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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 123, 25 May 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Howey Walker saves your teeth. Harbour Board met to-day. Dairymen* Conference this afternoon. Big attendance at the Winter Show, yesterday. Governor returns South.- by -the Main Trunk train to-night. Hobbs made scores of 160 and 100 for Surrey against Warwick. Sir Donald Currie, shipowner, leffl nearly a million and a half. Australia made 247 against Oxford University, Noble scoring 107. Mr. Wragge predicts much rain and variable squally and unsettled weather. It is estimated that fifteen million children celebrated Empire Day yesterday. John Wilson, for burglary at Gisborne, was to-day sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Interesting old! photographs in the "Graphic" this week—Selwyn Centenary number. Thames Valley Co-operative Dairying Company paid £3,061 for butter-fat supplied in April. Young man named l George Price ele> trocuted at Mosgiel yesterday by contact with a live wire. Don't fail to look at the special fruitgrowers' number of the "N.Z. Farmer" at the Winter Exhibition. A strong agitation against Unioa exists in Natal, where the result of the. referendum is uncertain. Minister for Public ' Health highly gratified at the success of the Karera tree-planting camp for consumptives. Barque Lakemba, arriving at Wellington yesterday, reports having cut a 60ft. whale in half off Cape Leeuwin. Lightning struck a Portuguese Cathedral, killing a priest and three ladies and causing a panic which ended in 27 being injured. A dry goods trust with a capital of ten; millions has been formed in, America, including eight of the largest depart* ment stores. The Blind at work' and play illustrated in the "Graphic!' this -week—opening of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Parnell. Young man named George Kempton and another capsized while. out in a "flattie" on Lake Waihola yesterday, Kempton drowned. Mr. McNs.b enthusiastically received! s.t' a Christchurch meeting last night on the compulsory training question. Cheered at the conclusion. About 50 "peaceful" citizens of Wellington decided' last night to hold an anti-compulsory military training meeting in the Town Hall. One of the engineers on the Tyser Company's Mimiro, loading mutton 'at Gisborne, fell down.the hold last evening, and broke a leg and an arm. His Worship the Mayor has received the following cablegram from the exMayor, Mr. Arthur Myers:—"Frimley, sends Empire greeting to Auckland." Sir Robert Stout, interviewed inLonI don, stated that- New Zealand experience | strongly favoured a tax on •unimproved I land and a super tax on large owners. I The French Naval Commission recommends'the raising of the number of battleships' to 38 and the laying down of two 21,000 ton Dreadnoughts next year.Successful executive tournament yesterday under the auspices of the Auckland Bowling Association. Carlton and A.P.B.A. representatives to 'meet in the final. For breaking and entering at Taumarunui and theft from.a yacht at Auckland, McCartney was -sen-tenoed' to two years and Bradley to one year's imprisonment. The Armenians' houses in Adana were hosed down with kerosene and then set on fire. The massacres continued for a. month, ' and were followed bj t epidemics. Renmera Roatf Board suspicions of tha Tram Company's astuteness. Are willing to- discuss differences in a conciliatory spirit, but will hump their backs if necessary. - The reported tightness in the money market must be a wicked invention of Dame Rumour —£9,585 10/- put through the totalisator at Takapuna, yesterday. Empire Day was celebrated afc Sydney] in gloomy weather, and outdoor functions were somewhat marred l by rain, which fell in the morning, but cleared in the. afternoon. More mysterious fires at Oamaru. Caledonian Society's pavilion and Phoenix Bowling Club's pavilion both destroyed yesterday. Bowling Club loses about £290. Auxiliary schooner Tuhara, which went ashore at Mahia, is reported to be a complete wreck. Portion of the machinery, some s\.ars, and rigging, and a little of the cargo salved.