TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 136, 9 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Supreme Court. The big earthquake in Mexico was registered in Sydney. Anxiety is felt by the Powers as to the situations in the Balkans. Rugby, Association, and Hockey, championships to-morrow. During April arrivals in New Zealand numbered 2288, and departures 4262." Celebrations in connection with the reopening of Pitt-street Methodist Church, to-day. The Federal capital is to be ready for Parliamentary sittings within three years. ". ~. A son and heir has been born -to Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary for Home Affairs. The flag torn down by the Wexford youths was not the Union Jack, but the New Zealand flag. An Anglo-American treaty was approved by a representative meeting held at the Choral Hall last night. A Christch«ircli manufacturer complains that business is dull, though there is plenty of money about. A dinner is to be given by the Governor at Government House, Wellington, on the night of 22nd inst. A further sum of £15,000 is needed for the Napier tramway construction, the £35,000 raised being insufficient. Auckland v. New Zealand, under the Northern Union code, will meet on the Takapuna racecourse to-morrow afternoon. i A Swiss aviator fell from a height of 2000 feet, but near the earth, the planes checked the descent, and he dropped off j unhurt. I The defendant in the Masson v. Richardson libel case was in the witnessbox all day yesterday, and continued his evidence to-day. The pay-day trouble at' Addington workshops has been disposed of by the general manager agreeing to pay out during working honrs. A French boy, suspected by his employer of theft,' drowned his master's eight-months-old baby, and - shockingly; mutilated a ' five-years-old child. Ten Chinese—all former residents in New Zealand, and one other foreigner (a German) arrived at Wellington from | Sydney on Tuesday by the Ulimaroa. The Education Department has decided that from January Ist next children I must pass the sixth standard before exemption from attendance is granted. A Russian has been arrested on a I charge of committing 57 murders, including one for which a man' and woman were sentenced to imprisonment for life. In the Oroua licensing district -with a population of 10,698 there were only 44 convictions for drunkenness last year, and 37 persons were from other districts. Reported that representatives of the Methodist and Primitive 'Methodists in conference at Wellington have arrived at a basis of union and only a few details have yet to be fixed. A deputation from the' Wellington Trades and Labour Council waited on Ministers yesterday, with a request for concessions to sick'men: master of railway, fares and fees at ■ Rotorua, and consideration of the representations was promised. The Canadian Province of Ontario will erect its own decorative street arch for the Coronation. The structure will bear a niotfco, the translation of which will read, " Faithful in the beginning, faithful in the end." A resolution was submitted to the Senate proposing that the officials of the Standard Oil Trust, the dissolution of which, as an illegal combination, has been ordered by the Supreme Court, should be criminally prosecuted. A witness- in the Supreme Court yesterday who showed a disposition to hedge questions was reminded by the Judge that Court expenses exclusively amounted to £15 15/ a day, and it was a costly thing to one party or the other if the proceedings were protracted. A new Norwegian Whaling Company, will begin operations in August in the South Sea Islands and the East coast of Africa. Mr. James Bryde has been appointed manager. The company, with a capital of half a million kroner, has been formed at Sandefjord under tho title of "Oestkystens Hvalfangerselskab." Sir Joseph Ward withdrew bis resolution at the Imperial Conference, dealing with the reconstruction of the Colonial Office. The Queen has decided that her gift from, the Marys of Empire shall be devoted to the jewelled insignia of the garter, and portraits of the King and his sons, the rest going to charity. Questioned on his arrival in London from the United States concerning tho revelations in connection with the reported absorption of the Tennessee coal and iron concerns by the Steel Trust, Mr. Andrew Carnegie said: "I have had nothing to do with them, and know nothing of those dirty scandals." " I remember," said Sir George Reid, Australia's High Commissioner, in a Teeent speech, " it was towards the close or my public career in Australia. I was referring to the time when I should be passing to the bourne whence no traveller returns, when a voice rang out from the audience: 'My word, George, the fat will be in the fire then!' My only safety lay in joining heartily in" the general laugh." A referendum on the question of State management of hotels in Westralia resulted in the defeat of the proposal. "Be sure you read Histed's big advt. and bargain price list on page 9.—(Ad.) Ladies' warm coats, latest styles, 18/11 to 49/6. Hundreds to choose from. See window.—J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Kar-anga-ha-pe-rd.—(Ad.) Fancy cashmere hose. A new shipment, 1/11_ to 3/6 per pair. See window.—J. A. Bradstreet.—(Ad.)