TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 136, 9 June 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Parliament opens to-morrow. ICavua sailing for Fiji this afternoon. Local Bodies' Conference at New* market to-night. The Opposition has a new convert is Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, ILP. A.R.O. Great Northern Meeting concluded at Ellerslie to-day. A new theatre to seat 2,000 people is being erected in Wellington. A site, four acres in extent, -will ba acquired for a new public school in Grey Lynn. The steamer Pitoitoi, after losing heS 1 rudder on the Marakopa. bar. '.vent ashore on the beach. A dog-poisoning fiend is abroad in Waihi, his modus operandi being to administer cyanide. Tie loss to the trade through, closing the three hotels in Manukau is e»> timated at about £10,000. The New York "Times" declares that no man could do so much as the Kaiser to quieten apprehension, of war. Suffragettes placarded Asquith'e house and portrait in the Academy with the inscription;: "Yotea ior Women!" Forty-five battleships are to form the fighting-line of the French A'avy. This will involve spending 120 millions sterling in 12 rears. The Auckland Presbytery las adopted the report of a committee xelating to & ■work suitable for the liturgy of the church for public worship. Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared in the House yesterday that Mr. Snowden. and the Labour party were the real authors of the Budget. " Out of 2700 births in and around Auckland last year, only 700 -were notified to the registrar by householders."-— Mr. T. Gresham, City Coroner. Cabinet, with reference to the unemployed difficulty, has authorised bushfeUrng in various districts, including 30,00Q acres in the Waimarino Block. At the Press Conference Earl Crewa comparted the great number of -worda sent out over the cables to newspapers with the number of other words. The date of Parliament's adjourmnenti is yet uncertain, some members considering that Saturday next is a likely ■while others expect a week's session. At the statutory meeting of the Tokoinaru Fanners' Freezing Co. (Gisborne), it was reported that the capital bad been oversubscribed. Eight directors were aj> pointed. Four alarms of fire were given at Christehunih on Monday night, between 11 o'clock and one a.m. Damage waa done at only one house, and there the loaa was slight. German papers contain bitter comments on Lord Rosebery's speech. The "Veseiscbe Zeitung" describee the British nation as the victim of an overheated imagination. The apprehension among Natal Civil servants against the Union is disappearing, it being feared that if Natal stands out she will ultimately have ta come in on worse terms. Before the Press Conference, Mr. Reginald lleKeniia urged the placing of the'navy 'a.bovef party, and making it as Imperial, question in the sense t>l partnership in the navy. ' An amusing exchange of denials is pVdeeediiig between Berlin and St. Petersburg, each claiming that the monarch of the other country issued tha invitation to the meeting in Finland. Messrs. Lang and Wright, MJVs, declare that the exodus of New Zealand men to Australia is due to the scarcity of land, which many are unable to obtain through being continually balloted out. The Ottawo "Free Press" suggests that Mr. Robert Laird BoTden ('Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons) should participate in the Defence Conference, which is a non-party matter. At tha Christchnirh Magistrate's Court yesterday, Patrick Bolton and J. Arthos were charged with, conspiring to defraud Henry Uru (a Maori) of £18 by means of the three-card trick. Both accused (who had pleaded not guilty) were committed for trial. Choice variety of newest styles in teal gowns, morning wrappers, and jacketi 6/6, 8/11, 9/11, to 79/6; flannelette nights., knickers, petticoats, woven underwear, in great variety, marked at lowest possible prices. At McCullagb and GowerV—(Ad.)