TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1904, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Star' Siupuary. A-ddand Presbytery met last _g_fc, Anglican .Synod resumed this after* noon. Admiral Alexieff is said now to fur* our war. 50,000 reinforeemen'.s expected afc Vladivostok. Water polo practice to-night at A> bert-street Baths. London's shipping f or 1903 exceeded. all previous records. Mr BaJfour is confined to his room Jm an attack of influenza, J It is held in authoritative quarte_ that war is now inevitable. Women's franchise __ci_sion -will open at the Synod this evening. A BUI to regulate the trial of bisliopa was introduced at the Synod last night. Dredging at Auckland with the dredger going out to sea costs about <«_ a yard. Mr Dbc'.s Company gave a successful vaudeville programme at His Majesty* last night. ' There are 45U registered pharmaceutical chemists in New Zealand. Eight of them are women. Anglican Synod yesterday afternoon had an animated discussion on the morality of the Old Testament. It is stated that Japan has pressed Russia for an early reply, threatening oUer action if the delay continues. Another heated debate! on ihe headmaster question took place at the meeting of Mount Boskill Scboo? (k_n_tteff last night. Judge Edwards sentenced an American Finn to ten years' and two floggings for an outrage on a dairyman's wife at Mount. Roskill The typesetting machines <two linotypes and two monotypes) ordered _r England for the Government Printing Oflice will reach Wellington next month. About a fortnight hence Bishop Le_han will lay the foundation-stone of the new home for the aged, now being built at Ponsonby for the Little Sisters of the Poor The girl Tyson, who recently disappeared from the Mount Albert Industrial School, has l>een discovered by tha Auckland police, and sent back to the Institution. The. Harbour Board has decided fa call tenders for the Orakei Wharf, in the hope, that the Government will then proceed with the long-promised road tot the cattle-landing. The Government has approved the plans submitted by tbe Harbour Board for the extension of the Devonport Ferry Jetty, Victoria Wharf, and Henderson's Creek Wharf. The question as to what wages should be paid to the deck hands on Dredge 121 has been deferred by the Harbour, Board till the decision of the Arbitration Count has been given. It is expected that the Patea Meat Works will shortly be .taken over by an English company, and that freezing and exporting will, be aided to the boiling down and tinning operations. The Anniversary Committee deckled. yesterday afternoon in favour of the repetition of several of the races, which for various reasons were regarded as unsatisfactory on the holiday. The Finnish prisoner in the Mount JloskiJl outrage, who was unaided either by counsel or interpreter, complained that he could not understand the evidence, and was unable to speak dear English in his own defence. Two Paeroa children named Burton; were yeste.rday somewhat dangerously, poisoned by eating wild berries. Thanks to medical treatment, however, they were last night pronounced to be mak* ing rapid progress towards recovery. The Whangarei Borough Council meo on Monday evening, and fixed a rate of IJd per £ on property in the Vine_.n_ special district, to cover <the nfcerest, a£ four per cent., on the £550 borruwCfront the Government to make th* necessary v roads, etc. The Harbpur Board decided to __V 8 a report prepared by the engineer as tt* the advisability of making a reclamation northward of Freeman's Bay toi secure a minimum depth of 24ft. of water at the wharf to be erected fan the Auckland Gas Compaary. A Chinese coolie had his leg amputated in a Peking Hospital, and his life was thereby saved (says "Health"). His relations, however, smuggled arsenic into the hospital and killed the man in order that he might reach heaven: at the same time as his leg. The Harbour Board yesterday discussed the tenders for the bridges and pontoons necessary for the proposed! vehicular ferry service. The Board eventually decided to refer to their engineer for the. difference in cost between pontoons of wood- and iron _c*« pectively.