TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 68, 21 March 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I Autumnal equinox. ._.;.... -,*'•"' . Australia • defeated Wanganui by six ■ ■wickets.- ••■•_■ - ' ■'•■■;••■ •■ ' ';.■ '.C^-'*,.• Auckland : University Council .this afternoon. ... - ■ • > ' --. : Australian-; Football League's annual '. meeting to-night. ...,:,.>.. ~.,'-'-'-.i~. "','. Oxford are, strong - favourites for tlivl. S Inter-Varsity boatrace. ' ■'.*...■'■ -.- j " Trickiest range ' in. - the "world," is an. : Australian's comment ~ on ' Tfenthain.' ; Labour prospects in Tarahaki are said ; to be exceptionally bright at' present.' ■ Annual, meeting:., of. ..the .. Auckland ! Hockey Referees'.Association to-night.;,;. : 18,000 acres, will shortly be thrown. • open for selection on the.Hauraki Plains. i Turkey has ordered two battleships, ■ I cost fire millions, -which "will ?be* built a-» ' j Britain.//-*. ":' .""■ ." - '7 ; .'•":"'"■';'J^:- ---> ■■ Private advices state"■ that'two new; ; steamers are being built for the -Tyser i Company., ) : ," XT , -*,"' *"';■,'. :' "-'"■ ~'*W*' '■' - The Victoria brought an English mail ; of 488 bags yesterday, 155 of them being • for Auckland. '' -'"■' '■'■ ""'■■' '.'- '. "i:?i.*-[--' ; ... The fifty .fishermen who drifted out to [ sea in the Gulf of Enland on. an ice-iloe . have ; been i Tescued... v'VV , ' : ?>\ ' i Great'efforts being.ihade. in J ScoiJ- , land to '.raise .the- funds for; Dr. Brace's » Antarctic expedition. •;■• *.' '" ',' I '_■ - Mr. ■ Duff was paid some , £43,803 '" for :.• the felyidebaak.,Estate, ;'£ 10,000"being in ;il : Government . debentures. ■.C-.'J' •v",'i , J , ;! """ ■ -The draw for the Auckland Provincial . Bowling : Association's ?' Easter: tourna- > ment appears in this '"''■: .-'_ ••*>s■*■' Operations in connection with the >:re- .' • moval ': of "t the Kaipara i shoal i in. Eangitoto Channel started to-day. - f r- '"■' ■--..'.•■ .-Mr.--, Asquith-says that the JHouse, of Lords is trying to disguise itself in. a coat of democratic whitewash. : ../ !L "" The district high j school at ; Pahiatua - was destroyed by 'fire on Saturday night. , The loss is 7 estimated at £1,300. ' ■ ■. A Native Land Hokiaaga on April 1,-when close-on 100,000 acres of land 'will be adjudicated upon, • Three .whaleboats are now A lying"'. readiness at Nuhaka, in anticipation of _ the opening of the whaling season , next! month. -'." ■"-',..:''''.'''.'"...'-:'". .'. " "'.".,L'.V. V.'.'.. ' The street-collection in aid- of-the St. John Ambulance Society on Saturdaytotalled ■ £ less-than',the : 1902 collection. ".,' ; - '.-- ," '- .' ".:"-■■ ;-; .-"■-■— -' The Corinna shipped; 11^13..boxes , of" butter and " 278 ■ crates ;of cheese at One' hunga on Saturday for transhipment at Wellington. .',. \11~ -' ■''• &%) ,.; '■. l.'i;.-.-.^i. ■«- The, Budget must be pressed. forward - ■with promptitude anddispafch, says Mr!" Asquith, in order .to get'right the. present financial confusion. ■,•-,• .., Sir. .E. - H.. Shaekleton intends ;to go South in 1911, bat-he will not seek the : Pole, confining, his attentions. to scientiflii- • and exploratory work. '...':,,/' Mr. Otto Kahn, of; New .York, pur-" \ , -chased Franz Hals' picture of himself and family for £100,000/ outbidding Pierpont Morgan, who bid : £5d,600.'.-;. ; - '• A shortage of about 5,000 bales ol wool is estimated from 'ijisborne district this year, owing :to the extensive operas tions last year' in "freezing. ' • .'".• An attempt .to burn down a Melbourne ; store ended badly for the fire-raisers, an explosion of benzine : vapour half killing one and loosening the tongue 'of ■ the ■' • other. ( . ;>}-~-7'.~"-.~.~~.'.j~i '■:'■ .'^i'-?'-'-A young man was stunned on the 8-50 ' a.m. boat from. Devonpdrt yesterday • through jumping, : missing : his ; footing, : and striking the deck' heavily with the • back of his head. --' - The Tickers Maxim Co. has nearly co"m- i; • pleted the huge airship which they are v • building for 'the':Navy.-. ' A' new '! metal, seven times stronger;; and only slightly ■ heavier than aluminium, has been- used. ; ; The Auckland Automobile Association--sis offering a£s reward^for information I leading to the conviction of ■ the ; driver ■ of a motor car which ran into tyro chil- , dren in Khy-ber Pass-road on the even- - ing of February 28. .V-'V'-J';; '' -■ •--:•."■.■• 1 A seven-year-old v girl was.; playing at. i the Fresh Food and Ice Company's yard : J yesterday, when she caught ; her foot be- ■ . tween two converging rails, and. lacer-•. [ ated it so badly that several stitches had |- to be put in at the Hospital. v ' _ Rotorua generally objects to the strik' - ing in the town of ; a Hospital and t Charitable rate, on||h'e. ground that., - when local control, was■ ceded to the _ ; Tourist Department, it was agreed; thai - no other rates, save fire prevention.and '- library rates, should be made. .. (..A' man of 40 years named Frank Hill,, ! who boarded the :'.yacht h Katie al t Mechanics' Bay on Saturday niorningfoi V ; i th« purpose of proceeding .to Maraeta,i, • r has disappeared; , . ■' His coat, hat and ■■ pip« Vtere found on the yacht, still at anchor.' •■ but 'nof■ trace of the : man, who, -it ii < ; feared, has ; fallen overboard ; and beej; , drowned. - - f ■'■'."" w;':V ,"; ; ,";.-;>'■ *■§£ '■ '- ' *-«—^—— " ■-■■■-• -qi%