TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Kia Ora inquiry resumed. Japan is placing large orders for 12* inch Krupp guns. >

An Australian wheat cargo sold ia London at 36/6 J.

St. Patrick's Operatic Society produced "Maritana" last night.

The Foreign Office has no anxiety as to the safety of Sir Harry Mac Lean.

At the present time there are 100 New! Zealand students at Edinburgh Univer-> sity. Professor David Starr Jordan lectured last night on "The Universities of America--"

Raisuli has transferred Sir Harry; Mac Lean to another part of the mountains, j

Schmitz, ex-Mayor of San Francisco, has been sentenced to five years' im* prisonmeht. America is shortly to make a "starti ling" naval demonstration —because things are so peaceful. •Slavery is to be abolished, with compensation, in the British East Africa Protectorate iv October.

French dirigible (balloon) airship haa sailed across Paris against the wind. aU the rate of IS miles ac hour.

Last year's net profit on the New Zealand railways was £812,115, as against 5725.465 for the year preceding.

Despite its larger population, the coa« victions for drunkenness in Auckland, last year were 1231 as against Wellington's 190 S. " ( The Oarnaru police made a raid on on* of the large .closed hotels and seized alt the liquor in the lockers that were no* locked.

The Colonial Statutes as Evidence Bill has passed through the Standing Com» mittee of the House of Coniiiioiis ■with* out amendment. ]

So well was the supply of waggons maintained that throughout the whole of last week the Taupiri mines worked without cessation. ■

She British trades unions have condemned the 23 Labour' members' strictures on the colonial attitude with regardE to preferential trade.

The West Australian Governor has received instructions to protect from, time time against the chaining by the neclff of aboriginal prisoners.

A party of Government veyors are at present engaged survey* ing a portion of the Huntly township, which includes the Taupiri minesrn.

After being closed for a fortnight on account of measles the Huntly school reopened on Monday, when, out of a, roll number of 200, some ninety pupils were present.

The Railway Department has begun the construction of powerful engines and special rolling stock for the Main Trunk railway.

The Railway Department, according to the annual' statement presented to Parliament last evening, is engaged on a large programme for the constructioa of rolling stock.

Court-martial on HJM.S. Pyramus is" proceeding. Gunner Collingwood, who was acting as navigating "officer" at the time of the grounding, is the first prisoner under trial.

Ivl. Borde recently travelled from Paris to Madrid, a distance of 1000 miles, in;. 44 hcurs on a motor car. - He passed through rain and hail in Prance and atsnowstorm in Spain.

In the pocket of a young clerk who committed suicide in the Thames was fjund a cutting from an article to the effect that novelists frequently depicted the fear of death, but few had pictured the fear of life.

At Gisborne yesterday a charge against; a totalisator clerk, of supplying a minor with a totalisator ticket, was dismissed, owing to contradictory evidence. It is supposed to be the first case of the landin the colony.

Like many of the old-time sailing ships which used to trade in China waters, thebarque Woollahra, at present in port at Wellington, is equipped with an armoury, \ containing six old muzzle-loading mua-" kets and bayonets and half a dozen cut* lasses,.with which to welcome pirates. After several months' trial, ValdemaE Poulsen has succeeded in transmitting; wireless messages between Denmark and St. Thomas, an island in the Danish West

Indies. The Danish Governiasnt has given him a monopoly of this connection.

Admiral Brownson, on behalf of the American President, has declared that when the United States was at perfect/ peace it was a good opportunity to give tbe world a startling demonstration, of what the American navy is capable ofi doing. It has been officially announced that im future, all German cruisers -will be fitted

with turbine engines. It is worthy of note that Germany is no longer compelled to import turbines from England, but is herself able to manufacture as many as may be required. « The Evicted Tenants (Ireland) BUS

(empowering the estates commissionersto compulsorily reinstate 2000 tenants

and compensating the present tenants},

introduced in the House of Commons Mr Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland), has been read a second time. The departure of fifteen select cadets ' of the military college at Pao-ting-m (China) for Prance to .pass through five years' military training attracts attention because it is the first time cadets have been sent to Europe at the expense of the new Ministry of Yvar. The Frencbs Government is giving special facilities. The Methodist Union of Great Britain has published a song entitled "I am Sailing for God's Own Country Tonight," founded on the well-known expression used by the late Mr Seddon, on the occasion of his last public utterance. Tbe state of the Coast roads may be judged by one traveller's experience (says the "Poverty Bay Herald"). He .reports that he set out with a newly-shod horse, and by the time the journey was dona these shoes were gone, owing to the suction in the day and mud. -, A letter has been received from London by the manager of a well-knowa cheese factory acquainting him with the recovery of a long-lost scrubbing brushIt was found embedded in the substance of a prime cheddar.—Stratford correspondent of the "Taranaki Herald." A new method of bringing guilt home to dogs suspected of sheep worrying has been successfully adopted at Burwash, Sussex. Mr Jarvis had four sheep killed, and several injured. Dogs in the neighbourhood were given erratics, and one which vomited wool was promptly destroyed.