TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 78, 31 March 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK

■ ■ Wirth's Circus opens to-night. The telephone wire was tapped diCring a conversation between the Kaiser and King .Victor Emanuel. ' The Kaiser has withdrawn his objections to Dr. D. J. Hill as United States Ambassador-Designate to Germany. International revolutionaries made a remarkable demonstration at the funeral, near Paris, oi the assassin of __. de,Plehv'e. Lionel Terry is stated to be taking his incarceration in Lyttelton Gaol very phil-' osophically, and as yet he has given his custodians no trouble. Seventy miners were entombed, and it is believed have been smothered, as the consequence of a gas explosion in the' Hanna Coal Mine, at Wyoming. During last month 4567 persons ar» rived in New Zealand, and 2966 departed. The arrival- during February of last year; numbered. 3610 .and departures 3176. Government's Housing of Workersand Town Planning Bill, which is re-* garded as very drastic, has been read a, first time in the House of Commons; The Wellington Socialist" party has sent £30 to the Blackball strikers. Mr. P. H. Hickey, representing the Blackball ! Union, left Wellington for Auckland.yea*, terday. " I Mr. George Ueid, leader of the Con-. I servative section of the Federal Houseof Representatives, describes the labour; non-unionist as a martyr in the cause of freedom. 4 An owner of a steam ploughing planton the Canterbury Plains states that haha g been offered the contracts for ploughing 3,000 acres of land in various parts of the country. . _• Christchurch City Council adopted the. report of the Electrical Supply Committee, recommending that the mimicipat electrical supply system should be extended and impTOYed ai a cost of £15,500. According to a recent - exchange, some of the- British shipbuilders are busy-ex-perimenting with the combination ol high-pressure ■ reciprocating engines and low-pressure turbines, in regard to marr ine propulsion, j The number of tourists visiting Corsica, and especially Ajaccio, is increasing every year. The interest in the greai I Napoleon augments as -years go by, and I the visit to the house where the. great* est of conquerors was born, is a pilgrim, age.—"Drapeau," Ajaccio. Japan did not submit to,the Canadian agreement regarding Japanese immigrants -with a light heart. With a polite smile it drank from the bitter-cup offered by a friendly hand, but it will not reaily forget the taste.—"Novoq Vremya," St. Petersburg. , ■ The Labour Department has collected amounts aggregating several lmndred pounds from slaughtermen, who were fined in connection with last year- strlkei in Canterbury. Distress , warrants . recently issued against some of the strikers have not yet beenreturned. ' 1 The chrysanthemum.: craze, like all crazes, is absurd.-.The".original fkwrer is exquisite, but. there, is- no beauty in tha abnormal monsters grown by the' hor-J ticulturists. . They remind one of a. pianist's hair; they have no proportion, no grace, no-fragrance; they, are freaks. —-"Mattino'," Naples. The current issue of the P. and O. sailing-table states that, of the three mail steamers of the welt-known "M" class now building, the Morea (ILOOO tons) is expected to be available fo_» service in the late autumn, -while the 6,000-ton express steamer Salsette will be added to the .effective list: in July.