TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 67, 19 March 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

- (Ambulance^ Saturday. i: „' -■'■-■■ _-_• . . Hundreds of Jiapstnese will visit England for *he "White City exhibition. ~"~_ "" Australia v.' Wanganui—'Wanganai : scored 125 runs in. their first- innings. v Band performances in the- Albert and i Western .Parks to-morrow' afternoon. ■ . , The Cornwall brought, 90 assisted inz- ■ migrants last, evening—34 of them for '• Auckland."?*• ."". ' ■ . :')',. _. ■ Heath, of Victoria, won the Australian TenTU& -Championship from Kice, G—4; 6-3, 6— : ilr X. J. Bagnall has. acceded to the • wishes ■of a-requisition that 'he stand ■ for. the Mayoralty.' ' ■ ' ■'■■ The Victoria Saving Club has 'decided 1 ti> increase the money added, to-the Mcl- , Ibourne Oup by '£1000. ''-■■' i The Marine IJepartment has notified . its intention MS erect' a Tjeacdri' at tha ', mouth.of the Okura, river., -■"..'" . Wangariui' Garrison.; "Band -won ; the • Beeson. shield in. the North. Island band contest. 7 Petone -was second: ;■■■-• ~;v. .Six-.echoolbojs" and girls-in- a,. -Russian L town- have -ibeen -exiled, ■ to- - -S3>erdfl, fox • organising revolutionary associations. . " The ■ first iEgihte dn. Australia in an ' aeroplane were ' made' • yesterday": on , -a. Voisiii 3>i-plane .-by , Houdiai, '& music hall ' artist. • ■' ' , ... . ,-.'.;.. \-%£'. *«.'r-v ; • Fifty fishermen were ■woriring on. on. icefloe in the ■Baltic "•■when -fclie floe cracked and they -were carried out- to sea . and drowned. ' " * .-•*"« The. ratepayers of North-East ; Valley J decided, by 687 '■■ votes .to . 284 yesterday *' that : the borough. •= should amalgamate '. with Dunedin City.".. ■" J^'-'*^r i '-'.'':.V'-' ,, '--" T -~ ' .' There is an epidemic. of 'neurasthenic ', suicides - in- St; ~ ? TShere , ■were i 15 on Ttairsday and 29 the day before, •mostly-women- and--girls. — ... • ■*- ■- * i A diver explored ■ tfhe wreck -of ' -the ' French liner "La. Seyne, hoping -to find" the • ; Hope diamond. ' Hie . recbveTjed'the .".safe, " but was iiofcdn."ft'. "^ "™'''™ '"'■ ■'. '. .American manufacturers are "■ urging '■. -Taft.to-ajvexfc.a TViriff.'war, -with"Canada, - pointing that - America , ' must suffer '} most from- retaliatory measurea. - - I New Zealand's battleship cmisef'is-€9- ---[ timated lib " cost a total:' of. £1,800,000. i ■ The FairfieldCom'ipahy.have secured the 1 contract for the hull and machinery at '■ £874,090.' ] ■' .j.; ~.'.,,/./,.,.,'.. ; . During the Easter "holidays an f extra - ' express will , be- run t between . Auckland [ and Wellington-. -It Trill -leave Auckland - at 10.45 a-m.,. and. "will : leave Wellington .at 8.55 p.m. , ■.' '-~ :»'.; ' ■ )•> ■> .."■>. , A. seven-roomed house in Prospect Terrace, ' Mt. " Eden, ' was ■ destroyed:; by *• fire l - last night.. ; The,■_ tenant,.. Mr Arthur j Hodgson, had only moved, into the house • a few hours , before the' outbreak: , ;7 i *~. . The latest.statistics show that .there . !. are 8052 . V.M.C. ~ Associations .in "the world at the present time,.having' . ! : 'members- 3282 A paid : secretaries, 1252 ; buildings, . and property valued 'at • • £12,000,000.: .... - . • <■?. The Shire :liner,•Cornwall struck- the; . -wool-wharf while- 'bertliing at Newcastle ; lfist; week. ' The wharf girders, groirad" I "aid-railway, line were a.l' : , dislocated, while the steamer had a nunx- :: . hereof? plates injured. .";;, -.;■,■: - ; "For the; eleven-months '■ ended March" 2 _the • -gross .-"revenue : 6i:the : Wellington; - tramways-was" £ 127,805, an increase of • . *. ;£1 ?^ 3 on tie takings of the corresponding' period 'of the previous year. : The , net profit for the-year is estimated to be about ,£7OOO. w ,; ;. ■.">-,■,.: C ■■r Ten years ago there were only three •buildings, owned-..by Associations • m Australasia. :At the present time 14 associations ; either '; had : handsome :-new . structures or the money in.-hand to erect l snch:-Mr A. C. Canghey,. retiring, president Auckland Y.M.OA. .