TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 196, 17 August 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Suez mail arrived. Criminal sessions resumed. Industrial strikes "in India. 'Frisco mail left by the Sierra, Tairua Broken Hills, £2046 from 514 tons. , ■ -v\ Extensive slaughter 08- -police in Poland. ~ ' : ■:- - Sensational revelations As id crimping; at Newcastle. / Warsaw massacre .vras due.to revolu* tionary vengeance. ISew York is now giving orders iot tinned meat in London.- "'•'.' ' The Wellman polar balloon expedition lias been postponed for a yean . Meeting of King and Kaiser is di> scribed as most pleasant and cordial. Lecture by Professor F. D. Brown afc the Leys Institute to-ai«ht oh " Source* of Light." ■ A fcoyv eged six, at Pfenarth {Eng.yj has since his birth lived ' entirely on milk. He is well developed. , Colonel McKenzie said that a single reverse in Zululand would mean a general rising throughout the colony. Under the new regulations spirits ia Australia will have-to be two years ill bond .before passing into consumption. The City Qouneil last evening, granted! the use of the Domain for October 10. for Labour Day Sport's on the usual fees.: The Sydney City Council has decide* upon a further trial of oil on the etreeta in connection ■with, mitigating the. (just nuisance. The British Postmaster-GehiSral has promised the Corporation of Lloyd* licenses for a number" of. wireless graph stations: . ...,."'.'.''..' .".:..'... .The captain of a , North-wesfc Australian pearler discovered? a £ 1600 pearl, lost it in nine fathoms, and. recovered ifeby means of a diver. Nine bankers who fiaye died, in England recently hare left sums ovef £100,000. Sixof-thorn iwould.be called miliiqnair<ss in America. Hokitika Borough .Council has'accepied thoi tender of Win. Araoft and Co., of Grcymouth, for £2Q34, for erection of a new library building. ■ • i -Calcutta railway native employees ask for the same wages, as those of Euro-' peans. The Bombay postal serviecis also dislocated -by a strike of 500 postmen. 1 .' Both the New South Wales and.Vie*, fcorian Parliaments will shortly-legis-late to secure to the .family of-a testator an. adequate, interest in the estate. The Federal Minister for Defence ad- : rnitted thati personally 'he was more favourable to the recommendation os Captain Creswell -than of the Defence Committee. . During morning service in Nar* borough Church" (Eng.); a rai walked up the aisle,- and, entering a pew. in' which two. ladies -were fitting," took refuge in a parasol. . - -/ ' The text of the 1903 agreement, between the Admiralty-and the Marconi Company shows; that the: Admiralty , ; agreed to pay £20.000 down, a royalty of £1600 and £5000 a yeax. . ; City Council decided ■to take fcpecifia action. >yitit regard to -what Mr. Parp.-, d.«sscribea; tub ytlte VOoinpiny , i| : '* flagrant; and; cpvMxivted breached ■ ofj£e deed of delegation." Dr. Mason, in a lecture at, Wellington, ; vigorously 'condemned the' indisr criminate sale of patent-medicines, only; one-sixth of which were good,- or the result of real original research. .«. ■ r Gei-man Foreign Minister and Sic Charles Hardinge (Permanent Undersecretary at the Foreign Office, and formerly British Ambassador at Sfc Petersburg) are among the Kaiser' 3 guests. A project has-just been laid before the Minister of Railways for the construction of an electric, line* from the. Grand Place, .Antwerp, to the Place "do Brouckere, Brussels. /The estimated cost is £600.000. \ ■ ■-" *• ~ The House of Lords. Committee has passed the LjC.C. Bill which empowers that body to take, over the numerous squares and enclosures in London so a* to ensure their being preserved tot, . future generations. .. Answering a question, the New Soutli Wales Attorney-General (Mr. Wade) in-' dicated that when the Anti-Gambling. Bill, became law, publication: of betting, prices and winners of 'fTattersaU's" sweeps would be prohibited. A' Tauranga telegram reports the sale of Ohauiti Estate, of 7600 acres, to Messrs. Welch and Kemble, of Wairarpav, also of 2100 acres adjoining, and tli* farm known at Kelstbn, of 500 acres,, to>:: . Mr. 6>'M. Ycrex, of Lower Hutt. " -,' In reply to a suggestion, made by *; -, solicitor in the Supreme Court yesterSay afternoon Mr. Justice Edwards said it was perfectly ridiculous and - absurd to judge a girl's age by her height, any more than a man's sense could be judged by hia length: . : V ' .. '.The report of the English Joint Com-: nlittee oh" Underfed Children for the son 1905-6 shows that meals yrereprovided- in 264 sehoofls. The average weekly number of children fed ywas • 27,159, and the average weekly number of meals provided was 72,714. ' A terrible hailstorm at" Venice last ■month destroyed the famous 'orchards on the Giiideca islet; The hailstones: were of remarkable size, and the downpour so violent that .many cats,' which are-a perfect plague in Venice, were killed on the roofs of the hotisee. A' man charged at Stratford (Eng.)i with, being a deserter was able to choW • that while bathing at Wanetead a. deserter had donned his elotb.es' and left his own uniform ia their place. The bather had non alternative but to wear the uniform, arid this led to his arrest. He was discharged and the deserter was a-rrested. At a meeting of the Metropolitan. Asylum 3 Board, London, it was ed that the rtality arising from diphtheria during the year was. only 8.3 cent, the lowest on record, which was regarded as clearly showing the yalxje of the anti-toxin, treatment. In 1893; the year 'before diphtheria was treated with anti-toxin scrim, the death-rate among patients was 30.4-per cent. - -