TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Second match again Queensland at Brisbane to-morrow. ' ' ' • First Marie Hall concert proved a bril« liant success last night. • : The Grand Opera' Company in "Thei Flying Dutchman'"' at 8 pjn. " ■ Three Japanese warships have landed troops and bluejackets for Seoul.. : "... A Philp-'Kidston. coalition is a likeljr development in Queensland politics. An English mail via'" Suez is'due to arrive here per from Sydney on Sunday next. • ' ';•"*', *, German syndicate is endeavouring to acquire a controlling interest in Marconi Company (ofLondon). ' Three thousand further, Woolwich Arsenal workers are to be dismissed under the retrenchment policy. Lord Curzon said that if the unrest in India was treated firmly and patiently; there was nothing to be alarmed at. Missionaries who have arrived at Brisbane state that Chinese reformers aira doing wonderful work in their country. Nearly half of the Cape members of Parliament are down with influenza, and there is a deadlock in public business.' The King sent a signed recommendation to Parliament -to grant £50,000 to Lord Cromer in recognition of his services in Egypt. " Japanese proposals, although not assailing the Korean throne, are '.understood to be of a revolutionary character. Several leading physicians of Chicago declare that half the cases of suicide in. the city are due to the quick' lunch habit. The Premier stated last night that so far as its interior was 'concerned, the Auckland Post Office was the best in New Zealand. , _" / The Premier of South Australia, informed a deputation at Adelaide recently that the gambling evil was giving the. Cabinet great concern- \ '. ' . ' At a meeting-of the anti-Sweating. League in Melbourne, a wood-carter said ha worked 60 hours- a week .for- £1, Other; cases were mentioned. . The committee appointed : .in Victoria to report on the apprentice question recommended many ithinge, in—uding night classes in different centres. * Keith Urquh_rt,* aged seven years, waa -riding in-a cart with other boys at Mount Kembla (_\.S.W.)', vrhen the vehicle overturned. Urquhart was killed. A trowel presented to Mme. Melba. for the ceremony .o f. laying the foundationstone of a new- gramophone factory •at Hayes (England), was of solid gold: ' Mr Wistar' Brown,' a multi-millfonaire, has decided.to renounce his fortune, aitd return to the life of a simple fisherman in one of the small ports of New Jersey. At the annual meeting of the Salvation Army ie Sydney last week, Mr G. 'H. Keid said he thought Christianity would not ever do all it could'unless it took its , coat off. ' ' • . - • Police at Canterbury (-N-.S-.W.) on a . recent Sunday, morning-came upon a large number of men watching a cockfight. Seven arrests were made, and ten birds captured. ' Por the ;year ending June the New; South. Wales .railway .revenue '- shows a gross increase of £4.4,00,- and tramways "ait increase of £'57,000, compared wi__ the preceding year. Dr W. G. Armstrong, Health Officer to the Sydney City Council, approves, of the New South' Wales Premier's:'proposal to make consumption a compulsory hotifi.-' able disease throughout that State. Under Mr. D. Mitchell's will, in addition to donating, his library to New South Wales, the'sum of £70,000 is left to endow it. A special Gazette has been issued, expressing regret at the death of one of the greatest benefactors of tha State At- the -Waterside Workers' Conference in Wellington' yesterday Tesoiutions wero passed uvging'thaV "the" "Immigration of Asiatics.be prohibited, and that.this Ar-bitration-Act be amended so as to maka employers provide -unions with copies of wages sheets. " [ '.'.?. ■ ■ ' T r ■ ' —r-»