TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 167, 14 July 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

3, . Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's health con. ~ tinues to slowly improve. .'■ "'.'■' - The British footballers meet Taranaki : at New -Plymouth .to-morrow. '".: • A Paris commercial' traveller : wao. ' " robbed of diamonds worth £20,000. - Queen Amelie-is to refund to the na--. '. tipn £32,400 improperly advanced her; • [ The Arawa, which arrived in Welling- . ton f yesterday, brought 270 emigrants. .- - The steamer Rothesay <was towed into I Kawhia yesterday with a broken crank- ■ shaft. ~:■'-,•'. f Bruce Pearce,.a Tasmahian youth of .: -■ sixteen,-won the' open golf championship. - r of,. Tasmania.. .'.-•'.■' ~i. [ 2 It is stated that New Zealaiubpastoral- - j ists are. purchasing ranches in Southern - Alberta, Canada. .;.(■? , • The Premier of Bulgaria says that that 9 State will employ force to prevent : the j j partition of Macedonia. .-■■■'■ --•.*. - Fifty persons.became ill, nine dying, ' . through drinking milk from cans which - had been washed in a polluted -well. ' ~ Equality of reward, Bays President ■ f Roosevelt, is one of the grossest samples- ■ . of privilege, dishonest, harmful and unj. The average rainfall in Waihi for July, - during the past nine years has been 0-ini ,'. This month the fall to date is no less 5. than 14in. ,■'':■-..'•.■.-'...-.'-.. ; •-'-.'■'' 1 The number of poor whites is increasing * '. daily on the Rand,-the cause being the . prejudice ■ oi- the community against f manual labour. . . The _ sittings of the special Board of - Conciliation, appointed in connection 8 with the -recent .'tramway trouble, wero . continued this afternoon. .. t Bursars entered the residence of tha i Rev. A. A. Murray, in WynyaTd-itreet, - on Sunday'night, and "appropriated a ; quantity of -money.and jewellery. ,~ - The Hawke's Bay Education-Board has . adopted a schemefor a -winter school , forteachers at Gisborne* and decided to I hold the session during'the'third and 1 fourth weeks in August. V s "Were . you -' convicted in November, .".' J 1904, for stealing?"."asked tie"sergeant - at the Police Court. "I don't keep a j diary,", retorted the defendant, who ~a.» - giving evidence on her own'behalf.- ■" :> At the annual-meeting of the Sydney f Rescue Work Society ; it was stated that 5 since, the. society .started,. 25 years ago', 4 ho less than 911,348 beds and 1,803,058 j meals had been''supplied to'the needy.v c ; "Wha' f6r^you,?^-.This_wasthe excited - exclamation of a Chinese when a tram car bumped into his cart,; knocked him - into the; air, threw his. horse iown, and ' wrecked his. vegetable.hawking vehicle, j ' The "Times-" -military correspondent de> - clares that members of the Cabinet have a been' allowed.'to.;bombard the Minister v for War . with . empirical schemes aiming ' at -the reduction- or- ■destruction,, of the . army. • _-:'.:. • Mr. Will Thome, Labour M.P., denied ~ the. King^s.-right to, interfere with.-the r Commoners' utterances .inside, or outside . the house. He- hoped the time- would r come quickly when* there would be no ; room for kings'.ami queens, v--2 -.is. nat. brutalisrng, no; matter what people! say ,''• declared' Father Bern- ~ ard "Vstughan - in' London Tecently.- . The y revi the opinion - :", that a, -good object-lesson could be learnt - by watching-a'boxing bout. *" The' State cdal-;de£ot [in Christen urch" . - (says pjir. correspiondentV is. experiencing . a very, heavy winter; .demand for coa£ *; briquettes and-eggettes. . Fifteen/draya, -,';■"-. are-employed in delivering the 80 tons of- coal which, form . the depoffs daily;':. output, and a motor lorry capable of coping • with loads up :to five tons, is also used by the depot for the carriage of 1 coal.- ... ,•;...■■■. ... . ■. i. ,"'■' Have-, you 2 realised the real winter is to comet; If so, visit McCullagh and Grower's ;, sale. |(Jenirine reductions on up-to-date good goods.;: You. may buy with 'the ut- ';'' ' most -confidence*at-our "Out they gor<a - prices.—(Ad.) •* -5