TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 1 April 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK

The first of April. Roofs of.houses were carried ihalf-av mile by a stornuat Moora. (W.A.),, Wirth's circus opened its ,season-be»-fore a crowded-audience last evening. The House of Commons, by 315 to 157, affirmed the principle of Home ' Rule. ' "New York World" suggests that the": Kaiser, needs a diplomatist at his el-"' bow. The profits from the -Wanganui muni- ) cipal gasworks for the year ended March ' ~315t,. amountedlto £3000;- , .". ...,'■;,.■...•...; The Government supported the second ;: reading in the House of Lords of the Bishop of St. Asaph's Education Bill. Butter has been raised to famine : prices in. Glasgow.. Not for fifty years-/, has the supply been so scarce or the prices so high. British Minister is going to Canton toft interview the iVleeroy, on behalf of Ja-" pan, with regard to the boycott of.. Japanese foods. Latest news shows that further trouble is threatened in the Sydney strike, owing to the success of certain coastal? steamers in getting away. It Is now stated that the Kaiser's ob«> jection to Dr. Hill (American Ambassa-dor-Designate to Germany) was that hi» private means were insufficient. A Scotsman named Mr. Simpson has invented a weapon which could bombard/ Paris with 20001b missiles from London, Electricity is the propelling force. According to Lord Cromer, Egyptians have a great propensity for hoarding gold. One merchant hid £100,000, which, no one knew about till his death. There are over a million and a-hali young men in Britain under 20 who know? no trade, because they were made er-rand-boys instead of apprentices. ? It was mentioned in a Court case int Glasgow that the Inland Revenue stamp, for lid which decorates the shilling bottle or packet of patent medicine- brings in £300,000 annually. Mr. Kettle "ordered young launch.' thieves to receive a birching at the hands of a constable. He emphasised the increasing seriousness of juvenile crime itt the Dominion. From to-day the Public Works De~ partment will extend the running of its trains at the; northern end of the North Island Main Trunk railway to Erua. four miles beyond Waiinarino, thus reducing the coach journey to 14Tidies. Laundries are unknown .in. China. This is strange when it is considered that nine out of every ten Chinamen who go to the» United States go into the laundry business. Throughout all China the consumption of starch does not exceed 101b a year. A man was found looking through a! window of the Bank of New South Wales at .Manilla, N.S.W., after midnight. Hβ was taken to the poJic? court, and was subsequently sentenced to-three, months* i imprisonment. The mn.-n -was on this wrong side of the window. A rather peculiar accident happened, recently in the main road through the Hatuma (Manawatu) settlement while su mob of cows were being driven from the saleyards. One of the animals a man on a bicycle. She knocked birr> over and then dropped dead. Leading American commercial organisations are endeavouring to secure the ~ official representation of the United States at the International Telegraphic Conference—to be opened in Lisbon on May 4 —in order to oppose any curtail-" ment of the existing code privileges. The Sunday before last the congregation in one of the Timaru churches wa3 startled in the midst of the sermon by a loud knocking.on a door at the rear of the church. A church official who went to inquire the cause of the disturbance found a woman standing in the rain. Without waiting to be questioned she asked if nhe could have "a little spirits."