TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• . —t: ♦. . ' .Vesuvius. .*■ ~ . ,j . ■„-9^^ypleanic' ; outbre_k.'' '■'.''' " '• Summaiy to-morrow. V .'.)}'■ Postal Congress opened in Rome. ''. Rebel chief Bambaatais'nbw in Zulttc land. X , . ■' Incandescent rocks were hurled thre» thousand >feet-above Vesuvius. , . The Admiralty has decided thai "in future boys shall not be present at ikri- '■ ings in the Navy. Great Britain is proposing the separ - ate representation : of _<ew Zealand- at the Postal Congress..:. Eruption of Vesuvius killed several peopTe and destroyed the observatory; and funicular railway. . Mount Edei Presidents deputationised Colonel .Pitt on the subject of forming ,the- district, into .a boroughAt Aspendale Park (Vie.) on Saturday,F. Gamer lowered the Australasian walking records for five and ten miles. . . Sir H. CampheA-Bannerman said that Great Britain would set an example in the matter of. the diminution of militax3s burdens. ' "-- ~j The Victorian revenue returns so far available indicate a- probable surplus of half a million aifcrthe close of the: 'financial year. ' ~ '• ••:•■ . <• Mr. Willis Johnson;;who received serf-, ous injuries in Tapuhi bush on Wednesday last, is progressing' favourabjyafc'. the Whangarei Hospitafl.. "... Sir T. Campbell-Banhernian said he hoped the Moroccan settlement would lead to the diminution of the frightful military, bur_ens of .the nations. 'The ISTew South Wales Treasurer has £15 as conscience money. The sender said the sum was-in discharge of an obligation incurred some: yearago. .'-- ..;.-: ~: \ . .'■" ' ~ ... .' t : According to jfigures given by the Act-' yeateiday, the: number of telephone;connections in -TewZealand has nearly doubled itself _ince 1900. : *... ■ ; ' ' . Captain Burrowsj Wirth -Bros.' trainer, lioness in Sydney and had one The lioness had' to be .shot Burrows to escaps from the cage *{ .VA. ■-'.-'*," : \ : -..'.'- .Mr J G .mfkriess, secretary of the National: Dairy Association, "thinks 'that London complaints as to the:; quality, of colonial butter .refer .in ' particular.': ti», Australian exports. ■ ' ■ '- ' - . - The Hon. A. Pitt, at the ppeni_g v of the Parnell post. office yesterday, pbinte_ out tfiair l in- five years from 1890 the. "number of paid telegrams had increased by nearly 52-per cent. . ' In a test case in: Sydney in which ; a letter-carrier sought'to- have his salary restored to" what ; it was before .transference to the Commonwealth, the High. Court.found. for defendant. . r 'The' Hospital, Board, Jdecided .to . do nothing in regard to preventing - the publication of-the number of votes given: to successful and ; unsuccessful . candi- ; dates- for ; on t . the .-honprar j staff .of the: hospital. ,- : " . .".. v '-■''■. -t The. Minister ,fOT,-Railways told year ; /deputation that he woulire.-'' eommeHd to contribute' £500, towards .-the wbrk'of, iempying,.fc)ho:. railway bridge supports." Hewould also confer with other Ministers' - ■'. _ A large .meeting;of .the ratepayers of the Maiigapaj- jUdiug.lield^on Saturday! agreed that £4000 should jbe borrowed to provide for metauingnnd.otherwise improving the roads,'subject to the consent of a.poll of the ratepayers:. ".'. Science, if it means .anything, means progressive knowledge, and T detest, the unreasonable appeal .'to. authority, esr pecially": when the. appeal is somewhat antiquated. ; In science there is "not, or. there 'ought- not to be, such a thing "as. authority.—Mr Balfour at 1 the London: School of Economies. .'-'.'- ; _■" - Within a circle-of-ten miles diameter with a centre at "Charing Cross,'a 'new map, issued by. the;Lpndon- Traffic Commissioners, shows a population of 4,880,----460 persons, of" 20 miles diameter 6,349,058 persons, of -30 miles diameter; 6,696,284 persons, and i ofv 40 miles diameter 7,003,924 •persons) * Michael Guilfoyle,>a farm labourer, of New South Wa-bss, was'iound on airbadway in thei Maitland district last ; Sunday week with his .right foot shatteredby gunshot. FoUowing -a: blood trail, -' a-. constable came across a hut-occupied by. a. man named David FairhaU, who admitted firing- a shot^ v : He\said-,he-ordered Guilfoyle away. Speaking in round numbers the Hon* A. Pitt.said.at'the opening of the Parnell post office yesterday that froinil9oo to 1905 therevenue o£ Post and Telegr&pW Department had grown. from £500,000) to £672,000. an increase of .over.34 pec cent. In the same time, letters/bad in.-' creased from to 70,000,000, an' increase of 76 per cent.: . : '•; ' ; •/ John Shi el (25) i labourer, was- charged at Newcastle (England) Assizes withthe murder of his sister, Martha AnnShiel. 15, by strangling her. Prisoner admitted the crime. ~ He said: ''My.' father has married-a-second wife. • Sheis not gopd to my sister.;. My sister ; ; is soft, and I wanted Tier but of the Svay,before I went." The jury found th_; prisoner guilty with a strong? recom-. mendation to mercy,, and- Mr. Justice; Walton passed sentence of .death. The Juvenile Srnpking Bill, which Dr. T. J..' Macnamara, M-P., will shortly in-tr&duce.-intg. the House of Commons,provides that no person shall supply to-; bacco. -jn &ny form for the use of any per- : son .uridex-the 16 years,-under : penalties 0f."20/pn a first conviction, 40/ L on a s.ejp6nd.'"VThe.license (if any) held by such person for tbe sale of tobacco" shall" in case of a third conviction be--cp'me void, and. he. shall be disqualifiedfive years from the date of such conviction from holding any such, license.. . .' "" * _. . Open all day Wednesday this week. Special lot of "fur necklets just opened, 2/11 to . 39/6 each. .J.-A. Bradstreet,' draper; Karangahape-road. ; 2000 ladies and children's coats, new; style, 9/11 to 79/6. J. A. Bradstreet, Karangahape-road.—Ad. : < Black and navy serges, the right make " and finish, 1/6* to 4/11 per yard.—J. A. Bradstreet, Karangahapeoroad.—Ad.