TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 74, 26 March 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The iaxLca'b strike in London ha» ""Virst pile of baths at Shelly Beach t» be driven on Tuesday. George Harby, of Ngaruawahia, f»i* mer, filed a petition, in bankruptcy. A voluntary agreement for a 5/ tnmirajm has been adopted in South Walea. ■ Cch. robrs' Arcade in Queen-street sold for f-22,550 to Messrs. Andrews and dark. Owiii" to the coal strike, the German i lines have raised the freight's to Ne"# ' Zealand. . . I The .Nationalists are raising funds t» counteract the Ulster campaign against Home Rule. r i A national subscription of £81,W»ior the purchase of an arr fleet has been raised in France. ' ►' Professor Jevons declare? that tae coal strike is costing Britain ten million* sterling a iveek. Pvocseveli; is receiring many letters threatening His life, and the police ar* specially guarding him. The Harbour Board decided this,after- ' noon to make provision for 'a more suit« able wharf at ETverheadT - ~" Roosevelt has bitterly-attacked Taft as a reactionary and JjjeTriend of tb.9 boascs and money power. It is reported that Britain is to have sole control of the Kew Hebrides, France withdrawing from the group. ' - - There were 1011 scholar* M-..the Mount Eden public school in February, and '£&• average attendance wa-s 948. ■Porpoises have exploded a nuiriber t>l raineo in the Dardanelles, and sbipmaaters fear to use the strait;'- ■•; In a tenement fire in Ifcirtmouth a. woman named Mrs. Callard and'her .ttree children were burned to death. ;'., Frederick Percy Caveraham; 'of <-*?«"*■ sham, remanded at Dunedin on s.<&U(ge>: of the theft of corporation fonde. Tile steamar Kdoni<l>ana is overdue _.aV. Perth, and fears are expressed that shfe was lost in last week's willy-willy.-Gifts to the University of London total £305,000. A total of a million is.needed •to adequately house the university. Meeting of Unionists last night decided to ask Mr. Hail Skelfcon to contest Mayoral election on behalf of Lath our. Thp West Australian Government ii establishing a State dairy ferai. to_. .enjj--ply miliC to the hospitals and sick. children. • ■ __:~Z . Scottish miners are breaking "awe/: , from the Federation and thousands have resumed in Lanarkshire and hundrede elsewhere. A young Chinaman named Wong.Chaste" remanded for a week on a charge of having Attempted to murder ihis wife at Auckland. Verdkt of -accidental death --returneil yesterday concerning.the death of. Tbaa.Doran. s. seaman, who fell down a etiaSv . wry at the \<r&a-rf. .' ;, Sew Zca land prodvets exported during past fortnight show a substantial increase uver tlio-so of "toe corresponding period of last year. The P.-cmicr of Britain .held-.-IOBJf conferences with the coal oyrnereyAiid the mer. yester-ky. A joint -conferesct is jwobable to-day. .-..■.. - . &iaii.rV; yestei iy tfen :n. -« hm, h« atfifr "ifij ~s. the, «'OKt forms or - - ¥t&x<ih apaches killed » chauffeur near Chintilly and drove to a bank, where they killed the cashier and.a clerk an<t drove off with. 40,000 francs. A very large sum. represents tie total of outstanding rates dne to the cittireh City Council, and summon so* are fco be ieeued forthwiti for their recoTery. Mr. James Eryce, Briiosh Ambassador to Washington, is to visit New Zealand eliortly. He is writing a -work on Democracy, aud wants to stidy-the Ddmlaion at first hand. V -_ '. V Retailers in GaristcJraTCh complain that business is on the quiet side, at the present time, but inquiries fail to establish that there is anything-in ike nature of a serious depression. The most recent' instance of irapMt newspaper enterprise is given -by thp "Century Magazine," which shows atfailing aviator who is addressed "bya',Tiews- :- paper boy as he gets nnar the , streets Newsboy to falling aviator: - "Extra!' ■Extra! All abotit your accident!" - . A society for the promotion of ■'bU3iness eflicicscy in commercial and trial enterpriaes ie about to-be formed by }>rominen't bankers, manufacturers, economists, and business experts in New York. The society, the o&jects Qf whiett ate endorsed by President Ta%, will have branches in a number , of -American ■cities. .-■■'■ The Harbour Board in comimttee<'WS" eonanended- to the Board this afternoba that the tender of ifcssrs. G. ■Fraser "arid Son# at £947 3/6 b?.. accepted for tha building of a steel abridge for.tha.ysbiT cular ferry. The eommiS"« z also recommended the acceptance of tSe tender of Messrs. D. Goak and Sonrfor tho constraation of a wharf at Kqhiinarama, the tender, ia question, £2519 10/1, beiny the lowest revived. . .