TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 51, 1 March 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

St. David's Day. Prohibition in Ohinemuri. Grey Lynn loan proposals carried. Ohinemuri licensing petition dismissed. Mayor leaves by the Manuka for Sydney this evening. Boardinghouse at Rotorua gutted by fire yesterday afternoon. Seven deaths have occurred in the streets of Paris owing to cold. Terms of an Austro-Turkish settlement have been agreed upon. The total receipts at tne Hastings Band Contest amounted to £690. Scotland beat Ireland at Rugby football by nine points to three. Nominations for the various licensing committees close at 5 o'clock to-day. Auckland public school cadets went into training camp at Papakura to-day. Northern Club entertained the Mayor to a farewell dinner on Saturday evening. On the calendrical three months per season basis, to-day is the first day of autumn. The Californian Senate has recommended the exclusion of all Asiatics from the State. A party of prospectors near Hill End, Bath-trrst, secured £1,000 worth of gold in four hours on Saturday. A bill providing for local option in Scotland has been read a second time in the House of Commons. A number of Waihi unemployed have accepted work on the Kawakawa-Wha» ngarei railway construction. Drowning fatalities on Saturday and Sunday—one young man off Cheltenham Beach, and another off Kauri Point. A steamer has arrived at Bunbury, W.A., with her captain dead from smallpox, and members of the crew infected. Young man fell off a train between Little River and Christchurch on Saturday evening, and died yesterday from hia injuries. Large ship of over 2,000 tons, named Forrest Hall, went ashore near t Te Aral Bluff, on the West Coast, on Saturday. Crew all safe. n Slight falling off in the amount of Customs duty collected at the Port of Auckland last month as compared with that of February last year. Mr. Haldane says that the new system of defending England is .as far ahead of recent plans as a motor is ahead of a horse carriage. The Minister for Mines says protection is abused throughout New Zealand, and he will obtain information as to its extent in the j.names district. The British Army estimates for 1910 show a decrease of £24,000, and a reduction of 1,800 men. Recruiting for the regulars is remarkably brisk. Yesterday was the 39th anniversary of the departure from New Zealand of the last of the Imperial troops stationed, here—the 18th Royal Irish Regiment. The International Naval Conference at its sitting in London has signed an important declaration consisting of 71 articles embodying the recognised rulea of warfare. The New Zealand-bred horse Soultline put up a great performance at Flemington on Saturday, and won the Newmarket Handicap under thef heaviest weight ever carried to victory in the race. According to a Southern exporter, the Argentine has so seriously affected the Xew Zealand mutton export trade that at the present time every sheep being exported to England is worth 2/6 less than it was some time ago. Early importation of autumn millinery, personally selected by our Home buyer in London and Paris. Ladies who have seen them proclaim them a ■very .fine selection.—McCullagh and Gower. See our four windows.— (Ad.)