TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5, 6 January 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Suez mail arrived. Stock Exchange re-opened to-day. Intense cold prevails on the Continent. Three Alpine fatalities occurred last week. Auckland cricketers defeated br 315 runs. E. Hanlon, ex-champion sculler of the world, is dead. * New Zealand Dental Conference started to-day. The Teachers' Conference concluded on Saturday night. Military operations have been suspended in Zululaud. "His HSg-hness .the Bey," at ihtis Majesty's Theatre to-night. The professional All Blacks defeated Hull by three points to six. Armstrong and Macartney made a fine stand in the second test match. The yacht Ariki left Gisbonic on Saturday on Tier return to Auckland. Mark Hambourg makes a three months" tour of Australasia in July. The Liondon " Observer" declares that the " Thunderer" is in the market. Mr. Midgley Taylor lias arrived from London to report on the Auckland drainage scheme. The Colonial Museum at Wellington will in future be known as the " Dominion " Museum. The Admiralty has replaced two yes» sols previously declared ineffective oa the active list. The Northern Bowling Association's annual tournament has commenced on. five Auckland gTeens. Abe Bailey, the South African sportsman, has suggested the formation of an Imperial Cricket Board. Four men have been arrested in Sydney on suspicion of being connected with, a jewellery robbery at Anthony Hordern's. A rep. cricket match between JSew South Wales and New Zealand teachers •will be commenced in Victoria. Park tomorrow. Steps are to be taken shortly to form a domestic workers' union in Dnnedin, on. lines similar to those already formed in Wellington and Christchurch. Charles -was smoking a pipe when he "was thrown from his bicycle at Oroyd-on rjy a dog. The pipe stem pierced the roof of his mouth, and he died from the injury. Mr. K. C. O'Neill, better known as " Gert'' CNem, on whose farm the Peace Convention at the end of the first Boer W-ar -was signed, lias died at Majrrba, at.the age of eighty years. On present appearances there promises to be a record yield of fruit in the Auckland district. At Onehunga a settler, Mr. Broudfoot, has four plum trees estimated to be carrying at least scwt apiece. There were in the gaol last week 197 males and 29 females of whom 17S males and 28 females were sentenced to hard labour, and one to penal servitude for life. Thirty-two prisoners were received during the week, and 20 discharged. ! An enterprising youth of Stewart IsI land has lately occupied his time in col- - leetsng " dead marines ** in the vicinty, of Half Moon Bay, and on Wednesday; ' last (says the "Southland Times") he came over to the mainland with 20 cases of empty bottles, the proceeds from the sale of which he expected would see him comfortably through the holidays. As showing the vitality possessed by] a shark, eeen after it had been considerably mutilated, it may be mentioned that the a.Tifma.l despatched on the Kakamii beach was cut open. Fully twenty, . minutes afterwords a small boy, si;ppa.r- ---; ently on the quest of adventure, sat oa the shark's tail, and was somewhat sur- ' prised to find that it had still sufficient ; strength to lift and roll him over. Tha etory is vouched for by onlookers.