TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 276, 18 November 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Premier's speech at Onehunga. New Zealand v. Scotland to-day. ; Summer flower show, second day. St. Petersburg strike is spreading. « Father Gapou has returned to St, . Petersburg. Kishnietf rouglis aje preparing for - fresh massacres. i St. Petersburg employer's have refused an eight hours' day. International naval demonstratioa : against Turkey on Monday. Russian Ministers are expected to repeal martial law in Poland. St. Petersburg Strike Committee has .- prevented the projected demonstration. King Edward, who sprained his ankle at Windsor, is now progressing favour- ' ably. ! Owing to the situation in St. Peters- . burg Russian 3i per cents feU 4i in London. A concert will be given by Impels - City band in the Albert p»rk to-morrow afternooin. The panic fti St. Petersburg is leading i to the transference of enormous sums , of money abroad. A public presentation of portraits will take place at the Leys Institute at 1 8 o clock to-night. - Macmahon Company, opens in "Satur- ; day Night in London" at His Majesty's Theatre this evening. ; Tlie Public Lending Library will close : for cleaning and stocktaking from Mon- _ day till Saturday inclusive. Mr. Marriner has disposed of his pro--1 perty at Toka Toka swamp to Mr. Donald Finlayson, the price being £2800 j The New Zealand Golf Championship meeting will be held at the Shirley links, : near Christchurch, in September next. Among donations for. the London unemployed fund are 2000 guineas from . the King and £6000 from Lord Iveagh. "God is a Spirit" will'be sung by the . boys of the Westminster Glee Party at . St. Matthew's Church to-morrow morn- ' ing. • Peasants burned down Prince Korsat- . kin's mansion at.Novyi-oskoi (Central Russia), and wounded the Prince and his - wife. i The contract for thejinain building of . the Christchurch Exhibition was signed I this week. Work should be completed by July 11 next. ~ - The Czar has issued a ukase granting . important concessions to the peasants in the matter of reducing their pay- \ ments for holidays; ; jj The Government,, has approved of the . £5500 loan for the Okahu-road works f in Hobson Count}'.; The .county engineer • has been notified to this.effect. - Count de Witte's appeal to the workers, as "brothers," to resume work and cease disorder was ineffectual, and he - was vehemently denouiced at a subsej quent meeting. -Ii";;: Mr. J. G. Gow, who, recently represent- } i ed the colony as commercial agent in 3 South Africa, lakes up the duties of i travelling representative' * for i)he , JSt&r'" " | Zealand Internatiohat' Exhibition. - »■ Mr. Younge, manager of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, Toronto, 7 Canada, has been appointed ■Gommissiori- , er for Canada for the-purpose of work- • ing up an extensive representation of - Canadian manufacturers at the Christ* • church Exhibition. -. On Tuesday afternoon a young man named Dan Galvin, Avorking in the bush i behind Toka Toka township, sustained - injuries to his arms, shoulders, and back r by a falling limb from a tree under which. - he was working. He will, not be able to j resume work for; - some considerable ' time. ;""' '.">"•' -.••■ ■■}■'(• A Wellington! resident suggests that ; the New Zealand,representatives should I draw a couple of New Zealand players from the English Universities or else- - where, to complete two fifteens, which I would play one another in. an exhibition , game, say at the Crystal Palace. Ladies' white mackintosh slip-on 1 coast, just opened.—Smith and Caugliey, Ltd.—Ad. Kid gloves.—Big shipment now.show - ing. French kid, aJ\ colours, 2/6) 2/11, jU/6, to 5/YV-, U\4, \/ft, 2./W, -white - j washing kid, 2/11, 3/11,4/11; suetle, all /colours, 2/6, 2/11, to 5/11; long suede "A%3u5l V.VSI, ior sVkh*. steesft*, *|VA; ['14/11 5/11; imitation suede, all colours "(and sizes, I/, 1/6, to 2/6 pair. At'Mc--\CttWagh and Gower's \thc gAoversV See . j window.—Ad.