TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 129, 30 May 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

ureat Northern Steeplechase meeting at Ellerslie to-diy.' - . • - • ,^?-v Civil sittings of Auckland Supreme Court begin on Monday. • " *' ■ The two Shakespeare Memorial "" schemes have amalgamated. , ' Cholera is raging in the island of Luzon, the largest of the Philippines. ;. - Five persons were killed and 25 injured in a collision near Buenos Ayres. '■■■■■' President; Fallieres laid a wreath oS Queen Victoria's tomb on Thursday. ■ ' " Members of the Douma oppose any infririgement of Finland's , constitution; The Australian eqaadron will he in Auckland to- welcome, the Americaa fleet. • - , ' • ■_ • , . The Old Age Pensions Bill has been ■read a first time in the House of Comniuxie. .- ■..-.-■-/-- . -.---. ; - -■ ■-■.....■ ■'.-.--;--- President Fallieres was profoundly impressed with his magnificent reception ia : England. : Lord Milner says that tariff reform must be preceded by a national, not » party,-movement. • v ■ . . English ■ business men protest against ■ the imposition in Australia of a duty on ,' business catalogues..: '■ ''~,^ : - .'"■■'".■ : f - .- The University Capping Ceremony. ye»- -' terday was attended with many amusing interludes. - '.'■' r ; ■ V• * >' : The Tyser steamer ?tat of New Zea» land grounded in Port Phillip, but .was./ got off undamaged.' ■ ~ ' ; '. A French horse has fceen. ejatered foil the Derby, his diet beeh. almost exclusively dried milk. / - ' . The* Under-Secretary for the;C6loniea ; saye that the' New Hebridean ■ difficulty, - arises from the fact that the group is* no man's land. .;'';'•'■■. -•-.'.; Lord Milner declares that a change in the fiscal system is coming, a change which will make the British Empire a - ~\ family .01 nations. ~ , .* . -. Labourites are strongly appealing to l , the King not to visit the Czar,, because' of the "terrible events in Russia - and' the nature of its Government." - ; Mr E. Donohue, a teacher in the Main. School at Timaru, has challenged >2ir: T. Burrows, the champion club-swinger.. " to a match in fancy club-swinging. The match will probably take place itt .'■■' [ Dunedin en June 2. "- : ,,. . Addressing a political '• speaker gave his hearers, a, touch of. the- ■ pathetic. "I miss," he said,, brushing away a not unmanly tear, "I miss many- J i of the old faces I used to shake hands' '• with." - v:-"i / Speaking .at the University -■ Capping*" f Ceremony yesterday, His Excellency the. >' Governor, referring to the college building, said "No more dilapidated structure, could be found even -among the third-v v class schools in the back villages in Ire- : land." As the result of the low values of' . wool, it is stated that there is scarcely . a farmer in. the' Manawatu district who has drawn on the bank for advances on : wool forwarded to London but will havA 1 to refund part of his advance, his return being less than was estimated. The theory that the earth is hoUow ' and'is open at both the Poles is put : forward seriously by Mr William Keed, • a .New York writer on Arctic explora- \ tion, who is confident that his ideas ■w-ill be vindicated by explorers. Hβ. : also: thinks it probable that the interior ; of the earth is inhabited.