TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Accession Day. : i*«aS*'" Important development in WaiJd Jnhte. Battleship sports at the Domain t<>morrow.. Japan is building three Dreadnoughts - ■ in her own yards. ■ Searchlight displays "were given, by/ H3f.s. New Zealand last evening. Kemuera ratepayers discussed ttie Greater Auckland proposals last night. . Two airmen, one Japanese, the other Swiss, were killed while flying yesterday. ■ A petition in favour of the Saturday half-holiday is in circulation at* OtahuhuV " There is a scarcity of work in~ Well- • ington,. and labour leaders fear a bad winter. A conversazione in-honour of Lord anil Lady Liverpool was held at the Northern. Club last night. The Prime. .Minister (Hon. W. F. Ma3eey) received a number of deputations at Ohakune yesterday. It is reported that Austria and Italy intend to act together in Albania, apart ■' from the Concert of Europe. The battleship New Zealand, on arrival at Lyttelton, will, weather permitting, •berth alongside of the wharf. -■- -tTwo prisoners, John. Farley and George Grovee, on remand, escaped from the Pahnerston-North, lock-up on Sunday— .. . -The local senior cadets were.inspected . : last night by Major-General Godley and / Captain Halsey, of H.M.S. New Zeaiand. It .is .stated, that .a .prirate. bill, is .to be : introduced next session ■to prevent King's Counsel from practising, as sotocitors. .. . „., ~: „ . '... I ..

Dances in honour of the officers ox. HJI.S. New Zealand will be held at Gov- - i eminent House to-night and to-morrow; night. '. -•. .' : ■ Several Frerielj anarchists have- been for plotting to kail the t King--of Spain, on his forthcoming visit to Paries -,■.;..,- ,;.':",.; i , • The Vancouver mail steamer Marama reached Auckland this morning on her . eoiithward run. She' leaves" for. Sydney, this-evening. •_-■ - Q- .■• ■ •:- '" -.'...: • Thursday was... the. anniversary or Kichard John Seddon's promotion to tiio Premiership; in 1893,-on 'the death -ol John Ballance. ■"■■ ". * - - .The'"Wellington-Chamber of Commerce : •is ■ negotiating ;with a Napier ■ shipping line for a regular steam service between ■.Wellington?and-.Tauranga. , ..... '■The poll for the. election of two-mem-i ' .bers, to. represent- Eden "County on tha Hospital Boari takes place, to-morrow. . There are four candidates. . .- . ;.- ... King iulcnso. has .signed, ' a decree, making , it. obligatory for Christianity to "be taught in •;all Spanish ■ pohlk: c schools, - except to the children-df noii-Catholics.: : ' A:, "detachment,, of blnejaAets..,and , marines sainted" the- flag at "Victoria Part this morning. -r-The- ceremony was >»tehed .'by-.his Excellency Lord Liverpool. " ; ''"V" "I ".'■'"". ..(. ,• .. ':'.'£&* theatres in, Berlin .are, bankrupt,, aiad'aairni'ber of others ate Terming oil fiitancMil. ttJsaster. . The.. spread of the iKograph -brazaß ie said to Iβ re=poaa3)le. - i -' .'.• • . '.' " : -. j' ■ •-. The American: schooner, Lymna ~D.; Tpster,-. < .; r.BeehV Lav .hurri«nei m,v&- i\"as - abandoned..- ~*f.,"' her crevr. - Tie_s^ip^rI J ; has - been sent .'. out:to pick- her" us: ~i' • : ?.- r i l : . Owing to the 'rough': -weather in Cook" "tejegraphjc^c^ble" "bEoke oa ' Saturday. Another developed a 6erious '■ fault yesterday, leaving only three in good.forking. "order. ,-... ' Mr. Charles Prohman, the well-known American theatrical manager, stated in the. course .of an .interview/.ia London that, Canada .was coming into, the, field of theatrical .enterprise. , . ... , Itis" reported from Huntty jßiata-lad. mimed Erneet Atrill, aged 10,-residing,-a.t Maram was shot on Sunday last while put shooting with hie father, lie died, as he carried into the house. ' ."- ". ' ; ' At Wellingion'yesterday Stephen Golding and James Lyndituiet. of stealing a money-jbbx containing 6d, ami damaging anotlier, in, St. r Church. ••Each "waß* fined 40/, or in de-"-" The SorwegiaTi : ship Yictoris 'in 'a . parlous plight off the' coast of Australia. Her captain, mate, and-several of "-the crew are dead, .and the .rest, are halffaraiehed. -A.-, boat's', crew , : rowea.: fortj " miles into- Fremahtle for assistance. fa«lt" 14; days.' ■imprisonment.-.: :.._;

Mr. John- Davis, an ex-member of theSlfc. Eden Borough Council, has notified. tliat body that he iirtends;:to-sake steps to have the resent election declared void, ■.. on the ground that nominations were closed' a day earlier; than the -Act prescribes. ■.;■•■ - ■■.-. ■ : : .At the inqnest'in-. (London into. the death of a man. who was killed- through being. rjM over by ;a.motor-'bus, the coroner remarked, that he 'was glad, that the "bus companies; were experimenting., vita ; cow-catcherej+he use oi . which, onmotor'•buSes advocated',for the .last six. years.-- •' ' '.'■'-■ .". . 'Sir Gilbert. Parker, writing.; to .the ■ "Tlmeal" says that. Canada fias shown, the Empire how to federate? Further, her population is from'immigration, sources alone,-at the rate of half-a- ■ million' a Tear, and 25 years'hence she wiH'"have reached the status of a firstclass Power.: -.-;■- "■ *-'-i-- . ''..•' : - ~At "the inqnest-'dn ; the- victims of the :.-.. boarding-house fire in Lome Street, Wcllingtbn,:the Coroner remarked that had the boarders not been apparently undc£ the influence' of liquor they might have '. taken more care to see if the. landlord and his wife, who .were .found ■suffocated, had got safely out of the house. ( . • line -, advocates*t&c . purchase and dedication of Box Jlffi,: a charming Surrey village.. , where : the famous anthor George Meredith lived. The periodical says that thk would be a, fitiinV memorial to the genius of . one whTVote of .the,life-of-jibe .open air aad drew his inspirationr.irojn natural

aan=i ' ■ -.-.■ -. •-'•'■„! •■:.:'„. ■ i. Prince Axel, cousin of Jihe King of Dfenmarfe, had ■ a narrow escape from death "daring 'an" aeroplane flight last Tredc * He was at a height of 1,800 feet irben his machine ■was struck by a sudden , gust of wind and upset. It came hurtling to the ground and smashed against a harrier., Just as it was abon , - t-j etrike, lowever, the Prrhce jumped : o-'.t, arid escaped with sliglit injuries. The Radical-Socialists in France have issued a manifesto in which they takft . up aid attitude of defiance -towards the bfll providing for- tHfee years' service in. tile array. They protest '.thai .-.the propond wia pot back the aria, science, indnby, and agriCTltare,.»nd-nfll borden fiw Bodget with an extra £or e*e expenditure of Triiich they ■ <*3«jyw , tfaei absokitfty no neceeeity oast*.