TABLE-TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 24 March 1908, Page 1

TABLE-TALK.

Big gaJe in Fiji. Five thousand "ton steamer wreckeit__ Hospital Board and the honorary stafl! — relations:" 'Z..SZ. ." : Parnell, Grey Lynn, Newinarketi; .and Onehunga Borough Councils. Boy electrocuted at Island Bay (Wellington) yesterday afternoon..—, .. :_- ." A slight shock of earthquake -was felt in Wellington at 1.52 p.m. yesterday. MacMahon's pictures open their season at His Majesty's Theatre to-night. Governor is to lay the foundation stone of the neyr Grafton. Bridge to-morroWj afternoon. "Widespread satisfaction is expressed over .;the Japanese invitation, to the American fleet. The Fiji gale caused great destruction to - smaller shipping, and many houses were.also wrecked. . The price-of the hest hot-house strawberries in London at the end of Jairriaxx ■worked.out at 2/6 an ounce. . There -was much rough -play--in- the game between the Kew Zealand professional footballers .and Cheltenham.' A jockey named Charles Kearney -was killed at the Sootsdale (Tas.) races last week through Cohort • falling in -'the liadles' Bracelet. -• •■ -. - , '■" The award" of the- Corhpensaiaon.,Conre in fiie Culverdcn. Estate is £119,450," to be paid "by the Government". The edaini estate was £162,636.,.. " XewmarkVt Council agreed to coma into the drainage scheme, -while Parnell and Grey Lynn postponed cbnsideratioa of the proposals. ?| All of the Borough Councils which met last night declined to investigate the Trades' and Labour Council's allegations as to jerry-built houses. Big Greek railway scheme is expected to have the effect of offering the shortest route from Great Britain to the Far East.Hγ , is estimated that during" the corning '<winier the rabbit indrfsfcry in New South Wales- -will find emplojanenfc for 7000 or SOCK) men. ._ - - ".•.-„■ "1 Gebrge Keid:-a plumber,-who injured his spine at Wellington tErotrgh-falling from fhe scaffolding of a bnildrng in; course of. erectionat 3fewto-wn,-died in the hospital on Saturday "night. : " comrades, ever - eince T?a were boya," sang two men at • the Lon« " don Central.Oiminal Corirt, when sentenced to five years' penal servitude" eacH for- burglary. Pablic speaking isTßsponsifaleior maiiry slips of the tongue. At a meeting held last evening one speaker spoke of looking at things in a "sanguinary? inaimer- (say 3 * the "Gisborne Times'). ■ The rate valuation of-fhe borough, of Timaru (annual-Talne systemj is £90,----704, an increase of £7889 bnlastyear. "The to be-settled by -the Assessment Court only amount to £30. " , A fatal case of snakebite occurred last week near Wilcha ■ (Sew South Wales), : the Tictim bemg Victor McMillan, 3 J years of age, wBo was bitten by a tiger snaEe-in a bedroom.