TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 April 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

•. _ ' ; • ■ ■ "^;." St. George's Day; ..,, ; .< ; Bank holiday to-day. y* . -• . ..' Shakespeare's birthday. - > N Fires "cheeked in San Franeisc_ -- San Francisco title deeds are safe "i Forty looters have been, shot in Saa" Francisco. ••*"■'" y * _ Trades, and Labour Conference closed on Saturday. . . ... Heavy damage has been caused by at fire in Adelaide. . „ - '.. y\ * ' U.S. Congress is being asked ior - farther rote in relief. ~.. Stin Fraßcisco relief meeting at ..th_ 'municipal Council Chambers at 4 p.m. : It, has been decided., to. rebnild Sao Francisco on a greater scale" than evei:.y • Eleven apparently dead clerks har* been saved trom the ruins of the post oflice. ; - - ; - "- " There are now-3000 visitors at Roto-' rua, and every hotel and boardins-housa fa full. :; ' •It is expected that a portion pi the residential quarter of San Francisco trill-' be saved. ........ . .;:y ; y ; yy. The police in San Francisco poured away all the alcohol from saloons and grocers' stores. Official report shows that the fire has been checked to the -west, of the residential quarter. "7- • 7 Train loads of provisions are- now. arriving in San Francfseo, and. public kit* chens have been openedMuch "sickness is "apprehended in Sai Francisco owing to the impossibility of re-establishing sanitary "cohditibns. President Roosevelt stated, that'owing to. f the houhtiful response of .Americans no foreign help would be' required.Three French bluejackete. Were killed and 22 injured by the explosion of a j shell on a gunnery instruction ship..: ' An Afghan committed suicide by jumping into a fire -which he kipdled especir l | ally'for-the pnrpose, in order to avoid arrest. , : t j In San Francisco parks a„-soeial disT v ' tinctions have disappeared, and societ- , belles and factory girls are huddled to-' | gether. ". . r~The area of land selected in West Aus" I tralia last month totalled 78.133 acres, ! while pastoral leases aggregating 1,528,----343^cres were applied.for.--'--yy.' . _-. ■ J grospebttts of the -New Zealand Iron and Steel Company has been' issjued..- Mr Witheford is asking the Government to suspend its right of pre-lmption. ■■ -•--.- According to Sir Francis New South Wales received £12,000,000 last year for live stock and' their product*: alone, Which meant £10 per -head;: jof population;. -• The''."!K^dy t ;Teturri of- the-Mount Eden; ; ' Gaol' shows, that the total number oi i prisoners is 255 men and 22- Women, tP^ s I whom 25 men ; and one womah;"were re?, ceived during the -week. . - Sir Francis Suttor said, at the-. Sydney. . Agricultural Show that during the year I the sheep of tlie State had.increased by. [ 5,000,000, :.cattte. by .188,000, apd horses jby 24,000. , -That wia.s„iE§rtlfc,,----£3,470j000:.v: rr '-'..'..\ [,Jl -. " '."