TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 145, 18 June 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Anniversary of Waterloo. Conference at Waihi to-day. i No hop* of settlement. The Cost of Living Commission is expected in Auckland on Thursday. BalJ, the Bengara (.X.S.W.) wife-mur-derer, was executed yesterday. Twenty-eight were killed and many others injured by tornadoes in Central Missouri and Ohio. Oka to butter factory near New Plymouth was burnt down last night. An hotel in -Pahiaina was partially unroofed by a severe gale on Sunday. The Auckland butchers' award is before the Conciliation Council to-day. The first Test between England and Australia opens on Monday at Lord's. Surrey made 190 against the Australians" who have lost two wickets for 35. The Scottish Transport Umon decided, by an overwhelming majority, against a strike. The match between the Africans and Somerset could not be started yesterday, owing to rain. M. Champion, the Auckland swimmer, won a half-mile -open swimming match at Surbiton on Saturday. Roosevelt says that his campaign is a naked fight* against, theft, but the thieves are not going to win. The British Government's Franchise Bill provide.-: for the one-man-one-vote system, and simplifies registration. •Despite a proposed expenditu-re on the streets of £.'38.770. the city rates for the current year will not he increased. iWilLiain Ginsberg, a Jewish clothier, was found in the cellar of his shop in Dunedin lust night with his throat cut by a penknife. A L'alifornian fanner found a wild goose bearing a tag. "North Pole, June 24, 1890. Major Andree." The story, lacks confirmation. The British transporters admit that the national strike was a bad card to play. It" was no use pretending that they we're not hard up. Ben Tillett has cabled -to the Sydney, waterside workers to block all Londonbotind vessels. The recuiest will he considered to-morrow night. • Distress among the London dock strikers is acute. The men are ready to accept any settlement agreeing to the payment of average wages. The project of forming King's College into a national boarding school on the lines of the English public schools is ex■pected to be completed within a fortnight. The conduct of the Auckland University students at the recent capping cay. nival formed tbe subject of adverse remark at the College Council's meeting yesterday. A deputation to the chairman of directors of the Devonport Ferry Co. with a request that the half-hourly service be continued till midnight was sympathetically received. Tommy Burns will meet Bill Richard, the Vancouver "hope."' on August rt, for a £200 side bet. Burns will be allowed the entire purse of £1000, the contest being for 15 rounds. Mr. Aircher. principal ship surveyor to the Board of Trade says that men-datious, if adopted last, year, would have jriven the Titanic boat aceOnrniodtilion for nearly :?000. Roosevelt lias decided not to accept 111" decision of the National Committee, and plans to secure the vote of the uncrmtcsted delegates immediately tho Republican Convention meets. This v. ill clear the situation. It is stated on good -authority that the White Star Company, acting on the advice of Mr. Pierpont Morgan, may change its name. A change in the title of the company has been under consideration for some time. It is considered that the sensational wreck of the Titanic is not conducive to an increase in the business -of the -company.