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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Latottr Bay to-monoTS. Splendid number ; " of ■&c "Weekly Graphic" to-moxrow. " ' Admiral Sperry's fleet has oaQed from the Philippines for Japan. There is to be no departure by Britain from the two-Power standard. Barry beat Towns by a length and a haK for the rowing championship of England. Mr. Asquith claims tnat the whole i.-ition approved British policy in the . Near ljast. The sittings' of.the 19th Anglican Sy« ' hod of the Diocese of Auckland) were con« tinued to-day. An unusually good yield of cocksfoot is expected .'this, the country round) Bank's Peninsula. Deeply interesting und very beautiful pictures of Bosnia .and Herzegovina in, the "Graphic" to-morrow. Germany explains that she was not consulted by Austria prior to the annexation of. the provinces. : The second Parliamentary special train from Wellington reached Auckland » shortly before eight o'clock last night. Five thousand police guard the British Parliament to-day" to' prevent the suffragette's threatened rush of the building. The total area of freehold in the East Coast Native liands Trust is 186,392 acres, and the area under lease is 6LJQ6I acres. 1 HM.S. Powerful will arrive at Well- , ington. on Noyeraber 17, probably accompanied by six vessek\>f the Australasian squadron. '—.■,'"- The Hon. W. Hall-Jones (Minister for Railways) will,shortly make a tour of inspection of the North Island. Main Trunk line. ; . . '~ , The survey ship Egeria is,shortly to undertake the woxk, of surveying the coastline of Australia and the islands of New Zealand. ' ~'.. - r; .' -- -• Charlotte Elizabeth and George Edward Smith, of Dncmedin; have been committedi for trial on a charge o£ having wilfully , illtreated a young girl. Signing tjhe Treaty of Berlin. A splendid picture of this historic occasion, from the I famous; oil painting in Berlin, appeals in the "Graphic" to-morrow. ■ The skeleton of the Okarito whale was landed at Wellington yesterday. It is to be taken-to Christchurch and placed j in,the Canterbury Museum; i Fire broke out on the barquenttno ' Hehja four days after leaving Newcastle - for Wellington,:but was ''extinguished toy; . the.crewafteta'desperate fight. "Thecause that brought the Maoris to ,New Zealand," described by Kermetr. '• Watkins, 1 in -an. •interesting illustrated article in the."Weekly Graphic" to-mor-row. - '....: A Berlin newspaper states that Ger« "' many, Russia, - and Austria secretly '.. a.CTeed; in 1881 that Austria was at liberty to take: Bosnia and 'Herzegovina ivbenever;convenienti - , I The' trouble ; in ithe cotton trade - has r ended, the operatives accepting the sug- . gested reduction in their wages; with, a ' proviso that the situation be reviewed t at the end of 1 . At the Anglican Synod yesterday the ' f : Budd, referring to the position j of the Home Mission 1 clergy, said that j many were 'receiving only'£lso"a year, l which was equal to the wage paidl to I' ordinary-labourers. . Two American balloonfats had a sen- • sational experience in Berlin. Their bal- . loon split"when =they were nearly a mile high, but as they shot earthwards the , envelope'formed a parachute and they l descended'in safetyi '■ '' '- I The Dunedin City Cooncil has decided . to- i construct ■ a tunnel' costing about l £25,000 at the Waipori municipal hydro- • electrical works, to replace the existing ; fluming, which on ' occasions" of ' heavy, weather has been found inefficient for ita ' purpose.. . , ....-'■ t Referring to''"Maibri" infant mortality, ~ Dr. Pbmare says: "Spend one quarter ot ■ the amount expended in old age pensions, in instructing mothers and in buying in^ - fant foods, and I venture to say thai " half of the infants which die, annually will be saved." "-' ' At the Anglican Synod yesterday afternoon Canoh Haselden said: that stories • had been itold of' thei '"pagahiain" of the j backblock3 of New Zealand, but he would be glad if the-"paganism,"'" at Home was to. vanish as quickly as that in the coun- • try districts of New /.eaiaau wum. ' "All I want to know is, what they ■ mean, by what they say,? cried a member of the Anglican Synod yesterday af« • ternoon when questioning another member who was propounding one of the reports. "The Standing Committee J mean by what they say—what they • say," was the "reply.