TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ■ Bowling finals to-day. A rapid thaw has occurred in London. N.S.W. teachers left for Botorua this morning. [ Insubordination is rampant among the . Black Sea fleet. ; Verdict of "Wilful murder" in Kau- • kapakapa tragedy. j The battleship Collingwcod is to ba ! replaced on the active list. , New Zealand teachers beat New South ! Wales pedagogues by 181 runs. There is a growing feeling in Belgium, against the annexation of the Congo, i Three persons were injured in a runaway at Whangarei on Tuesday evening. The Union Bank of Australasia baa declared a dividend and bonus of 12 per cent. , King is patron of movement to rescue Crimean and Mutiny veterans from the workhouse. The Hon. G. Fowlds paid an official visit to the Waikato Consumptive Sanat torioun to-day. The Transvaal has been asked tp postpone the Asiatic question pending the Pretoria conference. : Five Jack-the-Ripper crimes, including four on children, have been, perpetrated in the streets of Berlin; Detective Boddam had an B_aat__g ; struggle with a recently discharged prisoner at New Plymouth last night. At Pootscray, Victoria, a girl named i Clonghton was burned to death, owing to her dress catching fire at a gas stove. London papers cotnmerit favourably oa • the sportsmanlike mariner in "which the ' Australians accented their defeat by Eng- . land. A bill has been introduced into the American Senate to provide for the appointment of a Commission to investigata the tariff. The. ex-chairman of the Labour party advocates that all incomes over £5000 1 should be taxed to raise an oid-age pension of 5/. The body of John S. Wright, tailori 1 of Sydney, was discovered this morning l in an upstairs room of a house in Mount . street with the throat cut from ear to ear. : Messrs. M. Thomas and F. Hutchina '■ have been elected Southland delegates to the Biennial Conference of the Amalga- • mated Society of Railway Servants at ' Wellington. A provision of the Federal Companies Bill, to be introduced shortly, forbids the directors of any registered company, directly or indirectly, to vote funds to political bodies. One end of the Emperor Francis Joseph's room has been converted into a. miniature pine forest, a number of Christmas trees growing in tubs having been brought in, so that the odour may have a salutary effect on the Emperor's cough. Why is it folks sit this way in The car we miss, While in the car we catch at last Weh-ejammedlikethis ? It is remarkable to analyse the elements which go to compose the sets in our more democratic collages. I think of one set composed of the son of a rich brewer, an honourable, who will soon oa a lord, a half-blue, the son of a clergyman, who is to follow his father's profession, and a county council scholar, who started his education in a board school. This mixed set is completed by a German Rhodes scholar.—" The 'Varsity." A Birmingham lady found that her dress was caught by the door of the railway carriage in which she was travelling, when near Stechford recently. Being unable to release it, she stood up and turned the handle, and the door swung open, dragging her out. Other passengers pulled the communication cord, and the lady was found dead on the line. The wind pressure on a railway carriage door so opened, when the train is going rapidly, is estittited at from one to two tons. .