TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 2 March 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

_LC.C. v. New Zealand. - . ; v World's sculling championship t_« to« d£ w-,, .'- y.yy .' .. ~.y.:y': ■'■-■.{ . Miss Florence.Quinn's.concert crowd* ed the Choral Hall last evening.:; .'.' :''*; The reduction in the _a.yal o estm_t_i amounts to £1,427,091, pr about 4| pet; cent. \. " ;';...:..: l' ' . Mc -Williamsons company -pr&hices "The Virginian"-at Has ■.-; trc to-night; •-•-'.■' '--'—-:•'.'=—-_ .". The first reading of stations adopted by the Methodist: Conference- was -a_- ; j nouneed last «venihg. -•--' The naval personnel -will be reduced by diminishing the number of boyar. entering the training-ships.'' -.--V."- '.Wyi City Band .performing in the ; .Albert Park and the■ Garrison Band myths Western Park ■to-ihofrOw afternooft"'"' ' Both American Houses ot Parliament have ratified: the - measure, for the. \Jexelusion of-.citizens absent for more than -five-years. • y : - *". .'-'--.'., ■■'■■.»■ ' Italian punitive expedition attacked-in-East Africa' defeated tribesmen. ; The native loss was 200, and _tjj§ Italians "27: ; ' ■ ' '-- ■'•,.-:.■• -;.. ■■.■■ ■; ■ ' Williams, of Opawa, while leaving tha Trentham Tange on his bicycle last collided with a carWarid sustained ■*■•:■"'. Broken arm. •. - ••- ••• - • -.-■- '; The mosquito-craft in the new naval' programme show a diminution .of four. There will be: twelve new submarines against fifteen, for last year- • .:'.."'-•'■ New route betewen Killary Bay onthft West Coast 9! Ireland,, and Green Bay, Newfoundland, will be the , quickest means of crossing the Atlantic by 33 hours. , :. : -..', The five remaining 'members of-'the Sonoma's crew have been'sentenced to. ~ a month's imprisonment, pending de*. portation, as ibeing\ prohibited immigrants. " ' ; '-■--• ''• Acting-Prettier said that the cost .of the Exhibition to the colony as a wbola would not, he belieyed,: exceed one shilling per head of the. population-(about £45,000.) , ■ -•-'; The boycott of American, flour-in China has benefited >the Canadian millers to the extent of 100,000 bags. Messrs Washburn, Crosby, and Company, of Minneapolis, are erecting an 8000-barrel mill at Keewatin, ManitObaV : :;.'-' -1 It is not intended to said a team .to ■ Bisley this year, but the Government is ] said .to be. giving favourable, consideration to a proposal that a team of 20 men shall go to Melbourne to meet "a. ■team of English riflemen who are to, visit Australia next October. '-'...-'.: At ten o'clock sharp, Monday morning, at Histed's quick and lively sale, will be given away: 10 yards of coloured dress linen for 1/6, 10 yards navy print "fon 1/11;. 10 yards of light print for 1/, 1/6, and 1/11; about 100 lengths in all. _cc ( windows to-night.—Histed's, Ponsonby-,' road.— (Ad.) ' ' i-■ Ex s.s Star of Scotland and Opawa,' McCullagh and-Gower, the popular drap-i era, announce that they are now opening new-goods for the autumn and winter; season.—(Ad.) - ■" ._; Next -week lastweek of sale. .Special bargains in) all departments. : Jv A. Bradstreet, draper, Karangahape-road. —(Ad.) ; f, Ex s.s. Star of Scotland and Opaw«» McCullagh and Gower, the popular drag*. l ers, announce that they are now opening sew goods for autumn and winter season.—X—d-i, - - ~~ $0.