TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 176, 25 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Financial debate closed last ni<» a t - Trades and labour .Council- met lasi! ■ night. Miss Marie Hall's concert attthe Choral Hall to-night. ■■ - •- . The House of. Lords has read. Mr Haldane's Army Bill a..third time. '■"'" ', The Grand Opera Company gives a second performance ot "Carmen" at-7 40 P-m. . , ' .''. '::' ':, > -■•-"". • In a great fire in. .Victoria :.(8.C.) buildings, including- two -churches/ -were destroyed. ' ■ ■ ■■:■<■' A change of .venue has .been for the trial of- a number of .(ialway. cattle-driving cases. "-'•■ ■■■-■■■ During last year. .sixty-twp deserter* from H.M. warships whilst in Zealand waters were reported to the- police. : American herring-fishers .threaten to bring full crews to Newfoundland, andY place SOO colonists out. of.-employment. The Key. W. J. Dohertr,'of Sydney, says "China for the Chinese" is a grow- . ing cry throughout the Celestial E_i pire. . ..._.., . .. p Mr. D. Mitchell, who presented the famous Mitchell Library to ..•Newi'Southf Walea, has ju3t died. According to the National Hardwppcl. Association of America, "there" is'.bnljj enough timber in the forests of the United States to last 30 ' ■ ~ An inquest is opening on the body of James Paul Huckstep, who was. found- : by a schoolboy hanging from a tree.- b&hind the Newmarket School.' ; ;'; The Government of Egypt will spend £60,000 in surveying and recording the. antiquities which will be submerged by the raising of the Assouan dam.. ■ "\ ''•+ At Basle a stork's nest was set on. fire by a spark from a chimney, but tha mother bird refused to leave the; fledgelings, and all were burned to dea^ih. Crowd at Lord's Cricket aknoyed by the postponement of the matchMiddlesex v. Manchester, invaded and so . damaged the pitch that • the match'waa abandoned. ■-..-.■.,-. ■■■■ -" . '•■ Sydney City Council has prppqsed'to the 2STew South Wales Government \ collecting of a city land tax'in exchange for carrying out resumption/and iia*: provement. works. . ■,■■-,■■ '■'{'- '•■* Trades and Labour Council : congratulated local governing bodies on the staidi , they have taken in rthe matter of thai trams, and protested'against ".the C3ty ( Council's proposal to permit straphangers* At a football match at Mount Barker, Sou th the umpire, who awarded a goal to the visiting.teani,,was rust' cd. and. seveirely handled^. .Several of the ■ visiting-plftyers"weie;>als6 seriously in* ■ jured. "",'V- ,'■■"-■ ,!-•-[ Some ; cTi'ssiißsJaeiiqn. .is, ■.'expressed, by,.. • unionists', aympaihisew- at.the : entfanco" of .Torn .Mann and' -Ben Tillett into the; coaling dispute:' They; regarded it merely^-. - as a mo.ye. t.o. I sell. tiieix.reTOhitioEar^' - literature and obtain converts. Berthe Co.wy, a Parisian' young -lacr^. . deserted by a. fickle lover, dressed hex- '■ self. In her best, .frods, -put :on all her jewels,-and -vent to her sweetheart's. rooms while "he" was out;.' Then; lyinjj.. • dowj\ on a Qijiifilk she-, strewed.flowers:. i round shot herself ' through the'h'eart.-----,. . ■■ ; .'. . ■