TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 34, 8 February 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Supreme Court resumed. Great coal strike in America begtnai on April 1. Kniyht-Jeffries Company in "A Rojm al Divorce." Mr. James Bon-wick, the colonial hi* torian. is dead. Elingamite salvage expedition left in? the s.s. Pelican. Outward 'Frisco mail to-morrow 3 ancl inward' due on Monday. . . ■ . v!f There is a reaction in favour of Mr Balfour as Leader o£'the ' Uuioiilst party. . Six onions "of the Giant Recca. variety at New Plymouth turned the scale at over 121bs. , The entire coal production of America is expected to be stopped" owing to the coming strike. It is .estimated by the Registrar-Gene-ral that, there are 2847 Chinese in the colony, of whom fifty are Jemales. The curtains of five London, theatres were recently put out of order by the bursting of a high pressure hydraulic main. In a railway disaster in Montana, caused by a runaway goods train yesterday, six persons were killed and 20 injured. Toronto citizens petition the Go«. vernor-General of Canada urging legislation, for the proper selection of iru.-. migrants. Unsuccessful efforts have been mad* by the \New South Wales postal authorities to bring about a. change of name ii cases of several post towns of similai designation. The railway motor-car is well estab lished on many of the lines in England, and the Great -Western -alone carried 2} million passengers'by .this means in thi first half of 1905. A mysterious disease is attacking. the horses on the West Coast. What it is is not known (says the "Grey Star"), but several horses have of late dropped dead in their stalls. The Salvation Army has lost an appeal case against a newspaper to compel it to reveal the author of statements made with regard to the reception of criminals in the Homes. . ' Mail advices wired from Sydney: f*ho\<r that the New Zealand footballers'=niade a triumphal progress on their journey, from Swansea to London, cheering crowds assembling at nearly ev-ery- station. Harvesting operations in Canterbury have been interrupt ed by heavy rain, and "crops sure to suffer severely. The temperature has been low for nearly a week, and there is snow on. the mtvujv tains. Mr Chamberlain is the British.- leader of the future. The Conservative party will now give themselves body and! soul to him and to Protection —a- matter oj enormous importance for all nations oi the earth.- Freie Press,'" 5 Vienna. In connection with the friction in th< clothing trade in the South, it ia pro bable a conference will be lield betweei the employers affected and representa ■ii&^ofr.-the — Tailpresaes , JLJnion, in tht fitfpe 'of securing' a working arrangement lingland's highest raihvay speeds fo the past year were two north-easteri trains, funning 61-.7 miles per hour be tween Darlington and York (44£ miles) There were six regular niile-a-minut« trains, in the and 22 running up wards of 56 miles an hour. ' V. Mr 0. C. Seal, in a paper read at the Society of .Arts in London, said thatthe .colonies' wovld concede preference* to t^e; Mother Countrj', and that they calmly awaj ting the response of G\-eat Britain, He emphasised Austr»« lia\ of immigptnts. li^fi "'Jßish'op of Birjjiingbani (the f»Gore of "LagriMiindi" fJWieJf has welcomed itoeinrore-:adequate represenvtaiioji of Labour an the- Imperial ParlKiment, as the only way-to-cause nation to prpperly appre-' ciate existing social evils. It is reported from -Mania and Niiiakai that in-the of 24. houiscrops of potatoes, watermelons, kumeras, and pumpkins were \hßgfited. Tomatoes are also blighted, bpfe. thfe is not to be'vonv dered ai, seeing th\>y belong to the sain» family .(solanum) \-s the potato, (,saj» the "Wairoa GuardiVn"). * An English'mail w* Suez is djuetor arrive here from Sydifney p.er Zealahdia o nMonday next. An. .English mail ia due" to' arrive" here ''Erisco 7 .pec Sierra about Monday neXV , '. The Sonoma, which left here on 19th January with.' outward English mails arrived at AErisco* at 2 p.m. on the 6th inst..\ . ' . ' Owing to statements in'adcV by policemen during the sitting of t\e Police Commission, it was ordered b^ , Parliament that a return be laid before- the House giving the names of raemJbeTS of Parliament who endeavoured to\ bring presenre to bear on Inspector Dinipe to make appointments to ijxv force. \The return consists of the. -vvisird* "iil," wjyctti is apparently used as :aa equivalent Joe nemo. . . ' \ A box of poisoned chocolates was rgkcently sent to Miss Elsie Smith,' Albaovi U.S.A. Miss Smith opened the \bfe, and was about to eat the sweets,.-vylieit her mother said, "Perhaps they are nob for you. Don't eat them, dear." The girl then noticed a substance upon th» sweets which chemists call Paris green, and upon breaking the chocolates each was found to contain a portion of that poison. Prices never before so temptingly low,- "in linen costumes, ladies' linen, jackets-, and crash and linen walking skirts. See windjow, Bradstreet's Great Drapery Sale, KarangaJiape-r<L—Ad.