TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Pope is reported to he miking. ' • The. Island; steamer.. Atna reached Auckland"-early this;-; morning. c • . A roadman named Grainger wasfbiiitd-' dead at Lake .Eat6rna,-r.y—terday. '. The storage-battery tram service was • i_iugurateci at Gisborne' yesterday. -'. - The Servian-conrmander .has been in-lt c structedeto .. withdraw his' trops from"- : Scutari. • - -."•--'■'-; V It-is estimated that a 1 quarter <>f a million• workers"' are' out on" strike in .:. -"' Belgium. '_ c '"."'" . 'A.. " -.-. . ._■- * Mr. Sariitiei Vaile, one of the'pione%»of Auckland, died" yesterday,-at-the of 85 years. '''--" " -.;" ,?.'?. Hjs 'Excellency Lord Liverpool was— welcomed this "morning at Rotorua hy the Ara'wa tribe. __.--__■- J " Mr Geo. Lansbury has been summoned for inciting male suffragists to. the tactics.of the militants.;;. ..;...: c - Two ladies have been "arrested 'in -Ber-"e lin for riding in a train with the points -- -:- of their hatpins! unprotected.' - 'A:. A:'": .'." ;'.Ttr~->S French newspapers. describe the'affair-- *_. at- Nancy, where six German- merchantswere held Tip, as'very trivial. " ". The relations Bulgaria ahdy. Seryia; have" become very strained. Thee --. disputed area:is.2,soo square:miles, c eL . -Bombardier. AVells .has . been matched ■ to : fight .Georges Ca'rpentier, the French",champion, at Paris, on the'2Bth.inst. ;,- Mr. -Henry -. Guthrie,- a .welt kriowni" punedin resident, espi red while-walkirig'" - ih.eßatt'ray Street yesterday afternoon;*. .A. . Dr. .Wilbur Chapman" and" "."Mr.- *' C. -M., '.-- Alexander will arrive in Auckland to-day' to; commence their .".evangelistic ~_m-j. paign.- ' r AA-- -.-. • ■ _- * ;: Great. ..distress is.:.:b.eing;„_perieiiiced~ througliout;the Southern mining district" of lse\y South Wales as. a result of. thestrike. -.- . '-;•'' ... r-'/:.\ A whirlwind in Whangarei Harbour alarmed a good many- residents of - One— rahi-towhship-on-'Mondav, but did-no-damage. ■'.;..■ ■ -- , ; " 4The --Auckland..'Milk-vendors' Associa--tion has- decidedr-to-ratse .the.price, o.A milk from Sunday ne.-—-'by Id a quart,-making-Aid. '.-. ".- .-■;■ _~■:••'"...- '•.';.' : A.-- '.. An: ol.d man-, named John Robertson •.;.-.. was -'knocked over by-an".express;train"' at Ihyercargill yesterday, and succumbed. to-his injuries. ■':■■ . ~ ■' -■■■•;—. c. Welsh: miners have teceived- three. "'•-'■■■' advances, in wages .during the. .last six;. •months, the total amount involved, being three millions.'-- -.- - >. v/ ;,-••-.'-.. -.-— The Northumberland innkeeper w.hov shot-two policemen-and the-wife.of the ■ owner "of the; .premises,, was .>rfested c hiding in a culvert. '. ' * The One-tree" Hill Road -Board has der cided to donate 10 guineas to the ftind- : for entertainihg;"the ship's; company o£ HiM'seNevr 1 Zealand.. : ; , 1 The friends of the missing American - millionstire Martin think; that 'he' is an ; - v----involuntary prisoner ,'in South ■ London", ' after-shaving been robbed vWihiam- McHugh, who had seryeij. 13 days ''of'j-a.jECenten.ce' of one month, on a charge of indecency at waa yesterday .tried .» second time, and found .!ss*% c ■•* ..,. »; ; e/B^i•lrHoff,^.■fo^llerly.Jthe / w«^'»^c^_bl i ■• '■ '. "pibn "at. Foils,."has been arrested';in -Berlin -on. a .charge."of.'poisoning two of his wivej and, attempting, to' poison a third. ; All . ewerie" -heavily insured. -.- - _ The anarchist who attacked the King of Spain a. constable's revolver. Thepoliceman is- uuable to 'explain; how 'the ; weapon' got. into the .man's. possession> : and he has been < arrested. ..'•:-. ~;;■..-- --.A Melbourne man-uii—ed James.; Raw» lings,'who was awaiting- trial on a charge of murdering a woman by cutting • throat, committed.suicide in his .cell PJ, hanging himself with his braces, c. Tlie new Canadiah-Australasian'R.3—s. -c Niagara; has got into wireless' (communication with Me—ourneover a distaiipe of * .miles,' 'representing', eight -.days' eail." '.This, is" almost a -for Ausr "tria—siah-waters!' ; ' :.'-. - The hoy :?Ed ward "Augustine Sheehan, charged, with the-murder of another boy, named George Thomks-.Fyfe, was cona.m;tted -j—terday at Whangarei ior trial at the Supreme "Court,, the he.ing -meanwhile admitted to bail. ■•-..,-.; ;His Excellency the-Governor a_i Lady Liverpool have infamatod that they will hepresM- at —te Anckland~Citi_ns* Bail for the officere oi M.HLs. New Zealand, and the Hon. W.]F." Massey expects, that his engagements "will permit' him to- ati" - tend!''.- "''-■■■ ■'..; .In answer to a. deputation irony th« Wellii«ton" ——nways Union, the Minis- • -ter for Pubi- Works (H6_ W. Frawr)| said thatnew ,tra_v_y regnlations *wer# to he drafted, and given effect to a* aop_ as possible, hut, he :did not intend to tike aetionhefore hearing fcoth sides, of/th» ; ' .question.;-'. .'....'-■. ' •'' ' ''...'.',' 'A'X-j--