TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The suffragettes did £6,000 worth o! damage last week. ■ O. E. Farrow, for breach of Bankruptcy Act, sentenced to one month's Imprisonment. The French Government is completing the equipment of an expedition to explore Franz Joseph Land. Two claims have again been applied for on Crown land-west of Kauri Mountain, Whangarei, for gold prospecting. Bulgaria has referred' the dispute with Eoumania over the debatable territory to the decision of the six Great Powers. There seenis to be no doubt that a mysterious airship saen off the East Coast of England was a German .machine. Mr. Justice Edwards demonstrated to the jury at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon that he had a shrewd idea what a racecourse guesser was. The annual report of the Auckland. Institute reveals a very profitable year's work, showing an increase both in membership and in bank balance. The Parikhurst ; policy of militancy \3 doing more harm to the votes-for-wpmen cause than a score 'of anti-suffrage leagues, says the "Daily Citizen." The Prime Minister (Hon. W. F. Massey) holds that sawinillers, as such, do not rightly deserve any special representation on the Forestry Commission. The historical Hone Heke flagstaff at Kororareka destroyed by scrub tira, undergrowth having negligently been allowed to-encroach upon the "flagstaff area. . • . Members of the "Empire Trade Canmis • sion arrived at Bluff by steamer from Melbourne yesterday afternoon, and proceeded by special train to Dunedin in the evening. A ten-roomed house at Parnell was destroyed by fire last night, the experience incidentally showing that the City Fire Brigade hydrants will not fit the Parnell plugs. Gravitational scheme of drainage, designed' adequately to serve 700 acres ia One-tree Hill Road Board district, will be officially started by -.a- sod-turning ceremony to-morrow. : The Cape Parliament has referred to a Select Committee the question of extending the field of employment o| European; and the curtailment or abolition of tha importation of native labour. It is stated that,a good oyster season, to - open" on -Istr May, ■ can "be expected this year, but it is not clear how any law-abiding citizen may make such an assertion' with any confidence. ■ The Canadian Government is grantin; the explorer, .gtefaossea £15,000 towards the. cost .of bjs. .expedition to the north of the - Canadian:: nejiiihuid. Stefarissen will be-a-way three years and a-half. A Swiss doctor cfcjms to have discovminein "Geneva., The soil and the- water-therefrom are exceptionally rich ia the' element, and scientists -ire now conducting .=»- series of tests. The .French' 1 newspapers are giving remarkable prominence to Lord . Roßerts' campaign in favour'of national service, and are wishing him success, in view oE ' #»c enormous iaereaae ia Gern»n ments. '. -■■ ■"■''::.;:.■ . -.-:/ i "■'The Government'his ■ granted. the j&-' quest of the Auckland A. and P. Associa.taon to vote. *500--aadftional^,prize-money to the* next'shq.w in .recognition of the desire to make' a . special display, at Exhibition, time.. -."'," Another bankruptcy meeting at the Official Assignee's office yesterday ended in a resolution by- the creditors to submit the case to the Crown Prosecutor for consideration as to whether - further ■ action should be taken. . .. ' 1. .Two.'waitresses at a cafe-in Munich, Bavarianqnarrelled over the ownership of a tip of 10/. All attempts at settling jMLvjng failed, , they- procured revolvers and fought a duel, which ended in one- of ■tire.giris-being killed. -wDp.--S.vßi of. Wauganui. ia Ms presidential address at the annual •conference of the >few Zealand branch of "the' British Medical AssqcigSioli, made a strong pl.» for less cram, and more persuasion in our educational methods. -It is calculated that Germany's increase i£ the army, for which provision has been made, covers 30,000 additional men. The expense involved is regarded as the reason -why Germany is wishing to slow down British naval expenditure. The jury having disagreed, a retrial has been ordered in the racecourse ease in which Michael O'Brien was charged with having stolen £25 from John Prebiceyich, a young -who was trying his hand at punting at the XcV Year-me.eting. Arrangements have been made for the preparation of an exhibit for the Auckland Museum, showing the. relative sizes of the moa, the ostrich, the emu, and the cassowary—similar groups being an interesting, feature of other museum, collections in New Zealand. Speaking at Bristol on Saturday, Lord Roberts said emphatically that he would not be a party to any movement for spoiling the Territorials, who were part of his own scheme. The "Times" believes that Lord Roberts will soon arouse, national opinion to a point which tha Gov «?ment TTJU. be. unable to ignore. In- referring to the remark in General Berhardi's new book to the effect that if,there. were-war. -with- .France the German Army would advance thro-ao-h Belgium and Holland, tha "Pall Mall" says it. Was. known that. King. Leopold had promised the Kaiser thai Belgium would not prevent the passage of the German army.