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TABLE TALK.

Olimiaal sessions continued. The Mokau inquiry has been adjourned till Tuesday. The English cricket team ■will not visit New Zealand. Ladies' Benevolent Society's streejt i collection to-day. I Germany had 129 warships in the fleet at the last review at Kiel. I Auckland and Canterbury Rugby match at Christchurch to-day. ! The coal seajns found in the Hora Hora district are being tested. • Eight hundred- towns and villages in | Italy have cholera infected. It is declared that - over-selling of shares is not a serious evil at Dunedin. It is estimated that the ten months coal strike in South Wales cost £3,000,000. Northern League game, Taranaki v. Auckland, at Victoria Park this afternoon. The Kingsland charges -will probably be commenced at the Supreme Court oa ', Monday. '{ Mr. Justice Chapman expects to get through with the criminal cases by next Saturday. Owing to the spy scare, extra precautions are being taken to guard British. magazines. The cise of a prospective bride "waiting at the church'' is reported from a C hristchurcb suburb. Thirteen women have mysteriously disappeared in Melbourne this year, leaving no trace behind. Mr Ramsay M-cDonald says that the day of little strikes is over. In future will be bigger and crueller. The University Site Bill, due to come up for its second reading in the House yesterday, was not reached. Viennese newspapers say that the Moroccan position is grave owing to Britain's sudden interference. The increased -wages demanded by the Sydney Waterside Workers were granted yesterday, and a strike was thus averted. The civil sessions have ended, and Mr. Justice Edwards has left for Hamilton to open the Supreme Court sittings there. The Union S.S. Co. has given an order for another cargo steamer of 3750 tons, it will be delivered in the Dominion at the end of AprTT A passenger by the Fifeshlirc says that the shore near where the vessel struck wis lined by savages, aDd the officers ■were afraid to land. Ehrman was sentenced to eight yeara, Harden to two years, and Glover to nine, months' imprisonment in connection with th? wharf thefts. The Sale of Poisons Bill was read a second time pro forma in the House yesterday afternoon and referred to ths Agricultural and Stock Committee. Of 23 sections recently offered by the Government for workers' homes at Island Bay, Wellington, 20 have been taken, there being several applicants for each. The Dutch liner Van Linschoten haa been at Sydney with a case of smallpox aboard. She called in at Brisbane, where the case was not discovered. Tht most violent attack 6T _ 'Anglo> phobia since the Boer war prevails in Germany just now. Persistent enmity to England is the keynote of most news- , paper articles. Tramway employees are again com- , plaining of the pin-pricking methods of . the traffic management, and a meeting is to be held to-night to consider tho "intolerable" position. The Minister for Railways stated in the House yesterday afternoon that there would have been no collision with the Westfield runaway train evea had Mr Claude not intervened. Petitions for recognition of Mx. E. F. Claude's action in slopping the- runaway train at Westfield. and suggestions that the bereaved family should tecei.ve an allowance, came before the House yesterday, and reports of the committee were received.

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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 1

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TABLE TALK. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 1

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