TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 75, 27 March 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

s A westerly gale, wit-, rain, 'is pre_icte4_ A Reform"dab _*wnooted by the Oppo» sition party. Mnitkiipal fish market for 'Auckland ii still in tne air. Ee-_i_m was discovered by M. Curtt nine yyars ago. Jtemuera tramway extension proceeding satisi-ctorily. Electric .nuns started rur-ring is Inve-cargill yesterday. Mayoral elections for city and suburbs on Wednesday, April 24. Over a thousand striking miners ro sirraed work in England yesterday. Papakura resident- protest against inconvenience of suburban train service. Increase of a penny an hour granted by the Harbour Board to its labourers. In a match of 9000 levei at Glasgow Gray has scored 1503, and Stevenson 813* An avalanche in Austria, killed eieVes ski excursionists, while another fcilletf two. A big railway strike is threatened in America ever the question of engineers' wages. Bishop Oleary presented: with a 30-h.pu motor car by a number of young Auckland friend.. Tbe £5000 guarantees required for the forthcoming- Auckland ___hibition already ovCT-snl»cribed. The "NJS.W. Food Snpply Commission recommends the Govenrmeat to develop deep-sea trawling.'- : -,; New scheme for- hospital bail dings, abolishing wooden structures, submitte-. to Hospital Board last night. ... The appeal for : money for Barry's training expenses for his match With Arast has been very poor so far. 'A firece battle is raging round Jaurez, Northern Mexico. The ; Government; troops have lost over 400 killed. __jy Hall Skelton assured unions .that he fivours a •conference between General U_ion.and the City CounciL *_rr_itce, a married man, was killed instantaneously at Franktoa Junction railway station this morning. Allegations of impropriety...... among some of the girl immigrants by the At-enic are "resented try the captain -and matron. It is rumoured that three Wairarapa land speculators recently made' something like- £30,000 out of a deal in the Taupo distriot.-- '.-"..-.'--"-"'--'•-. - .. George on Takapuna tramways, had a' leg crushed between two trams yesterday -evening. Tha limb was amputated. . William Willcox, a mine, in Hnitty Extended coal-" mine, -was scorched yesterday morning by a flare of gas in the mine ig-ited by his naked.lamp. An agitation in Persia, in lavour of t_e ex-Shah's -return, has resulted in the proclamation of martial law, and the occupation, of Meshed try Husiria. The Sydney Fire Brigade Commissioner views with alia.nn. the growth of high buildings in -he city; soqie being dbublft the height of the longest cscapa,. .-■ —ainera. say that .they gkve/too long notice o't thie present; strike and thus enabled -he" nation *S.'bu-id" upcoal reserves. Next time they strike it "will be 'swift, and sure. : The liondon Court of Sessions dealt with .126 suffragettes yesterday. Those promising not to repeat their crimes were bound over, while the rest went to gaol for four.months. The appropriation of damaged sto_k 4fter a .fire' by'an' employee of Heath, and Morrison's 'drapery firm In Whangarei, resulted in the employee being fined £2 " for indiscretion.'' , The robbers who stole a motor in France, murd-fed tfifee audlboted. the "bank :atV.CSU"U~-_ly,iescapedi when their cat: broke down by climbing aboard V! slowly;"moving tnuic'r;; *-*""—~~*"—-,-•-- ---; * Gisborne Harbour Board has ■ adopted a engineer for reorganising the staff and dispensing with the" '■' services of the, assistant-hair-, bourmnster .and wharfinger. •. ■A ..cojiference,"betw«en;the miner3.„an;_,: the owners, which took Mr. Asquith tVvo days' to arrange, .-ended in a fiasco,: the. men's demands, it is ;illeged, being suddenly, raised 'by ninepenee-a day. - Harbour- Board accepted D. Ijlouk and. ~6onVtender ■■6l "£2319 10/<-Qr comtimcttion of Kohimaraina "wharf.; and G. .leaser .and -Son's tender, .bl . £947. for steel bri^^L-ocveh_:i^rSeriy.,a<arvlce, v ,,, _" ;. SUe of leaseholds at St.. .George's and Freeman's Bays ;add3 £1433.;. 10/. per "annum . to_ the T Hftrbour.; BoaTd rey,enu,e,; Co_Msky's„-or which an offer of -20,000 was recently refused, passed unsold at:;_s.iL?.spr:J-,:..' : r' : ._--T. .-y.'. " A j»Jl.t»ke^pn„.the i proposal -to;merg_ the. St." Anbyit town district,-and so com* plete the-Greiii-ter New Plymouth scheme, and enable tho installation of trains-to be proceeded, with, the proposal lttijjngainst, 107. -■-''".'";:., ~ ;■ MMt-rton-icsidents' Rrefinding fault sun; "remarking- that in some ol the-^-^h^fcautom-dayß) this •year there:has,beeTi very little-heat. The Rev, -'j6a.te& may 3JS able to offer some explanation, perhaijps,-■', -' -'-__'-■- The..high- j-iihg-for csist-ironv-pipes, re-ulting from the labour troubles in England, has upset the Calculation- of. _ever_l tenderers .for water*works extensions in different parts of the Dominion, some of which are hung ap Mefinitely in consequence." -: . The hon. medical staff appointed to the Auckland Hospital last night are:— Dr. Dudlej.••■.(visiting physician), Mr. Gore Gilum (visiting surgeon) j Dr. Pabst (op-thab-dc surgeon),-Dr. Hardie Noil (surgeon for ear, nose, and throat), TJr. Constance Frost (pathologist), Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Cawkwell (anae-thetists). \.i" "