TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

* Russians on offensive. • x . L Fire in Swanson-street. k Zealandia arrived from Sydney. Victoria leaves for Sydney this even* ing. I'Tencb. Government's resignation expected to-day. Rocky Nook won the Te Aroha Bowling Tournamei t. Grand Duke Sergius has resigned th» Governorship of Moscow. Two men had a narrow escape in thai Swanson-street fire last night. Auckland bowlers returned from Gi3borne by the Victoria yesterday af + ?r* noon. The Czar in an Army Order expressed his conviction that "the hour of victory; is at hand." At cricket the first round of the district cricket cup matches was concluded on Saturday. A Boer war correspondent's memorial has been unveiled in the crypt of S*t« Paul's Cathedrah Representatives of all the besieging regiments entered Port Arthur in triumph on Saturday. Stated that Roshdestvenski anchored in Diego Suarez Bay, one of the leading inlets of Madagascar. "Novoe Vremya" alleges that Great Britain allowed the Japanese to form a naval base on Labuan. A Japan-bound steamer has been stopped at Sydney owing to rumours that it had been purchased by the Japanese. The annual session of the Senate of the University of Xew Zealand will be held this year at Auckland, commencing on the 2dlh inst. A fire on the premises of Mr H. Swales, tailor, of Victoria-street was suj.pre-ssed before it had done moxe" than £40 worth of damage. As reported in our late edition of Saturday, Murton has been committed for trial, on a charge of having murdered Mr? Dillon at Mercer. Russian troops advanced south, cutJ the railway, invaded Chinese territory and attacked Xin-chwang. Subsequently they were defeated and pursued. The target practice of the Dunedin Naval reservists proved decidedly dangerous to the vessel towing the "target, although the towline was 400 yards in length. Japs are greatly distressed that only; 70 of the hundreds of their wounded at Port Arthur have been found alive, and state that they must have been allowed to perish. Steamer Waitftri, from Wellington, ran aground off d'Urville Island yesterday morning, while en route for Nelson. Luckily she stuck till the tide carried her off at nine o'clock. A speaker at a luncheon at Tai Tapu (Canterbury) last week remarked that he understood that the dairying indus* try had so far progressed in the district that the settlers painted their houses with cream. During the week ending December 24 the C-hristehureh Meat Company mixed, bagged and sent out from Islington and Smithfield 433 .tons 17cwt of fertilisers. It required 244, trucks for its distribution, besides what was delivered at* tha works on farmers' own drays. The gaol-bird lias a wholesome fear of finger-prints, says the "Daily Telegraph," London, as may be seen from a photograph of an old hand, who deeply stippled his finger-tips with a needle-point to obliterate the "loops" or "whirls," ljut h , he failed notwithstanding, for he was identified by the finger-prints all the same. A painful accident happened- to a clerk in Timaru the other day, says the "Timaru Herald." He was standing near an open door, holding a pen close to his bead, with the nib pointing inwards. A gust of wind blew the door violently against the end of the pen and drove the nib into his scalp wherd it still defies the doctor's efforts' to extract it. Bargains in all departments at MeCullagh and Gower's "famous clean sweep" sale. "Good goods," genuine reductions. —Ad.