TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 132, 4 June 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Suez mail delivered., ' - ' : Supreme Court continued " " • Seven hundred 6f: the.Chinese rebel, i ye be ™ ki!1 « a defeat betwS : Anioy and Swat'ow. ■ - •■ - : "etweem : A movement is'afoot'in England 4 ; erect a memorial to Robert ClivtrffoirndS . of the Indian Empire. , A poll ortlie/ratepaydrsroVwaitemata; . County will deride as :to ■ . of the Northeote water ..supply . Wris - t .Grey Lynn Council at its^ro^flast c night passed, resolutions i n favour" : ofi .. carrying into effect thY proposed "pa"rk" r ; ; An ltahan army captain was fatilhJ ■ injured in a. balloon disaster, ' KincVV' : 1 Methoaist Conference has apporntea- * committee to investigate the question of I establishing a connesional fire insurance - fund. ' '"; - ■ ; . Mayor, City officials, and. a number of - councillors yesterday inspected the' site ' °f' the proposed drainage 'outfall "art - Orakei. . —-■,--••--. ; British and. American fleets are eon* cent rating in preparation for :• farther j developments in the Swatow. •' (Chini)j - .rebellion. . .".■.--. -V. 1 ■ American ''Pure ]7dod" law is,alltiw- > ing, Chicago eanncir meats ,to' be sold ■ which,contain bofacic antiseptic, bristles* . hair., skin and glands. 7 ' ■ ■'■' ; One Scotch immigrant, asked in Sy-d-. ney if there were others who would-like ; to come- to Australia, is alleged to , have ' replied, "Aye, mon, thqosands." • :'■>:..' . At au inquest at Wallsend (N.S.W;}£ ', medical cadence shewed that a wornai • who took what -was supposed to.'be qui- . nine died of strychnine poisoning.' "-■'.-''..• According to the "Vossisehe Zeifcung, , ? the balloon battalion of the German "Arinv •is to be strengthened by.a cpnipany, the special duty of which: -will be menfr with motor airships.•-.; _".-, ■ -- ■ Mt. H. A. L. Fisher;-the--welt-knoW Oxford at the Education Con? . ferenee advised colonial universities: to ' study more modern-history,'and referred • •to Australian and .Canadian ignorance of European polities. ';■ -. : ■"■ Great anxiety is felt mnong navigators regarding the continued silting up. in the : River Scheldt, while the authorities seen?:. entirely indifferent to.'tiie' , "conditions, -which may prove fatal to navigation and prevent direct access to Antwerp.The "Daily Telegraph": (London)] ' points but lii~ite literal^"' columns the rapid iricreasein the popularity'of IVenclii 'literature in England.' ThT'iribst'unlikely, bookshops, and even' the railway bookstalls, now stock French, books-heavily. Lord Carrington, President.".of the Board of Agriculture, stated- in a speech, at Ilford (London) that aH.true Eng? lishnieh must, have read .Lord; ifilner'S j. a.ttack on the present policy in South. Africa with pain,, astonishment, and in? ; ■ jdigHation. •'■•.<. ':.■;.> ■■■'•'.' .^i , f '"~'V l ' A' - German-Affiterican'' reciprocity, treaty has been''concluded wita the balance ' eft "■; advantage . oji the side -o.f - 'Aiueriea.* The favourable treatment of : '■ German.'• champagne has led to French retaliation, "on .certaiab American produce. . r . • In the Supreme Court ■ to-day John Bennett, a middleTaged man, was sen"; tenced to tiiree. years' imprisonment, for. criminally assaulting a' Maori, girl. William James Lyons, for perjury borne, was sentenced to six moat&s'iip.prisoiunent. "Is a man '.who is not. on the .rate-, payers' roll, but ,; who has property; : in his wife's name *i*tltied to speak-'pa tiis matter ?" asked-a-y-eU-kpown- Northcotq resident at the njeeimg" last nighTHa connection with-.the' water-supply, -but the chairman ruled- that men whose properties were in•"'•their ; wives' names must maintain silenceA at/: raiepayeri l Dr. Wegner and Mr. Koek, of TrSnk-r fort-on-the-Main, two German; aeronauts, made an extraordinary baUooa Mournej durin"'Wednesday night aiid: Thursdays They started from near Berlin at- /-I•» pin (EngUsli time);, passed over Holland., and Zuyder Zee. arrived a± the Wash at 11.15 ou Thursd*y morning, and descended at Enderßy,'four: and aialS miles from Leicester, at 3.30 p.m. . "The usual meeting of; the: Auckland Ministers' Association was beld at ;i>ULuke's Manse, Kemuera, under the ipresi-.-dencv qf the Rev. John The Ser. W. S. Potter was appointed-ihon-treasurer in plate of the B£V. J. BRussell, who has resigned. An address! on "Reaching Young Men" was read toj Mr. J. G. Mitchell. This was followed by a discussion in. which *c Munro, Spence, Thompson, Potter took part, Mr. Mitchell being thanked for his address. ■ ;.•-.;■■ -.'.■'■