TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 6 January 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ernest Moore and Co.'s sale now on. Harbour Board to-day. Napier wool sales to-day. Last day of the Auckland provincial tennis tourney. Indications point to another big •wool catalogue next week. Final round of the New Zealand cheas championship this morning. Violent meetings have occurred. Ulster against Home Rule. ■ Pierpont Morgan now controls capital -totalling six hundred millions. Canterbury v. Auckland for the Plunkef Shield at Victoria Park to-morrow. Lord Ejtphener received a great welcome on his arrival in Sydney yester« day. A total of 28 millions was given ia public benefa-etions in the United States last year. The British and New Zealand Meat Company declared a dividend of 8 per cent yesterday. Lloyd George says the Peers never worked so hard in their lives as during this election campaign. The British Post~Offiee has issued a circular assuring pensioners of the security of their pensions. The body of a groom named Neil Muller was found in the Wellington harbour yesterday afternoon. Plucky attempt at rescue by a twelve-year-old boy named Eric Greenhough at Sentinel-road Beach yesterday afternoon. The English mail, via Suez, which left Wellington on the 26th November, 1909. arrived in London on the 3rd January,---1910. ■-'-- "Everything depends on the Navy. We exist as an Empire only on suffer" ance unless our Navy he supreme."— Mr. Balfour. The English mail, via Tahiti and Frisco, which left Wellington on the 2SUt* November, 1909, arrived in London oh the 4th January, 1910. The steamer Frankdale, which arrived at Melbourne recently, had a fire in her bunkers for several days. 100,000 cases of oil were on board. ilr. M. A. Noble, the well-known cricketer, has announced his intention of retiring from the game. "Cricket does not keep a man," he says. The Educational Institute recommends that the age of exemption be 15 instead of 14, and that the standard of exempt tion be the sixth. The Government Meteorologist states that the weather conditions indicate strong south-west winds, cold rain, and mist in Dusky Sound. The Admiralty h»3 refused permission to the Dover Docks Company to build a Dreadnought graving dock, alleging that the position is too exposed. A boom in the local matrimonial market on Tuesday. The registrar issued twelve licenses and joined six of th« couples on the spot for better or worse. Delagrange was flying in a BlerioS monoplane when he was killed. The wind buckled up one -iving of his machine, and he was flung headforward to earth. Mr. Coghlan,' Agent-General for New South Wales, has discovered that empty Australian butter boxes have been shipped abroad, filled with margarine and returned as Australian butter. In the hurry of getting the Flora away from Tuparoa in search of the reported missing fishing boat, a bale of wool fell on the first mate, Mr. Brown, and broke his left leg. T. Lawson, of Nelson, has deposited £10 with the "Colonist" for a sculli»<{ match with R. Green, of New South. Wales, in Nelson Harbour, for £25 aside, distance two miles. A rabbit inspecting party, including the Mayor of Gisborne. after going round the outskirts of the new rabbit districts, found no rabbits on the Gisborne side of Te Whaiti. The danger of invasion 13 considered to lie in the direction of Hawke's Bay. via Wairoa. The B.M.s. Makura, which arrivedilat Sydney on December 29th from Vaa- ! i couver, is" equipped with " wireless," being J the first of the Union line to have it installed, and the innovation was greatly appreciated by passengers.