TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 252, 22 October 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• High-class dentistry at Howey Walker's. : Strap-hangers allowed to-morrow. . - The Land Bill finally passed'the House ; of Representatives last night. • - Later news shows that'a better feeling • prevails on the New York Stock Market. The Exhibition literary competitions : awards are to be made without further, delay. . • Dr. Purdy proposed that the Hospital . Board should make provision for at least '18 consumptives. . ' ; Mr T. A. Edison has announced the in- , vention of a storage battery of almost unlimited, capacity. Viscount St. Aldwyn expressed the view that much that was advocated by; i Socialists was pure robbery. Mr Kudyard Kipling advocates closer; fellowsliip of the' self-governing colonies ; by mutual preference in trade. - King Alfonso's motor car fell .through" I a _ bridge, which collapsed beneath him. ■ His Majesty was practically uninjured. • The British railway companies' are ' preparing to .board and feed their blacklegs, besides paying wages of £1 a weeki Professor Segar maintained last night that Wellington would be the most fa- . voured port for vessels via the Panama CanaL . =■ "Mr Edison considers, that his new; . storage battery will place an automobile ; at the disposal of everyone who. can afford a horse. - - , The amalgamation .of the Mutual Xife; . :Association and the Citizens' Life' Com. pany was carried at a general meeting in 1 Sydney yesterday. ' Although the Commonwealth las the right of forty nominations, for cadetships i in the Royal Navy, up to the present ealy, 25 candidates have come forward. v Hospital Board adjourned its discus-; sion on the District Health Officer's pro- : posals for the treatment of consumption for a .conference with Dr. Piirdy'himself. Y.M.ClA.:'officials are. delighted with. the .result of;'their canvass, .amounting with;building, to £15,396 17/6, of which. ; £11,396 17/61 was..collectedintwelve days. -The 102nd-anniversary of the Battle , of Trafalgar .was celebrated in Trafalgar - : Square yesterday, and flags flew from. . most of the .public buildings of the United Kingdom. ...']'. :.'".. '.' ''■'" '." ' -The .total .number' of .visitors to the L.nristchurch'' ,to areturn presented to Parliament .last week, was 1,967,632 i including 9238 who : attended the Seddon Memorial Cpneerj;. • So far as Mr Boucher, North" Island Pomblogist, can judge at the present time", there will be within two months enough of the: parasite enemies.: of the codlin motif available to meet all the '■ '■ applications made for supplies. , ■ .A whale which, after being harpooned, turned and wrecked the Norwegian steam whaling vessel.Dimon off-Faroe, was sub-. ■ sequently found, dead'by the Grimbsy.';■ .steam trawler Quasher. It was more " than a. hundred; feet; long, and estimated ■ . to weigh a, hundred tqns. .-_.-. lj ;.~ with..-an , ancient-custom,. . * ' dating from'tiie time" - of Frederick the " Great, anyiofficer in the. German army. • who'falls front his horse at' a review is; I bound to offer a. banquet ;to his brother > officers in the regiment. Thus, as soon as ■ • -he had risen from his fall.the other day j the Kaiser expressed his intention p£ • carrying on the tradition. ■;At a meeting of ■ the !Beckingnam,; ' Notts, Council School managers, the head teacher was instructed to discontinue the use of the hymn: "All thing 3 bright and beautiful,", in "Hymns An-' cient and, Modern," objection having beenmade to the third verse:'; ', ■ .;''"_■ •: i / rich man in his castle. v" ' . ' •'••■■ The poor man at his gate, - i . 'God made them-high or lowly,- - . . ' "'And ordered their estate. .