TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 71, 25 March 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

H.M.s. New Zealand will arrive in Xew Zealand on April 25 or 20. During the Channel gale fifteen housea near Lancing were demolished. The ferry strike in Sydney continues, and there is no sign of settlement. The Russian tnilitia has been summoned to be ready for four weeks' training. On Saturday last there were 252 malu and 20 female prisoners in Mt. Eden, gaol. Suffragette* called Keir Kardie a miserable coward, who betrayed the women's cause. Fifty-two thousand troops are now attacking Scutari, and its fall is considered imminent. An extensive scrub fire at Dargaville is causing anxiety concerning danger to house property. Jamre Corlett, corttm-ylor. of Morrinsville. was killed on Saturday by a fall of debris in a gr:ivcl pit. Francis McKennu. v tailor, aged f>3, fell from the counter of hie shop in Wakefield Street yeiste-day and broke a. thijrh bone. The British Post Office H receiving a number of packages containing pinfire cartridges so placed that they explode when postmarked. Six persons were Ir&t in the enow on Mount Riiapehu on Saturday. Two escaped, but the <;thers up to a late hour to-day were *till musing. The boxing match between Langford and McV«a in Brisbane yesterday ended in a draw, though Langford is reported to have done most of the attacking. Suffragettes, denied adinision to the labour conference at Manchester, chained and padlocked the hall, and kept the delegates imprisoned for half an hour. A conference of anarchists in Liverpool decided to issue a manifesto advocating a revolution to change existing society, and overthrow those at tile top. A small boy named Cecil Fiefield received n fall concussion of the brain yesterday at Woodbury, near Trmaru, by running against a rock in the road cutting. It is reported that a new spirit of patriotism is animating the Turkish soldiery, but the difficulties in the way of an advance at Chataldja are considered insurmountable. During a performance of " Carmen " in Spain, t-he baritone and leading tenor turned the mock duel in the third act into real earnest, and in the fight the baritone was killed. During the gale in the Channel the steamer Marypark collided with the battleship Hercules. The steamer was much damaged, but the battleship escaped serious injury. A deputation from the Xew Zealand Spiritualists' Society interviewed the Minister for Justice" at Wellington today, and asked for legislation covering the aims of their cult. The capsize of a row-boat from which ■three men Were flehing in the harbour off Kauri Point! yesterday resulted in Charles Malpas Watson, aged 03 years, pi Berne £ajv being drowned. in Omaha killed 150 people. 'iLpifctnre tlieatre collapsed, thirty being crnslifctf to d&itli in the ruins.' Fire "broke out amid the riiina, a:id a whole section of the town was destroyed. A young man was foirnd in a vacant section off Upper Queen Street yesterdnv afternoon. There wae a bullet wound in his head, and a revolver wse !)o>ide ■the -body. He U supposed to be George •Maddox, of Whangaroa. motor ear containing Iwo men and two women overturn»a on Riverton Road,..near Invereargill. as the result of ' touching- the wheel' of "anor-her riTStor, but none of the; occupants-i-uffered anything more serious than ■bruises.