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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 169, 19 July 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Goodson's sale now on. Melbourne smash. Ten passengers killed. "Fifty seriously injured. Trades and Labour Conference, Harbour Board this afternoon. "Financial Statement expected to-night, Hospital and Charitable Aid Board tonight. Vandalism in the' Albert Park. Statuary overturned. Threatened strike among the mineon the Ross Goldfieras. British footballers against _c Maoria at Victoria Park to-morrow. Opening of the New Zealand Trotting Conference at Wellington to-day. Important drainage proposals for El« lerslie, estimated to cost £16,000. A dynamite outrage reported from Herekino. Attempt to blow up a house. A youth at Kewcastle-on-i'yne cut his sister's throat, and shot his father. A taxi-cab swerved and collided with, a tram-car at Manchester, four beina killed. ' s It took over an hour to chop and saw some of the maimed passengers out of the wreckage. v Wildon Anderson, an English actor, was shot in his flat at Battersea. The •murderer escaped. A London contractor was shot dead by his wife while asleep. The woman committed suicide. Successful chase after a barefooted burglar by Constable Claydon in Edencrescent last night. .... Healthy Ellerslie! Only two cases of infectious disease in tbe district during the past two years. A monument is to be unveiled in Pall Mall to-morrow to the artillerymen who fel! :n the South African War. The signals at Richmond, Victoria, where the disaster occurr3d, were barely readable owing to the thick fog. Deputation of Hawke's Bay people to the Postmaster-General, urging the retention by Havelock North of its name. King Country deputations to niembera of Cabinet yesterday, as the outcome of the recent conference at Taumarunui. The Christchurch City Council has referred protests against exhibitions of tb.B fight pictures to the By-laws Committee. The Kaiser, who has hitherto held aloof from horse-racing, has become patron of the principal turf club in Berlin. , •Four women, friends of Mrs. Crippen, are searching every trans-Atlantic steamer arriving in New l ; York for Crippen. •Many German newspapers allege that the naval programme is being enforced by war parties: ambitious of supremacy, on sea and land. The Remuera tramway duplication plans are expected to foe returned- from ■the Public Works Department shortly, when 1 work will start. The Wanganui Chamber oft Commerce protests against decreasing the Wanganui borough representation on -tbe Harbour Board in the new ibilL •At yesterday's meeting of the University Council, it was decided to invite the Governor, on bis next visit to Auckland, -to inspect the College buildings. Two mi en were electrocuted 5a 3ST.S.W. yesterday by' the wires being cut by a sheet of galvanised iron torn from a neighbouring roof by the gale. It is within the bounds -of possibility that a g-lac—rium (a real ice rink) will be established in Wellington in. time for next season. Ice-skating is '-extremely; popular in Sydney. A '.m Speaking at a reunion of the Civil Service —ifles at Wellington last night, the' Prime Minister hinted that the Estimates this year would provide for increases in the salaries of Civil servants. . The Auckland University Council favours the foundation of a eonservatorium of music in New Zealand, and considers that Auckland is eminently suited to the home of such a conservay torium. In an address to the members of the Parnell Council last night, it was suggested that with a fire board and an expenditure of about £2000 the borouga could have an up-to-date fire-fighting plant, including "a motor fire engine. —io Council decided to investigate.