TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 203, 25 August 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Wet weather partly spoUt the ißumiaaTlons -~. Sydney last night. Wellington appears to have just escaped a strike of tetegraph cadets. Northern League football pictures in the "Weekly Graphic" to-morrow. Apother splendid issue of the "Weekly Graphic and N.Z. Mail" to-morrow. The Lmion Company's steamer Flora made an unavailing search for the Hawea. Burns, for the third time, defeated Seiuires for the world's boxing championship. The Louisiana's crew defeated that of the Hlinois in the boat race in Sydney yesterday. The "fleet" review In Sydney was the finest ever held in Australia, 14,000 being on parade. t A great fire has done considerable damage in Constantinople, 1500 Bhops being destroyed. There are fresh indications of unrest in Zululand, and troops have been hurrieel to the front. The English mail via Suez, which left here on July 15, arrived in London on tha night of the 22nd inst. The present strength of the New Zealand police force is 734.. an increase of 35 on the previous year. The fight between Squires and Burns yesterday went thirteen rounds, and included some terrific fighting. A Norwegian steamer struck the rocks on the coast of Norway and-sank, forty of her passengers being drowned. Tho body of a man who had evidently died some months ago was discovered yesterday in the yard of a bouse in Mt. Eden. The schooner Shamrock has won the 325-mile ocean race to Cape May and back for the Lipton trophy, valued at £200. The body of the Cihinese gardener who was shot some weeks ago at Mt. Roskill) has been embalmed and shipped to China for burial. David Henry KeUett, convicted of common assault upon a young woman in Epsom-road, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Mr. Louis Botha says that Lord Milner's administration was the most unfortunate '.hing that ever happened to the Transvaal. Abdul Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, is now Abdul Aswas as Ear as the Sultanate is concerned, his brother having usurped the throne. The dispute between the Otira tunnel contractors and their employees will be heard by the Canterbury Conciliation Board in about a week. The "Times" says that comments on the political issues of the fleet's visit to Australia are an intrusion, so much have they been kept in the background. The directors of the New Zealand Insurance Co. have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 2/ per share for the six months ended May 31 last. Great Britain is no longer considered a missionary land by the Vatican, according to various reforms, in organisation! promulgated by the Pope, states a Roma telegram. ' Deaths in France last year were 50,000 more than the births, the first instance in any country of the loss of population, by deaths, being greater than the gain by births. '". Lieut. Groves, one of the heroes of the mishap to submarine A 9 on July 15, has not recovered his memory, but incidents of his youth are gradually; returning to recollection. Cable advice received at Sydney from London states that the establishment of a regular steamship service for "cargo anel emigrants is contemplated between Italy, Austraßa and New Zealand. The importation of diamonds into the United States last year, according to official figures just issued, was lower by; £5,000,000 than in the previous year. The fall is attributed to the financial crisis. Mr. Kidston, Premier of Queensland, speaking at Belfast, said that the conviction that Home Rule, for Ireland was necessary for England was the one thins which would eventuaßy overcome English resistance. At the Arbitration Court sittings at Wellington tbe singular spectacle will be presented of a justice of tho peace and a member of the Wellington Conciliation Board having to answer a charge of inciting the recent ibakersJstrike at Wellington. Herr Rudolf Martin, author of novels dealing with the "Coming War in the Air," is organising the first "German ■Aerial Navy League" for the purpose of working a regular "Une" erf passenger airships .between Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm. "Driver," remarked a passenger riding in iront of a suburban 'bus that was being drawn by two horses that showed many points, "what is tbe differene* between your horses and tbat bicycle that has just flashed by with such a bright lamp?" "Gam," answered the elriver-. "what's the catch?" "Well, you see, that's an acetylene lamp, and yours are a set o' lean horses." ?