TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 293, 10 December 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Dissolution sale: Skeates, jewellers. Start of the inter-club fitenni* matches. Auckland District Methodist Synod concluded. Big Scout rally in the outer Ddnu»ia this afternoon. Senior cricket at Kingsland, Domain, and Victoria Park. Rocky Nook Bowling Club'a "At Home" this afternoon. The Portuguese intend to. make all religions absolutely free. Laaker has easily defeated Janwwski for the world's chess championship; The Veterans' Home at Three Kings was opened seven years ago to-day. •In the first Test match the Australians scored 494 for the loss tff six wickets. Warren Bardsley and dem HulbotH made centuries in the first Test match. A revolt is imminent in Honduras,,and martial law lias 'been proclaimed in the capital. ■ - ■ Enthusiastic welcome to Sir Joseph' Ward 'by the people of Rotorua- last, evening. The Auckland Custom-house receipts yesterday totalled £2,143 0/6, including £2,068 3/11 from Customs duties." [Polling at the British elections showed a ten per cent, decrease in I/ondon, and six per cent, in the iboroughs. The "Chronicle" says that whether the Liberals return irith a larger or smaller; majority, there must foe no faltering.- : The Duke of Norfolk has. completed a new Eoman Catholic Church, at Nor* wich at a cost of of % million. An elderly man named John Grahant dropped dead while "working in the holl of the collier SPetone at Lyttelton yes-i terday. , The old man Arthur P. Tennant, who*" was thrown out of a trap at Eapatoe-' toe yesterday morning, died a few. hours later in the day. Bedouins massacred the garrison ' aij Kerak, on the Dead Sea, and also killed numbers of Christian inhabitants in-re-venge for the execution of their-chief..;. In the past three months the' Sydney steamer has failed to connect with the mail train at Auckland on three occasions, and at Wellington on five occasions. '■ : v ■ .: , :j The first tooat of the Canadian » fleet, H.M.s. Rainbow, is to ibe run. on teetotal lines. There is to he no grog ration, and no liquor can Ibe purchased oa board. . ' ', The warships Powerful, Encounter, and Cambrian left Lyttelton yesterday afternoon for Auckland, arid' will- put in three days' firing in the Gulf'before coming into port. ' i ; .* f '•■ The most successful toiler for the South Africans in the Test) match was Pearse, who was put on 'In desperation, and who has never been regarded as. a (bowler. He gx>t good wickets for 56 runs. Butter containing "preservatives -as, not admitted to the States, and a consignment shipped from New. Zealand 'by the Aorangi on her last trip was refused -admittance for non-observance " .prohibition. Sent on 'to -Vancouver, however, it realised a good price. ...- The Bishop of Waiapu deprecates the tendency 'to dub the itaori a; They .work now, as they fought';in .the old days—hard and well for a* .short time, and then hold 'hack for a , taihoa; or long . rest preparatory to' another bout of work. - ': i Second week of our great alteration sale. We must reduce stock by New. Year in order to allow contractors to come in. Greater bargains, than ever during the coming week Be early on Monday morning at the greatest 61 sales, —Grey and Ford, Ltd., "The Old Bee'hjv.e," Ixewtbn.—i(Ad.) ;- '•* '.'-.'-■?s■■. Bought Job.—3oo ladies' ready-made frocks and Mouse suits in muslin;:print, etc., selling- from S/ll to 29/G-j each. Beautiful goods.— J. A. BradstTeet, draper, Karangahape-road.—'(Ad.)