TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 182, 31 July 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ... » Goodson's sale finishes to-morrow. Auckland v. South Canterbury' -to* morrow. > The normal tram serivee has been re* newed in Sydney. Britain won all three events at the Olympian yachting regatta. Waihi Miners' Union voted £10 tc-> towards the Wellington bakers' strike: fund. - The Bombay strike riots have ceased, and the markets and shops, have re> opened. - Sven Hedin, the explorer, for whose saiety fears were entertained, is alive and well. The M.C.C. has decided to cordially invite Australia to send a team to Britain next season. • -• The Sunday evening tram service -will be resumed in future at 8.10 p.m. instead of 8.20 p.m. An English mail, via Suez, is due to . arrive here per Mokoia from ;Sydney,-oin • Monday next. ,--••/. An American mail is due to arrive her* per Aeon, from 'Frisco, about Sunday next, 2nd inst. The challenge shield hockey m.-jtah be* . tween Manawatu and Auckland takes ■ place to-morrow. | The New South Wales railways and trams returned a profit of over half' a , million last year. A large whale visited Poverty Bay on • ■ Wednesday, coming right up to the - steamer anchorage. A non-political Parliamentary Committer is being formed to support the maintenance of a strong navy. A tender has Been accepted By the , : Postmaster-General for the erection ai v the Whangarei Post Office. A fire in Onehunga last night seriously • damaged the YM.C.A. bunding- and! eev-' ; eral of the adjoining premises. King Edward is to visit Marienbad next month, and while in Austria will meet the Emperor Francis Josef. The meeting between the Czar and! Prei sident Fallieres disclosed a. complete, harmony of views on international matters-. . "From Rio to Rome," a pictorial lee- ' ture by the Rev. W. Gray Dixon,': M.A, at tho Leys Institute, Ponsonby, to= night. Winthrcp Sands, "W. K. "Vanderbilt'a son-in-law, wa3 killed, being-practically burned to death- in a motor accident in France. H. Taylor won the 500 yards swimming championship of England at Man- . Chester, Beaurepaire being beaten into third place. Exports frOm New Zealand during the June quarter of 1908 reached £3,723,964. , In the same period of 1907 tho value ; was £4,841,988. :" . ; Imports for the June quarter of tola : year were valued at- £3,447,663, cbm- ! pared with £3,922,169 for tie correspond- , ing period of 1907. i The City Council last night decided to , miss a meeting on account of the visit of the American fleet; the. Council will J. .not meet for a-month. ■.■■■•-■■.- '■ -~^—._*-*»_— i, The Mayor, at the-meeting of the City '. Council last night, expressed appreciation that their progressive' policy had been ; again endorsed by-the ratepayers. The Customs duties collected in the Dominion during the quarter ended l June 30 last totalled £617,321, as compared with £717,675 for the corresponding quarter of 1907. Great anxiety exists for the safety ol Sir WilliamMacGregor, Gover&or of 'Sat. foundland, who, it is feared!, has lost his life in a storm while cruising off the coast of Labrador. Several members of the House of Commons predicted an unusually distressing winter, but Mr. John Burns, President of - the Local Government Board, did not : share that foreboding. ' ■' To-night Mr lsitt concludes his mission ■ in Auckland, when, in place of the lecture . upon which he was announced to speak, Mr lsitt will continue his addresses on | the No-license question. The minister at St. Andrew's Fresby- - terian Church, Coleraine (Victoria), ! states that he is pained to -hear-that *»- ' number of Church identities have taken to golf practice on Sundays. The Young Turkey party had agreed to ' shoot the Sultan at the ceremony of i Selamlik, and proclaim his brother, bat - 1 they were forestalled by the Sultan, wbo granted them a constitution. . . i ■ During fleet week places of amusement , ' 'will doubtless he largely patronised, and in order to prevent over.-crowding the. j City Engineer has been empowered to." , detail members of his staff as temporary ! inspectors. . The City Council has purchased a rain- ~ gauge at a cost of £20, the City Engineer having reported that he had been much hampered in collecting data -forthe drainage scheme through lack of information as to the intensity of rainfalL **Histed's Red, White' and' Bine Sale be- . gins to-morrow at 10 o'clock. Prints 1/, 1/11 dozen up; twill cretonnes 2d., 2Jd., 3Jd. yard; towels Id., 45in. white Turk towel 6icL; white twill sheeting B}d-; black and coloured moirette underskirts' 1/11; dress skirts, costumes very "cheap; corsets 9d.. 1/ pair; corsets 6/11, were " 12/6. See windows. RisterFs, Ponsonbyroad.—(Ad.) * ".