TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 249, 18 October 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■n-::-": . . ■;././. ." . ";■" "'.' ' -....:.' iSL.:- - Great "creep" at Newcastle. . v--1 Shipwreck on Tasfliariiaß cdasti.— \ ly : Union Company promises- to .gcoi&ffh _ improve its Aucktahd-Sydney' sefvicA; s"' 'b .. Many !sales of. - military .secrets ifaf i; France have been revealed.in Germany. - Men's mass, meeting in connection; vntH. - the Anglican Diocesan- -meeting ™ssa» crowded last night. •...- ■- z\. The- Swedish'ship Alfheld/ ifronfsKis.' a- to Hobart, was" wrecked last .week o» _ the -West Coast of Tasmania. • ,_ '■-■ The [cable steamer Patrol ia erigagedyi* making slight repairs to'tfie New'Zea? 5 land cable, off Botany Bay, N.S.W. f : There was nearly a panic on the Wall- _ street money -markefc : yesterday,, ami' - aAmea-ican stocks are stifl unsettled. • * r .The damage caused by the powaerrex« - plosions* and fires' at Fontanet, Indiana, ° "U.S.A., is estimated at £150,000. ' \ ' -. : " The famous Ashbuxton, collection .16£.. y pictures has been sold in London to: ai i- Bond-street-syndicate for £150,000. Air. -W. H. Taft denied emphaticailjj .-- "that the ' United. States had- any inten- •» tion-of disposing of the Philippines.. ..._ - A public meeting'-in. the -Oddfellows* .i .Ball, Parnell, discuss tha ' library ahd"swiannring bath. proposals../. 2 Plenary sitting of the Hague Conferir j. enee \ carried' the Permanent' Court and Obligaiaory Arbitration Court proposals.' F; .A wireless telegraph operator has been • found- dead, at bis post : .at .Welifleefc J (Mass.). Death is attributed to'"electric " shock. '' A-banana.skiri )r a;.man, a fall, a forU j. nighti in bedYand. now crutches is a tala _ told by an Elthainite,"Bays the 'Taxaaaki j Herald." - - ~; ' :/"y '".-" ... y"' r y. s '•■''lt'is feared that a cbnaderanie-num-' '•; her of lives were' lost in the wreck joJ :' the Alfheld. Some of tbe crew -suffered! ? ; terribly; ' '•-■-■ - - " r. An. underground "creep" at, .Newcastle. - (N.S.W.) did 'great .damage to <:ja,r laiga Z number of .buildiiigßi':and is endangering the water supply, , ... i Up to. List.night tjte.grand tctal of tha" * : -.V.M.C.A. collection Cwitn value of btrild-- . ing) wa3 £13,503 19/, leaving «£34?rt<» - be'collecte&rbefore Monday. '■■ -■.'"--. -"- ' !;. Apropos of the bottle famine reported. - in. Dunedin, it is stated thait qttart rieeir : . bottles manufactured in Japan-are being landed in Melbourne at 9/6 per gross.'-' ". r..:Bishopi.Neligari strongly indicted- tfier I -extent of the: evils of ' _. ling, and impurity 'in Auckland.'!■ Sere/ie. i -said," lay the true failure of Christianity. :;.'• The-BishopVof: -Beh'-Tfl-- . -iett;':aiid the; Rev: G. W. Smaileseach F gave -eloquent addresses-from, ' -ticular'point of;view on the social hori« ; zon... . ■:■•■.■ yh:ij ■..'.■ '.'.-..' ~"~~.L .- "The church has to "get away frdra it* .boundaries, of theology,-and'get out into ';.'■. ■ the open, the great human horizon, and ' study .systems and help socialism."—JMr. Ben Tillett. y y' ~,.'" .■";:"."■: ;. i ri-!^viil&yorV.'saidV]^.inight' ; 'J- . labour question was- the. great, question ... , iof .the present day, the.bie problem:.' I i -to a which r bur. civilisation.' most' findtha- '" ' solution or--pjerish. r t.':';;.' " . : At the opening of.the boating season.' [ at; Ly^teltpß.yesterday; W.-Wehb; thol' ;\ championjpgave. att- dfc -.