TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 65, 16 March 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

ii ■-. ■ ' —::' American .financial crisis. • ■■ -■> Suez mail due to-morrow. ■ _-•- End of- the Slaughtermen's strikfe,-.-.-Annual meeting of the Y._LC._v, wa.held last evening. ' ... ..."'.. Shares declined more than _£ 100,000, 000 in New York yesterday. , ! Greymouth, . Ohineimiri. and: Tologa; Bay races are proceeding to-day. Two of the leading. American finaun ■' j eiers : are likely to seek accommodationi owing to the fall in stocks. ' ; Membership of <the V.M.C.A. has it_i j creased in a year from 311 to' 620, _w sides 100 in the boys' department. ■ Auckland City Band gives- a perfori | manee in the -Western.- Park and the. I First Battalion Band in the Albert Park to-morrow afternoon. The New York correspondent of thei "Daily Telegraph" (London), says it is impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of the financial situation. , Mr. Austin Chamberlain suggested in a speech yesterday that the demand fori -tariff reform should be coupled with tha cry of "Back to the Land." Heavy floods in Ohio, Virginia, an_ Kentucky have done immense, damaga and deprived 100,000 men of work. Pour* teen people haA'e been drowned. The -Jew South Wales Full Courts found that Brown, one of the jurors in the Crick ease, had been guilty of gross misconduct, but that there was no legal means of punishing him. The United States Secretary of. t__ Treasury has offered to redeem 25,000,----000 dollars' worth of Government bonds, and has placed 71,000,000 dollars at tha disposal of the New York banks. A serious situation has arisen i_l Persia owing to the Shah's opposition to the wishes of the new Assembly. The Indian Government is holding troops ready for the protection of tha British Consulates in Persia. New.raincoats, new jackets, and _■«__!_ cloaks, for ladies and children. _.__■• dreds to choose from. New styles and splendid value.—J. A.. Bradstreet, E__s anghape-road.— (Ad.) New felt hats and new fur neefclcia. See windows.—J. Bradstreet, Karangahape-road.—(Ad.l Our alterations now being practicalrj) completed, we are opening next w___ further shipments of novelties for all dac vlaT\fo&DsCß.— "Ad, '*-*-_..- ~:"