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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 198, 19 August 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lynching orgies are imminent to Galveston, Texas. . .... .';:. '■'.'. During fleet week 11>08I people'■'visited the Auckland Museum. Mr C. J. Parr was to-day elected Chairman of the Board of Education. ' Two hundred whites have been indicted in connection with the Springfield race riots. ' ' ..v 1 - ... ".". ;.. ■ There /are no further tidings Jegarding the missing steamers Hawca and Aeon. . ; .•' "' r A thief ransacked a boardinghouse in Gisborne yesterday at four o'clock in the afternoon. Three-fifths of the work in connection with the erection of the Grafton Bridge have been completed. The Parliamentary ''special" from Auckland reached Wellington last night at C.lO p.m.—exactly schedule time. ! It is proposed'to make the;colonial exhibits at the Franco-British Exhibition the basis for a British Empire Exhibition. Welch, the Akaroa sculler, does not : intend to accept Thorbughgood's ,'challenge to row for the championship of Australia.' ( .' '- ''\'- , I A band •of ruffians, armed geons, attacked-two tramcars at Cairo, | and wounded and robbed many of the passengers. ' ■ '■; '-' ■'' "\ , Lloyd-George and Wmston Ghurchul r have been censured- by'-the'vatire Unieuv | ist Press for intereferingin Sir' Edward • Grey's department.' ,J ' '•; ':'■'.' ' It is understood that thfe'PuMic Works Statement will disclose.nb fresh policy, but its advent is being awaited with considerable interest; v " ' "'•"•' ' l ..'."' r> '? President Roosevelt declares that ha has no sympathy with, athletes -who say • that they were- unfairly traated at the ■ games : "in-laondoi' *- '' j . The Manawatu Agricultural and Pas- : tora 1. Association? has passed a -resohl--1 tion: strongly . protesting "agkinst ~"tha , .Shearers! Accommodation Bill. ' After ■ swimming. for many hours~ Btrj- , gess, the Channel- swimmer, was' within" a j mile of. the shore when an adverse tide . corcpelledhim-to "abandon Ms" attempt.The "Daily Chronicle's"? Baval eorres- [ pondeni says' that the. Dreadnought is , already obsolete, and that Britain;;will • now concentrate her energiA on building - Indomitables.' ;■'.-■-> •+. ■■ --■ .-" It is-stated that "one of the measures l which... the Government hare ''definitely . decided'!to pass this -sessioeTJ'is.the bill , dealingwith the acquisition af the Mana- ' watu railway. ,-. "'•.— ; t ';'.'*-' .';.;*.:■? A bloodhound for four says tracked ' the murderer of-a. little girl,fciliverpool, •■ finally giving up at the railway station, i from .which it is. assumed teat the mur- . derer left -the city- by train. ' v ' ' \ Somebody is going to derninate this ' great ocean. If the. Dotted States ; doesn't do it—if she foolishly thSDws ! away, her chance—then Jafs* will ea) it. , —''Argonaut," San Francis**."." ~;^." During; Monday -and*; yesterday; the ■ Post Office dispatched 100 bags of mil papers to Wellington for direct flMp- '■ ment to England. Another 200 tags await dispatch to the United 'States. ■ While unloading timberfrorn the sioav i. Vesper at the Whangarei Town wharf, a man named Charles Norfctrand Baet with a severe 'iirjirry to ■ his hand, and .. had to be surgically treated try Dr. .Good.-' "• -•■• - ; :■••"■■.•.' y " ■•■■'-' •"' •" '- : :-:•: "Which way did: you come 'in ,' : flair, tram? " asked «eai-; sel for defence of a German witness in the Supreme" Court this morning. "By: J electrish car," was theresponse, amUit • suppressed laughter." Strong exception: has been taken ia ' many quarters of the city .to some re- , marks made' in Wellington by the" Ret. H - F -k- Pabner,"who stated that Aucfc- • land had been treated to a bacchanalian orgy during fleet week. ' ■. - The backbone of the American Navy "is in the Pacific. X In the high claim of public safety it is there to'stay. The bareness of thtig Atlantic seaboard is an • invitation to European rivals, to assume -. toward our country the hectoring arrogance of Japan.—"New;- York Amerk f. can." There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why Great Britain . and Russia should not form as firm and fruitful' • ,a friendship as.Great.Britain,and Francey and it is the duty of every .patriotic Briton to co-operate, to that end. Once c more King Edward has given his people; i- the lead.—"National Review." If you see three men standing together on the sidewalk in any given country, - you can guess the subject of their conversation. In Germany it is the Army, ? in Russia the bureaucracy, in Franco W men; in the United States business,, in t Britain sport, and in Turkey nothing at all—''La Derniere' Heure," Brussels. In the huge arena of the Pacific and the Far Eastern countries the staging, of the third and most important act of the Fay East tragedy is rapidly coni- ; pleting, Jv.it European diplomacy sits I quietly in the smoking-room puffing abspntmindedly'nt a Macedonian cigar —