TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 103, 30 April 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK

Mr. G. G. Stead died yesterday afternoon. ....... Two thousand people have been massacred during a liurdish- raid. The oyster season, which opens tomorrdw, will continue till October. 31. The Mosquito fleet was manoeuvring without lights when the Gala was sunk. A steady stream of carefully-selected emigrants is leaving London for Australia. Mr. Hislop defeated Mr. Aitken for the Mayoralty of Wellington by. over 3,000 •votes. Citrus fruit yield in New South Wales this season has amounted to dozens. A New Zealand pianist won the Thelberg Scholarship at the Koyal Academy of Music. The Archbishop of Canterbury describes Mr Asqurth's Licensing Bill as right, true, and just. Jewels valued at £1000 were stolen from -the dressing-table of the Hon. Mabel Yereßer in London. * The debate on the second reading of the Licensing Bill has begun -in the Bri-tish-House of Commons. ' E.ua, the ' Maori " prophet/ has decided not to go to Wellington, and has returned to Maungapohatu. . There is no truth in the rumour that typhoid fever is rife among the Maoris in. Wanganui upriver settlements. A French inventor has invented an apparatus which will enable one to see from New York across to Paris. It is contended- that if- the separate States of Germany were swept away, a saving of" £50,000,000 would be possible. The date of the World's championship sculling match between Webb and Arns.t has -been practically fixed for December 15. Melbourne has subscriberl £364 12/6 to the Xoble Testimonial Fund. This added to the Sydney amount makes a total of £ 1969 17./3. A woman has been awarded £1.25 damages in a court -at St. Louis, Missouri (U.SA.), against a man who called her. " an old: hen-" Another naval -misadventure has occurred, a boiler tube bursting on the battleship Britannia and seriously injuring five of the crew. The-president of the Blackball Miners' Union has commenced) an action against; the Company, claiming £55 for alleged wrongful dismissal. Prizes offered by the Transvaal Government and Chamber of Mines for the best practical rock drill have been raised! to £5000. Tests will begin a year hence. A rare violin, stamped with the nam a of the:younger Maggini, and bearing the date 1625, has been discovered by Inspector MacDonnell, of the Napier police force. • ■ .. _. The Auckland Rugby Union frag su=*gested that the representative m&tea against Wellington should be played at the time of the visit of the American fleet. • A masked robber at Okahune cut a hole in a tent, in which" the proceeds of a spores meeting, amounting to ahont £100 were deposited, but when discoveredA managed to escape in the/darknessr The lunaour of .the following advertisement in an English rmrvin- . cial paper is "delightful:—'Tor saleV bakery concern, with good oven, owner been in it 17 years, good reason for selling. 1 ' There was much excitement over mc Palmerston North mayoral elections, and Mr. E. D. Hoben, the editor-of a local paper which had supported the success-ful-candidate, was attacked by a sec/Aon of. the crowd. Speaking of the Milton State Farm, the Hon. McNab said, in the course of a recent interview, "lam confident that in another year or two the station will be developed into an educational poultry, centre, superior to anything in Ausfcra- " lasia." The discharge of cargo at the stranded steamer Taviuni is proceeding, and a considerable , quantity of" mercnandise has been brought out of the after hold, and appears to be undamaged. The cargo :in the fore hold.has not been affected by water. The cause of the decadence of French literature lies in the fa.ct that our writers attend too many parties ana dinners. Our hostesses have begun the habit of offering up a great man to their guests. The unfortunate genius is sentenced to be witty, every night, for at least three hours. No brain can stand such a strairL "Cri dc Paris."-