TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i —.—♦ 'Frisco mail. Suez mail arrived. ; .Mokoia arrived from Sydney. j Ceneral rising in Russia forecasted. • United Stales ultimatum to Venezuela. Tort Arthur is full of infectious disease. Japs are fortifying the Straits of Corea. Barometer had risen considerably this •uorning. Fiji gale lists subsided without doing serious damage. p Mokoia had a particularly calm passage from Sydney. -Taps have taken possession of all Port Arthur forts. Eighty-two Russian oftieers preferred captivity to parole. Aparinia arrived from India and Strait* Settlement*. A German tiaptuiv in South-west Africa cost WOO German casualties. •Japanese are clearing: Port Arthur harbour of mines and hulks. Governor visited Colonial Ammunition Co.'s works at Mt. Eden. "Times" military critic estimates Kuropatkin's army at Five Russian regiments at Port Arthur had dwindled to 206 officer* and 5451' men. Ku-rsiau revolutionary leaders anticipate a general rising; in a few weeks' time. ! A fresh Russian Commissioner has i beeu appointed to replace Admiral i Knzn&koff. ! A nine-room house in Upper Queenstree*. was partiallj destroyed by five on I Saturday ni^'ht. j The p.s. YVakarere, which lost her j rudder on Friday nijrht. was docked tojday for repair-. . The postage on newspapers to Gibral- | ls;r has now betn reduced to Id per paper, l irrespective of. weight. I "Weddel's Review" *ays that Great ! Britain will be increasingly dependent 'ou Australasian frozen meat. j The somewhat unusual verdict of ■ "Wilful suicide" was returned at an inquest a( Wpllinsrton on (Saturday. lUit-siaii Council of MiniMeiv has de« (hired that peace, would be "incompatible "ivirii the dignity- of the Empire." A man named White was critically injured by. being thrown from his trap vii the Ureal North-road at Kingslani. (ieneial Stoesael presented llip Japaiiege army with his charger, of vvhichi Cieufra] Nogri had espressed hU admiratioii. Sharks in the harbour just now. a number having been caught by yachtsmen during t!ie last few wpekw. Mowow niunicipalily ha.- \*'indrawn it> vote lor {{Pndarmerie until their violent aitacks on the. stvulents have been, punished. Mr Taylor lias contradicted the report that a compromise had been arranged in regard u> ihe Seddon-Taylor libel *uit. Ann'tii-a threaleii- Venezuela witK * n.-i\al deiiionsuraticui in March, failing 1.-er compliance xviili her obligations undor the Hague Court's decision. The delay of the.Baltic rleet throujrli tin: J)ojr2ev Hank dutragp in<lueed the Ci;ar ir> relieve Stoesscf - of his promise to liold Port Arthur "to tlie death!' , ' '•Out they go!" What? Hats and bennets, jacket* ami blouses, silks and drosses, jjlovea and ho?iery. c-.aliooes and flannels, lace and ribbons, and all other 1904 good? in MeCivllagh and Gower'a clean sweep >ale. Bee half-page advertisement in last .Saturday's "Star." —Ad.