TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 170, 17 July 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Britain v. Auckland to-morrow. ' A Vancouver mail is due here on Sun* day next. Over a million deaths occurfed in India last year from plague. An outbreak of bubonic plague has occurred in the Azores. A storm destroyed a considerable portion of the French vine crop. An English mail, via Suez, is due here per Moana from Sydney on Sunday next. The price of meat in Dunedin is to be increased next week by-from Ad to Id per lb. v " . Mr Asquitb. proposes to allot 25 days of the autumn session to the discussion on the Licensing Bill. : All the members of the crew of submarine A 9 who were overpowered- by petrol fumes have now" recovered". " A Huddersfield. doctor has been arrested on a charge of having gone through the marriage ceremony -with 11 -women. Lancashire has initiated a movement to secure the dispatch of. an invitation to Australia to send an-eleven to England in 1900. Sir Dominic Ellis Colnaght h"as be* queathed to the National Gallery several picturea by old masters, and- also the residue of his estate. ~ ■ ■■ An attempt made by-:-the Afrikander party in the Cape Assembly to"reopen tho question of cqmpsnßationi- id rebels was defeated. A coa-chdriver named: Brown was fined £15 and costs £8 at Raetihi yesterday ior delivering liquor to pereons whom he ■had reason to suspect of sly grog selling. During the last month" 151 men-rlO married and 132 single men— ha-ve been sent to Government arid private work b"y the Auckland branch of the Labour Department. ■ "I have not known for years past the conditions of work on.the whaTves' to be more depressed than they are at present."—Secretary of the Wellington; Waterside Workers' Union. '""' , The AVellington operative bakers are still out on strike, but the master bakers say they have now sufficient labour; in fact, their secretary had to refuse employment to a foreman "yesterday. A poll was taker , , to-day in Christchurch on the City Council's proposal to raise a special loan of £17,000 forthe purpose of extending and altering, the city electrical plant. * The proposal wns carried by 355 votes to 258.. The City Council steam road roller threatens strike from overwork",'-and has to go into ordinary for repairs almost immediately. jSleah-while.'it has - been decided to inquire about-obtaining it amate in the shape of a-15-ton similar-ma-chine. " • .-.: ._ Dunedin Tradee arid Xabour Council decided not to respond to the Wellington appeal for financial help to the bakers on strike, this. decision" beingbased on a resolution to strictly uphold tho letter and spirit of the Arbitration Act. "You must remeaiTjer, Mr Rosser," said: Mr Walklate during evidence in the tramway enquiry this morning; "thatNew Zealand was looked up to as a Paradise where labour troubles weye unknown. I'm afraid that impression's riot correct." / Twelve months ago there'were<only 69.'- ~- trams in the Auckland service, and there are now 87, tlie.total seating capacity.of \ " ;which is 4262, as compared with 3310 a year ago. Standing room is now permitted in. PS cars,.'which gives accommpda-; ■tion for 598 extra, .people, making the, total capacity of-the cars in use 4860. '; Mr IX McLaren, secretary- of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union,states; that the supply of labour on the wharveiV in "Wellington is so greatly mi excess of • , requirements, that acute distress prevails■'• among the -workers. One mana wife and family- earned-last ■week-only ■ 12s. ■ • . .--...• ' The ' Maori Congress passed resolutions to the_ effect-that-tfe-stiperids-of■■ the Maori clergy should be substantially increased, and residences provided fpß. them and their families,, and.that the time is opportunefor a-:forward" movement for the spiritual well-being cf the Maori race. . . | Napier Borough Council has'-decided-: to approach the Municipal Conference. with a.proposal to secure amending legis--lation -to conserve the rights of cities and boroughs in "the matter of electric ■■ lighting.' The Council is legally ad-.. ; V vised that the present. Act does not pre--.-vent private supplies within-certain limitations. • : ■ . Com?.and see.the wonderful bargains: ; in costumes, "but they go," 8/11, Q/11, 11/0, 14/11, 17/llj 21/ up. Smart cloth costumes, tight-fitting jackets,,. rounded fronts,' well-cut' skirts, all sizes,'," 35/9, now 18/11, .at MoCullagh end. Gower's sale. —(Ad.) -.