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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 138, 12 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Libel action continued. Prisoners sentenced this ..Auckland Institute meeting to-nightf. Industrial Association met this afternoon. Professor Mills' at Choral Hall tonight. , The price of butter ha*:been further . increased.' European and Australia* mails arrived yesterday. Manukau Licensing. Committee meets to-morrow. The coal output from Westport for May was 62,654 tons. Custom-house -collection* last week totalley £24,322 16/2. In his match, with. Irunan, Gray has scored 7,824 to his opponent's, 4,429. Christchurch students are preparing for a special display on "Capping" day. Sixty lives were lost by the burning of a steamer on the-Biver Amur oa Saturday. The Sydney boat yesterday arrived in time to connect with the Main Trunk express. Yacht Squadron presentation of prizes this evening. The Governor will be present. Messrs. Levin and Co. are having, a new vessel constructed to replace the Himatangi. 'Varsity, Ponsonby, and Auckland were successful in hockey championships on Saturday. _ Ex-Captain Knyvett refuses to apologise for his letter, and intends to leave New Zealand. New Zealand '"reps" beat Auckland by 16 to 14 points in Northern Union game on Saturday. Extensive misappropriation of funds is reported in the Christchurch branch of the Public Trust Office. Wins for City and Grafton in Kugby on Saturday, and a drawn game between Parnell and Marist.Bros. On .and after, to-day the : priea. of TSJZ. Dairy Association and " Anchor' butter will be 1/2* per lb.; wholesale; ' -- A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Ohakune at about five o'clock on-Sat-urday morning, but no damage has'been reported. Ii is estimated that the census will show that the -population of Canada has increased by 50 per cent, during tha last'ten years. '" A public investigation" into the Christchurch Wholesale Club,; Ltd., which recently went'into liquidation, is Wanted by shareholders. Two German airmen fell from a height of 3000 feet while descending from a height of 6600 feet, their "bodies being terribly mangled. King George has" intimated that he prefers that money which- may Jhave been voted for addresses to the Throne should be devoted to charities. Mr. Bernard Hall, well known in the Wellington commercial world, has been missing from his home and. his place of ■business.since Thursday last. > The centre of a. cyclone; passed oyer Cook's' Strait, .on 1 Sunday, ; and tha . ... barometric pressure at Wellington on Sunday ' evening "Was the lowest since: August, 1910. The Government railway electrical plant at Wellington was destroyed by fire this morning, including electrical appliances for decorations in connection with the Coronation celebrations. Torrents of rain fell in Canterbury yesterday. The lower parts'of-'the city and suburbs were flooded, but the rain was highly beneficial, tc the country, esr pecially in helping to destroy the grass grab. A message from Antwerp reports that the threatened international strike of seamen has been- postponed -until June 16th, wflien another attempt will be made to bring about a general "walk out" among sailors and firemen. "If justice is to be done, time is no object," remarked Mr. C. C. Kettle at the S.M. Court this morning, when a legal gentleman objected to a fourth adjournment; " in these affiliation cases I am not bound by legal rules of evidence." On Sunday, which was the fifth anniversary of the death- of the 'Right Hon. Richard John Seddon, the Hon. J. Carroll (Acting-Prime Minister), on behalf of the Ministry, laid a wreath on the late statesman's grave 'at Wellington. A large number of friends also' visited the grave and placed wreaths on it. The German Metal Workers' Union, which has a membership of 500,000, is now declared to" be the world's greatest labour organisation. Since its foundation the union has spent 19,000,000 marks (£760,000) in fighting employers, and 23,500.000 marks ( £900,000) oti members out of employment. Its credit balance at present " totals 10,000,000 marks (£400,000). A Parisian money-lender, who has a reputation for the 'business he does in •financing ne'er-do-well, sons with prospects, has been asked to furnish the heir of a coal and iron magnate in Westphalia with £200,000 to tide him over his bankruptcy. In return for this acr commodation the financier's client agrees to eive him as security his reversionary interest in £2.000,000. ' - '