TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Racing at Hamilton to-day. Cricket competitions continued this afternoon. , The Premier Picnic is being held - today in the Domain. The battleship New Zealand hie left Ascension for the Cape. ...... The new French Premier announces a policy of increasing the army and navy. The Turkifih advance guard at Chataldja has followed the Bulgarians for fifteen miles. Philip Tapsell, an elderly native living at Maketu, shot himself through the head yesterday morning. An elderly Italian named Pesano tvaS knocked down by a. motor, car in Wellington and died in the hospital.-' : Gisborne Borough Council a_n-ticipated the threatened quarrymen's strike By paying off the men last night. An organised flies and insanitary conditions genwallv has been commenced in Christehuj-cV _ ' A -bus driver named Willian, Meniio* waa kicked by a horse in Parnell Testerday afternoon, and sustained a brokeh teg-.. A new supply of hot mmezaU-w-ter estimated to yield 50 gallons per has been tapped near the Helensville hot springs. The foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Church at jVtourit .Albert •will be laid to-mprrpw attenujon "By J. C. Entrican. During an election; riot in a email town in Corsica: a free fight '-rfth daggers aroae, the Mayor and two' cbtijicillorp being killed. At the Supreme Court.yesterday Frank Rhodes, an elderly man, was found guilty of criminally assaulting a little girl." Sentence,was deferred. Suffragettes filled the keyholers of many houses in Mcseley and Birminghanil with email, shot, so ; that tie owner* could' not insert their latchkeys. ■ — U Maori lad named Parakuika. a pupil at the St. Stephen's Native School, Parnell, fractured his elbow yesterd-y. He was attended by .Dr. Roberton, .and removed to the hospital. -An" Australian sugges-s that -the ' hunger-strikers be supplied with gruel - and salt water to wash -vrith, on the principle that- it is easy to go hmigry,--but none can withstand the pahge. of- thirst. Judgment went "for the "defendants irt the •■Wellington"'- patent ..rights case. .i=ri which.an inventor claimed-£530 damage*?, against a firm of patent agents for alleged - negligence .in securing the Australian patents for his invention. . The Wellington 'City Ctmncii -his; dffcided—to. give -the = services.' pf~.tte city •solicitor to any of its -rubbish^-collectorjs wno-raay claim -damages -from -.hoase-•holdera-for- injury received-'tlsrough tlfe chemicals' or rubbish tins.'' .. "' ~ -J:. , .', -' According tp Wellington: <smcers of the AUstr'aiiait *and New Zealand merchant inarihe. _Ie over lowering of their fit—feus —lid their diminishing influence Over »safl6rs •aS'l -firemen, wno,.they.say,.are allowed too muchfreedom by .s*£ owners;"