TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 147, 22 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Keep to the right. — 7 Get better teeth.—at Howey-Walker's. -Coronation Day. Luncheon to Veteran!. Special church servicefc Large influx of visitors. Local illuminations to-night. Bright and picturesque festivities. Military parade" in the Domain. Art Exhibition, closes, on Saturday. Two lives have been, lost in. the Victoria- floods. The new Sacred Heart Convent is to be opened on Sunday. Lindnnn is to go to England, where he will challenge Gray. Large attendance at the- Palmerston Winter Show yesterday. A daily mail between Cambridge and Te Awamutu is being petitioned for. The British Government will grant £2000 in, aid of Mawson's expedition! The street collection held "by St. John Ambulance Association yesterday yielded about £200. The "Christchurch Press" opposes the. petition in circulation, for the release of Lionel Terry. The British Government has decided, to make the Declaration of London 4 party question. A North Island Utility Poultry Association was formed at Palmerstoa North last night. * Sir Joseph Ward says that the Imperial Conference accomplished more than all the others put together. The Trades and Labour Council is opposed to the proposed deletion of the tower from the ferry buildings. Jack Johnson has been matched te fight Pete Curran in. London next month* The fight will he of ten rounds. Ivy Ellen Snow, aged 20u died at Invercargill yesterday after an anaesthetic had seen administered for dental purposes. Earl Eosebery says that he will con-: tinue to bo known as Bosebery, though lie assumes the Earldom-of Midlothian. Australian meat firms scout the idea that the American Trust intends operating there, believing that the population ia too-small. A temporary dislocation of the tram , service on the eastern side occurrei through a car being derailed in Wellesley-i street about 5 o'clock last evening. The dominant note of the Imperial Conference, said Mr Asquith, was an attempt to promote and develop closer co-operation through free and frank discussion. The Auckland Farmers' Union is to erect a' chemical laboratory at EUerslie to help in the scientific cultivation .of the soil; it will probably be ready in three months' time. Robert O'Kane, a contractor at Hastings, was injured yesterday by-a heavy; cement mixing board falling on him front a scaffolding, and it is feared a broken rib is penetrating his left lung. At the Imperial Conference, Mr Fisher suggested that British Cabinet Ministers should visit the Dominions, and. Mr Asquith intimated thai he would endeavour to give effect to the suggestion. --At »j»nference_ between the Cjty Ccoracil and Mount' Eden representatives yesterday it was arranged to have the defacement of Mount Eden by the ■erection of a reservoir repaired as far as possible. The Employees' Federation passed a' resolution last night deploring the actioa of Cabinet in setting aside the strong re l - commendation to mercy, brought in by the jury at the trial of Tahi Kaka, while tho abolition of capital punishment was also favoured. Sensational 1/ yard Bilk bargains, usual prices 2/11 and 4/6 yd. All colours, lovely shades, window <full at \/, yd.—At .Histed's, Ponsonby-road.—'(Ad.) ! Bell's [Registry balds the solution of the servant .problem. All classes of reliable employees sent out. 32, CSty Ohambers.—-(Ad.)