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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 251, 21 October 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Trafalgar Day. Labour Day celebrations oil Monday, Synod resumes on Monday afternoon. Racing at Alexandra I'a.rk this after* UOQU. Garden party at Bishopscourfc tliia : afternoon. District 'cricket championships opened ■tliis afternoon. Various bowling clubs open the season this afternoon. The Auckland Stock 'Excliarge roll bo dosed on Labour Day. A shortage of tramcar mofcornien is reported at Christchurch. The Mokau report is to he considered ■by the House oil Monday. An airman named Ely was killed by a fall in Georgia, yesterday. Excursion to the Great Barrier by the steamer .Navua on Monday. The steamer Segundo del Cerro foundered in the North Sea, 23 being drowned. Additions to the Leslie Orphanage at Bemuera were formally" opened this afternoon. Seventy-eight sections afc Otahuhu are being offered iby the Railway Department for lease. English and American mails are due here on Tuesday morning next pec R.M.S. Makura. " The Minister has promised that ksinga restrictions vrill 'be removed from Taumarunui. Discussion opened at Synod on religious instruction in schools adjourned till Monday's session. To-day is the anniversary of the first New Zealand contingent leaving Wellington for South Africa. Railwaymen of the second division are to receive an increase in wages of lid. a day in most classes. A French balloon fell into the middle of the English Channel yesterday. " The occupants were all rescued. The Italians twice bombarded Benghazi, and then captured it with a landing party after fierce opposition. • Some of the N.S.'W. coasting firms •have agreed to the demands of the.waterside •workers for increased wages. William and Maud Rogers were committed for tria.l yesterday afternoon ia connection with the Koin burglary. Arthur Casey, an employee, had hU hand crushed dn a. machine at the Chelsea sugar works yesterday afternoon. "The experiment of self-government has ' never yet. failed in history, why should it fail in Ireland ? : wMr. Angus-tine-Birrcll. Mr. Edward Brown, aged 65, a Grey Lynn resident, suffering from heart; trouble, collapsed and died in the street yesterday. The Mayor of Cliristcliprch says tlis bands of that city are the worst in s?ew Zealand, chiefly becaufe too. many are in existence. The House of Representatives passed a bill amending the electoral law at 1.20 this morning, and adjourned till 10.3.0 a.m. on Monday. A tramcar at Mossley, England, got out of control on an incline, and turned a somersault over a 'bridge, five being killed, and 14 injured. Mr. Jennings, the member for Taumarunui, has been informed 'by .the Minister that kainga restrictions will be r.erroved. frcri Taumarunui, The O&maru Chamber of Commerce supports the suggestion that the proposed second cable from Australia t>B laid from Melbourne' to the Bluff. Mr. Birrell says that Ireland is to have a Parliament with two , chambers and an executive responsible to it., It will have full control of purely Irish affairs. The Petitions Committee has recommended a grant of £25 to .Tames Neiper for loss by the closing of the Savoy Cafe by the Health Department during the plague [scare. Messrs. Young and White have launched at Pacroa four large pontoons for the Paeroa Gold Extraction Company, and will have a fifth pontoon completed within a fortnight. The tender of Grevatt and Son, at ■£ 17,222, was last night accepted for the new Y.M.C.A. buildings, four stories high, • with residential accommodation and modern . equipment. The Petitions Committee, approves the suggestion of inspection to ensure the production of unadulterated wine locally, but makes no recommendation in regard to other questions affecting policy. . The "Oxford Magazine" censured Lord Hugh Cecil for forgetting that he was the University's delegate, rather _ than representative, and for participating in the scene of rowdiness and insolence towards the Premier. Some angry remarks were provoked by the Racing Commissioner's report ill the House yesterday afternoon, comments on speeches by members of Parliament being resented. Sir Geo. Clifford was censured for a breach of privilege. , .. Reports as to the progress of the Chinese revolt are contradictory. The "Times" says that only two army divisions are being sent -to Hankow, while the "Chronicle" says that at a second battle at Hankow the rebels were successful. A new shipment of radies* summer tweed, tussore, linen and Sicilian costumes just to hand. All prices; see window.—J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Karanga-hape-road. — (Ad.)' _ Gsdoz large sprays of beautiful "French flowers, given away at Gd, 3d, 1/, at Jllsted's only, Ponsonby-road. — (Ad.) Beach and swim, suits showing to-day, waterproof caps in great variety.—F. W. Gaze, near'Grafton Bridge, Newton. (Ad)