TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 300, 18 December 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Summer gale. First test matchAna tralia's strong position. English mail lin; another due to-mor-row. Delphic in port with * Christmas cargo. Chamber business in Supreme Court to-day. The death is announced of the Malnv rajah" of Nepaul. Monster meeting of children in Town Hall to-morrow. Hobbs, 03 not out, batted well lor the Englishmen on Saturday. Gray beat Stevenson in the first match of their rubber by C 36 points. Sun Yet Sen, leader of the Chinese revolt, has arrived at Singapore. The Vancouver boat will probably not reach port till to-morrow evening. Otoko section of East Coast railway to be opened just after Christmas. Australia scored 447 against M.CC, who replied with 142 for four wickets. - Infant found dead in bed at Ponaonby yesterday; supposed to- have been overlain. Dunlop. one of tfte Australasian Davis Cup tennis teams, passed through Auck|iand yesterday. | Two little girls wene run down by a train at a level crossing at Terafta, Sydney, and killed. The Drake, the new; togßhip of the Australian station, has sailed from Portsmouth for Sydney. . A.uew eoat-of-aans design for Auckland City has been designed by the Loudon College of Arms. Trumper has now scored sir centuries in test matches, and has scored 2000 runs in these contests. Gift seats to the number of 43 hava been donated for PoSnt Erin Park. Tho Mayor appeals f0r.57 more. A youth 18 years of age was killed by a hoarding in front of the new post office being blown down this morning. The fluddard-Parker steamer , Zealandia has been quarantined at Sydney offing to an. outbreak of diphtheria. ... , Canterbury defends, the Franket Sbirfil . against Otago at Christmas. The defending eleven has been selected. Letter-carriers protest against good conduct stripes on th»" ground that they, wfll breed invidious comparisons, ; . * S.s. Kemuera was made short handed by desertions at Wellington and had to engage men at for the trip ■ Some.' * The Shield "challengers are in Auckland. They meet tha Grammar School (defenders) to-morrpw. row. Australian representaifives at the Australasian athletic- champiuushiuß ' will , pass through Auckland «l route foe Wellington. Vißcount Haldane, War Minister, feays that, despite what has been said about German soldiers, Britain's - *** the finest in the world. I Gerald Byrne, locomotive fireman, was drowned in the . harbour yesterday through the swamping of a dinghy containing a yachting party. l | Gisbprne backblocks «

Wharekopac eettler has. to sledge his wool 40 miles at a greater cijet than freight from Gisborno to Loildon. " 'Failing a settlement, of wagiss, trou>le - tho Auckland tramways will.be out' of - commission nest Saturday- A'■cbJiler"' 1 ; ence between Both sides'•will be belfl to- ; night. / The Wellington Licensed Trad* Defence League -consider prohibition a policy of negation and destruction arid that the people will recognise it as iroch at the next liquor poll. The Australian aviator, SnvdUck, made an endurance flight yesterday, when, with a passenger, he rcmaqtar In the air 4 hours 23 minutes, thus lishing.» new record.,. ;._, .Ar'— 2 'Q...35. Hill, of Auckland, ran-a- mile at Wellington on Saturday in 4mrqf. sec., the fraction being just th/it jnncbr over the Australasian record, c^toibirsUed; by.-Shrubb in Auckland in lflOii. Another stage in the great, dynamite cases .-\yill be reached when Betective) Franklin is tried on the charge of having attempted to_ bribe one of. tlje jirry empanelled for the trial of thfe iMcNamaras. Overtures are said to 1 have, been: made to Franklin to plead guilty, and thus- get" released' by' payment 61' '.k fine. His attorneys, howewer, L declare that they are going to. fight "thp case.