TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Malay's, gift battleship is to foe laid down in June. ~;' : ■-'■ '■ - ■■ • The improvement in .the health of the Pope continues. ;.-•-*. Mrs. -Pankhurst has .had a relapse, end (her condition is reported ito.be critica 1 !- , :■.■ ■■'. ..-".■. . •The English mail, via Suez, which left here on .March 6, arrived in. London-on Aprilll. .... , ~- ;., .: Donaldson, the Victorian sprinter, won the 130 yards handicap at Cardiff yesterday in 12 3-Bsec. . ■ . . Gkunraan'a mill at Ohakune was ■ destroyed by fire-last night. The loss is estimated'sit. . • - , The South Canterbury Hospital Board is spending £150 on X-ray instruments ibr the Timaru ■Hospital. ■ '•'■'. The results of the-1912-13 degree exanimations of the >Te\vZealand University.'hare just been announced. ■' The Canterbury Mounted Brigade-was enthusiastically cheered as it marched through Christehureh yesterday. : ' •■' ■ •Professor John Shand has retired'from the Chair of Natural .Philosophy at Otag» University, after 43 years' service. • '. Texas wants to recover a hundred' ■million dollars from the Standard-Oil' Trust for breach of the Ariti-Tnist law.' Suffragettes burned.one. of the finest housee in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, the damage being estimated'at £12,000. Axel Askenbeck,.-second clerk of the court at Greymouth, is being, tried .on,a charge of emliezzling something ovet £ioo_.' ! ' .*.• : "; ■ • '-'■'■" : : ' "■' " :, v:p' : .. His Excellency Lord Liverpool.left for Bptoriia" this morning,.jand ..will., be.giy.ea a* reception to-morrow by \the : Ara'wa. ■natives. .. - ■."./' ",: ■ . .-, .... A native \ypman. who was-crossing th? Waikato, near Ohinewai, in an old and. • cranky, canoe, suffered a .capsize, ~and"_ was drowned.."., .' '. '....; . "A" fierce' battle, ■was' fought 'betweeir ppUce-. and, strikers in jNew Tork '. Sjate yesterdaY, one striker being"killed "and a. score ■wounded.' . ' ..'. " . .The London, police eonader.'it possible, ■that ilr. ilartin, ttia Amerjcari mCilion.-' aife -who went missing on Thursday., ■night, is in, hiding.. ~..,■ ...Tfie- party's papers' assert that the general strike is a fiasco,, and "that .there is-little anconyenience to" the general public. . • •, ■■: - ''The ".' P.etone.' Borough ..Council has. placed hurdles on the Hutt Road ;with| theVobjeSt" ol~putting'aicKeck-'inTJthe■ speed of ~-->. V- :, •) , : Tie Montenegrins refuse to :obey..the, ithe Concert of JEnrope-to.. cease .fighting," "and say that' they; will s only yield to .force-ma-jeure. , r r ■ . The. alleged moßbihg. of Prussian offi-; cers'W a-French railway platfofni has.j led- to. excitement in.- Germany...': One, japer: openly; threatens Erance. '" ; ... . '■ v . The ActingrMinister for. Marinei''(Hon.. ■H. D.TBell) says, .in.advance.of: a fullsta.tement, that a the Amokura. ..c-ruelty.----'charges, have .been •completely disproved. . of the,: police force .in» ■lingtpn have been voicing their grievances, tlirough the.-Press, bnt,ho ; action ..has been taken in .the;direction of-forming.a, union.-; .:;.- ; '■!•-...;, ,■■■,■'■■, ■• •■,•■■'■,■■>•-> ■;-.•'. ■ 'Sir-H. Hennikfir Heaipi says that, he, and' his -friends -Jiave. offered- the, Governmeiitabanlr guarantee against' losiy by the establishiaent of uniyersal penny :postage. '.''. ■ The Inyercargill tramsjiiaTe .been'running for only 'six months; and , the - . ;actual loss is stated y to Tie £1,112: ' eipects revenue in- future " /will fully meet "expenditure. '■ • •_; "German shipbuilders have a, trust üb-' ■ der which, prices 'for all contracts settled'by a" central : office, to "which the successful ; :tenderer> remits-ten'per-ceiii; • of the-amouirt 'of his' tender. ■ ' iS~'-- • : : Mr.C.'C. , Kettle, S.M;, gave judgment) ; yesterday in- favour: of la.";plaintiff;;.th*-' holder of a chattel' mortgage, -who sought the "return of ! a'hbrse; cartj ,; and harness ■'■ from a party' wbo-had-purchased them at , . auction, the inorigagor 'being the vendor. ' . The Christchurch : branch of the TSairy - League' has' on : its 'handsi':;arid'' wants to : lend the money' to v the . City ; - Council, but- that ,ho'dy has on ; . Hie ground that a money is pre-i- ' ' vailing, and it has all that it" requires.. '. Before the..Forestry Commission;\at DargaTiile'yesterdayi it .rwas'.arged;'.■■ tliat all milling timber in ;the_.-Waiht)ra'State Forest (one of the largest kauri forests in the Dominion) be sold, and the area thrown open for settlement, as the. land!' was'urgently needed; :;..., '...:..;' r The solicitor to the' Municipal 'Associ- <■■• ation has given an opinion to-the effect : that-the State-guaranteed 'Advances De- j partment has gone ibeyohd its. rights -in ? raising .the rate dl interest on thfe later ;»■■ instalments of a loan at £19,200 madeto t the: Council in; 1911, and has, in efferfvbrriken v contract-made v -with the local'body. ~■'■■ - - V;■ ~- =-. :■.■ ■ [For best value and eelection of golf - coats, costuiries,::•.'etc,—Grey and. Ford, L4d.jKaringab.ape Road.—'(Ad.) , .