TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 171, 21 July 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

British team defeated the ilaoris by 29 points to nil. During the storm in " Sydney inches of rain fell. of scoutmasters at--:, the Y.M.CA. rooms last night. *BI •':?,> New Zealand Racing Conference opened at Wellington to-day. The Government's new Education pol- - icy creating a stir in sundry circles. Australian mail by the Manuka, arrived via the Main Trunk this morning Newspapers in England are commenting on the extraordinary wave of crime. The mysterious vessel seen off the Westralian coast proves to be a trepan™ fisher. Further talk of a new coastal steam service between Wellington and the Bay of Plenty ports. The Cook Islands revenue for the past financial year was £7Gr>o, and the expenditure £ 5230. A burglar shot and killed Ira Rawn, president of the Chicago-Indianapolis-Lonisville railway. Strictures on the Workers' Conciliation and Arbitration Act at the Trades and Labour social last night. An aeroplane, while flying at Paris, was struck by lightning and ignited. The aviator landed uinniured. Zeppelin's gasworks have been partly destroyed by an explosion, one person being killed and seven injured. The New York -cotton manipulators made a profit of a million and a-half sterling over the recent squeeze. The Devonian Association has made special appeal to Devonians to raise the balance required by Capt. Scott. A_ man resembling Crippen was seen in France on Sunday, but he had disappeared when the police came to seek him. The North Auckland railway and ita many interesting phases were the subject of some talk in the House yesterday afternoon. ' 'The New Zealand Rugby Union wish: >tho Auckland Union to play the American footballers on August 3, instead of July 30, on economic grounds. Scotland is ' said to be thoroughly [ roused against altering the sense 3 of ' the old Declaration Oath, however will- ! ing to remove offensive expressions. J The Minister for Internal Affairs expresses himself in somewhat pessimistic ! vein regarding the future of native birds, and particularly concerning the survival of the huia. "If we are going to appoint a Royal Commission to settle every little trouble that arises, we might just as well shut up Parliament for the next seven years." —The Prime Minister. The gross output of the New Zealand State coal mines for the year ended: March 31 last was 289,673 tons. The net prof '•" for the year are given as £4D09, 'Ik mldng fund (£2600). meeting of veterans in Napier last night passed a resolution urging Government to consider the grant of .military pensions for all veterans in possession of the New Zealand war medaL