TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The end of the session. The Servian Pariiament, by 93 -vote* 4a 66, decided, against -war. The nest championship rowing regatta will take place in: Auckland. No less than four earth tremors wera experienced at. Wanganui last week. In the ___u_ttnon_ seven competitors beat T>orando's time for the distance. Wednesday, the -14th inst. (Labour Day), will be observed by H.M. Customs as a holiday. The total expenditure on State poultry farms last year'was £3278, and the total receipts £1784. ... ....".. Playing under Northern Union rules on Saturday,' Auckland defeated Tirana ki by 21 to. .18.' .;,. .'.' ?" The New Zealand horses Pilot, Pink'un, and Soultline won races in Australia on Saturday:" Additional search for the missing barque Loch Lomond has failed to reveal any further tidings. ,'" Both Towns and Barry are in ■ good form for their match to-day for the sculling championship of England. . Wilbur. Wright's aeroplane, with three passengers aboard,; remained in the air for one hour and ten mdnutes. !...5°. ; 9 6 i4?l*ble roughness was exhibited in the Hug-by League match on Saturday between Australia and Rochdale Hornets. I A private -of ..the . Millerton Rifles, named George Brown, was mortally "wounded while marking in the butts on | Saturday. A. B. Postle, the Australian sprinter, .injured his ankle in a race on. Saturday, |amd had to be removed from the track in an ambulance. " ... The barquentine Helga reached. Wellington on Saturday under jury-rig, the result of the heavy gales experienced on the voyage from Newcastle. The Australian amateur footb»Hcrs beat Bcnycra-ig by 131 points to. 3 on Saturday, while "the professionals beat Rochdale Hornets by five to nil. . . ■ In."moral" life it-is-essential that you should be right, not that people; should think you are right. In "practical" life it is just the reverse.—"Figaro," Paris. The .large British squadron -which has been sent to the Aegean is intended, says the "Daily Telegraph," to prevent any further disintegration of the Turkish Empire. _____ ;.::._-._... .... . Referring to the new dairy regulations, the Hon. R. McNab said-that complaints -now come only ~ from.-that section which could not tolerate State interference, in anything. ■ .:"' During the "debate" on "the Supplementary Estimates,-the. amount, of £5000 •compensation to J. J. Meiklewas reduced by- £4999, the motion for reduction being carried by 37 votes to 26. During a presentation to the Duke of Devonshire, an improvised flooring collapsed, and 40 of the. Ducal party were precipitated into an empty bath. AH escaped with slight injuries. •Austria demanded to know why the Servian reserves -were being, mobilised. A pacific reply was sent that the mobilisation was: diie-to. international necessities, and a gr.&t nunrerical shortage in the army. - There were 225- male and- 23 female prisoners in Mt. Eden gaol at the- end of last week. Twjen'ty-four males and 2 females were received during the week, and 35 males and 2 females were discharged. Two young men last week shot foTtyfive shags on the Pomahaka River. They receive from the Acclimatisation Society a bonus of 3/- for each bird. Ifris stated that it takes six young trout of'the size of a herring to ..feed a shag for one day. . : Thumb-prints .are by no means a, modern innovation. -Many years ago the Japanese Emperors .put.their, thumbmarks on documents instead of seals, and German--archaeologists- ciaini that such marks, can .be. traced back in- Assyrian documents to the fifth century B.C. '"..'._:.' ._.' ...•': We have no, efficient.national army oE defence because the governing- classes cannot trust the people, and the people cannot trust the governing classes. That is why the Germans are .prepared to invade lis at the very first opportunity; that is why our .fleet, is threatening Germany in the North Sea. The .situation is one of deadly peril.—Robert Blatchford, in "Clarion." Very special value in stylish ready-to-wear and sr_mi-trimmed, in saxe, car-' jnanian, moss, burnt, cream, 6/6, 8/11, 9/11, 10/9, 11/6, to 22/6. McCullagh and Gower for millinery.—-(Ad.) ... <-.