TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK .

Suez mail arrived yesterday. ' , J! Zealandia leaving for Sydney. ' '" [' "* ] Victoria, from Sydney, arrived. 'Frisco mail due, but not expected till to-morrow. l A great storm did considerable damage in New Caledonia. Japanese bluejackets are receiving- a great welcome in. London. Germany is becoming uneasy at the weakening of the Triple Alliance. Editor of the "Russ" has been sent ttf imprisonment in a fortress for a year. Turks have now 4500 troops and eight guns at Akaba, on the Sinai Peninsula. ' Sir K. Herbert was also chairman of Mr. Chamberlain's Tariff Reform Com- • mission. Suspects in a Moscow prison hospital were seen chained with iron rings. , .to their beds. Captain Edwin thinks that the North Island got off very easily in the matter of the hurricane. i Two-thirds of the Johannesburg voters have petitioned the King in favour of one vote one value. Zealandia, from the South, and Victoria, from Sydneyj both had rough passages, owing to the gale. Eleven girls at Pabiancia, in Poland, are. expected to die by poison administered because they refused to strike. Hopeful news received in Washington suggests that a successful termination to the Moroccan Conference is possible on Monday. For ten years an eccentric grocer in Indianapolis, U.S.A., has carried on his business "as Christ would have done," but his methods have ended in bankruptcy. Stuttering children have lately become alarmingly numerous in Germany. The public schools contain 80,000 of* them. The increase in the number is largely due to niiniiery. Captain Edwin, interviewed by a "New Zealand Times" representative on Satm> day, said that he thought three, more'days from then (Tuesday) would see the bad weather through. -• The weekly return of the Auckland prison shows that the total in the gaol on Saturday was 231 men and 23 women, of whom 18 men and five women' were received during the week. Some boys, while rowing hear the GoI3 ' Hole at Northeote yesterday morning,, found a body, which was subsequently identified as. that of John Lundgren,, an inmate of the Seamen's Home. •' / ~ The "Christchurch Press," in .an;-em thusiastic article, urges South Islanders to turn their steps on their holidays tothe North Island. Auckland in itself would repay a prolonged visit.;,A writer in the- t: CiiristchuEch Press* says that in no other city in- New Zealand has so much been done?'by private benefactions to beautify the town and increase the intellectual resources of its' inhabitants as in Auckland. Work in connection with the establishment of workmen's 'homes is proceeding' apace at Petone. The formation of the streets and. drainage works, is almost complete, and the erection, of forty" houses- \vili be shortly -'-commenced. Members of the tinners'- Union ia•■ Otago this 3 ? ear their order* for twine, thus, getting it. at a red.uce.d price.,.,. Tbe.jreduc'tion is made orders for 10 tons or over. This sys« tern of pooling orders will probably be extended. An. interesting experiment will be tried of running and regulating all the. public clocks ■of Vienna, Austria-Hun-gary, by wifeless electricity. Experiments have, already been made:on -asmall scale,: and no doubt is felt of-the practicability of the scheme.' " .". •; In a caseheard in the City of London Court the other day a West End theatre cloak room attendant said his; "tips" amounted to £3 per week. . Theatregoers often gave him a shilling or half a crown. The largest tip he >-had Tβceived was a guinea from -the Crown Prince of Siam.. ■• In the course of an article on,the virtues of Auckland in the "Christchurch' Press,"' the writer humorously rallies. the Aucklander on his view that.Aucklandis the only place in the wide world worth. Hying in, but he "is withal a charmingly hospitable person/and it is impossible to be .angry with him." Mr John Maginn, an infirm inmate 1 of the Mile End Old Town Workhouse, writes to "The Times": in the.firewood department, I have discoved that common deal wood is a valuable food and medicine, if cut small and eaten. Brown bread is not in it for its tonic and invigorating effect." A resident in -the ilarlborough Sounds district states that the native grass is most effectively choking* out -the fernj and that, in consequence, the sheepcarrying capacity of the land is largely increasing;. Ttije Introduction ,6$ tlie oil launch, of which there* are now a' large number, has developed the Sounds > in a marked degree. • '. : '■ Mr Alexander Graham Bell,-at a; din« ncr of the Automobile Club of America, predicted that the problem of" aerial" navigation would be solved soon s ~;wh.en men would be-able to dine in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and breakfast next morning in London. He could/noti say cvvhen this would be realised, but believed that the solutioii of the problem would come suddenly.