TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Smith and Canghey's Fair begins Monday. Xcw justices of the peace gazetted today. Head the new serial "The Shop Assistant.'' Butchers announce a reduction in tha retail prices of veal and lamb. L. Spooner's store and dwelling in St. Kilda, Dunedin, were destroyed by fire yesterday. Business men resident in Remuera are moving to have a union of that suburb with the city. The overseas ships handled in Wellington in January represented a tonnage of 271,855 —a record. The by-election at Londonderry resulted in the return of Mr Hogg, the Nationalist candidate. Colonel G. W. Goethals estimates it will take a force of 25,000 soldiers to guard the Canal Zone. The chairman of the Harbour Board invites suggestions for providing a "haven" for small craft. Donald Ellis was injured by a tree falling on him while beating oat a fire at Jordon, and died from injuries received. The experimental shipment of eggs sent Home by the New Zealand Government sold at 9id per dosen in a dull market. A suffragette was sentenced to a; month's imprisonment with hard labour for smashing the windows of the Dublin! Customs House. A girl named Edith Goodson was seriously injured on Saddle HSJs, Otago, by the accidental discharge of a gun carried •by her brother. During January the arrivals by sea at the Port of Auckland numbered 1,626 and the departures 995, giving a gain to the population of 63L Two suffragettes riding along Victoria Street, Westminster, on the top of a motor-bus, fired leaden discs from catapults and broke several windows. A fourth fire occurred on the steamer Arahura at Wellington last night, a mattress in one of the cabins having been sprinkled with kerosene and ignited. Charles John Mahon, a resident of Otahuhu. is allaged to have attacked his wife with a hammer and then drunk lysol. He is not expected to recover. January in Auckland saw 297 births, 143 marriageß, and 109 deaths, which is an increase over the previous January figures of 71 births, 5 marriages and 24 deaths. Richard A. Webb, who left the boat harbour at Wellington in a sailing boat on Wednesday morning, has not been seen since, and it is believed that he has been drowned. A young seaman named Reginald Collins yesterday had his left thigh and ' right arm broken by falling to the deck from the mast of the scow Edith, at Mahurangi. Government orchard instructors will give demonstrations of grading and packing apples'at Welrsford, Matakann. I* rt Albert. Takapuna, Silverdaie. Albany. ;u:d > Henderson horticultural shows, r The New- Zealand Minister for ii- ; fence, Mr James Allen, in the cou r > f ; an interview in London, said the L-.fl . burden of the Pacific fleet should bo !>.;.:..; ,by those living in the Pacific O >; The Mayor of Auckland h-s r.:'- :-. preliminary inspection of the '~:..• ! ' foreshore with a view to suggest.-.: building of batbs there. He also '.»» ■'••■•) an extension of the Shelly Beach li.ti--*. Mr Andrew Carnegie has 1..-.••: announcing the wasteful expenditu: • -n armaments. .Speaking at a meeting f the New York Peace Society, he ashed '"What enemy has the United States at present?" The Waikato Agricultural, Pastoral, Horticultural and Industrial Associations annual show, which opens on the 20th of this month will have added interest this year owing to it being the first on the new grounds. By broaching a whisky cask on the Invercargill wharf with an auger a man named Arthur Cook stole ten gallons of whisky on January 29. He was yesterday sentenced to three months* hard labour for the theft. Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking in reference to the attitude of the Unionist party to Tariff Reform, said they would propose to impose roughly a 10 per cent duty on manufactured goods imported into Great Britain. The Customs duties collected at the Port of Auckland for January amounted to £74.329, being £9,860 less than was collected the previous January. The export of gold, however, shows an increase of 9,5000z over the previous January export. Admiral Toeliainai and the officers of the Japanese training ships Adzuma and Soya were entertained by the Federal Government yesterday. Mr Fisher hoped that the two peoples »ould , always be friends and co-operate to . enable that friendship to be deep and lasting. The "Pall Mall Gazette," referring to the statement by the New Zealand Minister of Defence. Mr J. Allen, with regard to an expeditionary force New- Zealand hoped to be able to place at the disposal of the Mother Country, says that this is another instance of New ' Zealand's patriotism. Cruickshank, Miller and Co.'s big realisation sale for longer period—unable to get into new premises. Plated ware, cutlery, fancy goods, 15 per cent.— (Ad.) ! Cruicksbank. Miller and Co.'s big re- , alisation sale, for longer period: unable to get into new premises. Plated ware, cutlery,'fancy goods. 15 per cent. — (Ad.)