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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Parnell Borough. Council ceased to exist as a local body last night. Twenty French, motor bandits are bow being tried for 33 murders. Wellington reports that there are many carpenters idle in tihat city. Adrianople -will fail in a few days unless the ga-rrison eats ibxHSee and dogs. Five ■were burned to deaifch by the destruction of a big hotel in Sacramento, U.S.A. Ladies entering London muuemue are being compelled to surrender their arafe on efflteriog. ' There wae a disgraceful exhibition of larrikiniem ait a parade, of Wliangarei cadets hust might. The newspaper ""African Wodd" again announces that MeraeJik, Empenm of Abyssinia., is. dead. 0. E. Farrow, Auckland builder, -mas committed for trial yjster-day for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act. Turkey failed in her efforts too raise a. loan of £2,500,000 from Germany. The money is now being raised privatctje. Izzet Paaha, the sew Tuikjli Com-mander-in-chief, is described as the beet strategist and tactician in the Turkish, army. A Jitete boy at Waahi exploded a line detonator while playing- with it, but gat no further injury than a graze on the temple. Frederick W. Biadaiew, manager of the OaiLtcrbury Seed Comyadiy'a bcuch. at Rangiora, was yesterday aurested fas embezzlement. At Port Awarai J, iMJqcrie«ey was finsd £30, in defiudt tarn months' aopneonmeat, for aojifdyang a native ■with liquor. On Saturday there ware 258 zn&tetr «"«* 17 females in Mt. Eden Ganl, after 34 moles had been discharged. During ihq week 41 males went in. A Canadian sailor named George Niohofa had his back hunt' y«sterday ■while working on Use earn Hero. Ha wae struck by a coal basket oji a sling: The Hon. W. EL Hemes steies tfurt tihe special fruit car from attached to the South, ei-pjqjb, has not been extensively patronised this season. Lest monith New Zealand exported 30,9420zb. of gold, valued at £124,903, •which, wae 4,i)330z5., of a value ol £19,164, less than in January of last year. A big transport efcrike is planned in England for next summer, the object fhedng ito riirrjise unemployment, iby! reducing tihe working day to ej"h4 iioure. ' . A young lady, when -walking home at Eden Terrace after 10 pjn. on Friday, was struck a violent blow on tihe face by a man who followed her. The police are investigating. A little girl of seven years, named Esther Turner, was badly 'burned about the body and legs yesterday, as the result of her clothes catching fire at her home, in Ranfuriy Road, Epsom. A'"youth"'" who went to the Salvatioa Army Home at Parnell last night a.n-d swallowed some. mercury tabloids, was found,,on being trea-bed £or the p'oAsonMg, t*» be-a girl of about 20 yeans, ller condition, is not considered aerious. A point of law Jraised in Wellington yesterday that a prisoner committed f. i trial must be discharged, as the depotritione of witnesses had not 'been read over to him, in accordance with statutory requirements, was overruled by Mr. "juetice Char/man. Apparently representing a value of £9/ a number of hank note were found in a pie sent in to one of ithe prisoners in a Madrid gaol. The money was evidently meant for bribes for the warders, who were very indignant when they found- that the notes were counterfeit ones.