TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 258, 29 October 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Tragedy at MaTopiu. Maori woman charged with murder. The Empire Match at the Sydney Rifle Meeting. New York is importing '£1,250,000 worth, of gold. Extraordinary diplomatic revelations at the German libel trial. . j The proceeds of the ball held at Whan- ' garei in aid of the hospital totalled £50. The Grammar School athletic sports i are proceeding on the Domain cricket j ground. It has been, decided to hold a trades | union congress in Sydney during Easier | week in 1908. Recent advices show that Canada. is jnow making serious draughts for power; |on Niagara Falls. Dr. Purdy last evening addressed the [ Eden Terrace Eoad Board on the sanitai tion of the district. A syndicate has been formed to work the discovery of crude - petroleum at Boonah, Queensland. A petition for the abolition of the railway bridge has been signed by over one thousand Whangarei residents. The Vancouver correspondent of "The Times" says that the Hindus there are being treated with shocking injustice. At South Brook, near Pittsworth, Queensland, a boy named Kealey died from the effects of a hite of a deathadder. Sir Joseph "Ward, in his reply, to the Bible-in-schools deputation, said that only the.iipeople could settle such a, question. 'The King said he believed, the united efforts of his people would result in the complete success of the territorial army scheme. ' Some Spaniards, who recently arrived, have left the ■;. sugar fields of Northern Queensland on the ground that the work is too hard for them. Dr. Purdy suggested to the Eden Terrace Road-Board that it would be : a; good idea for some of the smaller local governing bodies to amalgamate. . • • The death has occurred of Cbas. Henry Wilson, first Lord Nunburnhohne, and senior partner in the well-known Wilsortsteamship lihe, t in his 74th year.' ' A Gisborne telegram states that tduia Charles Graham was thrown from -a; horse, and trampled upon, and is now in an unconscious condition in the hospital. Mr. Fowlds, who was present with the Premier during the reception of the Bible-in-schools- deputation, - considered that the reading of the Bible as a classic must lead to other developments.- ■ Two prisoners in Pentridge Gaol; Melbourne,- were -sentenced- to three days' solitary confinement for making a book on the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. They laid the odds in rations of tobacco. D. Nathan and Co.'s creamery at Pahautanul was destroyed by fire yesterday. The building and machinery were valued at £800,' and were insured in the Northern Assurance Company for £600. •Burglars, -who visited 'the 'house -of 'Mr Stephen -Wileox,'<'of Durham "(Eng.), emptied 'three; bottles of whisky, smoked a large ; box of cigarettes and many cigars, slept in the best bed,' and left the Tiouse with property worth £40. : \ j. -'.; Chang :Ying-tahgj the Chinese Resident at Lhassa, reports the establishment 'of a native newspaper for-the .enlightenment of. people in both Inner and Outer Tnibct. This newspaper will be the'first in the Thibetan language. Further statements by Herr Harden, defendant in the German libel trial, alleged widespread military immorality, and implied- that-a- Franco-German war had only been averted by a Minister's immoral proposals.' The, Canterbury Anglican , Synod resolved to obtain the capital required for .the,establishment of a girls' high school, Christchurch,' by donations, and to meet any deficiency not exceeding £5000 by debentures without interest. The body of George Lindsay Duke, a. High School boy of 16, who'went fishing at Inyercargill on Saturday afternoon, and disappeared, was found on,a sand shoal, about'3oo yards below where it is supposed he fell into the river. ■ '-"•'' A carpenter named Thomas Drillot. a recent arrival from" Guernsey, fell"ahout 35ft while working on the new Commercial -Hotel- at Wellington.' He had ;an -arm hroken -and- a shoulder dislocated, while it is'feared that he is also injured internally. At the opening of the Anglican Synod the Primate suggested -that.« commencement might be made with cathedral building' in .1910, -a»d urged that, the -clergy" should be; allowed':-to share in the general prosperity of the country through an increase in their stipends.' ._ '■ v ■•■ ;. -\-..." The-present, is a;. phenomenal season for whitebait at Foxton.. A cprresppndent, writing to the Manawatii "''Daily Times," says that last .week's export amounted to 240C1 gallons, valued at £600. Six hundred., kerosene this full were sold last week, and. last Sunday's catch amounted to over one thousand.gallons. The .greatest hauls are , made at the L.cads. ."/ ' -; From Akron, Ohio, it was reported when the last mail left that Mr. Thomas Edison, the inventor, had arrived at his mother's, home there, suffering from nervous collapse. Physicians were in constant attendance, and his condition was stated to be so serious that even his intimate friends are excluded from his room. There was no confirmation of this report in the cablegram concerning Mr. Edison's-new-battery.