TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 145, 19 June 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Grave crisis in. Russian , J 'Frisco mail due to-morrc^v. Large Zulu surrenders are "announced. The next Japanese Budget will show a deficit of eight millions sterling. .An English mail is due to arrive her* per Sonoma from 'Frisco to-mb"rraw. United States Meat Bill is \ being amended to secure rigid eonditioriji of inspection. , & I German Press is publishing deprensing news with regard to the situatid* in Russia. - Political situation in Russia is dea- ( crihed as desperate. Anarchy prevail* everywhere. The Dreyfus case is to he retried, with a view to that officer's legal rehabilitation. Meeting of returned troopers decided to take steps for the erection of a Seddon memorial tablet. The English mail via Suez which left here on May 7 arrived in London on th* morning of the" 16th inst. There is serious unrest at necessitating reinforcements, and a general strike has begun at ArchangeL There have been three days of fin* weather throughout Canterbury, and the farmers' work is well forward; The Pacific Cable Board has now. opened its. Sydney office for the transaction of business direct with thm public. The mobilisation of the defence reserves in the naval manoeuvres is considered to have been remarkably rapid and evident. . St. Petersburg and Moscow bourses .are in a state bordering on panic. There is also a considerable fall in Russian stock abroad. Four boxes of gold valued at .£ 17,705, and 51 boxes of silver valued at £5300, were shipped to Sydney m the s.s. Zealandia yesterday. "Zadkiel." in his predictions for 1906, mentioned that New Zealand would receive a shock and that there would be a political ■ crisis. The Kieran Memorial will take th* form of a swimming challenge- shield and medals for champions of the Stat* schools of New South Wales. - - Morocco is endeavouring to exhaust the energy of the Powers by a policy of temporising over the Sultan's ad- - hesion to the decisions of the Conference. One of the 26 men arrested at the States Sporting Club in Sydney on Saturday night was fined £50 yesterday for gambling. Twenty-four others were ejfch finefi £5. „ ■ bWambridge has formed a club, the object of which is to increase the population of the town to 5000 during the next 10 years. It is called "The-Five Thousand Club." Later new 3 from Byolostok shows that that massacre of Jews was of a distinctly deliberate character, and was engineered by the officials. The victimsare variowslv-estimated at from 700 to 2000. - > • It is a well-known fact that fbv steven -yearsy- after tire jhist greats of Tesuvius in 1372 th« country" roundT •about remained barren of produce. This trm'e "it fs calculated that'fully'ten years will be necessary before the tend" can recover from the havoc Wrought by th* present catastrophe.""