TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 28 January 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Kaipara inquiry opened. The King is going to Biarritz to escape the blustering March winds. An English mail, via Suez, is due here on Sunday next, per s.s. Maheno. Public "boycott of Trust products ha 3 made the monopolists- reduce prices. The Knyvett Court of Inquiry is sitting with closed doors in Wellington. A man named Saussey had his leg broken in Mount Albert-road yesterday. Australian squadron was sixth on the list in the naval gunnery results for last year. Thy floods have sent up the price of food in Paris, and bread riots are threatened. Bowling sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, and his fellow leaders get eight months. Utah, Boston and Nevada Copper Companies have merged with a capital of £20..000,000. The headmistress of the Girls' High. School strongly advocates Bible teaching in that school. Elaborate preparations —liable to be upset—are being made for the reception of Lord Kitchener. The Yerkes art collection is being sold ' to pay the creditors, and one Persiail ■ carpet is valued at £25. Thirty thousand people are homeless in Paris owing to the floods, and the damage . done runs into £40,000,000. Alleged plot discovered to throw off British rule in India, and get up the • Maharajah of Nepal as King. > A number of English school teachers, recent arrivals, have obtained employment in the "Wellington district. •F. Throssell, a man about 60 years of ' age, employed as a book-keeper, died sudr. denly at Lower Hutt last, evening. Incendiarism is suspected in connection >• with the destruction by fire of a ilaoriy^ 1 church at Te Arai, near Hastings. — <&?. I The Kaipara has now been docked, • and it appears that the hull is badly torn. The damage is estimated at l| £20,000. The Minister of Internal Affairs is f no Imperialist —he refuses to have. eagles in the country, even eagles with U broken wings. c The Foreign Secretary (Sir E. GreyV J} 6ays the Unionists will have to depend j| on the Irish vote if they want to oust i. the Government. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is being criticised for saying that, the King's rights over _. Canadians were limited by the will of the - Canadian Parliament. A vacuum cleaner has been imported ~ by the Auckland Tramways Company, i and will be utilised for improving the - cleanliness of the cars. Apropos of the completion of the « Pukekohe drainage system, it has been 3 resolved by the Town Board that oniy O storm water is to be allowed to go into ~ the drains and water-tables at present, n- Open Friday evening until nine o'clock; C. closed all day Saturday. Special purj chase white embroidered robes, 6/11 to - 9/1 \ each; only ISO of them, one-third lie regular price.— J. A. Bradstreet, Karanke gahape-l - oad.— (Ad.)