TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 214, 6 September 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Walter Scott, aged 31, committed suicide at Waipiro Bay. The death-roll at tho Bethtme colliery iisaster, France, totals sixty. An Italian tram conductor -was shot by a man who refused to pay a tram fare. Ranfurly Shield football match, Otago r. Auckland, on Alexandra Park tomorrow. John Casley, a baker at Paeroa, had !iis right hand cut off in a dough-mixing machine. New Zealand V. N.S.W. at Northern Union League football on the Domain to-morrow. W. Thomas, of Waimataiti School, has been appointed rector of the Timaru High School. The Board of Trade requires foreignjoing ships to carry sufficient boats for ill on boa.rd. The City Council has decided to call for alternative tenders for the paving af Karangahape Road. The Auckland rider, >T. Wadinan, made the fastest time yesterday in the cycle race round Mount Egmont. The schooner Elfriede, recently in Auckland harbour, was wrecked at Nukualofa about two weeks ago. Bassett Wood, Glamorganshire, occupying an area of 600 yards square, is moving bodily down a steep hillside. Hart, the Australian airman, broke Ms ikuil when he fell yesterday. The doctors are hopeful that he will recorer. The indifferent office accommodation %t the Auckland Land Transfer office is jommented on by the Public Service Com- " mission. The foundation stone of the Monnt Eden Road branch of the free public library will be laid by the llayor next Wednesday. A jealous husband has been arrested at Ooonamblp, X.S.W., for shooting a man whom he accused of writing lettera to his wife. Two trains collided in a London tube yesterday, the lirst tube collision which lias occurred in England. Eighteen people wore injured. The estimated populations of the cities on July SI are:—Auckland, 104,728, Christrbureh 82,004, Wollbijrton 71,427. Dunedin 05.690.' Ninv that the season for Park concerts is coming round again, the Auckland Pipe Band is asking the City Council for permission to perform. The credit balance in connection with Mr. H. S. Claughton's recent organ recital was .C 3 13/2, the City Council's share of which was £4 C/ 7. An Austrian army airship broke away from 100 gunners who vctc holding it. Three were carried up into the air. They hung on till exhausted, then dropped to death. Parliament has rejected a bill proposing to give Waitemata County Council power to purchase the ferry steanjpr running in. connection with the Takapur.a tramway. Mr. Havel octc Wilson, President of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, states that he was converted to the principle of compulsory arbitration during his recent Australasian tour. 'Hie medical snperintendent at "the Auckland Hospital will be asked, it is understood, to occupy the whole of his time in purely administrative work, to keep things going smoothly. Protests against allowing cart stands in front of the new Ferry Buildings were made last night to the City Council by tlie Devonport and Northcote Borough Councils. They say it would be a. danger to people rushing across to catch a steamer. '"lie Council has promised to -ec that the cans will not be a source of diinpor. Lease run out! Histed's drapery sale now on. l'onsonby Road.—(Ad.)