TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 289, 6 December 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hospital Board to-night. Navua from Fiji last night. Harbour Board this afternoon. The 105 th anniversary of Austerlitz. Dr. J- H. Hooper died suddenly this morning. Star of Canada from London and Australia this morning. A French officer 'has been arrested for espionage in Germany. Widespread damage has been caused oj floods in England. Messrs. Fovrids and Fish«r leave Capetown for home on Friday next. An old man named iames Millikea died in the police cells last night. The South Africans drew with an eleven of Australia, at •Brisbane yesterday. The death is announced of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder oi the Christian Science movement. \ _ Lord Beresford describes the Declaration of London as a disgraceful betrayal of national security. It is hoped that the reduction in deferred cable rates on the Pacific line will operate from January 1. Lord Glasgow, ex-Governor of Newl Zealand, has wished all success to the women's suffrage movement. The Papamii has sailed from Melbourne for Japan with a Filipino crew aboard, *ad with a great hol e in herbottom. The Auckland Custom-house receipts yesterday totalled £4,019 0/8, including £.3,454 1/11 collected ifrom Custom! duties. At a meeting of city electors last night it'was resolved that an unused street 12ft. in width, off Short-street, should be closed. A seven-year-old daughter of A. Stewart, of Hinds, was cmsned to death yesterday afternoon iby an iron roller, under which she fell. Mr. Clement Wragge advocates the establishment of a public observatory in Auckland, to be opened each evening tor the benefit of the people. A verdict of death from syncope, caused toy an epileptic seizure, was returned at the inquest on fche body of the Waihi hairdresser Geo. W. Smart. The N«w Zealand Athletic Council has decided to forward tne appeal in connection with D. Wilson's three-mile record to the Australasia Union. Tommy Burns announces that he has ■retired from the prize ring and haa turned over his fight dates to Jack Lester, whom he picks as the champion. The Napier Borough Council accepted the offer of Mrs: Randall of a te-atre site for £6500. The property is 2} acres in extent, and is situated in the heart of the town. At Palnierston North yesterday John Cyril Weller, bookmaker and billiardroom proprietor, of Foxton, was fined £10 for betting with an infant, and flO for laying tote odds. Unionist newspapers express satisfaction' with Saturday's polls, while the Liberal Press . asserts that a crushing blow has been dealt to the pro-peer end foodjtaxing party. -. The Mt. Albert Road Board last night passed a vote of thanks to the Premier and the Hon. D. Buddo for their efforts in pushing through., the Public Health Amendment Act. -Mies Dufaur, an Australian, accompanied by two guides, has returned to the Hermitage, after achieving the ascent of Mt. Cook. Miss Dufaur is the first lady to conquer this mountain. She made the ascent in sis hours 20 minutes from-the Bivouac. A sub-committee recommended to the Court of Convocation of the Middle University District last niglit that a Royal Commission be appointed to take evidence and recommend such changes a3 •will give the Dominion a modem and efficient university system. The recommendation "was adopted. The population of Greater London for 1909 is estimated at 7,537,196, an increase of 107,456 over 1908. There are 18,000 police in the administrative county, and in the twelve months mentioned they apprehended 109,787 persons. Licenses were granted for 194 kinematograph theatres, a number which indicates a new development of the public taste in entertainment. An inquest was opened yesterday afternoon, before the Coroner (Mr. T. Gresham) at the, deceased's residence, touching the death of James H. E. A. Myers, who met his death tinder tragic circumstances yesterday morning. In order that a postmortem examination might be made, and an analysis of the box of powders irom which deceased drank, the inquest was adjourned to the 20th inst.