TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 198, 19 August 1904, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

To-morrow's match. Britain v. Auckland. Smart run on Old Hatuaki shares. Auckland rapidly filling for the match. Talisman shares have had a sharp advance. The Federal Ministry is enumerated to-day. Opera '-Martha" at Choral Hall tomorrow night. Further extraordinary advance in wheat in America. Several chimneys were blown down by, the gale at Waihi. Lilian Tree in "Martha" at Choral Hall Saturday night. Powers await Japan's account of Eichitelin incident before acting. General Stoessell has refused the Japanese demand to surrender Port Arthur. A realistic description is given by an eye-witness of the bombardment of Port Arthur. A Japanese squadron is expected to demand the departure of Russian cruisers from Shanghai. "Lloyd's Weekly" refuses to print inquiries in its lost relatives page for "missing husbands." It is reported from different parts of Hawke's Bay that travellers in search of work are numerous. Mi , . Balfour, in his British Association address, dealt with the new electrical theory of matter. A man was lost overboard from the : scow Surprise yesterday afternoon near the Manawatu bar. There were no fewer than 3SO applications for the position of a junior clerk fn a, Wellington office. Mr J. Court, at last night's City Council meeting, moved for a report on tbe electric lighting of Auckland. The Stock Exchange will have only, one call to-morrow, at ten a.n., in consequence of the football match. The centre of the Japanese army is two miles from Port Arthur fortress, and the right in the vicinity of Pigeon BayA jury's verdict of '"not guflty" yesterday was characterised by Mr Justice Edwards as a "grave miscarriage o£ justice." MeMinn's injuries in the Taranaki match are not serious, as was feared, and he was able to take some walking exercise yesterday. The lender jf Messrs Mathieson an<i Baldoek, of Auckland (£583), for additions to the Mangonui post office haa been aioeepted. The gate receipts at the football match yesterday amounted to about £750, of which £300 was paid to the New Zealand Union. The attendance was about 9000. Writing to the City Council, Messrs. Wm. Coward and Co., of London, stated that the cost of the septic treatment of the sewage of 47,000 persons at Exeter amounted to £41,500.

The Bench of Justices at the Police Court to-day took up the attitude that a man who, "when drunk, resisted arrest was less culpable and less to be punished than a,,.mari who assisted him to resist. My. his Presidential. Address at the opening of the British Association meeting, contended that science came to lean more and not less upon the idealistic interpretation of the universe. . Mr. Miller gave notice to askv.the Minister for Commerce whether lie was aware that the subsidized Federal line was shippingiT«emanian and Australian produce at a" lower rate than that of New Zealand. Einile Schubert, who attempted to commit suicide at Eotorua on May IS last by shooting himself with a revolver in the public square, has been committed to the Supreme Court, Auckland, for sentence. The Taranald "Herald" complains that the heavy charges ou the breakWater line is hampering the trade of the town. The "Herald" says it 009t3 5/ » ton to land goods end bring them from the breakwater to (own. Mr C. W. Xaylor, of Wanganui, has received a cable in reply to his inquiries as to what would be the terms on which Pad«erewski would visit that town, to the effect that he requires'a guarantee of £400. A .meeting of local musicians will t* held to diacuss the question. In the course of an address on "Thrift," at Edinburgh, Mr Bowden Green, of the Natural Thrift Society, stated that the amount annually lost by the industrial classes of Great Britain through betting and gambling was estimated at £1.500.000 the entire amount, of wasted earnings being £35,----000,000. An Austrian statistician states that the average lease of life of a medical practitioner is CO years. Fully 40 per cent, of doctors, he says, die of heart disease and nervous collapse, and only 7 per cent, from tubercular consumption—the latter fact showing how careful they are in taking precautions against infection. All the pretty C.B. rorse.ts shown on C.B. stands are "genuine corsets," not pasted on for effect.—Ad. After the football match, find great bargains daily at Histed's aalp. Tweed jackets, 4/11, 7/11, 10/G, 12/6, worth 20/ to 30/: eravanette cloaks, 0/11? dreas materials half-price. Ponsonbyroad.—Ad. ' ? Football.—McCullftgh ami Cower announce that their premises will be closed from 12 o'clock to 6.30 to-roor-row.—Ad. Footballers! For the convenience of those attending the match, the Strand Cafe, opposite the Auckland Savings Bank, are preparing sandwiches done up in neat packages for those desiring to lunch on the ground; ready at nine a.m. Luncheon from 10 a.m.—Ad.