TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 130, 1 June 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Agrarian riots continue in Ireland. . Mss Amy Castles wW -tour Anstrali» ; next year. '■„-.•' j The British footballers were defeated by Otago by 9 points to 6. - Mr. Bent, Premier, of' Victoria, antic*, pates a deficit of £140,000.. ' . A British balloon . won the international race from Hurlingham Sir Thomas Lipton's latest cnallencer has easily won her first trial race. The Professional' All Blacks defeated Aus|ralia. at Queensland by ,24 points 4. great gamble has been going on iv " " *' Chica S°,g™» Turks killed 80 women and children first day of the -fighting in A wellrknown motorist named Cedrius his back broken while racing on the Baltimore irack. The Kugby championship matches on Saturday resnlteff in wins for Ponsbnby, <Sty, and Newton. ! . The gross. Customs duties collected at the port of Auckland" during the month of May totalled £48,576. "Tommy" Burns, the champion of the world, has bseri matched to fight "Bill" Squires in Paris on June 13. M.de la. Grange, the French aeroplanist, won;a prize of £1600 by cover-, ing a flight of over eight miles. The Auckland Stock Exchange decided at the noon call to-day to close on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. Active operations against the Mofc mands cl6sed on Friday with the 'destruction of the Khuda Khel stronghold. A cotton operator in America is alleged to have made a fortune by obtaining early statistics as to the area under crop. ' —. - . :: An Anarchist arrested in : Italy admits that'he followed the Kaiser, ■ intending to kill him, but was prevented by police surveillance. : • ■ W«men are to be admitted as companions of the Imperial service' order, an order of merit established for the reward of civil servants.' .. V' Messrs. Klich and Son's vineyard at Hukatere hae produced a ; fine- crop of grape 3 this year, 1000' gallons of -wine having, been manufactured. *'* *• V "• It is asserted that the average wage of 35 girls employed in an Adelaide clothing rfactory was 5/3 ; a week—* shade over "a penny/an honr.' ; •' ; • f The Southland ■ Farmers' Union iaia agreed to ask- the Government to' take more active steps for promoting the immigration of-'farm, labourers from the United Kingdom. • '■■ ■ - *#*" ■■■ vj "The old idea of a community of interest between employer 'and employee— between capital and labour—{appears to have been practically abandoned in New Denny. r ■■: I In view of recent railway accidents, the French Minister for Public : Works has decreed that all trains must carry requisites for prompt- surgical aid t* the injured.- ■■ ;. ;* . An American Senator spoke 18J hours in obstructing the Bill, a tiecord for the United States, but fonr iours behind the "All" Black* record held by.Mr. W."lt Beea. - • . A proposal to generate electricity by peat gas, which -was submitted to a, select committee of the House Comrnous, is the first scheme of its kind in Sreat Britain, and the company promoting it has arranged to purchase 900 acres of peat bog in the district it proposes te serve.'-' '_ ....■.;"> t>..; : .. K ■ Speaking at a meeting of the Hawke"s Bay Babbit Board, the chairman, Mr. T. Crosee, drew attention to the proposal to erect a rabbit canning factory in the. Waikato, and declared that any attempt to use the' rabbit commercially;. would seriously handicap efforts to cope -with, the pest. - / . .'}. .-iT ■■ The, president' of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, epeaking on Saturday night "to the members of the Auckland branch, eaid the demand* of the men included a general increase in wages, a -nniversal 48-hour ■week, fnH civil and political rights, ■ and better facilities for promotion' from one grade to another. ' . ,- .. ■ '^,