TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 88, 14 April 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

ilorea took away IS3 passengers laafc ndglvt for Australia, and EnglandAuckland Horticultural Society's Qhrj" . santbemum Show at the Choral HalL An English mail, via Suez, is dul here on Sunday next per s.s. Victoria. Inquest at Takapuna this morning int* the firtalify at O'Neill's Point yesterday. Decision in the Wellington ferry boat' collision will 'be delivered by the ALaruae I Court on Monday. The keel of the Thunderer has beea , laid on the Thames, and work will now proceed day and night. Kooaevelt is presenting the Britisk" Museum with a valuable collection of smaller African animals. The Leader of the Opposition is visiting towns in the fcionth Island this week propounding party principles. Austria/s first Dreadnought we* launched yesterday. .She has feme 13-inch guns and eight 9."2-inch. Sergeant MaeGuire, who was shot ia an encounter with Powelka on Sunday, night, died early this morning. The Mayor of Newmarket last mght mooted the re-opening of negotiations for amalgamation with the city. Sickness amongst sheep in Xorthera Wairoa proves to have been due to excessive moisture in the pasturage. Sir Tliomas Tancred, who was a Xew ; Zealand sheep farmer in his youth, committed suicide in . Rotten Row yesterday. Great interest is being taken ia South Africa in the Arnst-Barry race; with the betting seven to- four on!/ Arnst. Mr. Balfour says that Mr. Asqnith's Veto proposals will mit increase locks and friction between the two Houses. An international Plimsoll mark is now) assured, and it will have the effect oi : reducing iby ten : per cent the capacity; of vessels. ' j The s.s. Mirrimbah, which only-arrived in Sydney from the builders' yards three weeks. ago, has been wreaked on ■ tlw Manning River Bar. '■ A race between the Medway and Sydney Yacht Clubs for the~AngTo-Aus-r tralian Shield is to be sailed on the Medway in September. The Tariff Reform League is organist ing periodic visits of ■workingmen of ali shades bf politics to Germany to study, social labour problems. A madman has been arrested at St. Etienne armed with a knife and two revolvers, endeavouring , to enter M., Briand's hotel to murder him. Anxiety is felt at the Bluff concerning the disappearance . of John Robertson* He was .nightwatchman on"i coal hulk;. It is feaxed that he has been drowiietil St. Matthew's Church was invaded- by. . a lunatic yesterday, who leaped on the Communion table.and announced to the indignant verger that 'he- waa * a,' reincar- J. •nation of St. Patrick. and St. James. The Oanterbury A. and P. Associatioa Committee has decided to hold the metropolitan show on Xovember- S to .11, subject to the arrangements fitting in ■with those or- the Canterbury Jockey;v Club. - ' , ■ "Wanted, for an'-Indian lady in.''SoTOc .'.' bay, a who also understands thoroughly .the mechanism of motor cars and can drive them as well; must be young." So tubs an advertisement ia su ijondon paper. A German millionaire philanthropist and author of pious works has beea proved to be a notorious brigand, who •was sentenced to two terms of imprisr onment for numerous crimes of violence forty years ago. r Devonport ratepayers yesterday decidr ed in favour of five of .the ten proposal* submitted .to them—sanctioning the "manual training~sehool, Victoria Parii ■drainage, Stanley Bay diaSage, .- ireserr voir, and morgue loans, totalling £12-50fltr Addressing af Inglewood the Inspector of Weeds said:. "It comes to this, sir; either the farmers or the blackberry -is going to own Taranaki. If the berry gets-into the rough country,-it -vrill take an-enormous amount of labour to eradicate -ik"- w ■ The -borough- of Newmarket might congratulate itself on the financial position, said the Mayor (Mr. "15. Davis)] last night, for it was several .hundred pounds better off now than twelve months ago. The overdraft had shrunk from £Ssoto £119, and after allowing for £454 paid in on the drainage loan, account, there. stUl remained a net reduction of well over £200.