TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Criminal sessions continued. English and Australian mails arrived by Maheno yesterday. Fourth week of criminal sessions of Supreme Court to-day. Tailors' dispute being heard before the Conciliation to-day. The dear food riots in France still -continue in many centres. Sir James Carroll says the present.session will end early next month. The grievances! of the Wellington tramway employees have not 'been settled. Two judges are dealing with criminal business at the Supreme Court to-day. A wharf lumper was arrested on Saturday night on a charges of cargo broacliing. The scow Moehau, anchored oil Mechanics' Bay, cap.siz.ed On Saturday night. Auckland Northern Leaguers beat Hawke's Bay Maoris 011 Saturday by 22 to 10. _ . A motor-boat sank in Lake Trasimeno, Italy, seventeen tourists toeing drowned. vr 11 Auckland Rugby reps, defeated Wellington. after a hard tussle by 1G to 9 on Saturday. The Ulimaroa received a wireless message oveT a distance of 2400 miles, art Australasian record. The aerial mail service from London to Windsor was inaugurated by Mr. Hamel on Monday. A fire in Graham's bond in Fort-street was suppressed on Saturday night before serious damage resulted. , The Yemen revolt 'has practically been settled, and' nearly all the Sheiks have •submitted to Turkish rule. A chess match by wireless was played between the vessels Ulimaroa and Tainui on the voyage to Wellington. Mr. J. H. Gunson says the Wellington wharf accommodation and facilities are second to none in New Zealand. The Powelka scare in the King Coun* try was based on mistaken idpntity, a peripatetic swagger being suspected. Two men were capsized in a dinghy off Wynyard pier on Saturday night, and were rescued in an exhausted condition. Andrew Taylor, aged 17, involved in a love affair, committed suicide—shot himself on a farm near Pahiatua on Saturday. Lester, the American fighter, got the decision over Lang at the end of a terrific twenty-round light in Sydney on Saturday. A French vine-dresser (has .just awakened, well, after sleeping for six months in a hospital, where lie was fed. daily on Ave pints of milk. The scow Saxon went ashore on a sandy beach in rounding Mahurangi Heads on Saturday. She will probably be towed off to-day. There were 238 males and 17 female prisoners in Auckland gaol at the end of last week, including 2 persons oil remand, and 10 awaiting trial. Seventy immigrants, a number of farmers and families, arrived at Auckland from Wellington yesterday, h:;v.ng reached the capital by the Tainui week. Col. .7. J. Astor was married secretly on Saturday. He says that now he is* happily married he does not care how difficult re-marriage divorce may be made. During some artillery manoeuvres in Warsaw" Poland, a shrapne'll shell exploded among a crowd of peasants, several of whom were killed and many others seriously wounded. On and after*to-day the price of "Xew Zealand Dairy Association" and "Anchor" butter will be 12-Jd per pound whole-sale,—-(Ad.)