TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 297, 14 December 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Go and vote! (Second ballots to-day. Xew Town Hall opened this afternoon. Last day for the payment of land tax. Point Erin Park to be opened on Saturday. Thames was visited by a startling electrical storm yesterdiy afteraoon. I Mr. Alan Wallace is the fourth Rhode* Scholar from Auckland University. Auckland Education Board propose to establish a model school garden near the city. 1 Otago Education Board has appointed i an instructor in rural science at £3OO a year. Dry weather in Taranaki is causing a decrease of supplies at the dairy, factories. The National Bank of Xew Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 12 per cent. Lieut. Lautheamne, of the French army, was killed -while aeroplaning at Etampes. The Timaru waterside workers have called a truce with the shipping agents till Tuesday. Conscience money of 23/ has been sent anonymously to the Auckland! Collector of Customs. The crew of the Gisborne Harbour Board's dredge yesterday struck for an increase of wages. Xicholas Lopez, a dairyman at Melrose (Wellington), was gored to death by a bull on Tuesday. A French cruiser's boats rescued the women and children from the wrecked P. and 0. steamer Delhi. Gunn thinks that he will be able to play iatfhe first test match, the broken. bone in his finger having set. The British Press is generally favourable to the removal of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi. Young men who interrupted election meetings at Dunedin were j<*Uu<img dealt with at the Police CoflrJt. Mrs. Ainsworth's nursing home, Hampstead (Ashburton) has been burnt down as the result of a lamp explosion. South Africa proposes to spend five, millions in building mail steamers, convertible into cruisers in time of war. The Festival of Empire resulted in a heavy loss, and the Earl of Plymouth is appealing to the public for £75,000. A Maori fell into a drainage Works manhole (20ft deep) at Orakei last night, and had to be sent to the HospitaL Devonport Borough Council is, considering the erection of bathing and sanitary facilities on Cheltenham beach. The P. and O. steamer Delhi, aboard which are the Duke and Duchess of Fife, is ashore on the north-west coast of Morocco. .... Eighty of the Muretainia's bottom plates were removed as a result of her recent stranding, and repairs will occupy eight weeks. The Carnegie Hall Arbitration meeting in Washington was marked by great disorder, and many of those present had to be ejected. The transfer of India's capital to Delhi involves a larger share of government to Indians and a greater measure of local self-government', ' HSi lady*.pri«3prt- of the Girls' 'mar School .fist night' stated that, our curriculum provides, too many esfoms and too little culture." , ■ • ' A. S. Bellerby, a Gisborne sheepi farmer, was found with his throat cut in the bathroom of the Grand Hotel, Wellington, yesterday. The House, of Lords has thrown out, the Naval Prize Bill on the ground that the representation of the British Empire on the Court is insufficient. Churchill states that the fleet never had less than 98 per cent of the full outfit of ammunitioni and two thirda the full supply of coal- The fleet is at times ready for action. Members of the House of Commons who voted for the Women's Suffrage Bill warn the Suffragettes that if rowdyism is persisted in it will gravely imperil the chances of next season's bill.