TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 283, 26 November 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Thanksgiving Day" in the United States. Thirty lives were lost by a tornado ia Arkansas on Tuesday. A committee lias been set up 10 establish a Cook memorial in London. Members of the House of Lords have decided to reject the Licensing Hill. The AucKlaud District -Uechodist Synod resumed its sittings again to-day. Threo people were drowned by the capsize of a boat near Sydney yesterday. -i. man named Kdward JRyan was killed by a fail of earth at Towai on the 14tU hist. The deficiency ior the current financial year on the Christchurch municipal tramways is £233 G. Tiie ilaytian revolutionaries captured General LeC'omte, -Minister for the Interior, and murdered him. The Hon. J. A. Millar states that he lias been very well satisfied with the results of the second ballot. Trout caughL in the Wiaimakariri lately show evidences of having been bitten, possibly by a shark or a seal. '" The Daily Mail" and "' Standard " suggest that Mr. Asquith is secretly glad that the Licensing Bill is dead. Mr. W. Redmond's bill to remove Cath- ! o'Jc disabilities and alter the Royal Accession Oath has been read a first time. The Department of Roads has 350 men engaged on works, valued at about £2KOOO in the Hawke's Bay district. The adoption of Lord Roberts' resolution re the army by the House of Lords has come as a rude shock to the Continent. The crew of the Caraeeiolo captured an albatross measuring sonic 10ft from Op to tip of the wings off D'Urville Island. The New Zealand Rugby Union's profit on the two British matches played in Auckland last season amounted to JtIOCO. For the fortnight ended yesterday, the export of butter from Auckland to the London market totalled 15,401 boxes or 355 tons. The Deputy-Postmaster-Oeneral of Canada, Dr. Coulter, has arrived in Wellington in connection with the All Red mail service. Two sharp shocks of earthquake were felt at Waimangu yesterday morning, one shortly before and the other shortly after seven o'clock. During October 3506 persons .arrived in the Dominion, and 1904 departed. The arrivals in October of 1907 numbered 3590. and the departures 17S0. Austria insists on the exclusion of discussion of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Balkan conference. Russia is equally insistent on including the annexation. ' A delegate at the Trades Council last night described the ArbTlratioh Act Amendment Act as "reeking with shackJes, chains, and policemen's batons" for the workers. Dr. Cockayne, on behalf of the \<mculfural Department, is to report on the means which may be employed to encourage the growth of useful vegetation on the sand dunes of the North Island The " Pall Mall" Gazette says that the Lords stand as the champions of public opinion against a detested measure which the nominal representa'ftves'of the people are trying to force on the community. The Hon. B. R. Wise, ex-Attorney-Gen-eral for New South Wales, who has just returned from England, declares that Germany needs Australia, and that the best method of defence is to largely increase the population by immigration. The three butchers of Cambridge, who some time ago introduced the cash system of trading, have entered into a mutual arrangement, to come into operation on December 1, -whereby it 13 intended to dispense with the services of a number of hands, lessen the delivery carts, and shut one shop up altogether \isitors to show.—Just come in and look round any time you like, the variety will please you, and the value will sur« prise you.—McCullagh and Gower, Popu« lar drapers.— (Ad.)