TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 167, 15 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• Grave situation in : California.■•-.-'- - Harrow beat Eton by 79 Saturday. ~ — . ™

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New Zealand -beat New South/WaW by 11 to 3. ***u= , Suez mail dated'"London, June rived yesterday.- - -• ;.: :.:.-;...., ""^ Auckland beat BuUeron Saturday, b* 21 points to nil. <■ '. .. v >/ * *

_ There was a*, exciting Jor Kolapore Cup at Bisley. v « ,;vjc*r Stated that Marines threaten-tb einrf the Japanese from San- Die<>o • V - Miss Jessie MaclachlanV "conceit a* His Majesty's Theatre to-ni K bt:. ;--.- A young girl named'Anniffßoose com. mitted suicide in Neteon-street- -tto morning. • '- • ■ --..'_.,,:, Harold Young, o* in Brisbane, and^^ ■Rand strikers will fight •to ■ a 'finish. They are appealing to British; Colonial and American labour parties for help ' i The Queenslandersj Mottoa and-Show-were respectively first- -and second • for the Stock Exchange competition.at Bis. ley. - ' ■ • ;::;riXi ;.-,:; .. Hague Conference carried a'TesoHrtJon -enjoining the formal-declaration, of -waj; and the notification of neutral's mrior-to hostilities. ' - . ■ . /-i.,,-; , ... Victoria, New South Wales, and Australia have- good exhibits-'at: the highland Agricultural- Society's'show at Edinburgh. ■ •.■■■■■■ ■ ■.:...:.■•■.,>-,.; Considerable tribal;, strife prevails ok Malaita, in the •NeyiHe'brides, through the returned kanakas. - Several murdera are reported. '■" ■ :■■- ;.' .., ; ■ .'\i.-. ; ;; - There were 51,000 persons present afc the intercolonial - football match at Sydney, and , hundreds were -unable to gain admission. ,, "• v . . .; The Transvaal strikers .:'are to- "fight to the end," and. have appealed to'thq Australasian colonies • ajid the Unite! States for aid., Jv ; -•.- ■;.- ' ......;.•'.; Japanese at-San Biego (California) are threatened owing to tlie arrest dial Japanese spy. ; Thousands of'them a*e assembling for common ■defence. ■' - • •«

The refusal of Mr. Botha)-to introduce an Arbitration .Bill has led •to : tne' Kand striker leaders' warning be unable to prevent bloodsaed..' /■•

There is a prospect that the trouble in the Sydney •tailoring--trade will be averted. • Several - conceded the employees' demands.' ■:■

The Sydney postal • authorities have •arranged that' persons may ring •:up "a telegraph office to , asfc about the movements of a steamer on payment of>a' fefe of sixpence. • • . o. .-.-■... ri-.i '■'/■.;

Mr. Samuels, M.L.C.j who returned to Brisbane from the East-aWek or'two " ago, says the completion of the' mammoth Japanese battleship threw: 3009 workmen, out. v:- ...;.j Spinsters of the town of ; Clark, t; Dakota, have sent a petition to the Citjr Council asking the mmicipaiity to'.taX all single men under. 40,-.and-chlorofdnii . all ever that age. : " ■ • ■• •■; Crazed by inability, to induce -pub« • •lishers to accept -her-... work,' Frauleta Anna Juergens, a Berliji . authoressy twenty-fiye yeai l a-'6f'agej-'sh'tjS-..-'' rherseli t through the'.moufcli.-.. .;-. .":.■;*'?. The weekly return of tile lii6unt Edeit Gaol shows that the T "to tat/number ot -prisoners on Saturday was 221-' men and 19 women, of whom 41 menand 4 worneo ■ were received during the weeki ; • •

• Mr. J. W. Taverner (AgenWJeneral ol Victoria.) presided over -the commercial section of the National- Conference at ' Reading: Mr. Catneroa, ' tte N^ w Zealand representative, 1 read a paper on the cold storage of poultry. : >

A tramp named M'Ciregor, who last year walked across : the continent from Adelaide to Port Darwin (N.T.),.-reap-peared in Port Darwin the other' day T having completed another journey-across Australia on foot, this time from Cooktown. . ".-.'. '■-• • ■ .

There has been a great increase of tourists in Japan since; the Russo--Japanese war. According to statistics published by the Japanese Minister ot Finance, there were 25,353 visitors to the country in 1906—an increase of 8823 over 1905. James Lowrie, a Brighton (Eng.) : miner, when he was caught from behind by a train and knocked-down, lay still, and an engine and ten trucks passed over him. He had his arm broken; but a companion named Roe, who was walking alongside on the six-foot way, had: his legs severed, and died shortly afterwards. . . - -- -r --* -A .---.-:- At Woodford Island several ,horsea were injured by a bpar,. which had-been in the habit of playing with them. .He ripped the lower part , of the bodies qi the horses with- his tusks. Three horses died from the wounds," and sis others were injured.. On an attempt being made to drive the boar away with dogs he killed two dogs. He was then shot.

A gruesome discovery was made at the back of the' Cascade Brewery, Hobart (Tas.). The remains of a woman, almost entirely destitute of flesh, were found lying in a recumbent position, as if she had gone to sleep and died. The ' appearance of the body would indicate that it had-been there six months, but in a •bag near the deceased was a newspaper of May 11 last.

The steamer Meinham, recently, launched at Jarrow for the Compagni* dcs Messageries Maritimes, is the first cargo boat ordered by that company to be built in a foreign yard. By doing tnis the company (which has a shipbuilding yard of its own at La Ciotat) sacrifices the French building bounty of 135 francs per ton. Other French companies" are also having steamers built in England, , the greater cost of building in France not being compensated for by the building premium. The publication has just been completed of a treatise on numismatics written by King Victor of Italy. It consists of an enumeration and description of his collection of coins, which is considered the most complete in' the world. ■ The work will not be offered for sale; but King Victor will present copies of it to the principal foreign museums. • ' A schoolboy, after being caned by Bela. Sarffy, his teacher, in an elementary school at Soldwackert, Hungary,, diedSarffy was arrested, but let out on bail. He was teaching in the school when he heard the church bell toll for the dead boy's funeral. This affected him so much that he went out, and shot himself dead. ' „ Genuine reductions on "good goods at the famous clean sweep sale. McCul; lagh and (Sower's. —(Ad.) " '