TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

: Anniversary of Burgess' successful i channel ewim. Labour Day-will be observed in Auck* land on October-28. S.s. Maheno expected to arrive from Sydney at 10 a-m. to-morrow. Annual general meeting of Kefornj Club postponed tin next week. Auction of flower show exhibits after the show to-night at the Town Hall. , The Russian Stock Exchange is Being affected by rumours of war in the Balkans. Seventeen men were burned to death by a fire in a barn near St. Petersburg yesterday. Two native children were drowned in the Whirinaki river at Rawene yesterday afternoon. Twelve passengers were killed in a. collision ill Mexico. Four-cars were? N smashed to matchwood. Consols.are again weakening, baring risen to £75 12/6 ou.August-23, are now quoted at £74 10/. The Democrats are very "bopefnl of winning the Presidential election-u a j result of the Republican eplit. . I A quantity of wreckage has been found on the beach at Knaka.ka, near Mangapal but none of it is identifiable. The Australians made 203 runs foraLn* wickets against Lord Londeeborough's eleven, rain interfering with. play. ■ A freak burglar in Ifew" Tort stole six thousand hats from a store. !Not a single other article -was-'touched. Senator Chauncey Depew does -not think that America will arbifcratexm.'the i Panama Canal- Bill, since-she .is— sure*to> be beaten. - ' As a memorial to •Generanjooth,.the new general appeals. for to»*»----tabliah a college for training,-officers'."fot the Salvation Army. , Ruby Humby (3 yeare)"broke herright arm yesterday by falling- on.- the- kerbstone of the pavement near her Tiome in Lincoln Street, -Ponsonby. : ' , The flagship Drake returns i.o-.Englaticf in January so that her crew may be available to the Admiralty before a crew. is supplied to the Australia. '•■■*' A millionaire householder, aroused by, a burglar, grappled with the. intruder, but had to loose him when stabbed. An arrest on suspicion has been made. A private immigration company with.' a capital of half a million is being formed in Australia. One of its objects will be to provide ready-made farms. Mr W. Wilson yesterday afternoon accidentally motored over an embankment near City Market. He got off with a severe cut on the head and a bad shaking. . Railway officers, at Dnnedin "lastnighfc made statements deprecating the Civil Service Commission's proposal to interfere with the present classification of the service. : ■ ' Mr John Bollard, MJ. for Eden, announces that he will contest the seat next- election, and that he has-iiot signified approval of the selection.'of another candidate. •"• , - v; . Two British Army officers,' Lieut. - Stewart and Ca.pt. Hamilton, 1 -were killed;/-;" itybale morioplaning at Stonehenge. A German lieutenant was -also-killed while ■ flying Jeeterday. ■ ■ -" : '■ ■ - -■■ ■■■.■'■ ■• ; •■ . *Fred C*Tlaebn,- 12 years of ; age, waij standing by while -his father felled » ' ■- tree in Big Bosh, near Kelson," yesterday, :. when a*limb of the tree'felL-on&heiboy's . head,' killing ' him. ' -> ■;",■.;. The sinking of a j front>-wheel of 'a'.'JJ loaded wagon into a dram on the road . at the-top of Symonde Street last night ■ caused a blockage of one side of the ' street for an hour or so. ■ . v/, , John Nicol, of Dnnedin, 27 years of age, hanged himself in a cellar 'under his parents' house. He was missed on Wednesday, and was found hanging • in ' the cellar yesterday afternoon. , , v A•' colliers' " strike in Charles£own, West Virginia, has -assumed-.-serious • pro- ' portions, and the militia have been called oot. Fighting has been going on, and several have been killed. , . .. The petition to bring Qnebnnga . Zoo under the control of the.local authorities was signed by 13!» names, .and'-the counter petition by 3,879 " -names. '•' Both , - hare been referred to the GoTaernment for con- " sideration. . . .' \ . Affairs afc Waihi are -quiet, but it is eased -this 'may be the-calm before the storm. • • -