TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 137, 10 June 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Parliament opened to-day. Speech from the Throne delivered thil afternoon. San Franci=eo and Vancouver steamer* due. Anniversary of the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddcra. Auckla/nd Poultry Show opened to-day at the Choral Hall. Forgers at work on totalisator tickets at the A.R.C. Great Northern Meeting. Rhodesia may join in with the other four States in the South African Federation. Yorkshire, the county champions of England, were beaten by Kent by seven wickets. The New Zealand professional footballers suffered their third successive defeat in Sydney yesterday. A mountaineering party of sis perished on Briga Maritinia, at a spot called "The Nest of Death." Mr. Balfour says that if Armageddon occuts it would not be in remote parts of the Empire, but in European waters. Gifts to education and the poor by ■Russell Sage's widow have totalled £3000 daily for the past three years. H. Chauchord, owner of the Mugasius dv Louvre, bequeathed £200,000 to exPresident Loubet. The German naval estimates for the current year are 19A millions, of which o£ millions is intended to meet loans. An excursion steamer crashed into a wooden pier at JYlandeville, Louisiana, nineteen being drowne-d. The life of the New Zealand Flourmillers' Association is said by a Southern paper to be hanging in the balance. Joseph Griffiths, charged with manslaughter at the Supreme Court, has been acquitted. Cabinet has not yet decided when to submit the Addington Workshops Inquiry report to Parliament. The duplication of the railway line between Addington and Rolleston—a distance of 14 miles—has been completed. A lively meeting in the estate of a bankrupt, where there was only one creditor, was held yesterday afternoon. An address from 5000 Wellington citizen;- has been presented to Sir Josenii Ward, in appreciation of the Dreadnought offer. A motion in favour of the establishment of founding hospitals was discussed by the Auckland Liberal and Labour Federation last evening. A delegate to tie Trades and Labour Council declares that there are beiweea "00 and 800 men idle in Auckland through lack of employment. A local miller states that the Flourmillers' ' Association cannot cut prices any further in Auckland than it has been doing for the past eight years. Keep what we have; consolidate and develop it; quarrel as little as possible with people; uphold the ideals that England values.—Sir Edward Grey's maxims. "The seriousness of the question cannot be overrated; we have too much at stake to permit the navy to lall behind, whatever the burden."—Sir Edward Grey. The "Daily Express ,, say 3 that the manly speeches at the Press Conference will make more for peace than itinerant junketings of Labour leaders' in Germany. The Public Trust Office has been in existence 37 years, has administered estates of a total value of £6,000,000, and now shows a balance of profit of about £10,000 per annum. "The Government offer of a Dreadnought is not tainted with jingoism, but is the outcome of a determination to help the Motherland in strengthening her navy. I ' —Sir Joseph Ward. Kgauruhoe still active. On Tuesday passengers by the express saw a column of smoke drifting over the mountain, and one stated that there was a sudden lurid glare as of flame shooting up. A resolution in favour of compulsory military training , was proposed at the Press Conference, but was withdrawn since the Conference disapproved ol adopting any resolution. "I maintain that any board or local body that is not interested sufficiently to go along and vote is not fit to have a vote."—Mr J. Rowe on hospital board r&r presentation last night. Mr. F. VV. Ward, of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph," said that a flash of genius had inspired the Press Conference, which was destined to have a beneficial effect throughout the whole Empire. The "Times" says that the gra-tituda with which the Australian Dreadnought offer was accepted by the Government was shared in full by the whole nation, and the citizens of the overseas Empire. The stringency" operates somewhat unevenly. The sum of £40,318 was passed through the totalisator at the recent Ellerslie meeting, and £2460 was paid by bookmakers for license' fees. The Cambridge Boroug-h Council ha» been informed that the Government has guaranteed the town hall loan, and an Order-in-Couneil will be gazetted forthwith. The loan has been floated oa favourable terms. "The tax for hospital and charitable aid is not one on wealth, but one on the man who has a piece of ground or is struggling to buy a home, while the wealthy professional man who may live in a boarding-house escapes entirely. This is not fair, wherefore I believe in the maintenance of the Government subsidy to local bodies and charitable aid."—Mr W. R. Blownfield last night.