TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 246, 17 October 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Borough Council night. "" ' ~ "* - Flavimus won "the Caulfield"Cup; ?.' Cricket season, opened'ori'Saturday. '*" Premier at the l&t. Cook Hermitage/ yesterday. ... , '"'."''"\_is"::~^ Auckland Sunday School Unioaannuaimeeting to-night.: : " : :" ■' •'-•-'->-: 1 The Auckland exports for the past forfr«~ night .totalled £Q{US7J.. ~ _. : . .i.t.:- : 'VS The Anglican General --Mjsaipn opened? in Christchurch yesterday. '.- '■'• -. A plague of snails has done immense damage to the crops in Ceylon.-" Tenders will shortly be called for tha new Auckland courthouse , and offices:'; "■* Att. Albert loan- proposals carried oy' 408 .votes '.to SO. .Nine informal voces. -Wilding beat Lowe in the final of tha ' Covered Court ChainpionsTiip of England,.; The French railway strike has been' 1 broken .by the Government's firm action." 1 The Auckland torse Master Soult was. a big disappointment in-ithe Caulfield-; Cup. The dirigible America has left Atlantic City -on a flight across the . Atlantic.. Ocean. . ...-_.: Tie Clement Hazard airships has sue-., cessiully negotiated the trip across the Channel.-;-,- ... - --!,. ._„_._., „ Yesterday was the forty-nmth aanS?f«!; sary of 'the ; opening ot'ihe Bant; olYXefy'' Zealand.. "■■ ■ "".?.." ~~;'".''* ,r~"'"~'"','^~;"".y Annual, legislators' tourney on,.the Pari liamentary tennis court on .'Saturday ' afternoon. ' ' . ...' i; Stanley Ketchell, world's middleweight'champion, , was shot in the tiack and. killed yesterday; -..-- ' : '■.'... .The latest pattern of the rifle is to be supplied to all America^-; troops in the Philippines and in-China. " : 'i The Winxmera 'brought an English and ,4 an Australian" mail yesterday,'consisting'' of 49&,bag3,..230 of .them bebg land. " . "-_■■'. '."~'::"*". '. jS""'i New Service (between New ZeaUrad San MTranciscb starts 'faliis . weelj; .thai Aorangi leaving- Auckland, on ntact. .'. -• • ■■'.■.•.■"■•,■ " ■".-■■ :' ■-...■■.:.":,'_^ The body of a 19-year-old girl namedEffie Burns, who ran away from hoin&riSP Juneolast, was found on 'Saturday'in the ; Molyneux River. •■•'• ... Early yesterday, morning,the Ipcojnotive shed, at Gore was. Tjufheci '"io-inV ' Two engines in the shed at .the time were considerably damaged.' ' "' • : ' Last week the Auckland Gustomlio-usV collected £12,393, of \vhM : £11,229'werai Customs' duties. Gold duty-'abcqunted-■ for f £39o and fceer duty for' £628. .- ; .. I Parisian shopkeepers" complain that they have had a poor year from tourists.; They declare that Catholic visitors ,ha.ya' organised a, boycott of "riench; Btote.B.i A Discussion at the next meeting'of "iQie Onekunga " Borougfi "Council . -whether. Mr. ■ Carnegie's £2000, '-with'iti stipuki,tioii3, shall 'be. accepted;:.ojr;3ia"'. pensed-with. •■' .. ■f> > . .■:■;..,.,.' The date for -the closing, of entries; fog the Auckland musical and- elocutionary; competitions lias been extended till ifexh Saturday. Upt till Saturday.loßl- en|ne%' ■were Teceiyed. Outbreak of fire in a building in Maniio Parneli,'. yesterdsj" morning. the occu?K pant,. Mx. Piper, loaing considerably excess k>l ..the insurance, .v rf , ; ' The Mayor of New York, Mr GaynorJ whom a discharged municipal employee attempted to assassinate soma time ago, has published a letter absolutely denying that he will withdraw his name ag the Democratic candidate for, the .Presidency. ■ • ■ Mr H. T>. M'lntosh, together. -with! Jimmy ißritt, ex-lightweight champion of "the .world, is making plans to secure a' complete chain, of boxing ; pavflione throughout Great Britain , and in Paris; which will be regulated in the same manner as a theatre circuit. .A couple_of _strejei_accid_ejats_Qn_ Satireday afternoon.:. Frank. Erjieet. Watling was knocked down- at the ThreE lamps and was taken to the hospital with ai ■broken leg, while an elderlyinaE jaamedi Forsyth knocked down r by a, tramcar in Queea-3treet and received ji severe cut on his head, besides -shock.. Selected gem from evidence given, at the inquest on-.a tent-dweller -found dead on the bank cf the Maraho.i Biver, (Queensland):—"Witness: I pdfeea'thacamp in ; the ; morning going t» work, I noticed the "bottle of whisky tfas" fiili I bhonght the man-was asleep. WhenjS returned in the evenings and the bottle oJt was stiE full, I knew the jaiai ' was dead." The "bull" is still alive. At a "Key* Zealand police station recendy the ,dn» struoting sergeant was 'lecturing to a class of young constables. "Sow," salj the instructor, "if two men joined for » coannion purpose to commit suicide to/» : gether by .taking poison and- the dosa only proved fatal to one, the survivor caa be charged with conspiracy." "A- young constable: "Sergeant, and can the'other, man ibe called as a witness?" .yFflllpwing an intervai of weighty thinking comes the answer: "y°s, constable, ihc /can." Realisationl It means' that straw hats, Jatest-shapes, are 1/11, 2/11, 3/11 each. Bowers, tulles, half-price. At Histed's' sale, Poi»-son'by-road. See window.—(Ad.) v '