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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 304, 20 December 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Interclub bowling nuttohes continue io-moiTow. The curlew shooting mn-opens on January lart. English Davis Cop (bean _fl play in Auckland to-morrow. Forty men were kil'«Mjr-k«aCuery explosion in Germany. The Balkan Peace Congre_ feus been, adjourned units Saturday. The Turks claim that they defeated the Greeks with heavy loss near Janina. The German barque Nonzia, Newcastle to Antofagasrfca, has been posted, missing. The British ba-_esh_p 2_al •will take Mr. Whitelaw Reid'a body across to America, District cricket drib t*_np___. tomorrow at Ed_ Park,--"the-Xtamain, and North Shore, Destructive bush fires acre -reported from the Cootamunda. <__c& of Jiew South Wales. The High Court of has unanimously decided that the Federal land tax is valid. The Supreme Count Christmas vacation commences to-day- and finishes on January 31, 1913. A fire in Nottingham OKnaetl damage totalling £70,000, and t_rar aeweral hu_ dreds of people out of "work. The majority of British in ■ijii[> m will not pabinah on CSxcobnas XJtey-,_ minion work ere being _r_ freed. A motor car fell down & ravine in Holland on Wednesday, one _ttß—tgex being killed and three severely injored. The Norse whalers Boack aid Eagle -intend to test the WestraSan whaling grounds before returning to Etrrope. As a result of the am___ors* corrfereztce, the Adriatic and Albamazt W-Uwasrg questions are -well towards _fc_memt. A man in K_goa_e «hofc lis w_> dead, and then <-__rt£ed suicide, bocause she took a position as a. barmaid. A general melee ooenxxed on the floor of an Adelaide Court yeßtterday, when some firemen were being tried fox desertion. It is r_io_ed that a-„nrp d'etat baa been prepared against the Portugal Government. The troops sre<-ot>n*Sned to barracks, Timothy Higgins, who fell down a shaft at the Grand -Junction mine yesterday, died this morning izt the Waihi Hospital. The Board of Education has decided to accede to the request of the Birkenhead Borough Council for an infant school at Birkenhead. The -men. of a traffic branch of the Post and Telegraph Department in Christchurc'i are pe_roinng for better wages and conditions. It is proposed to mark the centenary of peace between Britain and America by placing a statue of George Washington in Westminster Abbey. The Austro-Servan difficulty has been settled, Servia recognising an autonomous . Albania and receiving the use of J a commercial port on its coast. Mr. Hill, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, is discussing with English officials methods of checking the \ encroachment of professionalism. The" Turkish" delegates-have "been instructed to discuss peace with the whole of the including Greece, though that nation refused to sign the armistice. Tho Federal Opposition, by stonewalling the Estimates, compelled the Government to reintroduce and pass the New South Wales redistribution scheme. The Heathco<t.e-Willia*_ Shield was won by the Christchurch Boys' High School yesterday, Auckland Grammar School "(holders) being defeated by ten wickets. A draft agreement adopted by. the Waihi Union for submission to the mine owners provides "for preference to unionists, isome increase in wages, alterations in Saturday's working hours, bu# it is understood that freedom of contract is recognised. A truck attached to a train in which Lord Chelmsford, Governor of New South Wales, was travelling, was derailed yesterday. An attempt had been made to wreck the train by driving spikes into the sleepers. A report comes from Christchurch that as the result of the expiry of an understanding which has hitherto existed between New Zealand and the Commonwealth ship-owners, it 46 probable that Aus.tra3ian-ow.ned ships will shortly be competing in the intercolonial trade. "A child should be taught that examinations are merely "mEeston_ on the road to knowledge, a-nd that there is only one examination room, and that ia the World, and one examination paper —Life." —Miss Butler, headmistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar SchooL Alexander Barron, the eahoolboy who last month saved a little schoolmate from death on a railway bridge at Titirangi by snatching him from the line and jumping over the bridge as- the train was on them, was yesterday presented with an illuminated address by his schoolmates of New Lynn school. Histed's Christmas drapery fair open until nine o'clock to-night, Ponsonby Road.—(Ad.) You will save from 2/ to 4/ in the £ on sheetings, damasks, serviettes, towels etc., during our Xmas fair.—Grey and Ford, Ltd., Karangahape Rd.—(Ad.)