TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 135, 7 June 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i- ~.-,,.-, ......'.;.;. ,•■ ~ Supreme Court resumed. •'- ■ ' - ; > : :'■_ City Council met last night; ' H Civil- ;war developing in .Persia. Lords debate on the disorders in Ire- ._ land..'. '' .'.' . ' ' ,-' . v ■ j, Russo-Japanese commercial' treaty , ar» 1- ranged. ; V " '. "... ' i Sir.' Fowlds arrived in Auckland ttiis -' morning. " '. . ..' .' •"'•* King and Queen are to visit Ireland on - -July 10 and 11." "' . '' • • _ City, financial' statement was su_w 1 . mitted 'last' night. . '• " The second orchestral concert proved " successful last night. New X.C.'s include Hon. J. A. Tole arid " " Mr!; F. E. Baume, MJEl.__. . ' Past and. present Parliamentariaiia U meet at the Pacific Club' to-night. ■, ,' . - An. extradition treaty between-Panama, and- Great Britain has been' ratified. .' j*.' • No clue has yet been found in connec- . tion with the, robbery at the Melbourne r -Mint. ' " "'' "'-'-' ;. " "J'.. - A conference of municipal bodies on the drainage scheme will 1 be held on , r. Wednesday, June 19. '■_■■_ ' Government statements _in the House - of Lords indicated .that the" law would. : " be firmly administered. ..... ' Stated that Pranc Co__mit« • tee on the New Hebrides, favours, sepa« • rate adininistration in the Islands. American, -and Canadian mails, fc_s r Australasia are 'to be seat alternately via. > Vancouver: and "by the new -'Frisett - tteamer's. ,"" '. .' ''-■" ■,:■■■ ' Owing to.the defiieht number of Aus* ' tralians'for. return to the Cpihonwealta, ■ y the 'officials 'in "South Africa "filled uj| I with Durbanites. ... .'•' The (Colonial Sugar Company has eu- - gaged.in Europe 112 labourers; niostlj; r Spaniards, to..yoi'k in'the Queensland ■ . sugar plantations. ' __ _ -""•_■*""' A deputation, headed by the Bishop of London, has asked the cdihmittee of tha - L.C.C. concerned to prohibit exhibitions. . of "living statuary.'"'. .". The -English editors had further re- :' markable fecptipns. in Germany. At * , Cologne the special feature was tha cheering, of .King Edward. Cardinal Wolsey is .the name of a. pros- ' pective bridegroom, whose -banns ■_' have been published in St. 'Luke's Church, : Kingston-on-Thames (Eng.). r An•• explosion, with-the loss'of 50 lives, , on-a vessel smuggling ammunition into ; Tunis, is believed, to have be.en' deliberate.in oi;der.,to -_.oi_S.._apturc. h '.'.'' While an aged kanaka named' Bob ; Sandwitch was asleep in his hut, at Mac-' _ lean (N.S.W.), it. caught fire.' Sandwitch • di_'d from.the injuries sustainedThe Mayor last night'presented'tha - silver medal of. the New Zealand Hu--1 mane Society to Mr. X. F. Tester,' fb? . bravery,at a fire,in .October, 1905. , _ A -Fielding advertiser wanted ah offie'a . boy, but he didnot'get.'.one .apph___i___ / ". So he advertised for a 'girl,''and made th_ • appointment out ; of 48 • .-'■"' ! A controversy has been proceeding be- : tween the Federal and VictorisCn^Statists jas to whether.tlie Victorian population V ir y en.seriously underrestimated.,^-._ -, \ ."■'^Tfe-fainplis: building of. the; Alhambra,:-.;:.'-. '] at' Granada; "in Spain, is .threatened with ■. Collapse owing .to ;the parsimony; of- the;.' _ -Spanish <_->veri_a_ent in... the,, matter .of ,! repairs.: .-.■_ .■•- .> . .■• _■■ , r '*- ■]' -"■ • Mr.; Smuts recently sent a despatch.to Lord Elgin .advocating; the solution . ot■ ■the .unemployed problem'by the'imme- . diate opening up of Swaziland'to whita. • prospectors- *| -'-.' ■ • It has. been decided to try the whplo of the -smelting works at. Lithgbw, (N.S.W.) on the eight-hours 'principle. The union has resolved-to accept the company's terms. - Tenders from Messrs. Maclean and the Ferro-Concrete Company, for the Grafton bridge, were opened ,by" the City. Council, last night,, and referred te tha Streets Committee., . '. .'''•"* '". •' John- M'Ginty, a boundary rider, died' *. suddenly at Myall -Vale (N.S'.W.)' from.' lockjaw, following on blood-poisoning. It is said that he had been engaged iv skinning dead sheep.' "The Times," in dealing with tha Blue Eook report of the.fiscal debate at? the Imperial Conference, says that it is doubtful whether.Jfr...Asquith was ever, so. freely, or effectively heckled or so glad to escape from a tight corner;" in debate. . . . • • , r •Mr, Chamberlain, in a letter to. the organisers of a dinner to the New_Eonndland Premier, said he hoped that the'set- ; tlement of _the fisheries question would be the prelude'to union' -with the great Dominion. Sir K. Bond considered that such a union at present .would be impos. sible. ■■••__.-. Extra speial value in ladies? Jersey blouses, 3/6, 3/11,' 4/6, 4/11, 5/11 ta 10/6,, at Charles Eainger's; draper. New/. market;—(Ad.j; •'-.""■ ' . Special attractions -in drapery. - a,nd clothing at John Courts, Ltd., lower, shop; opp. 8.N.Z., to-morrow (Saturday), Open till 9 p.m.—-(Ad.) . Last and principal shipment of ladies* aiid 'children's ready-to-wear felt' _tat_s, now showing, 3/11 to 19/11 each. Sep window—J. AS'Bradstreet, draper, Ka-rangahape-foad.—(Ad.)