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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 263, 3 November 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Melbourne Cup to-day. Presidential election to-day. - Another journalistic triumph. "Main Trunk Line "Graphic" to-morrow. The Niuirod leaves Lyttelton on her second voyage to the Antarctic on December 1-. Alain Trunk line special *-Graphic" tomorrow. ISplendid pictures, •interesting letterpress. A Chinese mob looted Japanese shops in Hongkong. Several were shot and 250 arrested. About five hundred wi—teases will be heard at the trial of Diuizulu which commenced to-day. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Wellinjrlou shortly before 1 a.m. ou Monday morning. Right on the spot, as usual. The "Graphic" to-morrow, with pictures of the Alain Trunk line. Ambuiance Saturday. Snapshots in the ''Graphic" to-morrow. Your own "phiir" there, perhaps. The Rev. William Gillies expired suddenly on the Te Awamutu railway platform yesterday afternoon. Mi- J. W. Taylor, a candidate for the City West seat, received a rough handling from a large mob last niglit. The English mail, via Suez, which left here on the 23rd September, arrived i_ London on the morning of 31st October. The steamer Hawea's position reu__:is unaltered. .Salvage operations have been, carried oh with a fair amount of successSome good catches are reported for tho opening of tho fishing season at B.otorua. though the weather was rather boisterous. ''Tlie Times" says that, the explanae tiou of the interview will only deepen, the unfavori—tblc impression already formed. The -lline—oa left Auckl——l last nig—; tb-seairch the Three Kir>gß and the _ermadecs for traces of the missing Loch Lomond. J All German patriots arc weighed down with care, since, it is quite clear tile Kai- ! ser rules alone." — "The Berlin Daily, Courier." ! The Kaisers references to the Far East hare caused great uneasiness iv German, •eiTeles in Japan. The newspapers are rigoronsly critical. The .total rainfall for last month amounted to 4.02 inches, falling on IDdays, an increase of nearly J of an inch over the average. The sjpecial train for Makatotc will leave Aii—eland at 10 o'clock on Thursday night, meeting the paTty ifrom Wellington, on Fri'daymornlng. Queen Margherita has withdrawn all opposition to the marriage of tbe Duke of Abruzzi to Miss Elkins, daughter of U.S. Senator Elkins. The railway crossing in Breakwaterroad was the scene of a rather serious collision between a motor car and a train 'yesterday afternoon. Fire broke "out on Mokoia Island, in Lake Rptorna, on Sunday.-and swept the ..whole of the siimmit and much of th» northern and eastern faces. "The'Timcsi, says^JJia/t; India.'sjoyalty, 'k—i-' will be. iwmgthehcd*' , by'' the King's message oh the jubilee of the assumption of the of India. The Franco-British Eslabition has now closed. Mr. "Inure ]"_ra_y, the Chief Com—_:sioncr, says that a permanent e—bibi» tion will probably be established later. According to the Hon. G. Fowlds, the amendment to the Education Act would', on the narrowest interpretation, mean an increase in salaries of between £16,000 and £17,000. /. At the inquiry into the wreck of the barque Fife—hire the hoatswain tip—ared that the vessel 'was deliberately thrown away, and that the captain said he was looking for a nice soft reef to,go ashore on. _....... The Dunedho Bootmakers' Union wrote to the Canterbury Trades Council stating that they could not support the hkh tion suggesting the removal of Mr. -Justice Sim from the Arbitration Courfi Bench. , " The Times " urges the Govern! ax ent to immediatery>.announce its intention ot proceeding during 1900 with sufficient Dreadnoughts and lirrinei—es to keep the British Sj.vy well up to the two-Power standard. A magisterial inquiry into the mishap to the Hawea at Greymouth will be opened at Greymouth next Thursday, the assessors being Captain G. G. Smith (shipping master at Wellington) and Captain W. J. Grey (late of the Customat Port Chalmers).