TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Pierpont Morgan is dead. A desperate engagement is in progress south of Scutari. Southland province was established just 52 years ago. The city rolls for the mmlicipal elections close to-day. The Turkish losses at Adrianople are estimated at 10,000Austria is mobilising _er troops on the Herzegovinian border. Italy's fifth Dreadnought has been launched at Spezzia. The three Indians who murdered Dr. Clarke's wife have been executed. The Commonwealth financial year will end with a surplus o.f £2,261,141. Lord Wolseley J s ibody was interred yesterday, in a dense, yellow fog. The Public Service 'Commissioners assume control of the service to-day. Australia has spent nearly 5J millions on the navy iv the past three years. The dead body of an unknown mawas found in the harbour this morning. During March there were in Auckland 273 births, 127 deaths, and 30 marriages. La March the arrivals in Auckland by sea numbered 1,280, and the departures' 1,775. The London Federation of Christian Endeavourers now has a membership ol 20,800. Australia is to build another Dreadnought, three destroyers, and three or four submarines. The English mail, via Suez, which left here on February 20, arrived in London on March 28. Mr. 'Fisher claims that Australia- is the only Dominion taking the defence problem seriously. West Coast territorials were delayed on their homeward march from the Yaldhurst camp by floods. Australia is to spend F_o,ooo next year for the prevention and cure of consumption' and cancer. It is believed that Dr. Sun Vat Sen is returning to Japan in. order to open up an entente with China. The .Commonwealth Government- proposes to establish an overseas steam service for the carriage of mails. For rowdy behaviour in the Matn Hotel (Gisborne) Wm. O'Leary had' to pay fines totalling £9 and James Brady £5. :..'■■' The London "Daily Mail" says that the vast development of German aircraft is a pistol held to the head of Britain. The :body of Celia Mackenzie, a girl of eighteen, was found shockingly mutilated on the railway, near Te Kuiti, this morning. Last year 5450 people emigrated from Devonshire to the overseas Don—nibns, taking with them" capital representing —05.460. "■■:/■■ St. John Ambulance Association - was granted permission to make a street collection, iv Mt.. Eden Borough on Saturdays. April id. .•■:-'. . . .': Mr. .Churchill denies Lord Beresford's assertion that the navy* is 20,000 rr.cn short., and is unable to man the ships now-, being built.. ; „.. ; . iT.MvS.' _■"—»- Zealand maintained fin. average speed of sixteen miles an hour for sixteen days on the tuu from Afii.-ii to Melbourne, a record for the route. • Pierpont Morgan's death has had no appreciable effect ou the money market so far. The existing money stringency is held.responsible for the lack of interest. The employees of an hotel at Brighton, the: .well-known south coast watering -place; went on strike last week. - Tlrey won the proprietors over -in "" twenty; minutes. - - Mt;~Eden Borough Council had-before it last night the matter of licensed plumbers removing water meters (for testing or otherwise) AvithoutT notice, to the Council, and it was decided "in future cases to prosecute. The Chapman-Alexander Mission Committee has, consented to the mission being housed for three nights in the Drill Hall to enable the citizens to have the Town Hall for celebrations in connection with H.M.s. New Zealand. A--'firemtin of the s.s. Victoria so. far extended his shore leave that he had to., jump for the ship as she was leaving the wharf. He struck the rail and fell into the water, but was rescued and sent out to his ship in a boat. Since 1906 Sir John -Bruriner, of Brun : ner.-Monti, and .Cp., Ltd., the great alkali, manufacturing firm at Nqrthwich, in Cheshire, has; been giving -£1 baby bonuses to the families there. In .that time his purse has had 126 calls upon it. A Karangahake miner ii 3 —ng proceeded against for calling out the offensive term '-scab" to a Waikino worker at the Karangahake railway station recently. The case will be heaTd at .the next "sitting .of the. Paeroa Magistrate's Court. Publication of the details regarding Kir Thomas Lipton's challenge - for' tho America Cnp and its non-acceptance. by the New York Yacht Club, shows that Sir Thomas cabled, to Sew York requesting its reconsideration,.and emphatically" asserting that his. challenge did not violate the spirit or deed of-the g'lfc,-and that it was therefore acceptable.