TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 193, 15 August 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Harbour Board meeting this afternoon. Supreme Court Civil Sessions continued. Fierce rioting has occurred during the Liverpool strikes. King Country districts are agitating for telephonic communication. The Italian cruiser San Giorgio i* ashore on the coast near Rome. Inquiry in connection with the Mount Eden gaol trouble resumed this afternoon. Burglars stole £ls or fl6 from Harrison's store at llukerenui on Saturday night. Owing to the dry weather in England lambs in Kent are bein& sold at 1/, a-piece. The Moana had difficulty in berthing at Bluff yesterday, and the mails missed the train. Thirty thousand dockers have beei locked out in Liverpool as a, result of the transport strike. St. Andrew's Society last night celebrated the 140 th anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott. The forces of the ex-Shah of Persia were defeated by the Government troops 70 miles from Teheran. Douglas Manttan, injured in m fall down the lift well at Security Building* last Wednesday, died yesterday. The steamer Fifeshire has been totally, wrecked on the African coast Two boats, with 30 people aboard, are missing. William McEwan, s telegraph linesman, (had his right hand crushed yester* day while loading telegraph poles. The Queensland sugar strike has be»oi settled on the basis of a 48-hour week Work is to be immediately resumed. A fierce affray between Che police and strikers at Liverpool occurred at mid* night on Sunday, many being injured. Robert Sharp, working at the Kauri Timber Co.'s mill yesterday, had hit right hand injured in a circular saw.

Point Erin estate, intended to be inquired as a park for the city, will ha submitted to public auction to-morrow., A return prepared Shows a very small percentage of physically unfit amongst the Territorials registered at Auckland. The London Ounty Commdl tram men will strike on Wednesday unless wages are advanced with an eight-hour day. A seaman, Julius Jorgensen, yesterday received two years' imprisonment at Wellington for assault: causing actual bodily harm. A single man, Robert Leonard Wakefield, slipped overboard from his launch in the Manukau yesterday afternoon, and was drowned. The steamers Mat*!, Ulrmaroa, Ruahine and Araw* will prqbaWy <be within wireless range of the Wellington radio station to-night.

W. J. McLean and C. It Brown, guilty' of burglary at Pahiatua, were admitted to four years' probation at the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. Peter Heyes has been selected as actuary by a sub-committee of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to investigate the figures dealing with differential rating on the North and South Island railway lines. , • The general resumption of work in London has been delayed owing to the Port Authority dismissing 400 permanent hands for striking. Their re-engngem • : t is being considered. .Of .three, Burnham Jjbys charged with the theft of si motor car, Samuel Ross was sent back'to the reformatory and" Robert Meacham and Edward Agnew were sentenced to three years' reformatory treatment. Three of the German Dreadnought* have been built in 31J to 33J months a-piece. thus discounting the official assertion that the time required was 40 months, when replying to statements in the British Parliament regarding acceleration of German building. - ■ The prize list of Ballarafa annual musical and elocutionary orgy is a quaint document. There is to be a debate ou "The Influence of the Teachings of Christ on Heathen Nations." In a spitefully personal way, the prospectus bars men and clergymen" from competing in this subject.