TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 106, 3 May 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Great Pale at tioodson's. Rugby football club matches open toDorrott". The Titanic relief fund new totals £ 3-2-2,000. The Porte has derided 10 re-open tno Dardanelles. Hockey season starts to-morrow -with i tournament and sports. a'he Imperial Trade Commission meets n London at the er<l 01 .Tune. The -white population of New Zealand it 31st llan-ii la-t was 1.031.300. On the -itith of last month Sir Joseph SVard reached his liiiy-til'tli year. X.-. Talunc will arrive from Cook and -o.ietv Wands about 4 p.m. to-d.iv. Completion of work on the Auckland Iniinoge scheme is scheduled for 1913. Wellington"* imports for the year increased £040.35.";, and the exports ±:")4i»4. Thirty bushxnen at Taunmrumii struck, 'or an *S-hour day. but their places were illed. Kight hundred and ninety-one peoplo case electric power from the city power station. it was nineteen Tears on Wednesday since Mr. .Seddon became Premier of New Zealand. The English mail, via Suez, which left iere on March 21. arrived in London on April 26. .Municipal bath- near Hobson-street tvharf i* a municipal understating now; jn<ier way. The British inquiry into the loss of the Titanic has opened. There will be 300 witnesses. During the last three months over 40 boys were received at the Weraroa; Training Farm. Lightning =tru-k and -wrecked the telephone at Clevedon poet office on Tuesday evening. The price of coal is being advanced half a-cro\vn a ton in Britain owing to the -Minimum Art. It is 0!) years since N°vv Zealand om> -iaUy separated from the mother colony, New' . ,».tth V.V.les. The IT i!.— ■ ■ -11 mail 'ia San Francisco, which left here ■■!, March 28, arrived in London on April 30. Mr. ". W. Shackelford succeeds fan* . i .pu--fli Mr. C". .T. Tunk- (resigned) on Ut. Eden !>.-ough Council. Mr. Richard Monk, an Auckland pioneer, and one time M.P. for Waiiema.a, lied at H»iC-nsvillp vesteni?". A vn'ity meeting of I>in-.:era ratepayers last uiprht passed a r-■ lunon calling on the Road Board to reaign. The Hon. T. V. Duncan. ex-M.P.. was presented with an addles- and a purse of =ovr-rei o rs at Oamaru l-*r night. The big ;iner .Sthenic took away dairy produce valued at about £116.000 '.T 'v r last voyage from _\rw Zeulan . ■vVhanirarei Harixjiir Board i.- in a quandary about the site of the proposed, new entrance light, to harbour. Good bars are reportrd by some few sportsmen, but the jjer-ra! experipn'c or the opening shoot was dis.ipTointin;*. A df-i'.ock has a.risen in the ='"ti: ; .7 : > of the fijr;ir oonrnission, the oftic-r s of the C^.R- C'.j. refusing to £_ c evidence. The veatiU'Jon of P..rliamer' is to be improvi a, a sum of money having been c "portioned by Cabinet for tna; purpose. Free university education to secondary" «->ioo'. pupils outside the junior sr" olar- = ;idps is .1 propoeal of the nt a' Minister of duration. Pictures by Bertram Prieetinan and Mr«. Mair inep a ' ; f? K. K. .-perryi have b. en preserited to the iVellington naticn.il art gallery. Til? British Admiralty hn- decided to rei'TTani- 1, the navy iiuo battle squadrons. Six. of ,i total of eight, will be formed forthwith. y.c. Foster, Canadian Minister for Tr.ide and >. ommercf. says that wi--rority v. iih the United State- is no.v and forever buried. The Irak apt from the Fret- Pub!- Library reference sect' n las, year conFisted of 70 volume, cix of tlwm from the Grey collection. A tugboat tvhile inspecting t,uo\ in thfi DarianeiU-5 fouled a mine. Four officers and 12 soldiers and members o£ the r; w were drowned. An axe stated to have been a personal present from Captain Cook W* yea.'3 ago ie among tnp heirl-- >rus of a native at ingake (Gisbornei. Thirty three domestics chaperoned 'by a matron were amongst the Ruahine's 320 thirds , lass passengers who arrived at "Wellington last night. The provisional committee was informed by Colonel Allen Bell that he knr\v of numbers of men waiting to join the Legion of Frontiersmen. A wireless message was received ai Wellington fixing the arrival of a steamer for a certain time, 5.15 a.m.. and almost to the minute the vessel berthed at the wharf. Stop banks guarding towns along the Mississippi have broken and the destruction of farms and flooding of low-tying areas of the towns are -certain. Many persons are missing. The City Council* electrical plant generated 110,936 units during the fortnight ended April 21. eight new cu*topicrs being connected in the period, bringing the totni consumers to S9l. A visitor remarked om day: '"MV children are li-ig so d smart at *chool that I am obliged to use the library to keep ahead of them.'"— (Extract from the annual report of the Librarian of the Auckland FreV Public Library.* The Wellington City Council is se?!cing an amendment of sei-i ; ->n i) oof the Public- Works Act. IWS. ; the direction of giving local bodies uthority to order repairs to insanitary buildings. The matter will "be brought up for discussion at th" forthcoming municipal ronferenc-p. Read Histed's "bi<r drapery aiivertisetnent acro<» lop of page —(Ad.l Some of to morrow's big specials. Large quantity of ~ilahtlv damaged dress tweeds." SJd. "l. 13. 1 'r,, ] '0. 1/11 per yd. See these roodis! >"--ne the won-e, »nd a biz variety to select from.Grey \nd Ford. Ltd.. Karangahape-road.--(Ad)