TABLE TALK

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 114, 13 May 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK

y The Blackball strike has "been"settled!."-' A large fire in Madrid destroyed 300 I houses. ' ' ! ; ' ■ :.;.; :.:■: -■ - - n ace - track gambling is prohibited "in » • Columbia. U.S.A. ".'".'■ 1 A volunteer automobile corps isbeln* • formed in Victoria:-. --■*■■ ■•- •- ,-- ---i The Irish Universities "Bfll" has; been, r_ read a second "time. "~"~ ■'•' - — ~ Mr. Asquith =a,ys that ah autumn ses-' ■- sion- of^.Pai-liament"i"S~in"evifable: : " " _' Tl ?e art collection afthe "Franco-British. - Exhibition is valued at a million. " . Slaughtermen's.'assistknts.-.at. Burnsidfi ■■• freezing jvorks are out. on. strike. : : • '• ■ There j\:ere;..7Sl executions-in-Bussia- - durnig the first quarter of the" year/'- ---,. Thirty thousand people - daily•" visit'b 'Jlurder Farm, -, -Laporle, Indiana. • t ■ Ihe Afridis have definitely decided noS ■>. to take up arms agairist : lhe British. " '■■ _ A rise in the price of flour: tliroughoub' • Aen- Zealand was announced yesterday. £ The Wednesday afternoon Kugby- com-' - petitions were; commenced, fhis afternoon. n The building .01 the Bureau of the <uriei ncan Republics is.now under: c6nsture- : c tion. _■_-_ •> - •■■■ --- ■—■-- - S .p l * is - vet ; possible' that; the'-'wrecked'-' . iyser steamer•• Star of" Japan may be ° saved. r. :■■ J Mr. Churchill was loudly cheered* On. I his re-entry into, the British House of , Commons. { A doctor tfeelares that Mrs., CJuinness,' i the Laporte assassin, must have had a r male'accomplice; : _ Anti-Suffragists have had their revenge' [ lor the baiting, of Hx. Churchill during the Dundee election; "■■" ' ; •■•--•-■■- -' .Mrs. Hetty Green; America's.most.fain- . oils lady financier, has been threatened! ' i by .the Black Hand Society. - Kua, the Maori " prophet," has set out t for Wellington with the avowed intention. . of interviewing the Native Minister ' J The revenue of the Auckland Harbour' ;. Board during-1007 increased! by £10,191; L over that of. the previous twelve! month's; ; But. for the flooding ..of the Tynesida ■ mine, it is considered doubtful, that the j Blackball .difficulty.. would have been - settled-so,scon.. Mr. -H: M. Boucher will" cohf iniie " hia • .iaatur&j upon ;;a"stro!!ogy rat' the new; } Druids'.;. Hay; North-street, Newton, on, i Thursday evening. [_ ■ The House, q± . Lofds'-.has. passed, a. j motion that the critical condition of the - hop industry, demands the.Government's , immediate attention. , Strong comment on the:".scandalously*" small stipends paid to some Presbyterian • ministers, was made last night by mem- ' bers of the Wellington-Presbytery.- ■■■. It is stated:thatthe Union SteanrShip Company has in contemplation the establishment of a scheme7fqTr;thß;-trajmng:af boys to fit them for the position .of junior . officers in the Company's steamers: • [ - Judging by the number of young mca * , who hare taken to '■ ye game of bovrls,'- ,- ---5 the Airmacla of the future should have . ; even a worse time than did the one which . Brake and. his colleagues. so effectually, ' dealt with. : •-- J) -, rvAt-an inquest on Mrs. -Margaret Bob- . . inson, an elderly. Chrisbohureh resident, i the • jury returned a" verdict; stating that l : death, which was due to pneumonia, waa», \ accelerated by gross neglect on the part' of her son and daughter. . ■ ;•..-.. ; ;John Pascoe. Fawkner, the virtual ■ founder of Melbourne,, in 1835, who died Ln. 1569,.1 eft an estate which, is not yebout of the hands' of the court. An' order : was made in Melbourne last month for, payment to ' certain beneficiaries under his will. " ■ ■ ■.... . • "We have just. come, from a picnic," triumphantly announced the young lady whom the police were prosecuting at the Police Court. "And what did you have. - at- t«e~pienic^-'r-^k«dh*be^in^ffisitiv^reen-, ! ior-sergeant. " It-was a^select-picnic," ; retorted the lady,—witheringiy— ■■. — . ■ ■-,' - -'- Theraetion-aFismg-ovtt-ef-4ihe-aeeidenfc which occurred ot the s.s.-Mamarij in Cal-' • i Hope Dock in "-1906, cost tne, ; Auckland ;Ha.rbour JHoard Of ; this amount the Board recovered. £1154 from the Shaw-Savill Company and ifhe Government • Insurance Commissioners. ■ There are stages in we be r '. lieve. For instance, the talkative and. tne . speechless. The speechless is eonsiaered a stage worse than the talkative- Yet in police courts the defendant who is only so far adlvanced as to talk-i—swear words— ' is fined a larger amount than the worse offended who has gone a bit further, and said " nuffink/' for the reason that lie v» - as unable. - .Special variety,.special.:jtalne, in .single dress lengths, iox dresses _or__costumes, ne_w stripes.; also plain .colours, in good quality :.clo.thSj .t'wsjeds,.:friezes,...etc.— McCullagh and G.owers dress depair**; ment—>(Ad.) ~: ... .../. '_ ~"