TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 262, 9 November 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

King", Birthday. A_R.C. races at E-lerslie. City Council net last night. Yachting season opened to-day. New Zealand bowlers won the thintest match by 40 points. Mdlle. Dolores gave her first concert; to a crowded audience last night. Mr. Herring's bequest to the London Hospital fund amounts to £500.000. During the September quarter the population of Victoria increased br 5503. Auckland City Band will perform in the Domain Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Both Democrats and Repnblieans are disappointed with the result of the New* York elections. Kingsland Cricket ground -was officially opened to-day. with a match between Eden and Grafton. Despite the threatening weather the various excursion steamers were very liberally patronised. The City Engineer's proposals for ne . salt-water baths were presented to the City Council last night. One of tho Stratford (England) justices recently sat on the bench in his shirt sleeves owing to the heat. American elections give a big victory tc Tammany, including the return of ten judges bargained for with Mr. H.arst. Mr. Keir-Hardie has introduced a Women's Franchise Bill. He says that 420 out of 670 members are in favour of reform. The rowdy element at a Sydney political meeting .fter hearing an attack on Socialism, hooted a proposal of cheer, for the King. Tlie City Council decided, on the recommendation of its Engineer, not zct bind itself to ferroconcrete for the new cemetery bridge. There was a trial run of the machinery last week at the Waipori Falls. Tha Dunedin "Star" understands- that everything went satisfactorily. The Victorian Railway Commissioner, have made important reductions in the rates for the carriage of grain and other produce over long distances. " The Times" strongly criticises the Imperial Government for its failure to consult Australia and New Zealand on the New Hebrides question. Lillian Shjpton, a petitioner in divorce, has been committed for trial at Sydney, upon a charge of falsely stating her age at her marriage 11 years ago. The entries for the Wanganui Agri* cultural Show constitute a colonial record. Live stock entries total 2516, and the home industries section 1160. The relative quiet of a, number of London squares will shortly be disturbed by a new series of County Council tram-ways connecting Euston with other leading railway stations.

The record number of employers made parties to an award is to be found in the case of the shearers' award, which applies to the South Island only. The number is over two thousand. The commander of the British cruiseBrilliant, in Newfoundland waters, is supporting the Anglo- American modus vivendi as against the Newfoundland Bait Act, and has expressed his intention to frame his own rules for the fisheries. '_.. In a recent case at the Mansion Housa, ; London, in which a German girl ww charged with stealing an umbrella from St. Paul. Cathedral, the magistrate questioned the prisoner in her own language. The total sum involved in Mr. Bush's baths construction scheme is £ 15,000. This sum, besides two new baths—one on Shelly Beach and the other in Gladstonestreet (Symonds-street)—provides for a large salt water reservoir in the latter location The refusal by Mr. Monroe to totally abandon .1 free performance of the Exhibition Orchestra during a concert by Miss Marie Narellc, has occasioned considerable friction between the Chief Commissioners and the Entertainments Committee. Tramps lose heavily by the removal of Lady Frances Cecil from Stocken HalL says" a London paper. Fifty sometime 3 called there in a day. The rule was that every wayfarer should be given a loaf with cheese and a pint of beer. Tbe City Councir lasT evening passed a vote of thanks to the three City members, Messrs A. Kidd. F. E. Baume, and C. H. Poole, thanking them for their services in the interests of the city during the past session of Parliament. A new blight on the plum trees has appeared in Warm ate, and it seems very destructive. In appearance it is similar to the green-fly that infests rose trees, but is darker. It strips ieaves and kills forming fruit. The most common parasite on tbe plnm is a sort or leech, which is bad enough without any rivals. Work in connection with the new dock :at Dunedin is progressing very satisfactorily under the new management. A deep well has been sunk, which will drain the whole.of the site. Excavation is being pushed forward, and preparation- being made to excavate the end of the dock, where the gates will be erected. . The Sultan's malady is stated bj a usually well-informed Paris journal to be cancer of the kidneys, which is generally fatal in less than a year: while a new* agency, apparently on the authority of a German physician at Yildiz Kiosk, asserts that it is stone, the ailment that Napoleon ILL succumbed to after an operation at Chisiehurst. The sawmilling industry is again in a flourishing state (says the Rrvertoa "Star") the mills making full time. It is computed by those in a position to know that sawmilling work will be yc-t carried on for a great number of years to come. After the bush has been cut out the land will be taken up for dairying purposes. Outside B_ardmore's steel works at Carntyre (Scotland) is a tank of melted but cold tar. In walking on the thin coating, which almost covers the surface, a man broke the crust, and sank immediately. The tank is Sft deep, and for two hours the man struggled for Ufa in the tar. A woman then noticed hands protruding, and .the man was pulled out, and found to be suffering seriously from his immersion.