TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■Jewish. New Years Day. Great typhoon at Hongkong. Mr J. M. Shera died yesterday. MacMahon Company in "The Price oi Sin." Jews fear an early massacre at Odessa. A domestic servants' union has been formed in Wellington. A British Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into vivisection. An English mail, via Suez, is due to arrive here per Zealandia from Sydney on Sunday. Terrible sufferings are reported among the peasants in the Russian province of Samara. A Berlin company has secured the contract for 500 London motor omnibuses to cost £325,000. One thousand lives were lost and a large amount of shipping destroyed in the typhon at Hongkong. Heavy loss of life was caused by an Oklahoma train's falling through the track into - the Cimarron River. A man named Robyrt James Houston was knocked down and killed by a tram at Circular Quay, Sydney, last week. Mr Fowlds denied statements as to the refusal of admission to St. Helens Hospital of the wives of poor workers. Royston's Horse has been acquitted of the cruelty charges, while the action of the Bishop of Zululand in acting on Ms information has been approved. Steps have been taken to invite applications from abroad, as well as iii Australasia, for the position of Superintendent of Technical Education in Sydney. Archbishop Clarke had to * wade through flood waters to reach Holy Trinity Church, at Coburg (Vie), where he had promised to preach last Sunday week. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly last week a bill was introduced by Mr. Hobson to regulate the practice of opticians, and was read a first time. Moroccan followers of a Saharan sorcerer looted a French store at Casablanca, wounded several Europeans, and tried to incite the populace against the Christians. Jews in London petitioned King Edward for His Majesty's intervention in favour of the Jews in Poland. The British Ambassador at St. Petersburg has been instructed in regard to the matter. The decree nisi granted in the Sydney case of Edith Gertrude Alderson v. Oswald Edward Alderson was annulled last week on the ground that there had been collusion. " People must not," said Mr. Jitstic'e Simpson, " enter into any agreements, whether expressed or implied, for the purpose of obtaining a divorce." A ease to test whether the Council of the Sydney Zoological Society had the right to charge ■ for admission to the gardens on Sundays was before the No. 2 Jury Court in Sydney last week. The action- was brought under an old Act of George HI., which Mr. Justice Pring described as being utterly inapplicable to modern days. Plaintiff was nonsuited.