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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 137, 10 June 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Liberals and the Lords. "Waikare leaving f or Sydney. English mail arrived by Miower- - 7 May 0 .. 8 " 62 mail bearS L ° ndoll <■**_ d£ To-day is the first anniversary of tha death of Hit-hard John Seddon * Xo territorial exchange was considered in the recent x\ew Hebrides negotiates The Miowera. fro **' Sydney brou-.*,. three Chinamen for Auckland and 8£ \"i elhngton. *" Twelve persons have been committed for trial tor raiding three farms at Uhomastown, Kilkenny. S • 11 '^ 1 . C ° Urt S ave d'-'-i'-ions to-day, m the Kestrel v. Kotomahana and -Kanieri v. Dawn collisions. - An elderly woman recently died at South war)- . Eng. ■ from blood poisoni*set up by " chapped hands." .*-" King and Queen of Denmark have arrived at Portsmouth. They, were escortiM by lour cruisers from Flushing. One jockey was killed and otliers were injured at the Oaklands Hunt Club's meeting at Melbourne on Saturday. "The die is cast," said the Lord'idvocate in indicating the Government's attitude in the coming struggle with tha Lords. Certain benefits in the new tariff' arrangements with Germany are extended by America lo France, but denied to Great Britain. At football on Saturday Ponsonby beab Parnqll (17—0). City beat Newton -■ *(_ft —3). and North Shore was defeated by Grafton (o—s). *" ■ It is reported that the U.S. and A.S. Line have arranged for the s.s. Ompa-to load at New York in July for Melbourne Sydney, and New Zealand ports. The motive of the lnurder of Mr .Bauer, the Melbourne diamond' merchant, was* robbery. A missing bag contained; genis. worth three or four thousand pounds. ' Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman said that the very existence of Liberalism depended on the,-struggle (with the House of Lords) on Vhich the Government was embarking. The humorous rogue who substituted, weak tea for whisky at Ba-urimu is himself now drinking weak tea. He cnosje.. a month's gaol in preference :to a fims and costs totalling £19 16/. , The weekly return of the Mount Eden gaol shows that the total number PE prisoners on Saturday was 247 men and 23 women, of whom 42 men and six women were, received during the-week. : "The time for compromising and temporising and expostulating has ' gone. The Lords must be told that the people must be masters in their own house."—- | British Prime Minister at Plymouth. ", Flaxmillers' Association has urged tha Government to appoint a chief fibre expert, to begin to grade tow, to raise the standard of fibre produced, and to effectsundry other improvements .in the industry. , ]'..' \_ ■ At the Easter vestry of Ckmfert Cathedral parish (Co. Galway), it was meiw tioned that Goldsmith's country clergy- f man was passing-rich: at £40. Candn "M/Larcey "said 5.6: Was passing rich-iat-£39/ a year. ■ ■ i Recent inquiries at Dover-entirely discredited the report that .the Belgiao Government were likely to sell to a. German shipping line their steamers running the mail and passenger services between. Ostend and Dover. '• The complaint of a pauper.charged at Stratford (London) Police Court with assaulting a fellow-inmate of the **"v*osfc Ham Workhouse was thai he was always served, on the bread rations being given, ont, with crust, and not crumb. ;. i* ***'***'*"""""**"* 3