TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 13 June 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ,1 ■ Second Test match ended. Airjca, again well beaten. England wins by innings and 62- runs* • Australian mail'via Wellington'"due tomorrow morning. The underwriters take 87 per cant oi the New Zealand loan. Two American airmen were killed during a flight on Tuesday. Two bundled natives were killed by the Aleutian volcanoes this week. The House of Commons is considering the Home Rule Bill in committee. Heavy rain and wind, with a low temperature, are predicted for the next few days. The Hon. A. M- Myers defends the Railway 'Minister's right of veto in appeal cases. George Wadman, a resident of Onehunga, dropped dead while leading a, calf at To Papapa. Lord Northland; eldest son of the Earl of Ranfurly, was married to Miss HoldCooper yesterday. The body of Wm. Brown, drowned in the wreck of the Lottie at Whangaruru, has been found near Cape Brett. The Australian Government proposes a maternity grant of £5 for every child registered in the Commonwealth. The "Times" thinks that New Zealand's debenture issue is probably the best -way out of a difficult position. Another 'buoy from the missing dredge. _a__ester has been picked np near the Manukau Heads on the West Coast. The s_ Navua, the mid-week boa* from Dunedin, is running a day late, and will not reach Auckland tul to-morrow. Professor Metchnikoff claims to have discovered the microbe of long life. Ha declares that be has achieved excellent results with animals. -,-,.• With the assistance of the Conciliation: Council an agreement has been adopted disposing of a furniture trade dispute] in Otago and Sr>u___d. The Rugby Union and P»»_a*wr first fifteen discussion ra refusal of .the latter, to carry out last Saturday's fixture baa been adjourned for a week. Sixteen watexsiders appeared at the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of bring parties to the strike on _wi s.s. Paparoa in November. During the discussion on the HornRule Bill a liberal member moved ta exclude Ulster from its operation. MX. Asquith refused to consider, this. A Melbourne paper declares t'bat the morale of the turf is at a very low ebb, and that the jockeys are sometimes in collusion to take down the owners. Mr. Asquith says fiat one- of tha surest safeguards to Imperial unity and loyalty is the increasing trade between the Motherland and the. Dominions. Harry Douglas Cook, _» years, of age, a. book canvasser, living at Kaitarrgata, dropped dead in the Stirling Atbenaeum, the cause being haemorrhage of the brain, The Minister for Public Works declined to make any promise concerning the connecting of Rotorua and Taupo by rafl, which meant an expenditure of £400,000. Miss Marie BaineSj in Marie. Mather, told her creditors in Chr_t_nrrcb yesterday that sbe bad no money with which to leave New Zealand. Her total liabißties are £369, and assets nil. Lees Bros., the English taflons, of Queen-street, have opened a branch shop at 137, Karangahape-road, where they will give the same style, fit, and workmanship that has made them tbe leading tailors in tbe city. A large range of the latest materials now showing at both establishments.—'(Ad.)