TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 255, 25 October 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Beautiful gold fillings—-Howey Walker'a City Council met last night. Cricket season opens to-morrow. English, cricketers arrived at Fror mantle. Pitts burg Stock Exchange wa.s compelled to close temporarily yesterday. United States Secretaiy to the Treasury substantially assisted the Pittsburg banks. Annual meeting of the Auckland Sun-day-school Union at the Baptist Taber-. nacle to-night.' ; :. ' Waihi contributed handsomely to the Salvation Army Self-Denial Fund, the donations totalling about £185. ' Mr.' Cortelyou, United States Trea- ; surer, has deposited 25,000,000 dollars of Treasury funds with the banks. ; ; Mr. ■ Norman Keir,' before taking his life yesterday, addressed a pathetic letter to his Symonds-street landlady. German balloons secured the first arid second places in a race from St. Louis (Miasouri). The winner traversed 880 •miles; Sir Wilfrid Laurier has expressed 1 Canada's sincere regret for the Vancouver disturbances, and the Mikado has. sent a cordial reply. . : ■While a lady, was sitting in her garden at,• Crowborough. (Sussex) a; celluloid . comb that she was -wearing ignited under, the rays of the sun. A display of £2,200,000 worth of bflla and liotes failed to prevent a big rim on the New York bank of the Trust Company of America. City Council agreed that the Mayor and Mr. Bagnall should proceed to Wellington to enter a protesj; against tho Tramway Amending BilL ' -^» The body of the Swiss guide Wcitalei, who disappeared six years ago on the Neiderjoch glacier, has .been found intact in the ice, still grasping his ice-axe. Cutler, of.Bathurst .(N.S.W.) won the King's prize at Sydney, and Linn, of Orange (N.S.W.) Tvas second. -Kayen, a British competitor, took the third prize. An inquest was held, to-day on ihe . body of Mr. Norman Keir, of the firm, of N. Keir and Co., of Vnlcan-lane, who committed suicide in the Domain, yesterday. . Canadian Prime Minister, in a, message to the Mikado, mentioned the v strong racial prejudice prevailing on ; the Pacific Coastj as being a factor for consideration. . ' . Brook, the Australian champion cyclist, on the grounds of his religious conversion, . has abandoned the cycle track. He says professional cycling is top muddy; for a Christian.' ; t Particulars are given, in the Gazette of- -fie treaties of extradition recently ratified between Great Britain" and the Eepnblic of Panama and between Great .Britain'and Sweden." • • '■' x Two liners foundered yesterday^— a, Hamburg-American steamer in the Tagus; and the Empress of China at her mooring!, at' Vancouver: In the former, case three lives were lost. "'There were 51 working days for - the V.M.C.A. , collectors in the "four centres during the recent campaign.'. The total amount of cash received during that time was £51,500, or a little dyer £100(F per fl^y?.". 5 "' v ;.' ■-.".:'•' A case was recently reported in which a hen that had died at Whiitfield (Victoria), on being dissected, was found to contain six pea rifle cartridges, a screw, half an-inch long, and a piece of copper, wire. , - •■> ' . .- . . . .': ■ . ...• ■, , "_•> -. Out, of sixty architects practising in ■ ' , Johannesburg at the . beginning of . this year, .at: least .thirty, have.left to try their fortunes • ekewherei owing to the effect ,of: the prevailing depression in the building trade. / . • ,' ; -A man : arrested at.Gisborne the-<)ther day, for drunkenness, says a local .paper, had; £48x1/" .on his . person. When charged before the S.M.. nest. morning he expressed liis gratitude.to tlie police for; taking himself, and his money, in charge. '-'. Norah: Mary Flinnigan and; JTelson Campbell Hodges have been committed for trial at Westpbrt on charges of hay- ' ' ing fraudulently obtained from the Bank of New Zealand £19 1/1 and £17 1/ by ; the sale of gold in -which- copper-anil brass vrere concealed. " The Wellington Education Board, today considered the Department's offer of. a, subsidy towards miniature rifle ranges. It was decided to suggest theadvisableness of importing sub-target machines in lieu of• instruction. bymeana of miniature rifle ranges. . . . . ".