TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Turks at Chataldja drove off several Bulgarian, attacks. A fierce gale, with mm, raged at Well--1 iugton on Saturday night. The .total death-roll in the Ohio i floods is now estimated at GOO. It is 57 years ago to-day since the ' Crimean War came to ail end. ; The bush iires in the Whangarei disi trict were checked by the rain on Saturday. i Pierre Yerrier. i> French airman, flen '34 miles at Uendon last week in 19 • minute?. Eleven thousand Bulgarians were killed at Adrianople, while the Servians lost 1,200. '■ The Balkan allies captured war mater- ; ial at Adrianople to the value of sis millions sterling. l)e Wet favours South Africa con- ; strutting a locnl navy on the lines fol- • lowed by Australia. Queen Street wharf was crowded when the s.s. \Mmmcra arrived from Sydney s shortly after (i p.m. yesterday. A wharf labourer named Alfred .Tames Williams was burnt in n house fire at Greymouth on Saturday night. The steamer John "(330 tons), left Lyttelton for Wellington on Thursday, and has n«t been reported since. The Prime Minister promises to subdivide and let. under improved tenure, lands now held as pastoral leases. The Army Council has approved of the arming of the Royal Horsr Artillery with . the YVefoley revolver in.-tead'of the short ride. The floods ir. Southland are stated to be the most disastrous that have oc- | eurred in the valley of the Mataura. River. Sir \V. H. Lever has withdrawn hi 3 offer of Stafford House to the nation, owing to his motives having been questioned. A man named Younger wa.s drowned on Saturday in trying to rescue some stock from' the floods at Ota-utau in Southland. The Ltinds Department has advertised 15,045 acres of ]and to be opened for selection in April, and 14,059 acres to be opened in May. There were 263 male and 21 female prisoners in Auckland gaol at the end. of last week, an increase of 12 on the previous weekV total. Bulgaria is agreeable to the Powers* recommendations for the settlement of the war. except that she will not take the Knos to Midia frontier line. ■Germany is to increase her war reserves from six to eighteen millions 'by the issue of paper money secured by the gold now in the Julius Tower, at Spandau. The Duke of Connaught, GovernorGeneral of Canada, has returned to England. Owing to the health of the •Duchess he will not return to the Dominion. The coach'from Atiamuri to Rotorua was delayed on Jgriday by tlie" collapse,.of o^^' the rear wheels it miles out A'< ,■ i ' iined Peter Ryan felt 10W n. i hi i.' i li.vent ' 'tneaV^'fTngSHuiyorrTnTirs<ia"r,'-ttnd sustained a dislocated hip and other injuries. He is still living. The ferry steamer Peregrine collided with the s.s. Opawa, lying at the Queen Street wharf, while coming in to berth, this morning, and suffered slight damage to her overhead woodwork. The Lands Department has arranged to carry out the contract, abandoned by -a private contractor to provide a, new outlet for the Rangitaika River and drain a large area of the Rangitaika Swamp. Dr. Pa-ton, Professor of Physiology, at Glasgow University, has invpstigatod the diet of the labouring classes of Glasgow, and he advocates a partial return to porridge and milk, in place of tea and bread and jajn. Sir Ernest J*hackleton has left England for the United States. He will visit several American, cities for the purpose of raising funds for the scientific expedition that he intends to lead to the Antarctic, and will afterwards go to Canada. Jules Goux, the famous Continental road-racer, gave a great exhibition at the Brooklands motor track last week. He won the 5? miles handicap, driving his car at a speed of 955 miles an hour; and r the Si miles handicap, driving from four miles behind scratch, covered fehe distance at the rate of 101 miles an hour. There were three sudden deaths in Wellington during the week-end. William Oliver O'Reilly died suddenly while trying to lift a sack of potatoes. Thomas Collins • went home from work feeling unwell, and died in bed, and Christina Duncan's fatal illness came on while was sitting in a chair. Heart disease is the cause given in each ease.