TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 29, 3 February 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lord Ranfurjy is_ suffering from pneumonia. 1 Supreme Court civil sittings opened \ to-day-Ptfblic vSchools under the Education ] Board reopened to-day. • St. Helena Maternity Home inquiry will be resumed to-morrow. The Balkan League allies think tint i war is the Shortest way to peace. Richard Gobb, a divinity student, ; attempted suicide at Roxburgh, yeeter- ; day. A Maori lias been arrested at I>ai)nevirke, charged with, having attempted to shoot iis wife. The annual boat race between Oxford i and Cambridge Universities wilt be rowed on March 13. There are 473 licensed surveyor* in : 2?ew Zealand- lie new licenses issued last year numbered 26. : There were 258 male and 17 female prisoners in Auckland Gaol on Saturday, including 24 awaiting trial. : A submarine and a. destroyer collided. at Spithead, the destroyer being saved by her airtight com.partmen.te. 1 An outbreak of fire in a. house occu- ; pied by Mr. -Williams in Oxford Street j did damage to the amount of £10. ( During January.the rainfall in Auck- ! land was 2.64 in., which is sligutly , under "the general tor thte mamt'h. ) The American Senate has approved of i a constitutional amendment, limiting . Presidents..to single terms, of cix years- ' - The largest A-nskland estate certified ■ for stamp duty during January was \ that ' of.. Jossph L. Pateraon, at ■ £17 4 655. " Tie Foreign Ambaseadoiß to London ) consider that Turkey's reply ito the ; Powers' Note affords a basis for re- - euniirig peace negotiations. j Mr. John Roche, a resident of Sassa- " fras, -was burned to death in .a fire, which, ; destroyed the Royal Hotel, Latrobe, '. Tasmania, on Tuesday last. 1 The French Government' has decided • to ask Parliament for a large loan for development in Morocco. The first instalment will' be.' Helene/;lle Domain Board ihas rej quested the Government to have the Tourist Department- take over control of the Helenssville hot springs. '■ It is reported that tie German Gov- . eminent is negotiating with the Centre : party in the Reichstag witih a, view to 5 readmitting Jesuits into. Germany. The auxiliary schooner Fairbum was • towed into- Lyttelton on Saturday by : the isjs. I\airalci, the schooner having " lost her rudder in a gale in Cook Strait. ] William O'Neill, employed at the Talis- - man mine at "Waihi,' had- his chest and. ! shoulders , badly crushed on Saturday > afternoon, while riding pa a skip at tha a mine. ' Albert X. Yorke, a fanner at Titi- } rangi, had- a rib broken x>n Friday, a* j the result of being thrown from his ~ wagon, in consequence of the pore ' breaking. . . Exports. of. Australia .increased from. ' £48,2a0,U2: m 1903- to -, ia » 1912. _-The output in Australian manu.----y. -fafetui-es :in- l*)l«,'-wa's£120;83Q,'l58, while, - in 1911 it was'■ £133,136,560, t, i A sensational fire occurred recently at the- 'Ureuiine' Convent in- Brentwood, Easex. The nuns, -clotted in only their nightdresses, got all the children out of the building safely, and then pluckily set about attacking the flames, which they finally subdued. A steam keteb foundered in the-River Dee in Scotland, and the mate -was blown up the companion-way on : to the deck, and'escaped down a rope -over the vessel's stem into a dinghy -which wa3 ■trailing behind. The captain was seleep in his "cabin, and was drowned: • '■A young Apache at Marseilles, ■ emulate . ing the crime of Bonnot and his motor bandits, shot !his companion dead, and . then barricaded himself in. a loft, keeping., the police -at bay with his revolver. Eventually the attackers ■> got.'on. to a roof, and through a skylight riddled th.3 miscreants, with" bulletsl The trial has commenced in St- Patersburg of an army engineer who stands > charged with the embezzlement of a ' large Bum" At money. He is alleged to , have defrauded the State of £100 ; 030 within a year, his method 'beipgLto falsify the accounts by charging for lie wages of workmen who did " not • . Big sale white and, unbleached sheetings, table damasks, and;towels. Heavy shipments just opened. ; Buy now and save 2/ to 4/ in the £1 on these goods. r-H3rey and Ford, Ltd., Karangahape Road.—(Ad.)