TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Racing at Avondale.. . Wintry weather, prevailing. _ The aeroplane claimed three yictime" yesterday. Installation of Mr. C. J. Parr as Mayoj_ of City to-day. . . '-'"v.f;;,-. Wanton destruction of seats afc_Cam]»bell's Point ds reported. '.. Grey Lynn and Mt. Libert mayoral installations this evening. Rainfall -welcomed- by ■fimbex miUs-to-float out large-quantities of "timber. ...'■'. Sir Robert Hart has how definitely Tβtired from the control of the Customs. Tom Sullivan, the ex-Auckland sculler, is willing to back Ainet against-Bawy-for £500. More rich discoveries of gold axe reported in the Southern Cross district-of Westralia. Hokitika ratepayers yesterday agreed to a loan of £25,000 for harbour im-" provements. - Professor David thinks that the. ' Shirase expedition, did well to get as far - south as it did. J North Auckland Baflway Commissioners returned from tour of the 'North yesterday afternoon. ~ . .$-. The English mail,~via"Sne2;:whi<2i left' here on the 23rd 'March, Hjctivei in. Lou-" ' don on the 28th April. Many women" understated their ages in the Federal census. 'J'hus is the comic paper vindicated. . _• .v;~v The agricultural implement trade shows signs of col&pSrig, ajjd'l7 strikers i have returned to work. ' H.M.S Sew Zealand will fee laußchei from the Clyde on 7uiie 29, Lady Ward performing the ceremony. Gray and liavo iheen. roafcrliod for 16,000 level, £2000 aside, with crystallate-Wls on ■ The second clause of the 3511 fcae been pushed through the House of Ctanmqns with the' aid of the -closure. The Governor will lay the foundation! stope of the new nurses* Itome~at 'iXW ; Auckland Hospital onfhe ITfch.ulSt.V... "" The Epsom Road Board balanee-aheet, . covering ?he past "year's operations; • shows a satisfactory financial position. A proposal to provide.'robes Tfqr the Mayer of Devonport w«T at the. Tnpetrng last night deferred tor twelve-monthe. Major-GeneraT. Godley. received a hearty welcome at has aroused interest in the Tenitbriei movement. • . ,Dr. Cook and his -wife's sister_feave died at Fairlie from typhoid, and Mra. Cook is also- suffering irom the eanoie fever. "-" •" """ '■' " " : The PajuelL.Borgngh Council has received no "word "from Carnegie in comae*' tion with a grant for modified plane of a i library. The training schooner Steadfast, with forty iboys and four officers aboard, is ; ashore at Thameshaven. in a. dangerous, position. > At Lawrence (Otago) IDavid Taylor ■ and George Donaldson, of Beamhont, ! were fined £10 each on. charges of dee* - poaching. . ■ - A motor cat and buggy collided at • Waikouaiti last evening, and _ Kav.. tf. - Sommervilk,. of Pilineraton, was fOddered Jinconscipus. •' " Population of •Waitemata County . (in* >■ 'eluding Birkenhead'-and Nbrthcpte) aa : '. 11;793; as compared -with. 7943 ftt toe • census of 1906. ■ • - • Ohehunga residents are objecting to '• the introduction of * zoo .into taa~t dis- > tric£ for the reason chiefly that it will ' be a breeding ground for rats. The Mayor of Tunaru (Mr. Ctaigie)] " announces that instead of the usual banquet' in connection with his installation, he will spend the money on.hooki for the public library.' .: Tie Hon. J. A. Mjlltor, in the-couree of an interview at- ChristcSurch, 'atatal that he intended! dealing with/the I results of the financial" year" in'Bjs a* ' dress at Dunedin, which will'probably ibe , delivered on Monday', evening next."' A man named Thomaer an "ittaerant showman, -was committed, Jor : trial, at Timaru on a change oi Betting fire to three..wheat .stacks near..Morven some weeks ago. Bail wosjnofc fofthcoimng. , Hon. J. A. Millar is iniavour of"aS ' alteration on the Mnnloinal-Oorporatibne Act to.give.-a three years'lease "of office r to local bodies, -including thatJZS.i I Mayor* arid extension'ot the hour of clos- ; ing polls to 8 pjn. - .— ._---. A, sad case is reported from Fairlje. ' The wife oi .Dr. Cook" :and lier...*lßter ■ were taken ill with, typhoid fever, anS [ later the doctor himsijlf. feU a victim to the fever. .The two;latter have eince died, and Mrs. Cook," -wh6 is still fll. is unaware of fact.

AucVUttO