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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 14 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Keep to the right I Keep to the right. Chamber of Commerce dinner to-night. Serious floods are reported, from, Victoria. Gray ds now over 4,500 ahead in hia I match with. Imnan. ■ The Hospital Board last night granted a site for a morgue. The town of Wheelwright, Texas, haa been destroyed by fire. Petitions in favour of the reprieve of Tahi Kaka are being largely signed. Jack Johnson says that he is willing to fight any first-class man for £6000. A noted trotter, Prince Warbeck, ia reported missing from a Canterbury farm. The shopkeepers of Dunedin will observe Coronation Day as a close holiday. A Melbourne woman poisoned herself and then her sister during a. drinking bout. Thirty were drowned by the sinking of an overcrowded ferry boat on the: Volga. Libel action, Masson v. Richardson, ex•pected to finish to-day, after a ten dayaT hearing. The American Senate has passed a re* solution in favour of the direct election of senators. It is believed by Mr. Semple that fliers are good prospects of amicably settling the Waihi miners' trouble. Oil-boring operations in the Whangarei district by a syndicate are hopefully; €X< pected to turn out successfully. The hero of the runaway train aU Otahuhu, F. A. Claude, died of plenrisy?atS the Auckland Hospital last night. The Miners Federation of Britain has decided not to accept further responsibility for the South Wales dispute. An international strike of seameit is to begin at Southampton to-day, *At Amsterdam the strike is already on. The Moroccan Pretender gave a. loyal* fet at Larasche the choice between- deaiCbj and eating the bodies of ids murderetl children. Complaint has been made to the Jbjxk* land Acclimatisation Society that birds are shot for sale, and stcpplied to Amck« land -hotels. Bernard Hall, the Wellington business man, who has been miaur— since last Thursday, is reported to hare been ai victim of insomnia. In connection with the AcdimatisatHJa dispute over boundaries, a conference between the two societies is to be called for the 27th inst. The Auckland Presbytery objects tflf denoqiinational cadet .corps, but is w_* ing to assist the movement by appoint* ing territorial '. At the Feildmg I_trict High. School, an Imperial pageant -is' beingarranged for-Coronation- Day; in;which the- whole of Jthe'children will'take'part. "' j>~ Objection, ia .taken to yachtsmen monopolising, the-beaches at Devonport with, vessels',' and'the' 'Borough Cc__ intends. to define' the areas available. " " The scheme to, hold art-iritjßpaational .exhibition "in-" AucKland , ;bals".'Beea' abandoned;'ana •.an:indt3striaj isihibiticra will be' bfld.nqt.esirlier ■'•' has decided- to proceed' with -the erection, of new municipal 'buildings adjoining and "iakeeping' jsjifh' th"c, .Public. library J - It is.stated.that-the influence of the Mormons is growing- so rapidly in Alberta, Canada* that they will soon control political .pawer in .the. province. It was reported- at the ■ AcclLmatisatfon Society last night ttrat a constable in. a northern district,'who was a ranger, x*. gnarly shot game .without a' license. Preparations made by the Waihi Company in view of' the. probability of a, strfkej as set' but in our correspondent's telegram to-day, are somewhat ominous. The Premiers in London are working seventeen hours a day, and their engagements are so continuous that they cannot get off an- hour a day for office work. The executive of' the Federation Labour has decided not to enter into any; binding agreement in regard to the supply of coal to warships in time oE strikes, but to deal with any application on its merits. Christchurch. City Council decided bj| a bare majority-to send the Mayor's road'scheme 'to'the ratepayers for approval. The scheme involves a loan, u£ £10Q,000, and covers the reronstructior* of 40- miles ol roods. C 6 ' only. Samples English costumes, one only of each, design, 19/11 to 55/9 each (see window). —J. A. Bradstreetv draper, Karangahape-road—(Ad.)