TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A campaign against the house-fly has begun in Paris. Ther were eleven new cases of smallpox in Sydney yesterday. Donaldson twice broke the world* 220 yds' record at Glasgow yesterday. Tom Parry, a milker, was found dead on a farm at Waiuku with a discharged gun alongside of the body. The Royal Artillery Band, Woorwich, has been engaged for a ten weeks' seasoa at the Auckland Exhibition. The Vancouver mail eteamnr Mamma. arrived this morning on her aouthward run, and leaves for Sydney to-nigbt. A new oil refinery, erected in connection with the TaranaJd Oilfields at a> cost of £36.000, was opened yesterday. • The Maitai is bring a large consignment of frozen meat to Auckland from Wellington for transhipment to Canadk. Mr Sutton has accepted the position of judge at the Invereargill band contest, the dates of which are November 17 to 22. The Rand Labour Federation has rejected the mineowners' terms of settlement, and a strike committee has been formed. A French deputy, who supported the three years' ser.vice period, was stabbed in the head while addressing his constituents. A start hae been made with laying the rails on the first section of the Gisborne to Napier railway. Twenty men are at the Gisborne end. A watereide worker named Stewart fell off the end of the Queen Street wharf last night, but was rescued with out much difficulty. The Wellington City Council intends t» apply for power to run coupled cars over all routes, and trailers:over the Xewtovrn and Oriental Bay lines. A famine in Tnrkish and'" Egyptian cigarettes is threatened as a result of the trouble in the Balkans, no crops being available this -year or next. A carriage containing £120,000 in gold was overturned in the streets of Paris yesterday. The police guarded the money while bank cashiers picked it Tip. A seven-roomed house at Mataura, owned and occupied by JL P.- Marshall, was destroyed by fire on-Saturday. The? house was insured, but the furniture was not. The Gieborne Harbour Board hae authorised the raising of a £20,000 loan in London, eubject to ifche passing of the Authorisation Bill now before Parliament. ■'• Lawrence Taylor, a farmer at Paparata, was arrested at Wellington • prior to the departure of the Sydney boat on Friday, on a charge of wife desertion.at Auckland. George Coatee, a bushman, mac badly, crushed by a tree .falling on him *whi,le he was at work with a survey party near Kaikohe. He ie now in the Kawakawa hospital. Stanley Bay residents are' petitioning the Harbour Board to shorten the exieting jetty, which ie 1200 ft. long, and to dredge with the object of letting the ferry boats come further in. . , A movement is on foot at Masterton to. siilwtitutc. IJaater j.he ; ■ . present etatuitory Larbpnr Day, and/tlii ~ movement is finding favour Among both* the employing and the employed clasaee. - - Itosaline Guggenheim, heiress to £150,000, has married a .Socialist, and sells literature on the step*, of the Treasury. She refuses to accept any money from her father, one of America's copper "Icings." The increase in pay to the. Christ-, church City Council workmen to 9/ per day will come into operation . after the coming year's estimates have Tjeen passed. The increase' will amount to £1.200 a year. The "Pall -Mall -Gar-ette' 1 -says-that while the King has reeolved-to visit the Dominions" overseas, nothing' has been definitely arranged.;."lt '. willlbe--impost sible for him to. go in. the.near future to Canada and Austraiiar" ' Proposals made-for a-course-of lectures on agriculture-at-Ganterbury College-were referred back to the Finance Committee for consideration of ways and-means, and in the meantime the Government will be asked to make an grant for this purpose. ••- --- .— ■" - ■ The Government , is -tentative negotiation!! for a-site-in the-Sfcrandj nearly opposite Charing Cross Station, for the erection of Dominion offices, but possibly part of the Commonwealth building in Aldwych may be occupied instead. H-awera is now considering the advisability of submitting to the •ratepayers a proposal for raising a loan (in conjunction with the £30,000 loan) "fdr.baildihg a municipal opera house. - The matfcir.'ia to he determined" "during the coming week. The building, trade in Napier has been slack for some time past, but there are '. signs of renewed activity. Plans for new buildings and alterations to existing buildings are cow being prepared, the contemplated expenditure running between £15,000 and £20,000. ----~