TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 275, 17 November 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

-—- • o_fw_r_ "Frisco mail. Big slump on Russian Bourse. New Zealand v. Scotland to-morrow, AU St. Petersburg factories Ha—l ceased work. General strike in Kossia began at noon yesterday. . ' Emperor of Austria has finaliv granted universal s__r_»e. Czar has left the'Peterhof Pabree and gone to Tsarkoye Selo. British Ambassador is sending Soma unmarried Eatglisbwataej^ Russian army of 400,000 in __uic__ri* is on tbe verge of starvation. St. Petersburg crowd, aimed with knives and sang- the ]______- laiae. Half a million armed workers were to demonstrate in St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon. Renter says that the Sassian Gove__ment has staked its _U on the loysity of the troops. Military outbreaks m— ** aT . to of Vladivostok are reported all along the Siberian railway. , The waxships of tbe Powers will rendezvous for a demonstration against Turkey on Monday.. Vera Zassulie. tbe famous woman revolutionist, presided over tbe great meeting in St. Petersburg. The-strikers stopped the German express as it was leaving St. Petersburg ■by placing trucks' across the lineMeeting of peopfc. of .St. Petersburg resolved in favour, ."of overthrowing the Government and establishing a commune. Tbe Westminster Abbey Glee Party are adding two furtlier eoneerts, to take place in the Y__.GA. Hall on Sat-, unlay. A microscopic examination • shows that four of the- crew., of -m_~T steamer at Fremantle are suffering front plague. After the commune resolution at St. Petersburg meeting the military, antborities placed machine guns' everywhere in. the streets. The mind of Mr. W. L. Smith r a labour organiser, now in: ; Sydney, is a blank as to the time since he was following hia caning in __aerfc_ Special meeting of the City Council decided to caH'fbt competitive designs for the new Town Hall, to be erected at a cost not exceeding £50,000. ~ The New Zealand Primate haa. despatdied a message earnestly pleading with tbe Russian Holy Synod to denounce the massacre of the jews. Mr W. J. Bryan, the late Dentoeratie candidate for the American Presidency; is visiting New Zealand and Australia to study problems in economic and. political reform. Mr T. J. West, of the West-Bresdan Company, is now in Edinburgh in readiness to take pictures of the New "Zea-land-Scotland football match for reproduction in this, colony and elsewhere. "Vera Zassulie.- in lier speech from the chair at the conibined Labour Commit- ■ tee's meeting in "St. Petersburg, -said that the- Goverhment'. '.w_jj.',. making dts wav over the corpses—of the people. ~; CTematioh Society resolved to advise "the questioning. a_ candidates wlth.re- . a.jiound. ior. fdr" erection -of- erezna- . ' The Premier stated that if he found that the. statements -with regard to the distress in Japan were true, it -would be possible within three or four weefci to send a shipload of food to the suiferers. Mr Seddon is asking the. Mayors, Chambers of Commerce, and -o_ier_,v._i authority in the colony to take steps to relieve the distress of the unemployed in England by providing them with foodstuffs.