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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I City organ recital at ,the Town H_l | to-night. .__. *^P e r ßulgarian am y fe demoralised : a-nd refuses to fight. ?rt? VV ' Leagu. match this afternoon. ' A street collection to-day in aid of the Remuera Children's Home The cruiser Pyxamus -will probably sail on Monday for the Kerr Hebrides The. marriage of Prince Arthur of Connaught has been fixed for October 15. •Russia is preparing to occupv Armenia, until Turkey retires from ___nople. _ constable was shot in the arm while arresting a man at Lyfctelton fast night. It is expected that the Financial Stated ment will be laid before the House next Friday. Two Maori women escaped from quarantine at Rotoroa yesterday, but were recaptured. Three hundred and thirty-eight people •were injured in the streets of 'London last quarter. During strike riots at Charleston, Virginia, four miners were shot in. a pitched battle with night-watchmen. The Legislative Council reform was further discussed 'by the "Lords" yesterday, and the debate adjourned. lire. Pankhurst is again in a critical condition as a result of a h_ur_r strike and she has been released from prison. Importations of "warterproof economic patent soles" for boots and shoes is declared to he prohibited, by notice appearing in the "'Gazette." A meeting of the. Commercial Travellers' Association held at Dunedin last night decided "o join the'New Zealand Federated. Association. ' " ■" Auckland -local bodies want a share in the control of the tram service, and the Association decided last night in •favour of a local board. The suffragettes-are said to have deckled upon a campaign of militancy on a larger scale, and that they intend "to call out their "reserves. The Oa-maru branch of the Society of Railway Servants ' approves " the action of the executive in withdrawing from, the Tecent Lahour Congress. Lord Morley says that the Balkan situation is too dangerous for discussion, and he is unable to state the steps which the Powers propose to take. Female candidates" will not bo eligible for the Public Service entrance examinations in November because the number of girls already qualified exceeds the demand. A man named Egan was brought into the Waikato -Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from spinal injuries caused by' a tree falling on him while he was bushfelling. in discussing the prevailing epidemic at a meeting yes-eterday members of the Auckland Hospital Board criticised ■the Health . Depart—ent in its method, of attacking the outbreak. - Convicts in Sing Sing prison mutinied until some undergoing special" punishment were released from their cells. The ringleaders were sent to a prison where hkrder treatment 'will be accorded them. Auckland Hospital' Board has declined, the request of the Health Department to limit the movements of Maoris, as it has no staff or means for such a purpose, and such a -work comes within the functions of the Department. An addition to the Municipal Corporations Act, making it necessary for plans of the sub-division of ; estates to be approved by the local authority concerned, 3s well as' by the Government, is advocated by the Local Bodies' Association.