TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A second son has been, born to the •; King and Queen of Spain. Mr L. R. Phillips lias been selected as the Opposition candidate for -Waitemata. M; de la Grange's aeroplane flew ten. miles in 16J minutes without touching the ground. • The German telegraph service undertakes wireless telegraphy from Wednesday nest. ■ , Two whites were shot by negroes at Hemphill, Texas, and subsequently nine negroes were lynched. German trade unions now numbet nearly two million members, the largest " organisation in the world. - : The heavy north-easterly gale yesterday resulted in a number of vessels having to put back into ports. The Maori footballers are being sued for a portion of the takings by one of the promoters of the tour. An inflammatory leaflet is being circulated in India with the object of glorifying the martyrs of the mutiny. During the increase of women •terrorists, all female students have been',, ess " pelled from Russian universities. Mr. Will Thome, Labour M.P., iescribes the Czar as an assassin in not preventing the" crimes now practised by Russia. .{■'.:.' •..'■' . High, explosives, to the value of about £2000, which -had deteriorated through , being stored too long, were destroyed at. Hobart recently. . A fire at Three Rivers, Canada; de--vastated .the business portion of the town, and did damage estimated at two million dollars. There are some 350 cases to be adjudicated upon by the Native l«anda Court, which commenced its sittings at Cambridge yesterday. - Nearly eleven million competitors entered for the various Limerick competiI tipns run in England last 'year by the various newspapers. -- . •-.'_ 'v ■■'■"'' The question of establishing a dental hospital, in Auckland will be again brought before the Hospital Board by the Dental Association at an early date. Suspicion has been- aroused in Christchurch owing to three outbreaks of fire in tie vicinity of the Triangle, .which have occurred within the" last two days. The Manchester "Courier" has apoioV gised to, Mr. Winston Churchill for its statement that he escaped from Pretoria when a prisoner of war by breaking his parole. ."■■■■■'. . . -. .-'....- The manager of the Canterbury . Frozen Meat Company states that, his company had to pay the passage of. 38 men. from Melbourne to provide labour for their works. -'"■.".'. . .The ; Secretary of the Marine Department has received a telegram from the Collector of Customs at Hokitika stating that a mirage was responsible' for the: report that icebergs were seen off the j west coast. . ■ . !.:■-. ..•■-. t ', John. Currin, a resident of Oamaru, for > giving'an order to a publican "to send - J liquor into aTno-license , district without 1 supplying the: latter with, his name ..and I adtiress, was fined £10, and costs £2 : 12/-.- . ■ .-. -:;::.. '■_ . • Mrs Florence Fairview Wieland, a ' well-known society woman, has"- an- ; hounced her intention (says a Washing- '' ton correspondent) of.adopting 600 bab- • % - ies—sixty every year for.the next.ten J years. v . ".'.'"' . Presents valued at £60,000. were res ceived on -the occasion of the marriage 1 of Earl Dudley's brother, the Hon. John \ ] Ward, _to Miss Whitelaw-Reid, daughter .-■;•-: ■ of the American Ambassador to', EngL. land... -.' '' *'/,.'■ '- )'■'.-'■■ ,--.-. '~.:..;..■/ The Franco-British Exhibition, the Olympic. Games, and the International - Horse Show are attracting great numbers -■ of Americans to Xondon. They; are aj> f. riving at the rate of about,2o,ooo a week.A considerable portion, of the new elet> 5 trical generating machinery for the Syd- ;. ney tramways was on tne steamer : Static L of Japan, which was Tecently wrecked. I This will seriously interfere with the - extension of the service. '■■■-.'. . : ;i ; During excavations at; Selby Abbey, - an ancient boat-shaped coffin, hewn--out [j. of the trunk of an oak, and .containing L human remains, was discovered. . It is 7 .believed to have been a vpre-Christijca s ■ interment, before the building of the s Abbey. , - j ? Miss Bankhurst suggests that a satas- -.. factory, solution ot cue. Women's Suffis rage question would be immediate exw tension of the franchise to 'women who 9 possessed qualifications entitling , *men. to i- -vote. ■;■' '-■■•,-■'■■ ■' -- ..- .- . ,-■- ---II The members of the Waihi Miners and Workers' Union have received intima-' tion from the mine-owners, stating that a they are unable .to give up their right r to ' let tenders privately, but ■ would in.----i crease, as; far as possible, the calling j. of. public tenders. . . ■At Oamaru yesterday Mr Hutchison, ST S.M., fined two mar. 40/- and costs for rowdyism in the pit at a performance 15 of the "Prince Chap" Company. ' The - - . magistrate remarked .that tliw offence. D was one common in all centres of the Dominion, and was.peculiar to New Zeai % land 1 .: - ' _ . t. .; The post-office has adopted a neat time-saving device, an envelope with, n portion of the front transparent. Iα- -- v ~- stead of typing the address on both let-i v ) F ter and envelope, as is the usual custom, the departmental method is to start the . r communication, "Mr , . Lambtoß Quay, Wellington," fold the paper so ■ that it comes opposite the' transparent - part of the envelope, and thus save typing "several carefully-spaced words. ' Mr F; A. Andrews, formerly a resident of Picton, and now employed as head maltster by an English firm, induced the • firm to introduce New Zealand hops lg into his place of employment. Prevt: ous to this, English hop factories held the opinion that New Zealand hops, gen- ['., erally speaking, lacked condition, but a : 44 consignment was received there at 95/- ---_ a' hundredweight, and s they.were subseD, quently declared equal to the best Californian. ' . .' ■ , If the British Sabbath* can be defend- : s ed on the grounds of expediency, the'•. religious conscience • should emphatically condemn the British Good Eriday^— "Saturday' Review." - v - - vi r Just recdved 140.paletote^hionabte 10 Gower.—(Ad.) '-.- ' -■