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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Invalid's sad fate. • Suez mail "due on Sunday. Calliope dock case resirrrued. .Two men are reported missing. Great hurricane in the Carolines. H.M.S. Pyramus has beffli refloated, i Decision on the wreck of the Kia bra. Full account of yesterday's opening: of Parliament. Eden Terrace resident found drowned in the harbour. The s.s. Tarawera had a very stormy;, trip from Gisborne to Auckland. • This evening's entertainments include the " Rainbow Fair" in the Choral Hail. The Inflexible, second of the Dreadnought" cruisers, has just been launched 'at (Jlydebank. GTeat Britain and Germany vary in. their views as to the composition of prize-courts in time of war.. The Duke of Davonshire, whose health has been causing. anxiety of late, con' tinues. to improve slowly. At- the Hague Conference Sir E. Satow, representing Great Britain, urged tha * total abolition of : contraband of war. M. Albert, leader of the disaffected viticulturists in the South of France, has surrendered MrnSelf to the police. By a destructive hurricane in the Caroline- Islands,. 280 lives have been lost, and_ the. .islands have been, devastated. . ,' . George Hpughton, a young man. \ra,3recentlyshot dead near L-ithgow (N.S.W7, through- a guii falling to -the ground and exploding. Defence in the Idaho murder trial 13 now "endeavouring to ■ show that tha assassin'- Orchard was really acting fox the' employers. ■ ' ~ A Government officer has found *wo historic posts at Dirk Hartog Island, W.A., one erected by Dirk Hartog in 1616, and the other by Vlaming SO years later. • • " 1 At the inquiry into the extravagant administration of the Hammersmith' (London) Work-house, it was shown that there were 4000 electric lanips in the building, an average of five per inmate. The Postal Department has decided not to have the British mails sorted on the steamers between . Fremantle and Adelaide. It .was found that an expenditure of £17.000 a year would have been, involved. The Jvew South Wales Union is unlikely to offer ths Xew Zealand professional football team the slightest, help. Members of the management committee Epoke in contemptuous -terms of tha proposal. . ' ~ An. inquest was held this morning as to the death of Charles Pelley, a resident, of Eden Terrace, who was'found drowned in the harbour at Pcrasonby; yesterday. Mr. Pelley had been depressed through, ill-health. In the debate on the resolution concerning the House> of Lords, Mr. LloydGeorge substituted for the - comparison of the House to a mastiff watching the - interests of the people with an analogy, with "Mr. Balfour's poodle." Australia's, two tree-felling and woodcutting champions are appearing at tha London, Hippodrome, and one of them, McLaren,-has offered. to-Jshaye.:any person in :the. audience with his axe; without .tng.use.pf soap or any preparation.