TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 170, 20 July 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Goodson's sale now on. ..£.7? Arbor Day. Racing at Wellington to-day. Record revenue for the Dominion. Britain v. Maoris at Victoria Park. Tree-planting by school children toTreasury credit balance for the year £432,316. ■:. ■ '* X Hospital- Board on the Queen-street endowments last night. The police are still -without a due in their search for Grippen. Total revenue for the year • £9,238,261, and expenditure .£8,990,922. Deputation to Chamiber of Commerce Utrancil on .the Mokohinau light removal. The Coronation ceremony will he held in June, the date not toeing yefc definitely fixed. " " *• The storm in Sydney raged all yesterday, and great damage was done. One woman is massing. "We can and must have a satisfactory mail service. .for New Zealand."—The Premier last night. The Council of the Empire Press Union reports that a further reduction in Press tariffs is imperative. A number'of- buildings were unroofed by. the gale' in Sydney,- while several were completely wrecked. Protest of the Harbour -Board at the proposed, removal of ■ the Mokohiaau light to one of the Chickens. An. Austrian postman, in despair through poverty, killed his five children and then committed suicide. ' The Wesleyan Conference sitting at Bradford has decided to allow synods to elect women to the conference. In his Budget speech last evening, the Premier announced the terms of the proposed local government reform. ,■ About one hundred and fifty claims for compensation.were lodged yesterday as a result of the Richmond disaster. The Government proposes to devote £S0O,COO: per annum to; the harnessing of water power in the Dominion. The "World , ? says that the Veto con-

ference has" established a basis of agreement without loss.of .principles on eitaer side. i The collection of land tax for the past ;rear wae £642/270, an increase of £37,370 over the. previous yearns collection. ...-.'.. . The "Times"- says that General French's report-on, the Canadian militia's inefficiency will bea revelation when pi_> Uehed. '..■.._..." The Dominion' Dreadnought is to 'be christened "New.■: Zealand," and the cruiser 'of' / jthat .'.' .name .re-christened "Maori." . •■-■■ ■ ■• - The British naval manoeuvres resulted in 'the "enemy" 'being' surrounded and. defeated vrith the loss of sixteen battleship, and all their cruisers. . ■ .Owing .to. the. front, -wheels of the engine leaving the--rails,.V train on the Kaihu-DaTgaviHe 'line • was hung-up for an "noirrljesterday. 'afternoon. The Labour.Departments report.-for "the -past- year speaks very hopefully of . the immediate. - fufurp' "as. promising a, period of .almost phenomenal prosperity. A boy of 13 years named Leslie Perry -was accidentally shot ~Sead; by a' companion; . whfle . put. shppting near St. BathanSj. Otagb, on. -Monday. During- the 'storm, in Sydney, an. aeroplane' 'foot' Its .'only .flight, 'being' driven from its shed, which/was ; smashed, into a, neighbouring yafd, where it was smashed."'' ''""-.*.':'-' •■''. "

During. the. .past financial year 902 generals -were• applied -for-at the Auckland Employment '. Bureau, while only 162 women offered 'themselves for this clas? ".o.f v -work. .:.-,":... , -. -.. . .. Auckland. -has.' 1,539 factories and shops, Wellington. 1,047 factories and; 1,538 shops, Christchurch 1,310 factories and '1.213 . shops,. and Dunedin 1>174-factories and-1,244 shops: "Diiring the "year ended March 31 last the Government. Labour Bureau at Auckland- assisted -1590 men to get, work, of whom 353_ were 'married. JiDf. those.

• assisted 362 "were. from abroad, "the remainder being New-Zealanders. - ! Thfe numerical strength of the defence forces, throughout the .Dominion, -have ; never, been-so. great-.as -at present, not wen; daring/the..time of :the -South. ■ Afric'fin War/sfiid Sir. Joseph. JVVard last ; night in reference to.:the new.' defence! scheme.- • Some "obiter dicta ,, ! from the Trades and-Labour Conference:—"The time is coming -here, as in America, when domestic .duties," will be. done by males."-r-Mγ. Horning,. Auckland. "The Arbitra-tion-Court has'-taken the.fight out. ofthe workers."—Sir;. p'Byrne, Southland. L ,f The.-classwar* is* just as keen" inside" the trades union \«s outside" it;" neer'antl carpeat'er regard , the labourer just.as the-aristocrat- looks-down on all", working- men/—Mr.- 'Howard,'--Ganter—-bury." "Some farm labourers are livingin Canterbury' under conditions worse than/ tfi'e." blarcfcs in Central' " ; Zl'"~"" ™