TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 299, 16 December 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ilrst test match. Australians batting well. - Jive wickets for 317 runs. Point Erin Park opened to-day. Auckland regatta at the park front. Conservatives counting their Cabinet Unusual thermal activity at Rotorua. Maori members to be elected on Tues» day. Auckland birfclrrate shaping for a record. Trumper made 95 not out in the first test yesterday. Mayoral reception held at Point Erin Park yesterday. Sir John Rndlay returned to Wellington last night. The Governor entertained by Hon. E. , Mitchelson for the week-and. 1 ■ Three Lascars Wvef e drowned in assisting tile Delhi's passengers to get ashore. Chamber of Commerce agitating for , light and fog signals on the Three Kings. Shipping and waterside 'workers' conference in Dunedin next week—meantime a truce. Government expert declares thai the Waikaremoana is built to be harnessed for electric power. The Rev. Dr. Brace, one of Auckland'* church pioneers, died at Sydney yesterday, aged 87 years. Mr. Wallia ilyers offers to bring a representative English tennis team to Australia- next year. The War Office is offering £6OOO sterling in prizes for an aeroplane competition open to the world, and £SOOO confined to British planes. . The second trial of Dr. Hyde for fch« I murder of Colonel Swope ended in failure, one juror going insane. Warner's illness is more serious than -was at first thought and he will have to. return to England. He may never play again. Mr. E. D. O'Rorke -tvas fare-welled yesterday by the Fakuranga Hunt Club, and presented with a solid silver double inkstand. _ The new Union Company's steamer Tahiti reached Wellington yesterday, inaugurating the Sydney-Wellington-'Frisco aermce. fclr WUJiam Russell say 3 that there is a great feeling of industrial; unrest in England and that no man dare predict what the oKmax wiTl be. A body found floating in the Piako River on Thursday near Thames identified -is that of the boy Douglas Quaxtermain, drowned at Xerepeehi tea days ago. The Archduke Henry Ferdinand, •brother to Princess Louise of Saxony, has fallen in love with a bourgeois beauty and has been given his conga from the court. The Commonwealth Govemmant is raising the first loan, "which totals £2} millions for the trans-continental railway, offices in London, and acquisition of land in Federal territory. Asquith says that he is convinced that women's franchise would te> a mistake of a very disastrous kind and that thos» Opposed to it should take their coats off and put the case against the suffrago as cogently as possible. Real haud-made silk maltese scarves, 2/11 up. 300 dozen handkerchiefs, Id, 2d, 3d, 4id, 6<L up. Bargains in every, department at Histed"* Sale, Poasanbj-