TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 3 April 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Suez mail due on Sunday. I Children's Bill read a. second time ia > the House of Commons. •■- , London wool sales closed' with, business ' animated and keen bidding. — - Mr. John Patterson was elected to the j vacant City Councillorsliip last night. ; "Wellington Master Bakers lurve decided to adopt the cash or coupon system - of trading. The Commons Labour groups have ; formed au alliance for united action on 5 labour questions. ; It has been ascertained that the 1 Irish Land Act will require 160 instead 7 of 100 millions.. } The British football team •will leave 1 Plymouth for Sew Zealand nest Satarr day, by the Athenic. t Den and Indra lines, of Liverpool, are - to maintain a regular service -with Ana- . tralia and New Zealand. | The strange phenomenon of a "white rainbow" was observed recently in the ; south of England and in the Midlands, i Mr. Asquith told the London United J Liberal Association that'*the Government ; was quite prepared To face the clamour - oyer the Licensing Bill. . As an incentive to matrimony the-neari; 1 census should show how many women ;. there are in this country who faithfully - and diligently labour to support their husbands.— ; " Post," Washington. > _ A Sydney firm of Chinese merchants I is forwarding a trial shipment of 400 - cases of fruit to Hongkong. jktu effort . is to be.made to open up the Eastern 1 market for Australian fruit,- and it ia ' believed that a big trade: can be de- ■ veloped. • . . ~ 1 In New Zealand last year there wa3 an increase in the area under fruit trees • of over 750 acres as compared; with' an t average increase of. about 300 acres for . several years previously. The" area dej voted to vineyards', showed an increase | of 100 acres, principally in the North. - Island. . '.•■•• ■ The eating of a raw potato caused tha death of a child of two years and a-hatf : at Davenport, Norwich, England, a few, ; weeks ago. The mother -said all her; children were fond of raw potato. Sev- • era! jurymen assured . the incredulous ' coroner that the eating of this dainty '■ was quite common. When the Houlder liner- Drayton Grange arrived at Melbourne recently it I was found that three cases of brandy > shipped at Sydney by the Hunter "Valley \ Distilling Company had been stolen from i out of "the hatches. The brandy, which " was of specially fine quality, was intendj ed for display in the {New South Wales r court at the Franco-British Exhibition , in London.