TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 16, 19 January 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I Further bomb incidents in Russia. The floods are increasing in Australia. Fifty thousand men are on strike in St. Petersburg. |L ■; Forty thousand Pott Arthur troop* have reinforced Oyaina;?. A fresh explanation. .^ o f the Dogger Bank incident is repoited/.fi'oni Kiel. The lives of the officers, were enda»« gered in the mutiny at Port Arthur. Moscow University has been closed owing to the prevailing spirit : of rebellion. Russian officers agree in stating that none of the Russian warships were scuttled. , -\'. For leaving a fire in the open, a man at Jugiong was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. Stoessel told a ."Daily Express" correspondent that the surrender decision was absolutely unanimous. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has subscribed £ 150 % for the new organ for the Wellington Trinity Wesleyan Church. Canadian Government has made a suggestion in regard to the . proposed ~. _v.ii-,.,-,:-,-?r mfifl service. Mr Good, of Powlett, Victoria, was b:... .. ... ' U L«a v nuie in his boot by a snake. He died 21 hours afterwards. ''Times" Port Arthur correspondent holds that some of the Russian cruisers may be refloated, but at great expense. New South Wales Government is negotiating with the Pasteur Institute as to inoculation for the extermination of rabbits. Miss Eunice Plowman, a young lady about 23 years of age, was drowned by falling into a well at Napier yesterday afternoon. United States Government is inviting the Powers to induce belligerents to limit operations to the country east of the Liao river. Russian Government has apologised for the "Novoe Vremya's" statement about Great Britain having allowed Japan to 'establish a base on Labuan. An effort is to be apply the condenser system of using telegraph lines for telephones between Albury and Corowa, and between Ballina and Byron Bay, New South Wales^ A cyclone occurred near Dungog (N.S.W.) on Wednesday evening, completely wrecking the residence of a settler. The roof was lifted 100 yards in the air, and most o"f the furniture was smashed. The "Wairarapa Leader" says it is understood that Felix Tanner now intends to harness Pelorus Jack, the guardian of the French Pass, to a white pine raft, and drive him to Wellington and back again for a wager of £50.0. i A peculiar incident at the railway works, Chetiot, a few days ago. Sne of the men, on returning after the olidays, found his tent had been turned into a bee-hive. The bees had swarmed, and, finding no one in the tent, had taken possession. Wairoa Geyser was called upon to play last Sunday afternoon, and at 3.30 gave a fine exhibition, the water being shot to a height of about 130 ft. The day was an ejjtremely warm one, which no doubt accounted for the.-number r of'spectators being less than usual. At Darbalara (N.S.W.) phosphorus used for poisoning when it fell from a mapjaine was seen to ignite. Before the fire 1 was extinguished 30 acres of grass were burned. Phosphdrised pollard flared up also .'sttyiJugiong. A kitchen was destroyed and a big bush fire start? cd. The following is taken from the Opotiki (East Coast) ■ paper: *_„ aboriginal native named Amo Anio. was charged by the police with having ploughed ■■ on Sunday, apparently being under the imhot be fixed by mortal. He was fined 2/6 pression that the 'day of rest' should and costs, and was warned against sinning again." ' •'■ Two Port Chalmers fishermen have had their 30ft whaleboat fitted with a three horse-power oil-engine. The engine is contained in a box 4ft by 2_ft, and the tiny propeller makes forty revolutions per minute, and will drive the boat seven knots. The cost of running is about 3d per hour. It is likely that other fishermen «*vill follow their lead. The Dunedin correspondent of the VChrist6hureh Press" states that .the DisfrrJbt.Health Officer has. traced a case or dipntherfa there, in which the infection was carried, by a Christmas card sent from a locality in Invercargill where the disease is prevailing. There are, it appears, ■ a considerable number of cases diphtheria still being reported from a comparatively small area of that town. * Boys and girls, come to Milne' and Choyce's at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday and secure one of thair toy balloons. 3500 given away.—(Ad.) "Marion" Millinery Studio.—Sale of trimmed hats, toques, and bonnets, at greatly reduced prices. — H.M. Arcade, Queen-street. — (Ad.)