TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 270, 14 November 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Presbyterian General Assembly. ,Los Angelos -won the Stead Memorial Cup. <Jivil .business at the Supreme Court to-day. Conciliation Council on the Timberworkers' dispute. The British Cabinet has decided on an immediate appeal to tile country. Centuries scored at cricket on Saturday:—Anthony 157 and Snedden 100. Count Leo Tolstoi ihas disappeared, and is supposed to thave retired, to a monastery. Mr. Fred Graham, in the amusing coioedy, " The Brixton Burglary," at Has Majesty's Theatre to-night. Sir George Grey, then Captain Gi-ey, arrived in New Zealand sixty-fire years ago to-day. An English and Australian mail totalling 497 Jbags arrived (by the Wimmera yesterday. The New Zealand five million loan has been well received in London, and is quoted at a premium. Mre in Barber and Co.'s bakehouse* Karangahape-road, yesterday morning. Not much damage done. In the course of the racing carnival at Chtistchurch last week £141,031 waa put through the tatalisator. A mail and passenger service 'by dirigible balloon between Liverpool and North Wales is being projected. . The Maitai leaves Auckland fox San Francisco next Saturday. The Aorangi arrived at 'Frisco on Friday last. A Washington message says that Captain Hodson purposes to introduce the study of aviation into American, naval and military schools. An A.B. of the steamer K.otare waa drowned at Waikawa, on Saturday, through a .boat capsizing while ihe was putting out a small anchor. Herr yon Jagon, chief of the Berlin podiee, and otiher *h-i;jh officials from Germany are visiting London to study; its system of regulating street traffic. Two local records broken at Mlerslie on Saturday, Santa Rosa. Tunning a mile and a-qnarter in 2.7 3-5 sees., and Kapanga running five furlongs in 1.1 3-5 sees. The ministers conducting •Hie Church of England mission were formally welcomed at Dunedin on. Friday nigiht, and the mission commenced on Saturday night. A stranger hired a dinghy at Cheltenham Beach on Saturday, and went for a row. Yesterday the dinghy was found "washed up on Narrow Neck Beach. No sign of the stranger. Recent experiments isarried out Iby Government officials in Ireland demonstrate that nearly every kind of toibaeco can 'be grown in that country. The area now under ■ cultivation is 120 acres. The . Toronto Board of Trade has unanimously passed a resolution declaring that reciprocity with the United Staites under present conditions would be both inopportune and undesirable. "The giving to : home and foreign missioiis 'by Presbyterians-is a disgrace to the 'Church of• New Zealand," declared-Mr. J: W..G.- Aitken'.sKt the: Laymen's Mission meeting in Choral Ha.ll on Saturday : night.' * The subjects to foe discussed at' the next' Imperial Conference will include the All-Red - route, penny postage within the Empire, and the proposal for a British State-owned cable between England and' Canada. The totalisator investments at the recent meeting at Ellerslie amounted to, £36,7.15 10/, as compared with £37,514 for' the Spring Meeting last Last year, however, a public holiday was in the week. The jockey, W. Porter, had 'his collarbone broken through Hoanga falling with him in the' hurdle race at Ellerslie on Another rider M. Ryan received an injury to his eye through being struck iby a clod from the hoof of another horse. Dr. Chapsey, the well-known divine of the Episcopal Church, is promoting a war against poverty. He declares that access either directly or indirectly to the soil will relieve 'the suffering of the poor, and that society must bring about a wider diffusion of # the products of labour* Handsomely embroidered' ready-made white muslin blouses, 2/114, 8/11; ridicuously cheap. See window. At Histed's realisation sale, Ponsonby-road.— (Ad.)