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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.-St. Valentines-Day,- --', Maheno lrfougliib an "FT*_* ,1 ' aT * ---*1 J*** terday.' 'Congregational' Union in conference-at Beresford-street. . . - Plunket Shield cricket-at-the Uomai-. Ot'ago at the wickets.- • ' ' 'A big passenger list from. Au_kla__&.—|r {fie Malwa oil Wednesday. Knyvett indignation' meeting at _G» Majesty*s Theatre"to_ight. • " Hospital Saturday, at Gi-bc__e resulted in a collection of about £120. ~.t-**-ot-t 3000 Oddfellows and friends pie«l_l_ at Mototapu on. Saturday. - • ■ Rotorua Bowling Club's annual to_3_*-> merit this week. Record'entries. The City? of, Auckland ;'is issuing £343;002 in -four per. cents at 101 J. The Wellington cricketers made 208 i» their second innings against Australia. -It is stated that RaisnH, the notorious Moroccan bandit, has been poisoned. ' •: - An old man named Walter J_r_ie-wa*-drowned at.Biveihead. on Safairday eve-k----ing while'lrathing. . . The . wholesale price in- AucElanfl at factory butter will be uicreased to 12_cfe per lb from to-day. The Malwa left Sydney for Anckland on Saturday with, a full conrglement :of passengers. _ Third wool sales, of the season at-_ie» Chamber of. Commerce to-n_orxbw. JS_.thousand odd bales listed. • ....__-,'• The Southern —liners baltotted inrfa*-* our of resuming work by 1,135 votes~ia* 656, a majority of 479. The Seme has risen 21 feet afc _?c_6 Royal, and fighting opera±i_-S- against the flood hare, been resumed. _ . Kitchener - left Meltwarne . for th_Bluff last night, after expressing hi* gratification at _t_s_i___n. hosp-fcalHy. An elderly woman named Mrs. ElizasTaylor,- from Whangatei, dropped dead iris Upper Queen-street on. Saturday evening. The Sydney tug. Port Jackson ha» been totally mecked,\ drifting ashore ii a gale, after a "breakdcnvn. The crew • aTe safe. The French steamer; Gfnrfal C3t_nzy, foundered in the Mediteri?_mea_ yesterday, "only, one of her eomp__ri__t of 33* being saved. ..." • Jack JDkmaHson, the' A*rstr____\ xnitner, beat Postle for the "'wbtld's MOrytte. champipnship by 21 yards- in 9 3-Ss___, in Johannesburg. " '■'-'.' A Japanese photographer, who <3_e» matographed the arrival of. Prince Ito in Haitin, and' his assas___rt_on, soli the film.for . £1,000. ". A man named James Simpson - was. found dead in a WeJlrngton stable yesterday morning, due to.-the rupture of n varicose vein in the leg. - A -Southern whaler repcrrts sigt-Eing-'a: two-funnelled steamer' under sail 1 soutJ. of Manor Island in Nbvediher. The Waratah had only one _____el. - The Budget will-be sent to the House' of Bords by a single resolution, arid the veto of -'-the Lords will be'the principal business" of the forthcoming session. - The -.- Eng_and~_T____d soccer football I-match -was _drawn, a goalI the Rugby match between ' the same [.nations -was; also drattin; neither side '.scoring. . •;.,_' '''..' -. : -- - - Robert __to__ps<nr was'ehargeSl+at the Police Court' to-day, and remanded, on a charge-of having misappropriated • £100, the property of the-. Grey Iynn Borough Council.; . - - ■;.." .-...-:■- : ; The suggests to the Minister for«Defehce;that in the case .of boys under: 14, systematic p_Fyj_ical exercises and gymnastics may.be substituted for military. drilL Inquest opened at the . hospital , this, muiiuiig: concerning the. cirenni&teiices s__ rounding the 1 e__th of James Sta_ley_ who died' as the result of-an accident at Waitakerei on the sth inst. Sea and rain ..conspired against the Congregational Union picnic on Satur_ay. First, the sea prohibited a landing at Takapuna, arid the rain afterwards damped all ardour at Birkenhead- . _ The : Northern Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Company will pay out £2632 9/3 for 70,055Tb. of. butter, fat -received last month. ■ Por the preceding Jairnarv the company'paid £2140 17/3 for 60,2811b. At the ; trial of the. Gisborne Harbour Board's new dredge, on the Clyde.; at the end of December, she steamed 9 J knots fully loaded,' and, filled her hoppers with clay in 39 minutes, or at the rate of 615 tons an hour. • ■■',-■' Jeffries is ■ reported to be mafcing-ai triumphal tour across ithe United .States. In Chicago during the first week of the New Year the net profits of his exhibition rwere £2650," and of this sum. Jeffries,' share was £1620.. .- The. wholesale price of New Zealand Dairy Association and Anchor butter-will be 121 d per lb as-from to-day. J. A. Bradstreet,.Draper, Earangahapenow on. Balance of ladies' summer frocks, blouses and skirts, all greatly- reduced. Charming styles arid very low prices.—(Ad.) J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Karangahaperd.—6o dozen ladies' sample hosiery, selling at 25 per cent (3d in the 1/) off sale places.—(Ad.)