TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The second test. Parliament opens on Monday next. The Auckland v. Goldfields match tools plape this afternoon. A collision between trains ia India caused great loss of life. Mr. Balfour says that the Licensing Bill is foredoomed to failure. Lord Loreburn denies that he intends to resign the Chancellorship. The list of Birthday Honours has been announced. No New Zealanders are included. The Prince of Wales entertained the Bishops attending the Pan-Anglican Congress at a garden party. Turner's picture of Mortlake Terrace sold at Christie's for 12,600 gs. for America. An- Englishman has been captured byMoors near Tangier, and is held for 50,000 dollars ransom. The High Court of Australia has decided that the Excise Act is a violation of the Constitution. Mr. Haldane intends to stick to the Ministry for War until the weary work of establishing the Territorial Army haa been accomplished. "Better light at less cost" is the promise of the Wellington City Council's electrical experts, , who have recently been experimenting with a new lamp. At Balclutha yesterday the premises occupied by Geo. Fisher, boardinghousekeeper, were raided by the police, and in a well under the floor of the chaffhouse 56 bottles of whisky were found!. "My idea, from present indications, ia that the future of New Zealand lies mora largely than ever with the North Island," said Mr. Tanner, M.P., at Christchurch on Friday evening. A Sandwich tradesman took over his counter, among other coppers, a penny piece dated 1903. Shortly afterwards he had occasion to part with it, and : on tendering the coin it was thought by it 3 ring to be counterfeit. The : owner, on breaking it up, discovered that it contained a sixpence of the same : date. \ Political Europe is a human arena in ) which only two Sovereigns arejnanoeuvring—King Edward and the German Emperor. They never rest. Even when : they seem to be enjoying a holiday they • are at work. Europe's fate depends on ; their moves. —"Eclair," Paris. - Within the next twenty years Canada [ will have her own fleet of torpedo-boats, - sub-marines, and small cruisers suitable 3 for harbour defence and accessory naval • work. No Canadian need be ashamed ' of the progress which is being made I in the development of Canada's ability • to aid in a general defence of British / I interests. —"Canadian Courier," Toronto. r Grand value in eravenette cloaks;' sample lot just received; bought cheap, i selling cheap; latest styles, 14/11, 16/11," s 19/11, up, some being samples of next 5 season goods. McCullagh and Gower for I value. — (Ad.) l 3