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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 204, 27 August 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Dido" in a tearful mood to-day. Auckland labour market brightening, . The ] Austrian army is using Rontgea rays in .the Held. . Marlborough defeated Auckland at football—B points to 3. Church .of England Laymen's Leagut in Y.M.CA. Hall to-night. Charitable Aid Board meet to-night t» discuss Costley Home affairs. The South Africans are to tour 3T«R Zealand and Australia in 1910. An English mail; via Suez, is due here on Sunday next, per s.s. Mokoia. It is 126 years.ago to-day since the ascent of the-first hydrogen balloon. The Australian navy will involve » constructional .'cpst of .three millions. Sussex in their first innings against the Australians -were all dismissed for 98 runs. The.Spanish, forces have begun their march upon . the..Moors' position at MelHla: . , Asiatic cholera has broken out in rtotterdam, and..several deaths are reported - , Auckland B team- t. Cambridge at hockey on''the'.Kemuera .polo grouiid to-morrow. ,/...... - Stone work to be-carried out on the Grey-street front of the' Town Hall at a cost' of. £23 W.:".". ...*.*:.. ' The .New Zealand-Shipping Company's u ew steamer Euahine has been launched at Dumbarton. The Drea'dnouglit which is to follow; the Neptune .on. -the .stocks will be bigger than that- giant. Tentative proposals for the establish* ment. of .a] aoo. m jAucklind.before the City. Co tin oil- last -night. There is n, general trade revival in the United States,' and'business has improved in every, .part. of. the country. : The ■ steamer- -Waipara ■is ashore near Cape - Mtrreton, • huvmg been beached te save sinking after she struck a Took The value, .of .the. jewellery which the thieves were carrying off from Mappin and' Webb's "Warehouse was £44|000. KaSapo'i. Woolten Company pay a dividend for the-past year of 7 per cent on ordinary and 6$- per cent on preference shared. ,',-' AvictUnd Rugby.. B . tJeam. plays Northern W-iroa at Alexandra Park tomorrow;' and' the Auckland juniors play Kaiparn. ...-J. -.' ..Foreign consuls in Morocco are protesting, against .the-fiendish cruelties inflicted, upon the Pretender's followers bj; the' Sultan. '; Eady Pliinket '. made a strong appeal to parents at the meeting of the Mothers* Union - last night' upon' their parental responsibilities..'',".'' .'.'.'' The.iVaratah. is now ajmonth overdue,, fend there' is- still no *race-of her. The reinsurance r*te ' yesterday • was 90 guineas per: cent. M. Paulhan, a • French aeroplanist, kept "afloat" for '2hr"43min 28sec at Rheims yesterday, and- covered Si miles, thui establishing a record.----1 Lots of inquiries- coming to the Auckland Land Office' "from, all. over tho coun-try-foi*Te Akau. lots, to be thrown open in the- beginning of October. ..- The- Government has'under considers* tion a proposal to build a- wharf atThorndon, Wellington, for accommodation of the-Government steamers. ; The "Berliner Tageblatt," discussing the. niyal, estimates for jf9l"o-Xl, says that Germany, committed a grave blunder in rejecting England's outstretched hand. " '.".':['.'. . I A settlement has been arrived at be-tween--the syndicate • which- desires to lease the water-power rights on the Toa rafioa River' and . the . Mines JDepartment. ~ ...•-. (Rumours of • the • retirement of E. H. -farriman, the American '"Railway have caused a]general .decline.in stocks on . his. railways. - -and the market is unsettled.'- • • ■:'■■■- , )It'is' understbo'tl that Karl Rosebery is;, to address a. meeting of the Budget Protest -League,'from-winch it is inferred that his political future" !wiD be with the Conseryjvtives. .. : •.The. .French- -barque- Gael - was aban-doned-in-a sinking'"condition off Cape LeeuwM. ' One." boat", has. reached Bunbury with 13 .men--aboard; the other/ containing 12, is still'adrift: i MacLaren, iifali article on,the Tests, said- that the Australians thoroughly deserved.. their -victories,- •• and- proved, themselves the -best Bide".' "England's batting - throughput" was' unsound. . Prince Ito, in. expressing doubts as to China's- fitness for- the Constitution, said he was astonished 'At the ' silence of European publicists .".on . a question so. vital to the peace •of the -Orient. ; The -Cox's Creek'getter 'came', in.,for. some straight fermsl'.at .ite City.Councils last night. As. jio funds are at-present availa&e for the proposed'extension, the; Council "decided mark time. ; The si. Kaituna. sailed from the Kaipura for. Sydney this -week -with 1,180,000 feet of • sawn timber: ■ The loading, from. Monday at 9 a-ni: fiJJ noon on the Saturday, constitutes a lecord for Northern Wairoa. -mills. There were no" cases' of typhoid in Auckland or suburbs iast month. This fact-was reported to the City Council by the District Health Officer; Dr. Purdy, last evening. The' "Health Officer added that it "was "a.unique record." The starting of Telief works for the unemployed in Wellington greatly reduced the drain on charitable aid. The number, of applicants- for -relief has fallen off considerably. Only a. few stray married men were now . applying. One of the disadvantages of a large audience was manifest at the meeting of the City Council last evening. For. some reason or other, a number of ladies were present, and the flow of eloquence was simply appalling, and the oratory most astonishing. The installation of a tram service up the whole length of Queen-street to Kar-angahape-road was the subject'of a petition to the City Council last night, pre-, sented by Mr. M. Mackay, and signed by 120 residents of Upper Queen-street, Grey-street, and Wakefield-street. The Hon. J. McGowan, ex-Minister for Justice, informed the Police Commission that the only remedy for the use of political influence in promotions was to disenfranchise the police. But, he added, he would not like to apply the remedy. Desperate bargains at Histed's sale of Mrs. Murray ..eighty's stock, bought at 5/- in the £. iLovely flowers, 3d., 6d., 9d., I/-., 1/6 spray; trimmed milling cry, 1/-, 1/11, up; chiffons and tulles. Specials for to-morrow. Ponsonbv-road. -(Ad.)