TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 254, 24 October 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last week Ernest Moore and Co.'s sale. Anglican Synod resumed. Orchestral Society's concert in the Choral Hall to-night. British railway clerty support tha Amalgamated Society. New Zealand professional footballers played a drawn game against Wakefield Trinity. The Chemical Manure Workers' Union of Otago decided to nominate Mr. McCullough as the workers' representative) on the Arbitration Court. Constable Gregor, of the Masterton police force, has been appointed to ths position of sergeant in the Fijian Constabulary. Mr Ernest Ayes, British Industrial Commissioner, who is inquiring into Australasian labour legislation, arrived from Rotorua last evening. Elite of New York rushed the banks of the Knickerbocker trust. A sum of £1,600,000 was paid over in three hours before the suspension. A man named "Tom Cabbage," a fruit seller, before a London Police Court, explained that he was an Italian, and Ma real name was Antonio Capueci. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman emphasised the need for stern measures in dealing with drunkenness, depopulation, bad housing, and infant mortality. Japan is now threatening the red herring industry of Scotland. Japs have been spending some time in Shetland studying the business of fishing and At the Poverty Bay show, Cunnongate, the property of Mr John Clarke, was adjudged champion sire, and Honest Kate, owned by Mr Chas. Matthews, was the champion mare. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman ridiculed the idea of strengthening the House of Lords by reforms before putting the relations of the Houses on a businesslike and statesmanlike footing. In a terrible fire at Manildra (N.S.W.Jj yesterday an eleven-year-old girl was burned to death, and a sixteen-year-old sister received fatal injuries while engaged in brave rescue work. Mr. Charles Edward Hamilton, Fellow; of the Royal Geographical Society, who died in London lately, was the explorer, who was hanged by Arabs in the Soudan, and escaped by the breaking of the camel rope by which he was suspended. ' Steps are being taken to establish ai sheep-freezing industry in Nelson province. At a largely-attended meeting at Wakefield it was decided to take immediate steps to form a company with acapital of £25,000, to erect works in a. suitable locality.