester woman died a few weeks back ■from swallowing three false teeth while I asleep. . ■ / • . , The Rev. Fill. Pearson, vicar of St.. James' Church, Warrington, Lanes., committed suicide through grief for the loss of his wife. '.'■'•' • . , . :■ Building ..operations in connection witii 'the new'branch of the British Museulit,v which is about to be erected at Heiidon, are to be proceeded with at once. . ; Mr La wry will'move a new clause in the Shipping and Seamen Bill enabling • the chief engineer of a vessel to maintain discipline , independently, of-the captain. The Bristol lad Jewell, who has saved several lives, is the..first English boy lipon whom 'the distinction of the gold badge of the Ljfβ-sftying Society of Paris has been conferred. • A telegram from the Colonial Secre-v t'ary, read at yesterday's meeting of the' Acclimatisation Society, stated'that the new would be gazet- '. ted, in a few da v,s. , In. Wurzburg,, "Bavaria, graveyards have been systematically desecrated for years'. Thieves have been digging up leaden coffins, rebiirying the todies, and. selling the ; lead to dealers. The inquest on the body of Rose Parker, the girl who showed symptoms of irritant poisoning, was adjourned for a fortnight ( to allow of the analysis of the contents-of the stomach. •■■ A. "steam .sculptor," an instrument that does the work of a man for months in a few moments, has. been imported into London from Italy, and will be employed on bridges and the like. . ; .• '•■ Mr Baume advocated in tlje Moxiae the abolition of fees in the Courts,: while Mr Laurenson went further and s«g-> gested bureaus .of legal', advice with, nominal charges for consultation. ' ; Messrs Alfred; Biickland arid Sons' gold, at the Haymafket oh Tuesday by pyder ojf ,the Public "trustee. : in,"the_ .estate 'of , ;-Gepr»^'^l^Garr^j', d'eCeiscd; 80* acres at feimojjcOTi;k^^:;;^^s;"%n^ ; Bo' acrcsV'SJfc : Tatipaki; : ior %'2o. '' : • • A woman who appeared bef.ore .His. illcmpr Judgfi Glwilym Williams at , Porth (CM morgan) County Court pleaded that - I she had to work all day and mind, the :b'aby at night. : "Well," said .-the judge. "I have done that myself."; ;•' *J\ \ 'On August 22 letters . containing ' ' cheques.and. promissory, notes, valued at £550, ■ were abstracted fromia private letter-box at the National- Bank, Balclulha. All except a small cheque were returned on.Monday. The funeral of the late Dr. Kinder was conducted yesterdavy the service being held in St. Mark's, Kemuera, arid the interment afterwards taking place at St. John's College,'Tamaki. The whole ■ proceedings were simple, but beautiful and touching.' ... • Wine testing by telephone is the latest 'application of electricity in Parts, says'the London 1 -"Daily Telegraph." By, means of a chart an ; operator with the telephone can easily find out the exact' pi'oportion of water'in the wine which; he is/testingy : '-'.'; -■-;'>- '. • Speaking of , a phase of the Auckland City Council's finance last evening, Mr Bagnall,informed a St."James' Hall audience that tlie' council borrowed monej from'them at 4 per cent., lent it to the. bank at 3, and bofrbwpd it back again at 5 per tent. ' '. '>';.* A baker's trap, in, which was seated a blind lM named Bcgbie, was left standing near Clifton suspension bridge, and the animal wandered to the side of the precipice, and slipped over a distance of 200 feet. The boy ' fell into a tree, > froih which he was rescued uninjured. "Some of the best men I have had at Lincoln, College," s.ijd the..director during an address at' Ashbiirton, "were those young men who Avere paying their way at the college from savings they had made. frpni their Mages while working on their fathei's farms, or from some small capital that had been left tb them." '. ~