TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Part of the p.S.battlesbip fleet is ta visit Italy. —- Hedjed Pasha, JMgnster.. for War, died suddenly at his desk. ' The Springfield rioters were charged fcj; cavalry before the. riots were quelled. - The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Otaki has been launched on the Clyde. " Auckland has had a magnificent advertisement dtaring Fleet Week." Joseph Ward.. Building operations pn.the Main TrunJc line are hampered through difficulty in obtaining timber.,. Winston Churchill declares that it is all nonsense..to say that war between Britain and Germany is inevitable. A three-months old infant waa found lost night in a coal box at the rear of ala tin occupied house, at Wanganui. ™ Mulai Hand, Pretender to-the Sultanate of Morocco, has. be.en. defeated with, heavy loss by the Sultan's troops. Several sailing vessels which have arrived at Lyttelton have been considerably, battered by severe southerly galea. Colonel Capperfs British mflitaiy ba&loon made a series of circular flights, behaving splendidly, on her second triad*. The brutality, of.:the.jphites towards the negroes during the Springfield) riot* exceeded .any of the Tacial esces»e3.:of recent .years. . _-j ... Chrisrtchurch, City. Council. adopted, a. by-law,making.it;compulsoiy_ to jittdiber all theatre seats, and to issue tkrkeie to correspond. _ -- ■ ■.-.-■- -- - - The Christchurch City Cwraefl. has adopted a by-law making it l compulsory] to number all theatre seats and. to issue & ticket to correspond. The Harbour Committee wiU. commence its investigations into the alleged defects in the ferro concrete har-bour-works-on Friday next. , - c Captain Hams, son of a well-known American general, shot William Aiinis, a New York publisher, dead, because Annis had ruinedl his young wife. A runbolder in the Mackenzie county; states that .there is still a vast extent of country under snow, andl that the losses all round will ibe very, heavy. The Minister for Railways expects that early in October they will Ibe able to diepense permariently'witlf TKe _ nece6sity fog a coach service on the Main Trunk line. - Parliament will .require to hustle in order to finish its task in time for the general election. There arc still 27 measures on tfc Order Paper to be dealt with. A Timaru footballer, while playing in ai match on Saturday, had his jawbone broken. He was attempting to.collar an opponent round the ankles, when the other player's knee struck him in the fwee. A second-boat left the steamer Haw«*a. on Monday of hist week, the position of the steamer being then one of. peril, it being feared that she woultj. drift on to the reefs-northward-of Lord Howe Island. Ibe M Spwtator * says that the tWM States navy ought to taean peace in the- Pacific if mischief-makers are not allowed to represent the nary as a weapon to be used in a. race fend between; whites and Asiatics. . . Tom Burrows' self-imposed task of breaking his- own record .of, 65 his. 20 minutes for continuous club-Bwihging, attracted no public interest at rVltemt. and he stopped his exhibition on this account before completion. Referring to the remarks of Winston Churchill and LJoyd-George on foreign policy, the "Tunes" remarks that Britain* foreign policy' i s too gravely vital to be removed from the high plane of statesmanlike guidance by. the inexperienced politicians.