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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Explosion "slump." Fatal accident at Wailii. Czar will not recall Baltic fleet. Arctic weather prevails in Great Britain. Vaudeville season at His Majesty's opened last night. Strike of coal miners in Westphalia affects 250,000 men. Lord Kitchener is trying to re-equip Indian artillery by June. There are 783 less old age pensioners now than in November, 1902. A severe blizzard on the British coast has occasioned numerous wrecks. Port Arthur's surrender is described by correspondents as disgracefully premature. Notorious Anarchist arrested at Washington has been declared to be a monomania c. In a mining disaster at St. Helens, Lancashire, five men were killed and 16 seriously injured. The premature surrender of Port Arthur was the real occasion of the mutiny and ricts of the troops: The commander of a Portuguese gunboat forbade Roshdestvenski's fleet to coal in Tiger Bay, Angola. An inquest was held this morning on the tody of Russell, the man killed at Freeman's Bay yesterday. The English mail via 'Frisco, which. left here on the 16th December, arrived in London on the 16th inst. An address to the Czar signed by many influential Russians urges the uselessness of continuing the war. The English mail via Suez, which left here on December 5, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 14th inst. Mr S. R. Mcintosh, the famous pigeonshot, was blown to pieces while dynamiting a stump on his estate in Sydney. Stated that Germany is intriguing to secure a Russo-Franco-German agreement to beat down the Japanese peace teams. Thirty-two thousand men in St. Petersburg are out on strife* oa account of the dismissal of five trades unionists. The arrivals in New Zealand during last month numbered 3531, departures 1764. The figures for December, 1903, were: Arrivals, 3658; departures, 1662. Explosion which caused much alarm in the night is now explained by the action of some youths in blowing up a charge of dynamite at Pascoe's quarry, Mount Eden. Penny school papers, for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth standards of the public schools, have been issued in Christchurch. Each paper contains sixteen pages of reading matter and a number of illustrations. According to a San Francisco paper, New Zealand is to be visited by Mr Alexis C. Jeffries, preacher, and father of Jim Jeffries, champion heavy-weight prize-fighter of the world. Mr Jeffries will be accompanied by two or three other evangelists, and the party was to leave San Francisco for New Zealand and Australia on December 22. Dull times are being experienced in the iron foundry business in Wellington at the present time. Mr W. Cable, head of the firm of Cable and Co., states that trade is worse than for some years past. Three or four months ago he had nearly twice the number of v7orkmen ia-Ma-employ that he now has. "My wife is an uneducated woman," explained a man recently charged with having assaulted bis wife. "She doesn't know what the ;meiarjung of her action at Court is." The woman satisfied the Bench that she was educated enough to know that her husband had beaten her with-a poker, bruising her face and body. The man was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. The long end of a hot summer season is still before you; inspect the "good goods" at "out they go" prices at McCullagb and Gower's sale. —Ad. • "Marion" Millinery Studio.—Sale of trimmed hats, toques, and bonnets, at greatly reduced prices. — H.M. Arcade, Queen-street. — (Ad.)