TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 9 February 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

! Melbourne v. Auckland. Supreme Court resumed. Old English Fair continued. Ngapuhi leaves for Northern cruise tot night. City Councillors' trip to Nihotupu i* described in to-night's issue. Captain Southgatc was brought up in the Supreme Court to-day. One hundred persons, have been killed in a riot on a British-owned railway in Chili. , The London underwriting of the New; South Wales two million loan is complete. Twenty leading Anarchists armed with bombs, have been arrested in St. Petersburg. American coal companies are storing immense quantities in readiness for the coming strike. To judge by present weather indications there will be an eclipse of the eclipse to-night. A Shakespeare festival has been proposed in Paris in celebration of the Anglo-French entente. Mr E. A. Farquharsori, B.Sc, of Dun« edin University, has been chosen for this year's Rhodes scholarship. King Edward gave an hour's audience to Mr Johi\jßurns, President of the Local Government Board. ' t The Privy Council granted special leave to appeal in- the case of .'' Ward Brothers versus the Attorney-Geiieral of Xew Zealand ".. .*. " ■ London County Councillors met--with an enthusiastic receptiofi in Paris, and attended a ball to which. 14.000 guests had been invited. ' y -. German Minister for tjie Interior made a fierce attack on spciaj democracy, and blamed Bismarck for liis granting of universal suffrage. ~,'" Harvest operations have comnienced in several districts of the Ashbui-ton Countj', a good many paddocks of oats being cut and in stook. The South Canterbury Dairy Factory ; Company paid out £2500 for the • December milk supply, the largest ■ amount yet paid for a month. *~~ Nine aliens (seven charged with serious crimes) were'sentenced in one day at the Old Bafley. All will be eventually; expelled under the new Aliens Act. Mr St. Loe Strachey, the free-trader, / and ' editor' of ' "The Spectator;" was. beaten by the Uniocist candidate for Edinburgh' and St. , Andrew's Universities. r /- ; ',"<'■''}:•■- , Professor' J. MacMilldn Brown told told the New ealarid University Senate that come of the English written- by certain of our graduates-was a disgrace to ther university. : During the ' hurdle race at the Gisborne Racing Club's Summer Meeting yesterday three horses fell, and Sweeney, , the rider of Inspan, had hi 3 shoulder badly fractured. Mr Chamberlain, ; in a. lengthy statement, reaffirmed his "loyalty to Mr Balfour, 'but has stated that'in certain circumstances it.' , ''-||ijiy'' i '^- i -n&cessa.ry Vfr fornUin independent tariff reform partj^ At MaTj r b6rough (Vie.) a'young man was sent to gaol Tor two months "for. starting a fire. He pleaded that while drunk he had thrown matches on the grass in attempting to light cigarettes. Speaking at. the Institute of Architects' meeting last night, Mr Bartlejr said'it was lamentable'and a disgrace to Auckland to think that if they wanted a good-facing brick they had tj>-send out of Aucklancl for it. - ,1 Sir Edward Cornwall, chairman of the London County, Co'unciT, has advoca; ted the .interchange of say 500 school of the". London primary,, secondary, and technical schools.with a. similar, number from the cities at the jvorid. In nine months of last year British factories turned lout 13,000 motor-cars and. 15,000 ' n/otpr cycles, worth £2,640,000 and respectively.. ' And, despite the heavy imports, the * supply, was inadequate to the demand. The Christchurch Tramway Board's proposal to boffow £100,061) to extend and improve tie electric tramway system, was carrijd by the ratepayers at the poll held jto-day, when 2605 voted "for the proposal, and 964 against. The. ratepayers oh/ the rolls total 15,637.. Lambeth (London) Borough Council has established a sterilised milk dep"f, where lhilk ;is supplied to motherp'/at. cost ]>rlc£. I Babies are "w«igbjed. there, free of. charge, and sanitary inspectors are sent to the women's hom»s to ensure that the milk is properly used. The South Canterbury Pi/»e Band has determined to disband. The band was financed the/outset by the Caledonian Society, which provided the expensive uniforms, and Uie directors of the/Society say>■'■the band .cannot disband without /their permission. A conference is to bp/helrJ to consider the position. . Mr Alf. Hill has not parted with the rights of ' k A Moorish Maid." It will be played on royalty by the Sti'phchson ' Company, under arrangement witty/Mr Hill, who has bought Mr Birch's interest in the Avork. Mr Birch is to yfite the libretto and lyrics for anQth/r which Mi- Hill will compose/ " jin entente municipale which would iaclude all the capitals of the civilised world could not fail in time of danger to form a most effective safety-valve against' excesses to which .the excited . national feeling may lead even responsible statesmen and rulers.—Sir Edward Cornwall (chairman of the London Council). .■.'•■ „ :.-••. A highly interesting Wellington interview with the Premier deals with his views on the subject of Japanese immigration. Mr Seddon. ridiculed the sensational statements made by the Wellington "Post," and advised Australia's taking Mr Roosevelt's advice and admitting the Japanese to the Northern Territory. • The following peculiar letter appears in the Pahiatua "Herald": "Sir,—-There is a most daring criminal in the backblocks. He has systematically robbed and plundered the settlers of their sliee'p and cattle for years, and if they,-say' anything they are knocked-:ab6ut,'and their homes burned. Several' settlors have been. left'homeless." . ■.- '.'.-'' Prices never before so temptingly low, in linen costumes, ladies' linen jackets, and crash' and linen walking skirts: See window, Bradstreet's Great Drapery Sale. Karangahape-rd.—Ad. Richest soil, sunniest aspect, bracing air, lowest .prices, easiest terms, only' £10 deposit; the beautiful Stamford' Park Estate at back of St. .John's,- Epsom, to be auctioned in lj'-acre, to 6acre sections on Monday by Messrs Wajv jren • Brjrth-^nd-Co^r^, \ ";;'; ~, -fi : .._. " ; •'.- ■ ~'.- t'M 'VI. C ■'•' • ~ :-v*v' $■ » ■.■;■■• !i'Y<