TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 66, 18 March 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Y:M.C.A. annual meeting to-night.-Ninth round of the cricket enampion. , ships -to-morrow. - ' .— " •••-- ■lacing at Masterton to-day and at I Paeroa to-morrow. .""■"'."." : - Mr. Tom Browne, the noted black and ■white artist/ is dead. ■ Australia defeated Mana-watu by' ail. I innings and 104 runs. . ' * . " . .. I ■'' I Grammar School swimming sports at ... I the Auckland Dock this "afternoon. , .... Mr.-Redmond applies the-forceful \ ad- V^'.. "■ jective "Rotten" to the Government's "' '■• policy.. ■;.'.;.;.. ,; "' "'.' "V!""' /■"*"' *"""■. • Both the Australian and New Zealand Dreadnoughts are to be built on.- the Clyde. . -. ~ *'*' r: 'S'' ■ . Cardinal Uloran. was presented, ■with. £2500 on his silver jubilee in Australia yesterday. ... The Wellington libel action of Bertling versus John Norton, for £2000 "damages, is still going on. : Thejanniial school picnic, of the Paeroa Convent School was held in Mr. Barrett'3 paddock yesterday. -The New-Zealand bred horse Bobrikoff. - won his first-race in Australia yesterday —the fiawson _; ~•.--. _■ ■ ISTew Zealanfl issues bonds to the extent of nearly- two millions- in Loudoa shortly . after Easter. ,'." ~' : ; Mr. * BeFtrani Armytages"suicide"was due to his failure to obtain* an. appointment with the War Office/ '_ ,:i r'; The Mas.terton. Boxing Club has one. of the largest memberships of any similar . - institution in the Dominion. ..■■' •.The;American' Steel Trusts'- profits - :' ' •were eight sterling more last year than the year before. ".<.'"•"'. Tie eighteen 2000 candle-power are lamps for Karangahape-road * will" be ready for use in about a week. "] '''' . Liberals and Labour members; are. very much dissatisfied, with. Sir Edward Grey's scheme for reforming the Jlouse, of Lords/ -More of the fallen harbour wall inquiry - last night. Adjourned for . a fortnight till the experts have presented their opinion. -•-. . • >■'-.- ' ' ■ •■; The "Times"- says that the Ministry, favours an elective Senate of 150 members, half- -elected' for- eight years and half for four.' ... - !"il • Four ears made. non-stop ' runs yesterday in the Canterbury Automobile As3(>- ■ eiation's annual • reliability- trial. The- . distance was 113 miles. . • -, 'J Colonel O'Gorman, manager of the War Office aerial factory, says • that, should the need arise Britain is" able to equip arid "man-three airships. ~ '.."' The Mastertqn Government depot ha 3 "'' sent out this season over fifteen tons of " '-■ rabbit poison to settlers in. various parts ' ■ of the Wellington district. .: -. ■■ ;? Some burning ashes in an' empty zinc pa«kshg case started a , fire-alarm in O'Connell-street last night. The brigade arrived* but the danger had been removed; ; Mrs. C. F. Vallance lias' presented a gold-mounted whip .to the \ rider of- tie winning horse in tfie Ladies' Bracelet Handicap at the Masterton Racing Club's meeting. - i • >..> - Last month the four chief bureaus of the Labour Department found work for 247' women, the proportions being Wellington 73, Auckland 53rChristchurch 72, Dunedin 40- ■ ■ _ . ' . :' : .•/:■.,.• .— Fifty-one British Chambers of Commerce -■■ voted for Tariff "Reform, "and twelve -were against theproposal or were neutral:at the ballot of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. •„ _ ";.•.. ". A Gisborne jury yesterday awarded £60 damages and £9 medical ■ expenses - against the owner of a dog which at; ;.."•' tacked a "little girl. ■ -He was also called • upon, to ; pay the CouVt costs. ' Rear-Admiral Bacon _ thinks that the, f battle unit of the future will be a. single v : x ' battleship with a complement of eea- ■", ,going .torpedoes, and that sea-fighting;' ;*' wilL be. an aggregate of duels""'between ti r these units. '"■' '. . . -,-... .^-l>-'■■■ :......:_;_■ ,: : The Australian '. and • New . Zealand Dreadnoughtc, .which include a number 'of ... confidential improvements upon the' .Indomi'table,.wiil .be readyjby July, 1912. They' will displace :18J000 tons and will ■ move at a "speed. of 2"8 knots. ' The Event of,. the -Year!. Histed'e ; great'=iJetoekiaking.-sale to-m0rr0w.at...9... 'o'cldcfe.' Baormous reductions to cleai ' ~ ; . stock.—•P6asoaby4foad.-rr(Ad;) x .'. \\'_ " /'^~~^~'""T7-'" : '~""'^" 9^^f': -' '"""■"" . j,- ---* ■ ' ' /