TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 166, 12 July 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Waihi bandsmen on strike. Street collection to-morrow for Remucm Children's Home. Rugby football championships at Alexandra Prtrk .to-morrow. -Soccer and League football, •hockey, and lacrosse <-hampionships .to-morrow. The total number of deaths resulting from the Codefoy (Yorkshire) explosion was 81. Hawke's Bay Fanners' Co-operative, Association net profits last year totalled £29,583. Queensland is issuing a two-million 3$ per cent loan on the London money market at 90. The arrivals in New Zealand durinjr May nuubered 2758 and there -were 3197 departure-. An old man, Robert Stewart Homer, wad found dead in his Tent atMaungamii on Wednesday. William Aldridge and Edward Collett were drowned when crossing Wairau Bar yesterday. Seventy children have died in Montreal as a result of the heat wa\e. Conditions are not improving. 11. Champion, 'the Auckland swimmer, retired at 700 metres in the 1500 metres a"H mi at t!ie Olympic games. There is much, friction in Stockholm over the judging at the Olympic games and some of the regulations. ". The marine regulations as to deck: ."■arpo ruirl oarrianre of live stock in ships have l>eeii ma more drastic A younsr man named John Haj>coek. njji-d M. suicided in a boardintr-house in New North Road yesterday by cutting his throat. The Um-luinga Zoo popuJaluort has I been increased during the week by the J birth.of two leopard cubs and a Russian bear baby. Tin" transfer of the naval base from j Sydney to Auckland means a los* of i trade to the- former -port of from i'SO.OOft Ito £ 100.00(1 a year. The contractor for iho supply of tai- :- ber for ihr WaLhi mine who suspended operations when the strike took place has resumed work. I The Duke of Connaught denies that an. ! i= ponding between Priiica Arthur of Conna.-u<*ht "and the Prince.-?* Al<'\audrovna of llussia. The Ilawke's Bay Farmers' Co-opera-live Association made a profit last year of U25,.")57 12/7, and will pay a dividend of S per cent., a bonus of 12. On two charges of obtaining money by false proteinics. Humry P-ie Yereoe wad sentenced at T.uiran<ra to two months , impri-nnnu'iit with hard labour. The Victoria League has notified tliß City Council that it .will co-operate iti any step* taken to make a suitable • |ir<\-cnt:ilion to H. 11.5. Xew Zealand. London fkvk -inkers and non-unionist-! foi'jrht with hammers, curljrel-i and iron railinjrs \rsterday. .two seriously injured. Six hundred police rcstoretL order. Some < hine-" <rramophone records lent hy Mr. Ah (hee will lie. u-ed by Captain Vouni; in the course of Irs Inctiiro "ii -Music" at the Leys Institute to-lli^'h , .. A r.UT of "iiX> miles from Kaipn.-a to l.vttclion harbour between the schooner Eliza l-'irUi and the brigajJ'tjne Ara.tapu. resuited in a narrow win for the schooner. 'Hi.' .-hare register of the Hikuran"! Coal ( o:npaiiy will he cloned from th<loth to :he loth in-art., both days inclusive, preparatory to the 'payment of a dividend. An old" man named Robert Stewaif Homer was found dead in his ti>nt at Maiunranui \ :'.-"prday. At the inquest a verdict w» .-: urned that, death was dim to natural c.i u.-r.s. The situation in Turkey is very prove, Uld the Albanian, revolt threatens to d«.clop into a freneral movement ajrainst :!ie Government and the Commit of Jnion and Progress. The Antarctic exploring ship Aurora reports small success in the matter of lecp sea .specimens and in moving pic;ure snap-shots, the latter on account of .he weak sun rays. The arrival of the Commonwealth •misers Australia and Melbourne lias seen postponed from December to April, partly from a complex reason which is li'layinjf the construction of all iJritt^ , : vessels. A silver medal ho- l>een forward-.-d from Italy to New Zealand for j)resenlntion to Mr. \V. E. Lon.ar. formerly of the i.S. Ophir, and now res Ment in New Zcaand, for services rpndei?a at the time >i the Messina earthquake. At an inquest on Dr. Hudson, killed >n Monday by the Apaize of his notor car at S(>ooner's F»Jige (Nelson), -hy jury to the vSrdiiefc of accilenta! dt at h a rider that all motor driv■rs should hold a certificate of coropel■iicy. O'rey and Ford's annual sale starts toaorroWj 0- —-.(Adjj .