TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 213, 5 September 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Over forty men were killed in a mine explosion in Franco on Tuesday. The Australian* weTe beaten by Surrey and "Middlesex vnmbined by ten wickets. The Knglisli mail, via Suez, which left here on July -ft. arrived in London on August 31. A railway smash iicviirred in Meltwttrne las*, night, two men being killed ami 40 injured. The English mail , , via Vancouver, which left here on August 2. arrived; in I>.>ndon on September 2. An old man named Owen Tarroll was run over by » tram tit Taknpun-a last; uijjh-t. and killed. The death roll following.' the i-loud-bur3t in America totals 40. while damage Bu the extent of 11 7.>0.0<X> was • caused. Tut' nntuuunceiuenl that (treat 'Britain had lodged mi a[i|>li<ratii'ii for arbitration on the Panama Canal Ait is premature. Henry Wales and I. 1* SeAir were. arrested in hotels in Wellington yesterday, ami charged with having made bet*. The hea.vy rains have caused some dolay in the "train service at Pacroa and Waihi in consequence of slips an the line..*. The British Admiralty is laying down a :!o,oo<M«>n battleship, 700 ft long, armed with 14in. guns, and steaming at 29 knots. The local (bodies of North Canterbury urge on the <;<jvenvment fie .necessity , for completing fbe <>tira tunnel -without delay. The chief electoral ofiker reports that there are 41.000 names on the 'Dominion's rolls that should not be there, and recommends a thorough purging. Reports from different points along the Canton-Hankow railway etettethilt swarms of brigand* are lootinjr*hertowns and v4Ha?es in the Kwang-ffcnngr province. The French police have adopted the use of a chemical bomb wth-rch causes ■temporary h.|indn<w. It will be used' in arresting •brijrands of the 'Bonnot type. " The steamer Manaia when olearinf for Whangarei last night at No. 4 jetty collided with the *„«. Kanieri. The impact caused some alarm tn passengers, but there was little damage done. The Hon. <;. Kowldw last ni<rht took offu* as president of the Auckland district council of the United Labonr party. Mr. KowWe* resijr»a.tion from the Ward "Ministry wa.' announced a year ago today. The jury at the inquest on the body of Annie Beck, who was found dead at South Norswood on Friday, found that death was due to injuries caused by violence, and her husband has been arrested on a charge of murder. The motion 'for the committal i/f thm Legislative Council Election BUI was lost, in the Council by 20 votes to 13. The Prime Minister says that members of the House of Representatives will be given an opportunity to say something on the tn.tt.Ur. The second reading of the Marriage. Validation Act was carried in the House yesterday on the Speaker's «iM,fng rote. The report o£ the Civil Service Commission was presented to the House of Representatives last night. It recommends the appointment of a 'board of management. ■Avifkors in Russia will have to bn very careful in future where they pilot their machines when out for an aerial i*pin. Under the new espionage law any airman is cc.Vsidered a spy who is seen flying; tab. in sixteen miles of .i, fortress, and is lia-ble- to two to four years' imprisonment. The distribution of the--rental proceeds of the Supreme Court sit* fin Queen .Street) and the Chinamen's gardens (Parnell) if* the subject of t!be*l>ill now before Parliament. The-money is to lx> used for educational purposes, as recommended by a conference of the Auckland education bodies interested.