TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ♦. ■—^— — Oiearlv 30j000 acres of Grown land will be opened, for settlement next month. Air. J. Gilmours ■ drapery shop at Parnell was gutted, by fire on Saturda/ afternoon. Rhubarb Sft 9in in height *nd each stick l!)in in tircumference has been grown in Kent. The Swedish Government is erecting at Stavajifier -a Marconi -wireless station at a cost of £112.500. Enropean, American, ani mails reached Auckland yesterday by the ilaheno from Sydney. Germany will receive over £S,OOO in stamp taxes from the recipients of recent jubilee titles and honours. A hockey player named Frank Perrrn had his shoulder dislocated in a ma/teh at Wellington on Saturday. .T«*o men -were arrested at Chris-t----church on Saturday, and charged with breaking, entering, and theft. CliristcJiureh tradesmen are complaining of considerable loss of trade through the universal .Saturday half-holiday. ■A statue of the late Lord Kelvin has baen unveiled in Belfast, where the famous scientist and inventor was 'born in 1824. William Heickell, donkeyman on the Anieiicaii scliooiier Samar, fell oif a deckhouse on Saturday afternoon, breaking several ribs. The Union Company's new WellingtonLytielton ferry steamer Wahine, rrachcij Port Chalmers from Glasgow on Satur* day afternoon. The Westport 'Harbour Board has re» instated its dredging engineers and several other officers, who were among those recently suspended. A total of £I,GSO lias been subscribed for Clyde fiedshaw, the boy Who lost both hands at Huntly some time ago in a railway accident. uSome £30 damage was done to railway tracks at Huntly last week "by a lad, was cut through 12 of the air-brake couplings with a knife. At a meeting of the Wellinjrfcon College Board of Governors it was etated that it was more tlian likely that the number of free places would be cut down. The United States lias won the International Small-bore Rifle Competition* and has thus recovered from Great Britain the Dewar Cup. The margin wna 41 points. Two men, C. F. Hendry and W. li. Belot, were thrown out of a trap in Upper Queen Street on (Saturday, the former having a rib and the latter an ankle broken. There is a expansion , in the demand for motor insurance in the United Kingdom. About 75 per cent of the cars are now covered in regard to risk of damage or total loss. Socialists raised considerable disturbance at a meeting held at Blackball last by Air. Michel, a candidate for the vacant Grey seat, many of the audience singing "The Red Flag." Speaking at Acton last, night, Sit !Ri<jha.r(j. ; ;Ein]ay, Unionist, jtlV for Edin; bnrjrh and St. ■ University, declared that if the Home Rule. Bill were parsed it would without-doubtmean civil* war. A man named Joe Graham killed a Maori woman at Oreore, King Country, on Saturday, by shooting her "with a- pea rifle. A sister of the deceased then attacked hhn with a saw, inflicting fata] injuries. The International Institute forecasts an increase of 1.9 per cent, in the wheat yield of tne United States, and a 10 pe.r cent, increase in that of Italy. A decrease ot" :).:{ per cent is predicted for the yield in India. The Marconi International Marine Company has declared a dividend of 1,0 per cent. At-cording to the company' 3 report, 1,700 vessels,"exclusive of wartships. are. fitted with its wireless system, returning an income of £100,000. The partly completed model of H.M.s. New Zealand, made by members of the crew, was brought aisiiore before, the battle-cruiser's departure on Saturday, and will bn completed at the Dominion Museum, Wellington, to which' it has been presented. Mrs. Hall, who is charged -with the murder of her ton-year-old daughter. ba3 been remanded to appear at Wnrkworth on July sth, and in the meantime will be lodged ill the Mount Eden gaol. Aβ inquest on the child was opened on Saturday, and adjourned till July 6th.