TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 162, 9 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

McCullagh and Grower's * Kia Ora inquiry; resumed. -\ Japanese journals deprecate the nervousness shown by America. • - The cost of repatriating 130,0 Australians from South Africa was £10,000. . ' P St. Patrick's Operatic Society; in "Maritana," at the Opera House tonight. The Canterbury Rowing Club, the larg-> est rowing club in New Zealand, has 761 members. The arrivals in Australia during the first four, months of the year were 22,32.6, and departures 20,162. Leading Japanese .papers express Jihe' conviction that all trouble with Americawill soon be removed. America is strengthening her Pacific Coast defences, and is constructing a dry dock at Puget Sound. Another fatal case of plague -has occurred at Brisbane. The victim-.was ent-f ployed in a grocer's shop. The White Star Line has decided to fcfcj crease the pay of those engaged on its steamers by £l> per month. , . Thirty shillings an acre is being offered - to bushmen inland of Wanganui, and at, that figure men are hard to get. The insignia of thejOrder'bf St. Patrick, valued at £40,500, has been stolen,-" from the [Birmingham Tower, at Dublin, Castle. The children of a carrier named M'Cos.-' ker, at Cunnamulla (Q-), ate some stale savaloys, and subsequently suffered from ptomaine poisoning. The youngest boy, aged two, died. The Emperor of Corea has repudiated? the Corean delegation which has .been refused admission to the Hague Confer--ence* on the ground that it is not an is.-~« dependent nation. ■ . . ■•' An old woman named Maenamara, wasv found battered to death in bed at Enmore (Sydney) yesterday. The watch* ,1 man of an adjoining biscuit has been arrested. Dr. David Starr-Jordan, President ofthe Leland Stanford Junior University, California, gave a highly interesting .lecture la3t night on "The the Twentieth Century." ' : , ? " A member of the Walthamstow (Otago) Urban Council declared at the last meeting: " I will draw my sword' from the hilt, and will not cease firing until I. have proved every statement to be false.'*] An awkward situation has developed' in the Newfoundland question through,. Great Britain's inability to enforce .a clause of the Anglo-American, modus. , vivendi, which the colony - refuses- : 't©,- 1 obey. .'. J No tax, said Dr. Starr 1 Jordan lasfc':' night, cut so hard on a community as-, a tax on education. It was blood'anoiieyv A generous education should be-the'* birth-right of every young man. ' and: young woman in a self-governing cbuny"' try. ( ;:•.... . Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman sai.cE ciat Mr. Lyttelton's preferential trademotion would probably stimulate th&: '- Liberals to hold the fort pf free-tradeC. .-■ and "to: press forward for social aD(i_poJ.i--- r - liticnl reforms-Vfhich the'colonies . al-.; ready enjoyed. » T'V^ To-day there are between five and six million telephones in service in the* United Stateu. Almost every farmhouse; ' is equipped with a telephone, whereas ten, or even four or five years ago, the farmer with a telephone in his house was a. rare exception in the States. ■ : In a sermon at the City Temple, the Rev. K. J. Campbell said that if the Powers refused to co-operate against the ► , "bloody persecution" of King Leopold, ■in the Congo, then Great Britain, with; America, or alone, ought to "bring the ruthless tyrant to his senses." Frederick Williams, a. labourer, who was recently sentenced at the Clerkenwell Sessions to fifteen months' imprisonment for theft, said that he would quite enjoy having a liveried servant call him everyj morning and ask him whether he tools sugar or salt with his porridge. A large lump of material, believed by, the finder to be ambergris, was picked , up/ on Makara beach the other day. A specimen was sent to the Colonial Museum, but the result of the inspection will not be known till the curator (Mr. A. Hamilton) returns from the South on Saturn day. "The worst place fora tax is on-the university student, and that is what 'ds - done when students are charged fees at the secondary school or the university," runa the opinion of Dr. Starr Jordan. At his university, Leland-Stanford, the fee for a degree runs to only 6/, the coat price of the parchment embodying tie final honour. " •' Dr. Springthorpe, one of the official' visitors to the Melbourne lunatic asylums, makes some serious aUegatiansJiit regard to overcrowding and want of proper care and the treatment of patientsHe found 30 feeble patients at Tarra , . Bend without a fire, although the >ten*perature was down to 48 degrees : ' f h&? cause the fireplaces were not. J use."