TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 135, 8 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Supreme Court. Art exhibition. The Tiffin restaurant reopens to-morrow (Friday). Registered motor cars in Wellington number 1500. Lord Islington entertained the farmera at Ellerslie yesterday. Fogwell, the New Zealand sculling champion, has sailed for England. The M._ison v. Richardson libel action was continued afc the Supreme Court today. . Ten thousand acres of the _tokau estate are to be open for sale at the end of July. The season's shipmeoits of frozen, meat from Gisborne will aggregate over 142,000 carcases. The English mail, via Suez, which left here on the 27th_Vpril, arrived in London on the 4th June. The English mail, via TTrisco, whicK left here on the 6th May, arrived in London on the 6th June. The proposed Anglo-American Arbitra- ! tion Treaty will be discussed:at a, public meeting at'the Choral Hall to-night. It is reported that the Bishop of Kelson, who is 74. years old,, intends to resign his bishopric at an e-irlv date. / An Australian mail by the I—ima,roa at Wellington yesterday, and;the Ai__land, portion arrived at Auckland, this morning. Roosevelt has announced his support of Taft's candidature for the Presidency, and his re-election is now believed to ba assured. The Taranaki Petroleum Company has received the bonus of £2500 from the Government for production of crude pe. troleu—i. A fire occurred in Scott, Niven and Co.'s foundiy at Pelmerston North laat night, but was. extinguished-"—;f ore much damage resulted. '•<. '_ " Strike " talk in connection with t_9 refusal of the mine-owners to- concede demands made by the Miners' Union for increased wages. The National Dairy Association estimate that the drought in New Zealand was responsible for a loss of £325,650 -in the dairying industry. The jury at Wellington yesterday awarded Eliza Jane Baillie £ 1250 damages against" the Harbour' Board' itt''.**■ • spect to the death of her husband. In connection with the Coronation celebrations the Parnell Borough Council ' is arranging a "treat" for the children, and presentation of book-markers, with a bonfire in the Domain in the evening. The conference of representatives ol the Methodist and Primitive Methodist churches with a view to amalgamation is being continued at Wellington. It ia reported good progress has been made. The sum of £22,079 10/ was passed through the machine at EUefslie yesterday, making a total of £70,625 for the meeting an increase of £29,404 on last year, when, however, the bookmakers were licensed. The Japanese Polar explorers have sworn to reach the Pole before they return home. The captain, who did not take the oath, has gone back to Japan for more funds. Amundsen, writing tb'the-"Times'" lasts., summer, announced his intention of establishing a depot at 83deg south last autumn, in order to he ready for an early dash in the spring. The Binintir tribe of Morocco, following a custom when in desperate straits, are bringing their daughters bound to the villages 'and cutting their daughters' throats before the dwellings of the chiefs they wish to propitiate. The jury yesterday found that Walter John Stevens had suffered no damage through illegal detention at Roto Boa instead of Pakatoa j at which he was a voluntary inmate, and damages without costs were" allowed". - A large meeting of financial members of the "Miners* Union was held at Waihi last night to consider the owners' refusal to concede demands, and the matter was referred to the executive of tha N.Z. Labour Federation at Wellington. Auckland Nurses' ball to-morrow night. In the claim made by E. S. and F. L. D—rimer against the Shaw, Savill and: Albion Co. for £2500 damages for injuries resulting to the wife through falling down an open hatch on the Taiii_i in a voyage from Home, the jury awarded £2000 damages.