TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 170, 18 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

. Quackery Prevention Bill was read** second time. ;vs . , A branch of the White .ORace Learn* has been formed at Xapier. - Germany is uneasy about ErendxjaTa. mountcy in. aerial navigation. . ' ' France is building a. fleets air-shina of tne successful La. Patric type. ' la tAe second test match New South Wales defeated JNew Zealandhy 14 point* to ril. . : . A farther concert by Miss: Jessie Maclachlan drew an enthusiastic audience last evening. ,^ Y f t f da y' s dseat. Wa *:.the:to U3 tii. la / ' ( the his ory of .New Zeahmd-Axw South, Wales football. ... Playing ; for Gloiiqesiierehiie against made f^^A^ ■ A Kaii named Gharle 3 Ogle was iurned, to *eath at Glen Wye sta&m,- Otago, on Tuasday night. *^* ; An English mail, idH Suez, and an . American mail, via Vancotrver, are dita to arrive here per Mokoia from Sydniy • on Sunday next. -"j**! All-Red fliail route scheme is under- . stood to have been rejected by the'Bris- ; isb. Government Committee, chiefly on financial grounds. • . : . : ■ A'tiuet with a capital of £20,000,000 ■ is b*i»g formed to unite the theatrical interests of America, England. France. Germany and Austria.' '."''Ea*: Messrs. Lever Bros, has won £50,000 ■ E from several London newspapers in settle, ment of actions; for libel in connection with the recent Soap Trust. ■ : ; As a result of noxious fumes'inhaled while experimenting with aniline - dyes» Mr. Frank Powell, a chemist of Detroit- . (U.S.A.), is said to have a blue complex- - icn. , 'm,-"";: Au inquiry into the circumstances oi the wrecK of the barque Woollahra will : be held at Wellington on Friday. Cap- , tains Larkin and-Gray will be the-asses- - sors. '. . : The Napier Harbour Board have, re- • solved Lo call tenders for' extending- the wharf accommodation with a .view to . providing for the berthage of. ocean liners. 3 Professor F. D. Brown, of Auckland. t m a lecture at Sydney University, es- ' pressed some highly interesting judgments on Asia and the future.-of the - Pacific. ! Gold has been discovered in large quaar , tities in the Monica district of 'Portu- • guese £ast Africa, according to -Mr. Maugham, ■ the British Consul, -for the - Deira disLrict. Herr Mauser, of Obemdorf; j berg, the well-known.rifle* manufacturer, nas invented a repeating rifle which sa soon as a shot is lired loads itself from . the cartridge chamber. A tombstone which is -to be-erected in a Bath cemetery to the/memory o f an. engine-driver who was.an,ardent geolo- _ gist will be composed of the fossils ha D collected in- his rambles. » -7 "Please .commit suicide elsewhere," runa an official notice on the~banl£s of a large pond near Detroit, Michigan (lIS-A.). -f During'the last , -12 montSs-five'persons '" ':', j. -have drowned;-themselves'>th'ere. . '-'<■■-' i Australian ; Wireless Telfegraphy Coml mittee nine stations on the Australian- eoastj-and--in -New -Guinea, : but considers ■ the ■ three cables to New, • ' Zealand a sufficientmeans of communication ...■!:..., ' Mr. Asquith- .made a statement in the 3 House of Commons affirming , the justice of the taxation .of. cpjpnial. incomes. Hβ r claimed that he had convinced Mr. Dea- '. kin and Dr. Jameson" at" the Imperial Conference. - . A hotel clerk, at Atlantic City, New 1 Jersey. (U.S.A.>, -slipped- while roller- \ I skatiirg on one- of the piers, and fell f violently. He -jvas picked up uhsconciousj and when he .recovered his senses he was fcotaiiy blind. ] At the .Magistrate's Court, Wellington, - yesterday, James. Bowan, who .was arr . rested at Sydney, was committed foe • trial for quitting New Zealand and takl ing with him pfaftof his propertyAyhilsii being, an undischarged bankrupt. - ~ According •to ■ the • Greymouth corjes- ' pondent of .tfre""Lyttelton Times" the 1 Staie '.<;oal mine anticdpatesian eixport-of . 200,000. tons .this year-and. 250/100 next ; year. The timber export will leach \ 50,000,000 super-feet, and in 1908 60,000,000. . '.:.'.".- . \. I Chief points-in Professor leer r ture at Sydney: (1) Japan .would "not • play an aggressive part;, "(2). Pacific . would be the arena of future history y. f (3) Australian • tropical , difficulty may: t be overcome by the- evolution of a nea; coloured race. •' •,- ---t The Moscow condud- • ed negotiations with, an. English firm; [ for the construction of several, lines of tramways. ■ The co3t--of the" scheme, - including three stations which will be 3 built/.is-. 10 million, roubles. (=£ 1,000,000), - and the money-wiU-be-isised. ly a muni- '• cipal loan. '" Owteg to fhe 'niipiber. of foreigners . knowing only, their own language and . Esperanto," Mr. ■T. E. Donne has supplied the representatives of the Tourist Dec partment, including those in Sydney and: , Melbourne, tvith the books of the latter language, -with ' instrnetions to learn it •j as sodd as they can.. . Boys' -good -value. Sale at Geo. Powlds, -yitbtoria-arcade.—(Ad.)