TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 19 March 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fifty million people ia India will b* affected by the failure of the crops. The Sangola arrived at Suva from India yesterday with. 1150 cooles for the eugar plantations. The British Government nmy, extend the 14 years' limit for compensation un« der the Licensing Bill. The shooting of the Chicago "anarchist " is now believed to have been the result of a police blunder. Salute of the British cruiser ladeftaigable alarmed the Haytian natives and prevented further execution. General StoesseTs death sentence haa been commuted to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress, with loss of rank. A hundred tons of cats' tails were sold in one lot in London recently to be used in ornamenting ladies' -wearing apparel. The English mail, via Suez, which left Wellington on the 7th February, arrived in London on the morning of the 16th: inst. No less than five races out of eight were won by the Hon. J. D. Ormond's horse at the Napier Park Carnival meeting. Visitors to the new Orient liner, Astarias, last week numbered 4200, and £1091 was collected, at 6d. per head, for Sydney charities. Lord Selborne and other notables werei present at the. marriage of Miss Helen Botha and Mr. Daniel de Yaal at Eretoria, on January 29. v i Associated Chambers of Commerce meeting in London carried a preferential trade resolution, but not by the necessary two-thirds majority. A man who refused to join the butchers' strike at Broken Hill was pulled out of a shop by force. A constable was ' afterwards stationed outside. Senator Best informed the Federal House of. JRepresentatives that would be useless to invite President Roosevelt to visit Australia with the American fleet. . ; At a meeting of delegates from Christchurch, Ashburton and Kaikorai bands it was decided to form a Soutb. Island Brass Bands Association witU headquarters at Christchurch. Mr. C H. Hayes, secretary of the Royal Exchange, Sydney, who has reached Adelaide on his return from England, says that the campaign being carried out ta advertise- Australia is doing much good. "Pleasurable anticipation" —as tin reporter has it—prevail in Adelaide. - The electric trams will begin to run in the . City of Churches in November next; and the horse trams will probably*have to go» to Jericho, or some other ancient town. The leader of the Perth unemployed says there are. 3500 out of work in WestAustralia. The Labour Bureau officials declare that there are not 1000, wbihv moreover, the farmers are crying out for. labour. Who is to be believedt New South Wales Miner's Federation has decided to take strong measures against hasty and,, ill-advised strikes. The strikers. at Pelav Main and Back Creek Save,'been'ordered to' return under ■ pain oi expulsion, .i ." " ' At the annual dinner of the Ancient Corporation of Haniey, in accordance, with ! custom, champagne' was drunk; from a glass a';yard'long. Those'who did notsiicMed ' in' ;finisnrng the glass/had; the remainder poured down their" shirt fronts • by. two stalwart cupbearers. "." •"'.'•" '- ■ The tragedy- of the bush! 'The postmistress at Torringfcbn (NAw.) was operated ; on' -foir appendicitis. Twentytwo' men carried her on; a' stretcher .16 " miles over mountainous country in 12* hours., It is not "eurprisiig to hear that she not- reeoVei from, this terrible ordeal.- " " : \- ■;';\ _■:■■ ','".' ■ Louise Davies, -of Haveroekystreet, 1»----lingtbn, was sent -to 21 days' hard- labour by the. West-London magistrate for stealing; some- of the money subscribed i» a " whisky dub" she promoted among her fellow workers at a laundry. For 16 weeks.the club members were to paj; 1/ a week, and a few days before Chris*, mas prisoner was to delirer to each,* quart of whisky. :-..:.>