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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 7, 8 January 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

V . *~ » - S *■•"'; Second test over. J A win for England. h By one wicket and one run. S Murder and suicide in West Australia. i Druce proceedings have so far cost j £7000. / The Newcastle colliery outlook is more - hopeful. • y Harbour Board's Revenue increased by ~ £10,629 last year. J -Thaw will rely, on. an insanity defence r alone on his re-trial. . ; * The eight hours' day system has been established in French mines. - Increased local consumption of poultry . is displacing the export trade. • Bush fires have caused a. good deal of [ damage at Mangatu, Poverty Bay. 5 The , great majority of' Civil ■Servants 0 are joining the Superannuation fund. 3 An infectious diseases hospital is about "j to be built in Dunedin, at a cost' o£ d £2000. The Bowling Tournament is progress-. - ing, matches being concluded at a. satis* J factory rate. Druce's solicitor admits that T. C. r Druce died in London and was buried in t Highgate Cemetery. : * A company, with C. A. Pearson aa managing director, is being formed tat s control the " Times." A man named William 'Stuart has been 1 arrested at Kaukapakapa on a charge of * murdering Edward West. - f A blacksmith at Day Dawn, S.A., waa shot yesterday by three men, and hi» ~ body thrown down a shaft. , Five ordinations and inductions were > arranged for at a meeting of the Auck- ;* land Presbytery, last night. '. A nine-year-old child died in South i Australia from alcoholic poisoning, due r to drinking part of a bottle of whisky. ■ I The Victorian Premier proposes to add - four more wire-netting machines to the ' t eight already installed at Pentridge Gaol. a. The Socialists of Wellington will '• shortly forward to Mrs. Keir Hardie'a g handsome escritoire in New Zealand - woods. The American Government proposes !- to take authority to issue 250 millions' worth of State bank notes to meet finah- ■ cial crises. 3 The Dominion's revenue increased for the year ending December 31 by no - less than £683,300 over the preceding twelve months. ■1 A former auctioneer of Newmarket, J. ■ Poarse Baker, was found hiding under a - mattress yesterday when wanted on a charge of false pretences. The. infant son of Mr. Fergus Murphy, of Cathcart, died from the effects of drinking a quantity of schnapps during c the absence of his parents. , Spain intends to spend eight millions - on the improvement of her naval dock- ■ yards and the construction of three new 'battleships of 15,000 tons each. The " Times " says that in the abandonment of the Herbert Druee prosecu- [ tion one of the greatest delusions of ;! modern times has been exploded. " My. H. Adams, assistant Government ! geologist, is to carry out a preliminary i survey of the oil-bearing country near Gisborne, and Dr. Bell will afterwards r complete the work. r Dr. Bell, Chief of the Geological Survey Department, will leave Wellington. , shortly for the Heaphy River, Nelson, to carry out geological survey work, lie will be accompanied by Colin Fraser, oi the same Department.