^, . -^Uahng."-He'?Tvas presented" with;a.'gold r ■ " .'watch-from local autnixera.: : . ■"' '?y.':•'■'"'" I. Ben liilet't urged that instead off the: present escliusrvely theplogfcal tram- '• ing the young 'njan who enterea the.' church, should learn what-, the-jnultrtade.' meant," its-needs,'its miseries,'wretched- • ness, and weakness: ',: ''■■' ;THe council of rthe'.'-New;!Zealand Ajnw- \ teur Athletic Association decided to' paaa as a-New. Zealand record H. Kerr's time' of 6min ! 26sec for'-the mile walk. Kerr's performance took- place at ' Wellington oh New Year?s Day. - - • ' :• The' death is announced of S« Robert - Alexander. Baillie, in.his 58th. year. Once j -.. a : fine oarsman,-Sir -R. A. Baillie cam* into prominence, . - . the Australian Squadron o£ y the King's Colonials in the Boer War; .- In : consequence of the recent wide* spread 7 floods in Japan, according to re>- ■ cent mail'advices, thousands of peasants are destitute and starving.- A rice -famine extends over a wide area>- piice. bt • rice is higher than, ever before'in japan.. - The Taranaki County Council yesler* day. opened a.hew. ; ierio;cohcrete bridge over t'the - Waiwakaihb "River,. Teplacing. the puriri structure etectedVpver 50 yeaxa ago.- -The new-bridge is claimed rto bethe largest 'ferro-concrete traffic' bridgein the Dominion. ,'.- ': : -.-'■.--." " : . The Rev. G. W. Smailes stated at rlasfi night's meeting that he -was a socialist, though' probably Mr. Tillett would not brand him. as the right sort, -but -be held tha.t every Jrae Christian.- man was a socialist. Christianity was the truest' and'purest socialism. '.'..._:; -, Wellington V.M.C.A- has. .startedy** seven days': campaign to raise JETOOOitofurnish'a new building and open it ■ free of debt. "A' Previous ..GiveP.'...donated: £.500, and the Manawatui Railway Company: £100.' Other subscriptions bring ; the first day's collectionsi to £617, 9/6 i. • ;The Spanish police have. at. last sue-» ; ceeded : in-capturing a gang of seven per-* sons .who have been carrying on -whait iS-khpwn in every European country as :'.the Spanish treasure frauds." .The capi tnre .was;effected-'through the instrumen- , ■' jtality of :a Strasburg gentleman'and the> German Consul at Madrid..''•-"' f, Dunedin Trades' and Labour Councifc passed a' resolution expressing the bpinioni. that the time, isopporttinefor the 'to'tat abolition 1 of. the- sale of land' for specu-.' lative pirrposes, as the speculator, inF every instance, "goes*" for the unearned; increment, -which is caused Tsy the 'settle- : ment of people oh "the laid, and by'-thefii industry. •'"••"• .'' ' A diamond ring with a coat of arms'' on it and. the initials "H.J.C." was -found recently in the body of royal Bengal tiger; belonging." to Frank!C. Bbstock, at - Coney Island, durihg : ant. autopsy performed by a veterinaryl T£x~ Bostock's tneory"is that some EngEsh*.. man, probably■ an army officer, was' de«'"■ vouxed by the tiger wnile bunting' 3>ig£ game.-,; _'.■'_ '' ~< 'y ■;' ~ y^., A peculiarity..of a tropical dovrapoar,-;'-'of rain in; Wanganui a few days ago the clear cut line'of the Tiain.- - Inplaaceistit was raining; the proverbial ?cats an*|i dogs" on one side of the street,~wbile'e)n|'; the opposite side no rain was -falling."OV: • served from- the surrounding -'hills fhe,,sighfc was "most mterestrng," whiie noise of the rain ed'like the' rbax'of "sam>. irrighiy . > :: "'""'''' '' '." "i j tii'Vi ; y ,•