TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 33, 8 February 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Weather on-the--turn-sagain. Auckland] Presbytery meets to-night." Floods.. in.. Australia, 'See 'this week's "Graphic/Kaipara inquiry -adjourned -till -to-mor-row Atternopp.".'"".. Transformation-of the Piako. See this week's' -"Graphic." - - - The appearance" of' aeroplanes at Helio polis terrified many Arabs. Wrathful words at the Hospital Board's -meeting-yesterday.--Italy" and ' Switzerland are. fortifying their respective, ends of the Simplon tun-, nel. "Mr; • Asquith: will -find the Irishman a hard taskmaster."—Mr. Joseph Chants berlairi. -j _ A twelveryeax-old. boy. named.Eric Gib-, son was drowned while bathing at ___.• birnie" yesterday/ ' ' ••■-•-•••-■ To-day is.tie .sixth, anniversary of tha Japanese -a-totack- on -the -Russian fleet ia the vicinity of Port"Arthur. The. police received news last night from Maungatawhiri that' a man named J. C. Scott had shot himself. The American meat trust is forcing np ' . the price of food-while holding meat in _\ store to the value of __00;000.000. '•' % Four.' Dreadnoughts will be laid down * by Britain in loio, and authority will ba taken to build two -more if necessary. A shunter named WHliafn McPike 'had both his. legs cut .ofL at Frahkt'on, yesterday through an engine-passing ov«r him. Lady' Plunket has signified her -willingness that the children's ward at tha hospital--should be called the Plunket Ward. " The eighth ga'rn?. in the world's chess championship '.resulted in a draw, and if Schlechter can draw the next two he wins ■ ' the title." • '.."...'.'.".- - The English mail, via Ssuez, whicli left .- Wellington on the 31st December, arrived in London on the'afternoon of the 4th. February. . The local manager for the N_J. Ship- . - ping Company estimates tne damage *»-""' - the Kaipara and iher cargo at not less than £ 125,000. . '.'. '.'.'.'. . A disregarded warning during blasting operations in Arizona" resulted in a motor car being Mown into the air and its seven' occupants killed.Mr. Roberts, Labour Whip, says that the party will assist the Government if it abolishes both the financial and legi*-.. lative veto of the Lords. The le Puke Maori theatrical party - has got- into shoal water at Dunedin, and the" Government" is being asked "to assist tie wanderers, home. The -Pacific liner Kentucky sank -off Cape Hatteras owing to her seams opening in a storm. Her "wireless equipment brought .rescue when .she. was. awash.d. Mr. Merriman, Premier-of the Cape, will not be a party to a coalition Miniaisry, anil has expressed .his. adheinnce to the ''South Africa for the .Dutch" policy. The French Government has decided to . supply'small tradesmen and owners of' land and houses .affected hy the floods with credit to enable them to start afresh. - Mr. Chamberlain -says that the tariff reformers did npfc do" jsb" .well as he expect-.. Ed at the elections,-Jmt.there had been-, an enormoua sincrea_e/-in-ilio votes c_s-Ll in"theiffavour.'" --•-■ —— A. noj-license argument at. the X.M.C_s_.last night between-Messrs. W. Richardsonand W. J. Macdennott resulted in- a draw, nine cominlttee_votes being cast's for either disputanti Verdict of • -death ■- -from- the effects ' 'of corrosive ' _ poison, selfadministered, returned at.. the inquesla on the--body. of H.--C. Kingsmfll,. found' dying at Green Bay on Sunday. ' . . A cqijrt martial!has been set up inWellington to inquire into a fracas -which occurred between Captain Dalrymple and. a lieutenant of the. Dominion Scouts,' in camp at the Hutt .on-Sunday. .-■-.- Our Paeroa correspondent-reports sfchatwhile bathing id'the WaihoU river, Mis_M McCarthy got into difficulties in deep. water, and was brought ashore hy her. sister, Miss L McCarthy, both being much exhausted. . . ._■ ... Mr J. T. Stevenson, sFdEiA-S., states that there are now indications . of , * . change in the weather conditions, and farmers may .expect rain in the country districts, followed by a, cooler spell of weather. Whooping cough is very prevalent in and around Dunedin, and since, by a cur-.. ious oversight (says ihe "Star"),' it is not one of those infectious diseases which have to he reported to sthe Health Office, it shas more chances of an epi- : demic than have other zymotic diseases^. The reported eruption of Ruapehn. _Kr discredited hy one who climbed th_ mountain on Sunday and the sfehtioi--master at Waiouru. The climber fotm_■'".- ;- the lake on the top cool enough for bans' to bear his ihand in it. The vagaries of the wind are considered to be responsible for the apparent issue of the Ngaumhot steam from Ruapehu.' J. A. Bradstreet, - draper, road. Beautiful goods in sample silk' blouses; reduced to half-price and less. See window. Rig reductions sin the mil-' linery Department: All trimmed.shats xe»duced to less than half-price.—(Ad.)