TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 253, 23 October 1909, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

D.S.C. gone into voluntary liquida* tion. .;■' Racing at Epsom and at Wellington to-day. Lively meeting of D.S.G. shareholder! yesterday. Commerce delegates arrive from Koto-. rua this evening; "Mount Eden loan proposale before the ratepayers to-day. Polling.till 7 p.m. Cricket championship matches continued. Bowling on half a dozen greens. M. Henri Farman won the chief prize, of £2000, at the Blackpool aviation festival. ... The British destroyer Saracen ha 3 been badly damaged in collision off the Suffolk coast. Many heavy earthquake shocks hays been experienced in Sicily and Vesuvius is very active. Turning of the first sod of the Auckland and suburban drainage work at Orakei on Monday. The Federal Senate by. 16 votes to 14 has approved of the Yass-Canberra site for the Federal capital. Pressing, a button in Efcgland,, TKing Edward "opened the Royal Edward Tiiber-i culosis Institute in Montreal. ' - •' The Thuringia is to be launched In & tfew days, making the third German super-Dreadnought in sixty days. . ■ The South Australian was so badly damaged when she struck the reef at--Wallis Island that repair is hopeless. With a view to stimulating the birthrate in Germany the Kaiser will become godfather to the eighth child of any German family. "The Harbour Board is simply a branch of the City Council."—Mr. J. H. Bradney, at the meeting of the Ship* owners' Federation. Chili has decided to build a 20-thou-sand ton battleship, two-ocean-going destroyers and several submarines, at • total cost of four-millions. Shocking railway accident hear Christchurch. yesterday-^-a-Mrs. Somerfieldcut to pieces through" falling off while stepping across to the dining car. A man named Charles Hoggard, allaa Mote, was fined £30 and costs, £7 9/3, at Gisbome yesterday for having exposed liquor for iale •without being licensed. James Sterton broke the piano-playing record at Westport last night, " after 60h 17m of. continuous playing. Record previously held by Travis with 60h 2m. Presbyterian General - Assembly opens . at Christchurch on Tuesday. Most of Auckland's clerical and lay representatives will leave by to-morrow iiight'a train. : , i. ..-._;.._ .: The House of Commons expects to commence the third reading of the Budget on November 5, and to pass it on to .the House of Lords for dissection on November 14. V . . . . . Workman-fell off the Cemetery Bridge this morning. Taken to the hospital, suffering from injuries to the head. His •hurts are not regarded ac being par« ticularly serious, j A woman's body, supposed to be the remains of a domestic servant named Amelia. Henri, who has been missing since April last, has been found on' the beach near. Otaki. Sir Edward Grey says that the navy: is sufficient to protect Britain from, invasion, but if the Empire is to be prer served the navy must also keep.sea communications open. Hares are very plentiful .on the plains . that lie between Tokaanu and Waiouru, and passengers along the coach road can see numbers_pf these furry creatures oil the route from the coach. The Northern- Main Trunk "line express train was an hour and a quarter late in arriving, at Auckland this morning owing to a mishap to , the engine at Otaki yesterday afternoon. A brick building in course' of erection at Vdotoria-etreet collapsed. Mishap considered to' be due' to an open dra-in running alongside one of the foundation* breaking in under the strain. The Christchurch Diocesan Synod opposes the proposal to constitute one of the' New Zealand sees as the metropolitan see of the province,-and prefers the title of "primate" to that of "Archbishop." , • - The immediate cause of the resignation of the Spanish Ministry was the accusation of the Premier that . the leniency of. the 'Opposition, when in power'in 1906, had led to the attempt on King Alfonso's life. According to Mr. Ford, something ■ ought to be done with regard to the time of .the payment of seamen's wages. "Insteady , he said, "of having one spree a, year, they have twelve, for the law says they miist be paid once a month." "The shipbuilding industry has been deliberately strangled in Auckland, because the builders are unable to secure' suitable sites." —Said Mr. T. H. White, chairman of the Shipbuilders' Aesocia* tion at the annual meeting last night,