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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Goodson's sale, Monday, at 10 aim.*: Judgment in the Indradevi lire inquiry. Football and hockey club disjnniodships. ■ - . Tlie Tarawera eruptions took place 24 years ago to-day. Miss E. Martin won the Auckland ladies' golf championship. The authorities promptly suppressed a Mahdist rising in Egypt. Latham, at Klieims, aeroplaned to a •height of 4,606 ft., a record. Britain yon the Kolapore 'Cup; Canada being second, and Australia third! Gembert, a; French aeroplanaut, fell 240 ft. into a river, and escaped unhurt; A down Suits\a.ct Amendment Bill has been introduced by the Cioveriunent. Mr. Hugh Mclntosh hopes to arrange a match in London between Johnson and Tommy Burns. :■• The seismograph! at- the Melbourne Observatory recorded earth tremors last, ing over an hour. The Chamber of Commerce objects to ■being squeezed out of representation, oil the Jdtarbour Board. Preparations for a big turnout of troops to welcome Lord Islington at\Victaria Park oni Tuesday. Mrs. Ellen Webster, one of the victims of the Asylum -tragedy, was a sister o£. the notorious Lionel., Terry. ... . .-../'■ : Provision is made in the Defence Act amendment under which, the Knyvetfc ease can come up for ire-hearing. Baroneas Delaxoehe, TEhile aeroplaning at Rheims, fell 150 ft., ani rficeiveA; injuries -which render, her recovery hope*less. Mr. Jennings, M.E., ihaa.been informed' that tenders have been called for the erection of a new mineral bath, at kaanu. . The defence report presented to "Parliament yesterday, states that the force totals 20,428, an increase of 1885. on last year. Playing against Worcestershire, J-es-t sop, made, 106, not out; ia.an. hour ii the first innings, and 165 in two houia, in the second. : , Three- lions and two w'plves escaped from Wirth's Circus, in Murrxtrundi, terday, and mauled several -horses iefore being recaptured, i The inquest on , the Waitemata Hotel victim resulted in a verdict that Price came to his death through a blow struck by Charles Tucker. Some American newspapers assert that Jeffries will-lose the sight of Ms damaged eyei upon, which the negro beat a tattoo on Monday. The Canadian expedition to annex the Arctic islands has sailed from Quebec. Captain Bernier will probably make an attack upon the Pole. A shoemaker' named James McConneU died in Dunedin hospital yesterday as the result of being run over at the Kattray-street railway .crossing. At the forthcoming Winter Show' a court containing, 4000 ft of space\will be occupied by ;a display from the various Government, experimental farms. ?i.\ ■ : The - syndicate" wJiiefi■:■ pureiiased;; ;tlie: Jeffries-Johnson pictures declares thatit will not at£empt;to. force;the pictures on communities legislating against them. , The Lands Department continues ita policy of subsidising medical clubs in thinly; settled tetricta,, During ths year 19CMKLB10 ±ke sujil of £972 JLOy , was so *lie .beds -clear 'be defrayed oixt of <tJb!e existing goM duty. . " Tie lands report stated' that 2552 new settlers went :on .land last year. Some 2,326,037 .acres were'opened during the year, and 1,354;048 acres Crown land and 156 3 537 acres native land are now under A -lady wlio recently gave £500 and land worth £1500 to-~tKe Wellington Boys'"lnstitute, and who iloes not wish her name to be disclosed,'has now given £3GO for the purchase of another section of land. - _*"■■'.'■ City Council employees are "busy scraping mud off Victoria-stoeet West and Pattesou-street, and making them'generally passable -for the Governor- and his entourage on Tuesday next, en route to Victoria Park. ■'. Although the new floors of the new Queen-street wharf shed will provide 15;000ft more space than the two Railway wharf sheds provided last year, the Winter Show committee have had to decline applications for.V4oooft. • The King Country' Conference takee , place in Taumarunui on July 12. Questions to ?be discussed will include native tenure, rating native lands, native township legislation, and telephone communication. It is-proposed-to send a deputation to Parliament-to press home the resolution arrived at by 'the conference. The Labour' -Department has, solemnly •warned the numerous shopkeepers in City East who failed to observe election day as a half-Jioliday that a repetition of the offence will entail without further notice. Many of the.. errant once openly flout the Act, which they declare does not provide 'a penalty for the crime, and they boldly invite the Labour Department to "come on!" ' Landholders in the upper reaches of the Manukau-,harbour have petitioned the MangeTe Bridge Committee to provide a swing span in the new bridge." They that hundreds of acres of ■mud flats could be reclaimed, a barge canal be cut through the Tainaki, and a perfect system of supply and delivery of raw material to. the Auckland harbour brought about as a consequence.