TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 192, 14 August 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

South Island loses Taieri. Klectoral boundaries fixed. .North island gains one aeat. "Arcadians'' open at llis Majesty's tonight. Kngiish and Australian mails arrived yesterday. Civil sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning. .Receipts at the Customhouse last week totalled £21,487 2/5. The Mt. Eden gaol trouble inquiry resumed this morning. Auckland B team defeated Franklin by 40 lo nil on Saturday. A tire in Kohtroma, Russia, burned 300 houses, and cost 28 lives. It is estimated that the week's strike roughly cost London a million and abalf. The Ellerslie school committee favours the medical inspection of all school children. Mail by Sydney boat yesterday consisted of 61)8 bags, 417 being for Auckland. In Northern Union football on Saturday Auckland defeated Waikato by 36 to 2-2. Reuter*s Paris correspondent states that the Moroccan negotiations are at a standstill. Massed bands' performance at Albert Park yesterday afternoon attracted A large cro^wd. G. X. Hill won the New Zealand crosscountry championship after a good race on Saturday. Totalisator investments at the C.J.C. meeting totalled £92,679, a record for the Dominion. There was another hostile demonstration against Socialists at Wellington on Sunday night.

Mr. Fisher thinks that the Imperial Conference will growj even lo embracing other nations. Strike matters in Australia are quiet, with sides awaiting details of the Brisbane conference. Auckland Rugby reps, outclassed Thames on Saturday, and won comfortably by 25 to 3. A Remuera lad, Ben Mason, fell from a tree on Saturday afternoon, and dislocated his shoulder. The Pope passed a restless night on Saturday, and is suffgring from renewed pain in the knee. The North v. South Island country reps, match at Wellington on Saturday was won by the first-named. A Russian student, working on a farm in Westralia, has been arrested, it being declared that he is Peter 'the Painter. A dinner and entertainment at the Veterans' Home this evening in celebration of the 65th birthday of Lord Ranfurly. The teams' race in connection with the cross-country championship on Saturday was secured by Otago, with Auckland second. Auckland and 'Wellington hockey representatives drew on Saturday after an exciting contest, and the latter retain the cup. There were 236 male and 10 female prisoners in Auckland Gaol at the end of last week, including three life sentence prisoners. William Evans, from Ohakune, wap knocked down by a. tram car in Queenstreet on Saturday evening, and received injuries to the head. Mawson's aeroplane is able to remain in the air for five hours, and it is believed that it could cover 250 miles in the final dash for the Pole.

The body of James Robertson, a baker, aged 38, who has been missing since the sth inst., was found in the harbour on Saturday near Cox's Creek. An in memoriam service in connection with the death of the late Mr. T. E. Taylor -was held by the Trades and Labour Council at Wellington yesterday. The principal section of the London strike has ended, but there is still a great deal of unrest in the capital, while Liverpool is practically under military law. The Chief Justice held that the Wanganui racecourse trustees had been pro-v perly appointed, and that there was no reason why their appointment should be disturbed. The heat wave in Germany is the worst for 63 years, and hundreds of deaths have been caused by it. In Leipsig alone 305 infants died last week from the heatThc Leader of the Opposition delivered an address at Masterton on Saturday night, and a resolution was earned, declaring that a change in administration was desirable. The chairman of the Harbour Board proposes an amendment to the by-law* remitting storage charges on bona fide products from the Islands consigned to places beyond New Zealand. A youth named Bert Allen, aged 15, dived' off the Devonport ferry tee on Saturday night, and saved an elderly ■woman from drowning, the latter having Mien off the ferry steamer. Evidence at an inquest, held yesterday, concerning the death of Mrs. Andrews at Milford Beach on Saturday morning, showed that deceased was accidentally drowned in the Wairua Creek while feeding ducks, and a verdict was returned accordingly.