TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Takapuna races to-morrow. A child died suddenly in Hobson-streeti ysterday. England beat Tasmania yesterday by, eight wickets. The Waitomo caves are popular thia year with overseas visitors. Perth has adopted, the Saturday hallholiday instead of the Wednesday. The Tramway Company will have 13fl cars in commission by October, 1912. A litigant at Marseilles shot two opposing lawyers and then attempted suicide. On Stewart Island, the show summer resort of the Far South, opossums have become a pest. A petition to test the validity of the Horou native district no-license poll has been filed. While playing cards at a residence in Pitt-street last night an elderly man dropped dead. Sun Yat Sen offers to resign -the presidency of the Chinese Republic if Yuan Shih Kai will accept it. The parasite affecting the Rotorua trout is the subject of veterinary study by the Government experts. On March 1 domestic servants will ! come under the scope of the Workers' <_ ompensat.on for Accidents A:t. An American cruiser and a liner collided at Honolulu, owing to the liner's pilot dropping dead on the bridge. Churchill persists in his determination to speak in Belfast on February 8. Many of the newspapers predict bloodshed. The weekly half-holiday in Waihi has been changed from Wednesday to Saturday on the casting vote o{ the Mayor. It is just nineteen years since the New Zealand Shipping Company inaugurated a direct service with London. A Sydney rock-driller was killed by a drill falling across a motor, and shortcircuiting the current through his body. I The trouble arising out of the Brisbane tramway strike is spreading, and a general strike may be the ultimate result. The Pacific Cable Board prefers the Sydney-Auckland cable route to the proI jlosed" alternative from Melbourne to Bluff. For taking unlabelled liquor into a prohibited area in the King Country, G. P. Barclay, of Manunui, was yesterday fined £5. The by-laws which have originated from the City Sanitary Inspector's startling report of last May will be put in operation in a month. Dr. W. A". Robinson has been permanently appointed by the freezing companies to scrutinise the marketing of New Zealand meat in London. The population ebb and flow for 1911 left the Dominion 4200 people richer, tha arrivals being 41,389, and the departures 37.189. The gain in 1910 was 3408. The wireless operator on the Mantua, when near Melbourne, received signals from Jask in the Persian Gulf, 60C0 miles away, a Tecord for distance. The Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board have been granted office accommodation in the Town Hall at a rental of £230 per annum, including cleaning. Dominion postal and telegraph revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 1911, was £317.754, as compared with £319,347 for the corresponding quarter of 1910. The Prime Minister is spelling at Rotorua, arfd eschews all discussion of politics. On Monday he will turn the first sod of the Xapier-Gisborne railway. The maximum speed at which any person may "do" the Domain is twelve miles per hour on bike or motor, and eight miles per horse or horse vehicle. Candidates for university examinations, when prevented by physical disability from using a pen readily, may at future examinations use a typewriter. The Board of Cricket Control says that it will not permit any number of cricketers to dictate terms of the visit to England, or how the manager is to be appointed. Savings bank deposits in the last three months of last year exceeded withdrawals by £144,328. This money residium for the December quarter of 1910 was £2Bl-363. Last month'* milk cheque of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Ltd., amounted to £52,384, the quota for the suppliers to thp largest creamery on the list beinjr £2147. Auckland Cricket Association have been granted permission by the Town Council to take up a collection at the Domain crates to-morrow to raise funds for the Southern tour. The Tramw.lv Company has undertaken to supply salt water from the power house for the Hobson-strocr Voths. provided it does not interfere with the companv's pumping arranarnent-. A native horseman. Frapita T' nVi. "n Monday fell from hi' mount : n a Botorua street as the rrsr.lt of sfr-'KI'-cr his knee against a comer no=t. en I -"- rair.ed head iniuTi°s which his death. A general meetlr:;? of the Club is called for fo-nia-ht (Fri4a"-i in Buchanan's Cafe. Knrantrahape-r-'mo'. a: 7.45 p.m.—J. C. Kaine. Hon. Secretary, 24. High-street.— 'Ad.) The dranerv portion of our rirernl-es will be closed to-morrow mornin?. reopening at 2 p.m.. with big bare-air- in salvage goods.—Grey and Ford, Ltd., Newton.—(Ad.)