TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 139, 13 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Keep to the right I '. * Libel action continued. Manuka- Licensing Committee. Exhibition committee this afternoon. Germany's tenth Dreadnought has beea launched. The Taumarunui telephone bureau haa been opened. Peter Bowling complains that he i» boycotted and cannot get work. Milling operations are reported to be brisk in the Taumarunui district. Action is to be taken to insist on "walk to the right" in Auckland streets. Post offices will be open only one hour on the morning of Coronation Day. | Exhibition of New Zealand made goods 'in Auckland during Coronation week. Junior cadet forces will take part in military parades on Coronation Day. A pro-German agitation haa beeu started in the French champagne area. Lindrum, the Australian champion, defeated Tom Recce by 16,000 to 10,040. The New Zealand rifle team has arrived at Bisley and has commenced practice. Mr Melvin Vaniman intends to make another attempt to cross the Atlantic by airship. The English mail, via Suez, which left here on May 5, arrived _Q London on June 9. Electrical storms in America killed 10 people and destroyed property valued at £200,000. The rate of pay fixed for the Australian naval seamen is 4/ a day, the highest ia the world. Foundation stone of the Masonic Hall in Upper Queen-street to be laid on Saturday. Roads" in the Te Kuiti district have been ruined for the winter by the recent heavy rain. The executive of the N.Z. Federation of Labour are further considering the Waihi trouble to-day. * Woodger, the New Zealand sprinter, will not be able to compete in the -Festival of Empire sports. The Bank of England advanced four millions to the Birkbeclc Bank to enable the depositors' accounts to be paid. Sixty-five retailers and 24 wholesale merchants have agreed to display Doming ion-made articles in Coronation ■week. A definite cure for leprosy is reported from Honolulu. It consists of applying carbonic acid snow to the leprous lesions. Jack Johnson has arrived in London, where he gives exhibitions. He expects to arrange a contest with a Canadian named Day. It is stoutly denied by Bishop Crossiey that Tahi Kaka is callous and unfeeling, and the denial is supported by Revs. Budd and Hawkins. The Pamell Borough Council last night accepted an invitation from Bishop Crossiey to attend services at St. Mary's on Coronation Day. A loan for district improvements and rating on unimproved values will be considered at a meeting of Tamaki West Road District ratepayers on Thursday; evening. Mr. McGowen (Premier of N,ew South. Wales) does not think that-Britain need fear Germany in wartime, but she has reason to fear-the Teutons' industrial and commercial development-as the result o. 30 years' of peace. A magistrate at Eltham yesterday found that a house destroyed last January was wilfully set on fire with intent to defraud an insurance company, and Nicholas Albert Maddern was arrested in connection with the incident. The charge against Alex. William Ironside, arrested at Dunedin yesterday, is that he received a sum of money on behalf of the Public Trustee a. Christchurch, gave a receipt, and failed to pay it to the Public Trustee's account. The books of the Christchurch office havebeen most carefully overhauled without discovering any other irregularity."" Gray and Sons, Symonds-street.—Colos-sal alteration and rebuilding sale commences on Saturday morning, 10 o'clock. Drapery and clothing at your own prices. See circulars by Saturday's issue.—(Ad.)