TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

—■ ■ The law- holidays for Aaedd-nd offices extend from December 23 to January 4. Tbe English mail, via Suez, which lesft here on Nov<_nber 7, arrived in Losdaa on. December 15. lire. Elim Hodson, a resident of Birkenhead, was found drowned in the hax.haur yesterday afternoon. John SimmeU, an inspector of work* for the Harbour Board, was severely crushed between two trucks yesterday. Servia has asked Britain to temporarily occupy Durazzo and Alas_io, pending a eettiemaent of the Austro-Serb diffiwrity. A wireless record was- p_fc _p ye_terday, when Honolulu spoke to Arlington station, near Washington, a distance of 5,600 miles. A email hoy named Ale___dex McPherson, of Grey Lynn, had a leg broken yesterday through a fall while playing on the street. Haitiey, an ondergxaduate of Jesus College, Oxford, died last •week as the re>sult of cryeaßtrain in stroking the college four in a race. There has been a treme_Ktoue drain „f gold from the Bank of Kngktnd. Ame_dca, Egypt, India, and Geranany are eager to secure bullion. The Paris newspapers complain fh-fc Austria, while arming to the teeth, gives no distinct ___ca±to<n of the _atnre or <»_te_t of her demands upon Senna. There has heen am ejioranoas dena-Trf for bro-ze coins in England at late, and the Mart/ft outprat eince Jmy has been doable .that of the whole of last year. Arch Hill is petitioning the e&crwe—nor to he declared part of A_ckle»ad «ity» the require number of sign-tares by residents having been, vatantarily esabscribed. _____ A girl of _-e l year«i "Efhel Seaiougnx, had a nasty fai ia afighthig too .soom from a tram at ithe Cnstoms Streeafc corner. Her bead, ws _os_-w__* severely hurt. Orders have "been placed •with Gift \ Kre-sot Work* by the "Prenefc. Go-era-ment for the supply of 80 cf the oew type of light grins. They are to he ready by July. .- F. Greenwood, a workman —£ th« Hamflton Gaewcrr_6, had a fall of 25ft. on account of a spanner slipping while _c had his weight oh' itT He ea capei with a number of braises.' A motorist last night drovs his CM plump into a large hole in Drake Street, "Freeman's Bay, where drainage 'work is in progress. The hole was jast large enough to accommodate tbe c*r bodily. W Venczelos, the GzeeMXi Premier, estates (that the-prime cancer - , of -the Balkan Governments is -to ___BO_3Bt« ■the Balkan Union in each a w»y ae'to •prevent; it being exposed to renewed. attacks. - ,* . A picture hy the French painter Degas has been aold in Paris to am American, for £I7,$(H). This is a record price fnr the work of a Hying arSstZ ' "Degas or*ginally received £20 for the picture that _as now realised quite a fejrt__e. Mr Lloyd George, speaJtiag "at Aberdeen, insisted that the first owtiilial to British social reform was a thorough change in the land system, wuoie luteals in tbe highlands were depopulates*!, and +B>e country devoted to deer and grouse. The I\Mtnr_eter-Ge_er_l an_o__ced in the Eoose of Commons that, the trials made with the eaper___Bt_l anxto—a tiie telephone e-sohaage had prrwed satisfactory, and that the in-»uu_km was being installed on a larger scale in several big cities. M. Bdoa-rd _ta_er has heen ■elected President of Svitzer___L He was bora in 1848, and -was formerly in the army, •with the rank of colonel, hot had coses recently been, chief of the Department of Justice and Police. In po_tks the new President » a Radical.

A .youth living at Bunct,a _u_nir_-ia. •the north-weet of London, w_e expiaining to -as sweetheai- <£he ■wu-kiug of aji automatJc pistol. He did not think thai the -weapon wae loaded, _ad polled the trigger. The hnfte* entered the girl* month, and. she ma* killed aietantly. The French ratraJxy are being armed •with a rifle that wifl he raoDd a great improvement on £he one irith T«b__i tferr, ■were f oranerly stspptied. The new weapon J6 simple In co-Btractioo, end espahle of being _aed under «I 1 coTjd"rtk_» and in any country. The inhabitaate of die little Spanish ▼ilage oi Benagever had a grndgagainst the local tax coßeeiboc, and wh__ he -ma asleep they iipiii_ih_ jiirfii-hwini on his clothes, and set fire io {_«__ The house was burned oat, sod As police bad great <_flscr_Sfcy in WOBBjg the gMHfI iifCjMiifi. __stea a OiiJsl___i _ux• opes nntil nine o'dock to-night, Fo_ao___; Boad.—<Ad)