TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 178, 28 July 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last week of Alf. M. fikeatcs . Salvage Sale. America won two out of tfee first three games in the Davis Cup final. Fourteen lives were lost in two oilwell lires in America on Saturday. Throe big English Tailway companies are making extensive experiments with oil fuel. The hotel at Te Karaka, Gisborae, was completely destroyed by fire at 1" a.m. on Sunday. The export of eggs from Denmark in 1912 reached the enormous total of 35,---550.000 dozt>ii. The city fire ibrigade was CftUed out to Chancery Lajie at S p.m. on Sunday on a false alarm. The street collection made on Saturday for the Remiiera Children's Home relised £302 10/. European. American aid Australian mails arrived from Sydney by the Maheno yesterday. The smallpox outbreak in, Sydney ie increasiag, both in the number of cases and in virulence. Tlie King's Prize at Bisley was -won for a Canadian rifleman, who got into the team as an emergency. The Chinese Government troops are proving victorious in the campaign against the Southern Tebels. A man named Henry Piekf ori aged 40, died suddenly in a Federal Street Awarding house, yesterday afternoon. A dividend of one shilling per share has been declared by the directors of the Waihi Gold Mining Company. A party of thirty-five domestic servant? recently left Ixmdon for New Zealand by the Waimana in charge of a matron. A young man named George Keenatl had a Ipjt foroken on Saturday while he was exercising the racehorse Spectre at Takapuna. There w.-re 252 male and 16 female prisoners in the Auckland gaol at the end of last week, including 13 prisoners awaiting time. A Parliamentary paper states that during 1!>12 there were 276,929 exemptions from vaccination owing" to conscientioua objections. An. ovation was given to the "Wiangarei hockey representatives, who carried off the WJiite Horse Cup, on their return home vesteday aftenoon. Over a hundred firemen attended the funeral of Ctfr. William Massey, who died as the result of <in accident at tlie "Soltar " works on Friday. The port of Auckland was exceptionally crowded with shipping, nearly fifty vessels, including coasters, Being at berths and in the stream. The Indrabai-afc goes into dock at Port Chalmer3 to-day for repairs and general overhaul. She was much delayed -fey storms on the trip down from Wellington. Three epidemic cases were reported during the week-end, one being a Bnropean who had been living in an infected : bcarding-house, and others native 3 from Waiheke. A man named Thomas Madden, who was rescued from undemca-th No.- 2 I jetty on Saturday night, alleged that Uβ j had l>ecn assaulted and pushed into the I harbour. ■■-••■■ - •• ■ .- • -, : ■ • j It is said that the earnings-of- many i medical men in Sydney and Melbourne j during the rush f or.vaccijwteon. hir* averI aged over £109 a day from vaccination ! fees alone. .i j Acting-Detective Carney, -who was shot I under the arm at Lyttolton on Friday, jis making good progress. His assaUanfc j has been charged with shooting, with latent to murder. ' . .. .: :.,,'.-^:~r,..» • All seven New Zealand judges sat together in the Court of Appeal at "Wellington on Saturday.'Tnisis tie largest bench known in the fifty yeaTs of this Court's existence. •• . . .The barque Mnrjorie Craig.. •wJiicJi-ar-rive<l at Auckland yesterday from" "Mel'liourno, made the trip in the riooYd fttrie of 7 days 16 hours, tarrying every stitch of canvas the whole time. *.""'.' The body of Miss Mary Ann Fletcher, aged 70, was found on the Stanley Bay beach, the appearance indicating"drowning. She had been absent from her home at Devonport since the previous .night. " . . Tie situation over the Califqrnian land trouble ia causing anxiety in Washington. An impasse Jias been reached in the negotiations, and a. solution of the problem will be difficult unless Japan i? content to leave the whole qnestion to the American courts. ~Mr.\ John Considine, who served with the Eeventh Contingent in South Africa, and loat the use of his Irg3 as the result of a spinal wound, died at Devonport on Saturday night. He wae a wellknown figure tit the A.R.C. race meeting, being taken to the course in his wheeled chair. Presiding at a meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia, in London, Mr. H. P. Sturgis, chairman of directors, said that although the monetary position was becoming serious, many public and private enterprises were waiting to come forward as borrowers, and that the demand w«» likely to he maintained.