TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 251, 20 October 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

An American mail i» nO w 2ee-»*ni*« In Be]gWdew«r 1» natrregfcrded »c imuuneut in tto best-infonaed quextem. information oa the rcneniployjnjent question. .' .... .;•.'.-/..'-^iivi.'";.."-■ '" '' " ' — '■■ - '■ ral elections wffl probablybe iseoed-oa November- 3i ■ - ; ■ ■■■- :■ Extraordinary; enthueiaeinisJbeingdie. played in Japan over the visit of the American fleefcl . . '*..;. Sir Alexander Peacock has resigned the Chief Secretaryiihip of Vicioria on the grpund of - 7 T A man named Trank Hedges, aged 21, was drowned yesterday while "bathing in a waierbole atOasnaru. " .. / ; The Washington jPbei" dedaree that the cordiality of Japan's welcome to the neet '■'■'.■ : .A new reservoir, dam ~f or Wek lington city water supply ig to be constructed at Wainui, at », coet of £48,000. '-:■■ The großs public debt of New Zealan'a: ■ on MarcK3l Jaet yirts£W£Sisffr, ;";pf which. ■Vβ* rated since 1891. "/ A;i*nk clerk, wts shot In * QueeMand bank, on 6und»T night by i a burglar, ; who unauccewfiilly tried rte : - open the safes. The "Spectator" decleree that the A«qnith Govermnent, by it 3 re-ehaffle of portfolioe, liM' shown it* .fear-, of \>y- ■ ■• elections. ':.. f ; -U■ ■' : '• : ' The Kaieer/ in effusirelr welcoming the- new Tarldab AmbaeiMdorr: daeland fijr- - : "■ had »ever w»>errt. ' "" >J ■ : --?l>er,luml of members to tbo ' Aucklaad Hospital and GharHitiblci Aid - Board ViU oil 23 »V J 'x^-^^■J;••VVi , -fet•'* : i> An interim dividend of ;ninepencer*e w, ibt tne> 'h»ll-year ending 6epteA30, 190S, has; been declared by th* and the JWaihi link*. The Waihi lvdies 'wb four matches to two, and tha, .'. ■' Waihige^femen^nbyiTtoaiL rt: '^"Taii): ; ,»!PCT(^'MniiytCT,^'iri - '''» speech at nkeraton North last niAt, " .vigorously ddfcded the policy and the Government. At a; confenaMMbf delegates from all parts of; the DuMMbi, held in Wellingte, fornv 5 * -.New , Tmners. [:-^4rs i :■■:■■ '■■'.-. reported toMdiy£*t; the. a»Lof 99, is tin- • deretood'toh»v« ! lett;D*o 1 of thr Auckland charitable inatiWions. - ; According. ■!M>:: r^i^«><i<S^^|ttd; v;: ;the irvrann for the tirel>» eoetbWndinp September 30 shews o f ■. " ■ ■^^^'i : .■'■■ ■' ■year. -•- •■_.■ .:■ -".. •. - ; .- , : ..v It is - stated., in tIK. Kurds and regular soldiers massacretfei, air the male inhabHante in * village iii %. Aiia Minor, and pillaged and burned the leeeiytd: from Island etatesth»t Prank Bates Evans, the steersman in the' Kof 2 pany"s bpati; ■was ldlleA';'-vvhile •whaling there yesterday. "r- r.■" • _■■ ployed to steal rather than starve, and called Socialists to great.rarmjr, ■which would - put'the 'fear: 'of Goidviate the hearts of. Pariiament. : '■ "- -■• ■'■ ._"i : ■■'■>■■ The tender of -Martiii r -»wd Snaddon has' been accepted 'for the con r struetion; of ■. -.a, j^new l ': reservoir dam-for ;: Wellington "city;" at;- WainuL ■ "TThe n 'cpn« tract price is about £.48,000... , -2v £ Ten bands, including the Suva Band, ' from-Fiji, haTe:gntered'ior v : :the..band contbet to be; held 1 - in- connection "with ■ the Queensland, .will*'.'act ae.-judge.. ■ .-"•::?.- ■ ■ '■ .Y&Bterday was: the h»st: opportunity for, making .claims is. connection with the Braybrook radlwayjdisaeter.; Altogether ■ amount of the claims.being £75.006. ■'!:■. "*•'• -The Government iis considering \ the. question of-compensation'in connection with'the' wrongrnlvimpriebnment of Halli- }i nen. and Anderwn^. murder Aof •. Burke at' Westp^rt, l .tovwhkh : Gonnolly! - v ■rwA"nfly"'"confese«i.;' ; ; ■"■"■''-- r ' : ."*'-•■[';"-f;-'-- " » toria-atreet stop on its' way down Queenetreet": "■' Xoiiiig' eoriductbr j :': \ ,^^^;'you'r ductor, manjr"Stop^at't^(»bhagei patch,' Jim".* The Australasian Medical Ceigress, opened yesterday.Cr All the"Statics and [\Se\r- Zealand ■ are etrbhgiy represented. The Congress adopted; a resolution erpregfiing regret at the death vt Sir Thoa; . .. Fitzgerald, the faHJOUB surgeon, and ap- : precjatiouof'his; services the-profes- ''■■" siqn'aid ecienee. '•,'••-•.-- \:---- { - : .">-.'^ : r '■ "The Government,wishes to make conditions •fweri'and/better./for; all, 7 and ;npt ; 'to legislate for one'class against another. The Government advocates a progressive liberalism, not wild and un- ; considered license, hut equal opportunity to the most humbly born to a*ierid- the ladder, of lifeJ!^iriJosepli:-Ward; - - --iEl<lo6i;-*hie>:Syppear»--.eß the Supplementary BetimateeTas subway %o a. mafl from .Wrflingtoa to Tahiti and;'Berotonga; the; Premier : ettte»,:ie- i 'tp i pwH^^-* :; «W!s^;.'( s f:*e»' ; trips in one year. Negotiations are now; proceeding *e*»sWin the Umen Steam chip OftnT"*r *»*-fltrtQewaSMiemt wiflhL . nepect i« the matter. V " V"\ai ' ' • ; '%:"■■ '■■ •" ■.!•■ ■ -■ ■