TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 96, 22 April 1904, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Federal Government defeated. Arbitration Court proceeding. Liedertafef concert a success. Fanners' Union in conference. 'Frisco mail goes out next Friday. School committees' reports published. Revolutionary propaganda in South Africa. . --! Serious tram accident in Hobsonstreet. Avondaie autumn meeting commence* to-morrow. Abattoirs question discussed by farmers to-day. Russians assert that they have 311,000 men at the front. Czar's latest title is "successor to th» throne of Norway.*' The Home Licensing Bill passed its first stage by a big majority. To-day was the last day for receiving entries for the Art Exhibition. Boers will demand representative government at their congress in AlaySubmarine disaster inquest closed •with a verdict of "Accidental death."" The New Zealand St. I_eg_r Stakes are to be run in Wellington tcr-morrov.. Anglo-French agreement provides foT postal orders available in either eottntr 7A Royal Commission has been appointed on the Church discipline question. Tibetan mission found scores of human heads in a. room in the Gyangise fort. - - Karangahape-road tramlines were under water last night, the road having ■ S'-inL. . . Transvaal volunteers are being mobilised in fear of trouble from disloyal Boers. The Czar has accused the officers of the Petrppavlovsk of criminal lack of vigilance. An English mail, via Suez, is due to arrive here, per Westralia, on. Sunday night nest. One of two Japanese hanged by th* Russians described himself as a Prince of the blood royal. Mr J. A. Pond (Government Analyst) addressed the Farmers' Union on *_!u_l in Grain Crops." Mr. F. E. Baume, MJELR.'s, address on " Education" at Grey Lynn, wa» postponed last night. Mail for Chatham Islands, per Hinemoa, closes at Wellington on Monday, 25th April, at 11 a_m. Mr. Jr. R. Lundon's meeting last night was postponed on account of the weather till to-morrow night. *» Fifty years- ago to-day the British and French Steam tiquadrons bombarded __.• forts of Odessa in the Black Sea. New Plymouth theatre is to be purchased by local company with capital of £ 10.000 and improved considerably. The English mail which left here, via San Francisco, on the 18th March, arrived in London on the night of the 18 th inst. Russia has added a saving clause to her threat of shooting as spies correspondents found using wireless tela* graphy. "" : :' - T _". The new city engineer of. Wellington has Issued sin' order that corporation employees must not smoke. during working hours. Alexander Maedougall is gazettedf; managing agent for the sale and distri-' bution of coal from the .New Zealand State coal mines. ** Russians state that the second-class battleship Pobieda was rammed, and acknowledge _____."it!_e i cruiser PaSada was "'finally disabled." James Bishop is gazetted manager of the State coal mine at "Coal Creek- afeo to have control and supervision of the State coal mine at Seddonvilie. Half-Moon Bay, the main tourist re- • sort of Stewart Island, is to have a pub- . lie library this month. It already is . connected with the mainland by cable. There were eleven judgment summonses .for debt heard in the Magistrate's Court this morning, most being adjourned. There was but one other case. Revised regulations for the examinaj tion and inspection of State schools are • gazetted. The additions and alterations : made as a result of .the school inspectors' conference are comparatively few. The Transvaal Chamber of Commerce is remonstrating against the Colonial Office . n._li__jr that all cEtepaxtkriental ■ supplies for the Transvaal must be purchased through the Crown Agents is London. ' ■ ' _. '- Mr Salmon says if slaughtering Is reT stricted to the proposed city abattoirs the price of meat will go jig Ad per- lb. - '> If it* ia-not -confined to the abattoirs, - then tire abattoirs will become a white j, elephant. r Small fire in a Chapel-street storehouse this morning served to illustrate j the smartness of the City Fire Brigade. But for the rapidity with which they rt got to work there would hare been a g big blaze. c ■■ Farmers should note that magistrate it at Gisborne ruled that before a mas l J- could justify killing pigs which had , c strayed on to bis farm, be must show L; that his property was enclosed fey good and permanent fences. ~ William Cullen and Alexander Ramj : say are gazetted inspectors of machinery b and examiners of candidates for certiflB - eates of competency as engineers -of seagoing steamships or of steamships plying within restricted limits. B "If the Farmers' Freezing Company will enter the Auckland trade and break down the butchers' monopolies there is a- warm welcome awaiting them from i_ the consumers." said a speaker at the _ Farmers' Conference to-day. In addition to the bequest to the *• Otago University, the will of the late -vlrs. James Lothian, of __nedin. provides for a number of substantial bequests to local institutions. Chalmers Church, the Victoria Jubilee Convalescent Fund, and the Hospital Guild each benefit to the extent of £200, and the Patients' and Prisoners Aid Sodetv to c " the extent of £100. A new argument in favour of the freehold was raised at the Farmers' Conference to-day. A speaker said that c . some leaseholders took up Crown land with the intention of cutting the bush and grazing the surface-sown land till the blackberries got in and ruined it, uf when they would drop the lease and so elsewhere. S. Charred remains of a box of wax vestas, found on the top shel close to a pile of inflammable material, was disY. covered in a large Wanganui store recently. The remains of the cardboard box bore unmistakable evidence of the work of the incendiary rodent- The box had evidently been carried some little distance by the and had he e» only taken them a few inches fnre * ther before igniting them, a serious conflagration must inevitably have ea. _ sued. J