TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cricket season opened. - .0, '■'■*Tfie''(^i|SMpd'i[^.:M"rra..'t«^y.--;;-^->C'. , :''- Noctuifonn. Has been sold in £higland' for 500 guineas. ,';■''' ■••. ii^':\ The general elections : will. take. place on Tuesday, November 17. ■ The British military airship fell 20 feet while on her; trial, CoT Cody, her inventor, being unhurt. - ' -- - ■..'■;; All British Indians in British CJolnmbia who consent to go are to be transferred to Honduras.---; ■• t New Zealand bills for a million, haring a year's currency,.iave been placed on the, London market. : ; ...' ;. The ■.cbntrac6Qra..'fpr...the .'new Town Hall are to .commence; operations on Monday morning next. , £.„.•;._' Read ,^M^-''^viii^M:.',. : yfhiAaw^ : and '•Her- Masterpiece," commencing ia to-night's supplement. ~»,.-.;;.,.^.._-*,... .!■■-■ato: English mailvm.Suei: ie due to arrive -here; per ;.W<ifa?9w"from Sydney; to-morrow-(Sunday)."-'- -; 'v r ~ % The "iMormng Post^ffoWishes an wticle eulogistic of- •Australia's potential help to..the.Motherland. . A conflict. Between. Chinese and Jape, on the Korean .border may, ifc is feared, lead to serious cbmplicationß2"v~-X . The British Royal College of Surgeons ■- has resolved to allow women to compete for surgical and dental diplomas. An international'and colonial ezhiblton is to be held on the grounds of the Franco-British.Exhibition next yiear. —V" A piece of American pine, evidently used as a carpenter's bench, has beea washed ashore pn the Great .Barrier.: Z The Turkish- iwycott -~ An- pararysing Austrian .commerce, 30 Austrian-IJoyd_, steamers being unable to load or die-' charge. ~?.?~~ The. Union Company's new steamer Makura arrived at. Capetown on Wednesday, and ia due in Melbourne on No-" vember 2.A tender of £3550 has been accepted by the Public Works Department for the erection of a new Magistrate's Court at Christchureh. . The British balloon Banshee won the. Gordon Bennett-race; German and British warships are now searching the North Sea for'missing balloons. A young Torkshireman named James Milnes, attempted to commit suicide at Sailington on Thursday, because he con-, sidered that he- had been slighted by a, girl with-whom-be* was in love. The Foreign Office announces that Britain and Russia have come to a complete agremento n the Balkan question. The international conference should, in their* opinion, be confined to questions arising out of the Treaty of Berlin. •; ■-..■■ The skeleton of a man, which had evidently been lying in the scrub for about ten years, has been found at Aria. A'rtvolver with four chambers loaded' was lying close at, hand,, with the trig-ger-guard and barrel eaten away .by rust. "On listening at Wellington to some of the retrograde speeches we sometimes hear in ' Parliament, and observing the slow progress of reform, I am sometimes inclined to be pessimistic," said the Hon. G. Fowlds, at a welcome tendered him by his constituents la,st evening. Matrons' weere at inline and Choyce'e. A special shewing for matrons and elderly ladies.—(Ad.). , . .-3 : Matrons' week at M. and C's. " Beau--tiful silk glorias for dust, coats in darkbrown, green, and grey; Z/11, usually 6/11. —Milne and Choyce, Ltd.— r fcA»t).'_.: - Stock collars, all colours, from6d.j a new and large assorteienfr J of fasiionable lace neckwear, all latest designs, 1/3, 1/e/i/11, 2/6, 2/li, to 65/-.—McCullaga and Gower,.'theUoted house tot naek-