TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 142, 17 June 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The burglar is still among us. Mr. Foole at Ponsonhy last night. Two horses- killed at the recent Hawke's Bay meting. Football and hockey club championships continue to-morrow. Oral betting 13 now prohibited on th* race-tracks of New York State. Shocks of earthquake were recorded in America and Europe yesterday. Barranco, 3u . Socialist,- .assassinated the Chief of "Police at La Carolina, Spain. - ;3lr. A. ~M» flyers returned for City, East by a handsome absolute majority.' D. .0. Collins, a Wellington "boy, has been awarded his cricket ; blue at Cambridge. Earl Beauchamp succeeds Viscount Wolverhampton as Lord President of the Council. . / ■ This year's British Budget is to be issued during- the last week of the present month. City Council will construct the foundations of the new electric power station by day labour. Admiral Sir R. F. Henderson is to visit Australia to report and advise upon, its naval defences. .••:•* Small outbreak of fire afc Hobson-streetr last night through, kauri gum boiling over. Little damage done. Lord Islington, -who has arrived in Sydney, was welcomed by the New Zealand Association yesterday. Of the 8370 electors on the City East roll, 5443 voted vesterday ; , and of this number 3180 decided for Mr. Myers. The Pope has stopped the issue of the St. .Borromeo encyclical, not wish.-> ing to rupture'the German alliances. The promoters of the big fight say that if stopped in California, the men will meet in Salt Lake or Nevada City. Lord Islington, the new Governor, will stay at the Wellington. Club until Government House is ready to receive him. Two disputes, the engineers' and hotel ■employees', were satisfactorily settled before Mr. P. Ealley, Conciliation. Commissioner, yesterday afternoon. The United States Court of Appeal has decided that the Wrights do not own the- air, and _that other aeroplanes may ■be manufactured and used "within the State. Cabinet yesterday authorised £40,000 for railway construction, £7504 for railway stores, £8900 for post and telegraph stores, and £3000 for roads and bridges. Wellington City Council adopted the Government's proposals for closing Syd-ney-street, where it traverses Parliament Building grounds, and widening the surrounding streets. Wellington City Council last night de[cided to adopt its engineer's proposal to j improve the water supply of the city and suburbs, fuid "to take steps to" raise i 4100,000 loan for the purpose. A wrestling match between Scott (Taranaki)- and Gordon Smith (Pahia,. tua), for a £20 purse, at Palmerston North last night, under the auspices ot the Manawatu Caledonian Society, resulted in.;a' Sraw.; ; " The new Anglican Church st O'Neill's Point will be dedicated and opened on Sunday afternoon next. The building, erected on tlie site of the old one, destroyed by fire some yeare ago, accommodate about 150 ■worshippers. Hofcelkeeper to the City Council last night in' protest again'st the frequent invasion of his premises by coroners juries. The Mayor suggested that unless there were'no morgue within three miles, a licensee .could, decline the honour of sucn invasions. The engagement between Mahuta's son Taipu and the 13-year-old daughter ol Te Heu. Hcu.is to be of a year's duration, at the request of the lady. Either party may, according to native etiquette, withdraw from the agreement before the expiry of the engagement. A man named George Berry was fined £10 and costs at 2faseby this week for failing to supply a foal and eight dog3 with proper food. For three weeks some of the animals, were chained up at Ills camp ■while he was on a drinking bout, the latter part'of the time wholly without food and water.. The foal was removed in the -first jweek, four of the dogs broke loose, and two of the others died on the. chain. . . . A large lot of white calico remnants clearing at half-price.-— J. A: Bradstreet, Draper, Karangahape-road. —(Ad.)