TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 4 August 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

No fresh epidemic c;ise3 iv the city ana suburbs were reported during Sunday. Ex-President Castro has arrived back , in. Venezuela, and is now at the iiead of a rebel ai'my. The Sultan hae cent the heir-app;irejit, Prince Yussuf Izzed-din a to take charge at Adrianaple. There were 253 male and 19 female prisoners in the Auckland Gaol at tha end of last week. Thirty-tire miners were killed by explosiorhs in a mine .at Pottsville, Pennsylvania on Saturday. European and Australian mails reached Auckland from Sydney yesterday by; the steamer Victoria. The offertories at all Anglican Churches yeswriiay were devoted to the funds of the Maori Mission. Greeks cut off a raiding force of 6,000 Bul,s;a,r3 recently, and, catching these be-' tween wo fires, practically annihilated them. The " Cologne Gazette" says that a change in tiie riilership of Bnlgaria will follow the recent humiliation of the nation. Sir Joseph Ward "vvas fareweiled by a large gathering of supporters on his departure for Wellington by the express last ni^ht. The main roll of the borough of Takapuna closed on Saturday with 1.309 names, and the supplementary roll closes on 13. A <ioTinan attempted to blackmail Lord Rothschild to the. extent of £30,----400. but was arrested by the police after, a severe struggle. An aiiti-British outburst in Afcerica, has followed the announcement that Britain will not be represented.at the Panama Exposition. A Parliamentary paper snows that during last year 1.010 ami 8,700 injured aa a result-of.railway accidents in Britain. Billington, the English STsUnmeT. heivt Cickmau, the Australian professional, easily in a mile race on Saturday, a new record beinp established. A girl named Olive Clark had her skull fractured while playing on 3lt. Eden yesterday afternoon. She is staled to have fallen down the crater. [ Harry Buss, aged 37, cut his throat in a Hobson Street boardingbonse yesterday mornimr. He was medically treated and taken to the hospital. Government steamer Tutaneka-i, which has been laying a new cable to the East Cape light, arrived at Auckland yeeterday to take in coal and water. A bottle-message picked up at I're?----nian-6 Bay yesterday states that the writer (a Xative) h adrilt off the Great Barrier. A constable has- left in a launch to investigate. The fire brigade was called out at S o'clock yesterday morning to a house in Sale Street, Bay. One room ■was considerably damaged before the I flames were got under. The man George Graham, vrho was. injured on Friday by the fall of a derrick in a builder's yard, has been removal to the hospital, as lac ift suffering .from severe, injuries to the brain. The. borough banking sta.rtcd at\ G-isboi'ne ha.* been in operation three weeki, -but already £14.34j8 ,ha« been, de-' posited, and the "limit "of £20,000 wilt , probably be reached shortly. About 100 people searched the Westport district yesterday for traces of the missing Granity stationmaster, Mr Croft, but without avail. Not the slightest tra,<?e of the man could be found. Henry John Pileher, aged 7S, fell downStairs at his house in Xew North Road yeeterday morning, and died almost immediately from a fractured skull. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest. The Huddart-Parker steamer Wimmera, -which leaves for .Sydney ". will be taken off the Sydney-Kew Zealand run on arrival, and will ply thereafter between Sydney and Hobart. She will be replaced by the Eiwjrina. In the course of a discussion, in the House of Commons on tbe question of road administration, it was stated that 2,900 motor omnibuses were irtnming in the streets of London, and that each.vehicle paid £43 a year-un&er 'the-petrol tax. M. Vedrines, the famous Kreneh airman, was the victim of a >rat£her serious accident last -w-eek. W&He flying at Bordeaux, his machine capsized, and, crashing 'to the ground, w.is -completely wrecked. Vedrines injtrred 'both 'his head and one of his thigha An elderly man named Comad- "Whitehall. TOho was found lying in a Ghinamxa's gaasien in Stanley Street, on Sattrxrday, died at the hospital the same evening. His own statements and a postmortem indicated that he had taken lysol, and the Coroner brought in a'verdict accordingly.