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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 144, 20 June 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Heavy sea.3 on the Manukauba^ Auckland poultry show this week. Snow on Tutaiaoe, north of Dargavillei English mail via. Suez .by the .Maheno. Weather remains .bright, .and-pretty, frosty. ~ . ... ... ; Society.of Arts concluded .a successful exhibition. Minor frontier raids are reported near r Peshawar. - - y ; ■■ ■ - - - - . Over a thousand- were drowned in the floods in Hungary. - ■-• An anti-Socialist league is being formed in the United States. .*■ - ■ { ■.:■■ Harbour Board benzine case proceeding at the Supreme Court. -&.? The, English Northern,footballers beaiPjj Australia by 27 points to 20.. It is stated that.Beaurepaife intends to attempt the Channel swim. Lord Islington. left Sydney for W£K lington in the Ulimaroa' on Saturday.!* A movable Dreadnought dock, coVting half a million, is being , -made, 'by Ger-. many. ■ . . ■ • ■ Special bank holiday next Thursday.' Sixteenth birthday of Prince Edward "of Wales. ' ( ■;-■;-■ --' t - : ;---;" J ;.-- Return' of the Auckland delegates to the General Methodist Conference in' Australia.. . . ~/ " ~ ' /;.••". Annual convention of the Sew Zealand Alliance opens in Wellington ore' ;;';:". ~',:';' . V'"". "' • The Amjriran -University footballers; were beaten >y • Sydney University : I>yj 17 points" to '6,'.', .-" ' / ' ' _■_.- '■ ~'", . The.. suffragettes have Teopened theic campaign til Loruon with' a' profession!' two"miles ' ~.''"', TRobl^-.a German aviator, was killed■while flying at. Stettin, his machine turni ing a somersault. - r The Government steamer Hinemoa will; make another effort this week to locate the Waitara shoal. . The All' Blacks ))eat Queensland by 19 ; points to lo,'leading by 14 to nil at the end of the first spell. ■ ..".' A footballer named William Kelly had his nose broken while playing at Taumarunui on Saturday. The Ohehunga borough drainage loan of £.42,500 has been approved, and tenders are being invited. Parker, the ex-New Zealander, beat Rice- for the, New South Wales tennis' championship on Saturday. • ; -Quarters ■ for Johnson and ■ Jeffrie3 have been found atß«no, Nevada,-where the match will now be fought; • . :' Chairman - and secretary of the Knyvett Defence , . Committee, left la_st_ : idght~tp; open the campaign in - the South.- '/'-'~:-_ .Sir Wilfrid Ijaurier is urging the. Commonwealth to to the "Vancouver mail steamers'calling at a New, Zealand port. L .' • ■- - Extraordinary cold being-experienced along the Main Trunk" liSe." Eighteen ' inches" of snow reported on the Waimarino::Plains.:'■■.'■'.'.'..?.." : - .' ". .:...".■ A meeting of delegates from local bodies interested" in th"e"Waikato ;: Wa'iuka cajial proposal isvto' t>e : held at. Ngarua-wahiato-miorrow: ■■ ■: , .'_.'_'. " 7 -The Napier" Hospital trustees..have re* • c.eived a donation.; of £500.from..Mrs. Robjohns, a very .old settler, tp%vards the erection• of a female: surgical ward. - : r\ ■-_ Auckland defeated by. United at thai Remuera ~ hockey-ground on. Saturaaryi North. Shore defeated Graf ton, and /Varsity- and St. George's ' played ;a draw. . 'Lionel Terry- again. ; He,- complaint that.-in' the --winter;, no. sunshine reaches his cage, but he refuses to take airirig3 in the sunny part of the court, unless" they are regular," "A new cargo service between. Austra-; lian and New Zealand ports and America, Canada • and Britain, sailings to : .be monthly, and the. fleet to be managed,iiL the C-onrmohwealth-. • Lady Abdy bid 120 guineas for the privilege of accompanying Grahame--Whit« while in an aeroplane flight/ butthe 'plane fell ten feet and was smashed Neither was injured. : : • At the inquest on the death, of the elderly man Robert Burra, a verdict -wa3 returned that deceased MI over ihe edge of the Deyonport whirf while in a faint- ■ ing fit and was drowned/ '• Two surprise victories at Rugoy football on Saturday—-Ponsonby, who held an .unbeaten" record'" for nearly' three years, striking colours to Grafton, while University defeated City. . : During the past three years 13 workers' unions hayo cancelled their regia-. fration, but of them did so only to register "again under a new name there were but six actual' defections—» three in 1907 and three in 1909. ■ A councillor a£ a recent conference in North Auckland was referring to the want of security of a floodgatei'.and gave vent to the following": flood-gate has Been hanging on its hinges by the skin of its' teeth for some time past." A' seaman named Tindlay Malcolm wa3 killed on the Dunedih Harbour Board's dredge on Saturday night by .Joeing caught in the machinery. One nearly torn frord*4he body and a leg" broken,-the man being 'dead whea extricated. . . - ■ The ifinal performance of "The Hypocrites" at His Majesty's on Saturday was responsible for an enthusiastic demonstration in honour ot one of theprinci-' pals, Mr. H. R. Roberts, who is an exAuckland boy. "Auld Lang Syne" fromthe audience had to be followed by- aspeech from -the actor. - The wholesale price of New Zealand Dairy Association aid Anchor brands of butter will be 1/1| £er lb front ttf-day.-—> ..(A(U : ■ ,-: ,:. .- ■