TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 117, 17 May 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

•■ - J » -, -. / 'Frisco mail to-niorrottv - - '"3 \ ' ; Te Rangi Pai's" concert to-night. J V Trades and Labour Council met last night. British rffbree in Zululand is shelling? and burning native kraals. There, is alarm in Germany over • eoniing tSnglo-Russian treaty. Mr. Jaffray. Commissioner for the ! Board of Trade, 'will arrive in Auckland to-morrow. •' . It is possible that tlie Federal authorities may appoint another Arbitration Court judge. , The Sultan yielded only when th* British Minister Had" plainly indicated Turkey's peril. . ; Old tin mines are being'reopened in Cornwall owing to the high prices at which the metal is selling. ' . ' Turkey's granting -^fW^British* 3e- is ■ mands is her first ifteeegnifcMra of Great Britain's protectorate ojEer'^Egypt. The New Soutfe? Wales, Government proposes to establish ah inebriates* home on Rabbit •■ Island, - Hawkesbur* River. ■ ; Mr Hansen proposes to issue tram tickets before 4.30 pjn. for ljd so as to .">.* "get her ladyship off the street 1, befor%i,#: that timeV : ~,.... ;/ - The Harbour Board and, City, Council have under consideration, a scheme to improve the approaches to Hobsonstreet Wharf. ~; ,-"V*..&.7 . Great Britain and Rud&ia expected shortly to conclude a treaty safeguarding the present Asiatic possessions of both countries. . ■; Z l It is intended inuAustralia".to.enforce, at once the_ Federal' postal -regulation directing all -telegrams . jindeliyered for. six -weeks to be destroyed. ■A ta¥le iti sho\ve < that Xew Zealand and' Queensland "are; the most loyal the jwinpple ■of siip- ' porting the Imperially-aWncd Pacini' cable. - > : ':^i.i; . ~~TXV ; At his dinner to the Postal delegates* Sir Joseph Ward expressed the hope that. America would' .soon enter into a-«• striated -penny postage-treaty with. New? !■ Zealand. ,;...;■;..•.•- f •■- VMallard ducks are fairly plentiful ia , ' --*" the Taranaki province. The other afternoon a flight of close on one hundred were observed on a pond in the Hawem district. - Ii was stated by-.'in. actuary before a United States Parliamentary Committee that no fire coriipariy in America y«t knew whether., it. TtyaulcT -Tbe solvent or riot. - * " '._.-" . . '" .' 'It is believed that 85' to 90 per cent of butter factories and producers in Victoria "are" "opposed £o' ,o£ grading and working under the Com•merce Act. • The Ikaroa Native Land Board Will consist- of Mr 'Kensington retary for Lands),- ■Mγ'Edger : (Undersecretary for Native Affairs), and Kapuha Hianga. jii: Thomas Jackson; caretaker ox the r Wepijgtoii jaeescputee^rMrae^., cut.to -pieces la>st;i*;eefc. , ori.-"jhe .Dubbo..jrailsras7 3» .; South-Wales, ■..'■■'.•■,.'■.,' The Federal Government' intends te submit to the Imperial Government, a , • proposition which tend to greatly modify the agreement with France respecting the New Hebrides. The native manuka pi- "ti : tree."' fdun J also in Australia, is well known as a> fragrant plant. An Australian herbalist . says that, a perfume resembling.attar of roses may be distilled from" the flowers. ■ A young man named Charles McGuin- • -oess, -of West Melton, was badly'ripped 5y a pig at the Addington. salcyards .. -yesterday.. Xc animals rushedatr him, r.jaM infiicte'dla in his thigh three - or four inches in length. ■ f ■ . The 'amount expended by the. WellingI ton Acclimatisation-Society. .on the -fish - hatchery at Masterton for Ihe year • ended Marea 31 was £883:' . cost the society £280 in wages, and their expenses amount to another £109. Public opinion in Australia is strong- ■ ly .against'the decision nofc'to-appoint any more Imperial :officers to important positions in the military forces. Mt Reid":? view iatliat they: should..get ab- " i solutely the best man available in the British Empire for General • Finn's :posir v tion. ■ -. ■ ; i .;.).-- The reason of the Federal postal regulation compelling . the .-stamping of . letters in the top. right-hand corner, according'to the statement ;of., the authorities, is that letters are, now stamp- ■ ed*by electricity in all large centres,! . and stamps rimsi be fixed to: meet this - reqiurements pf the machine. .