TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

President Tait has left Washington to inspect the Panama C-inal-Subscriptions to the German, national a.\ motion fund total £350,000. It is stated that Turks maeecred the Christians on tie island of Mitylene. Cabinet has decided to call fresh tenders for the completion of the Otira tunnel. A prisoner who was under treatment at the Wellington Hospital disappeared yesterday. At Christie's last -week a single raw pearl necklace of 53 round pearls was cold for £14,200. Four children wbo were playing with matches in France yesterday, were ■burned to death. Mr W. A. Holman, Attorney-General, denies that he intends taking over the Agent-Generalship. You shold read the 6tory '"Two Com- : mon People," the m-ost entrancing fiction I published in these columns in 1912. i Pierpont Morgan denies the existence of a money trust in America, and eaye that such £ scheme would foe impossible. Soiiti Australia, made 420 for six wickets against New South Wales yesterday, Mayne Feoring- 124, and Ghamberlain 103.* •To obtain in-oney to go to a picture -xilace a. Scarborough 'boy sold his overcoat and boats, and after the show slept in a ehurehya-rd. M. E. Champion put up a fresh New Zealand record (614-ssecs.) for the 100 yards swim at the Waitemata Swimming Club's carnival last night. MajoT-GeneraJ C. T. E. MetcaHe, who was associated with the late Sir George Wh'it-e in the defence of Ladysnrith during the South African War, died last week. The overtime provisions of the Industrial Acts will be suspended in Auckland during the Exhibition so far as they would affect the people running the Exhibition. King George of Greece was in Salonika yesterday prepared to meet King Ferdinand,- who did not arrive when expected, but arrived later when the Greek King had gone. A man named Robt. Sehwass has been" arrested at Richmond, near Nelson, on a charge of having attempted to cut bis wife's throat. The woman is in a precarious condition. At the inquest on the body of the man found on a boat from the Derna, ettnk by collision with the Cen±u-ri-oH, it wa-s stated that the collier carried no stern light. The War Office is purchasing twenty portable wireless plants. These equip-' ments are mounted on light wagons, which are capable of keeping pace with; horse artillery and cavalry. The police were informed yesterday - that a ■ body was floating in the water - off North Head, but it disappeared by the time a launch got to the spot. There was found, however, on the beach near the spot a suit of clothes. The Russian Council of Ministers in • St. Petersburg has approved of the construction of a raftway from Baku to; Jfukhs, 150 nrilea ■west-n-orii.-weet of the former town. The new Ene <w3l cost £3,500,000. The Chief Justice yesterday gave judgment in the " trust" action against the Merchant's Association, with a penalty of £1,000 and costs against each defendant. In the action against Levin and Co., judgment was given for defendants. . Discussing the suggested increased naval contribution by South Africa, the "Cape Times" says it would prefer to • 6ee the Union construct a navy, which, it argues, would fceter a genuine naval sentiment with a conception of an ImpeTial fleet. Mrs. M. O'Connor, wife of a Seadown ■'. farmer (Timaru), was killed yesterday, as the result of a. collision between a railway engine and a trap in which she - was driving. Her little boy of cix who was with her, was co badly hurt that he is not expected to live. 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.)