TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 5 August 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

♦ The King's yacht Britannia won the Gold Cup at Cowes .yesterday. The Grea.t Wyxley gang of horse maimers has started operations again. Keir Hardie says • that after getting the eight hours day the miners must strike for cix' hours. The Tramways Company will have 16G cars on the road by the end of October. There are now 158 in use. The electric sign outside His Majesty's Theater caught fire last night, but the flames were soon extinguished. It. is stated that there is to be a rise; of id a lb in the retail price of beef in Wellington, and Jd on mutton. A further epidemic case has been located in the same city boarding-house as the one reported yesterday. Pennsylvania is enforcing the Jaw that no man shall marry until he has produced a medical certificate of health. The Roman Catholic girls' school- in Vermont Street, Ponsonby, was damaged by fire last night to the extent of about £60. As evidence of the extreme talkativeness of Parliamentarians this session, '"Hansard" has already run into a i volume of 7SS pages. • The naval correspondent of the j London "Daily Telegraph" declares that 'the Admiralty is maintaining the sixty I per cent superiority over Germany. Professor Starr, of the Chicago University, declares that the /present attempt of woman to push herself forward is harmful to the human race. A man named Frank Neylon has been missing from his home at Wanganui since Saturday uight. He. was last seen going out of the house in his pyjamas. Rev. V. W. Ccckerfll. vicar of"Waipawa, was killed last night in a collision between his motor-cycle and a gig, one shaft of the latter penetrating his skull. A valuable greenstone tiki, once the property of Sir John Logan. Campbell, has been presented to the Auckland Museum by his daughter, Mrs. Humphries. Twenty lives were lost in the colliery fire at Gadder, near Glasgow. A fireman who rescued three of the,men was himself killed while attempting further rescues. It is stated that the victims of the level crossing accident at Ka.ukapa.kapa arc taking action against .the Railway Department, with a view to obtaining damages. Arthur Robert Payne, who intended leaving for Sydney last night by the Wimmera, was arrested prior to her departure on a charge of stealing a pair of boots from a Queen Street shop. _ The proposal of the Admiralty to ' establish a naval base on the Bermudas is causing some perturbation in America, where it is feared that,a reorganisation of the naval policy may be necessary. Speaking at his public reception at Wellington last night, Sir Joseph Ward said that the tendency was now towards an easier condition on the London money market, but it-would be unwise to go upon .twice in any- one year. a -.^jMpurit.'" Eden ~Bojrough Council— last | nignt decide! to lohVard to '. ways Company. -a' complaint made that- - just now many of the cars on the 'Mount ! Eden Road service rpn only to the twopenny section, instead of. going right to the, terminus. A num,ber of petitions have been presented to the House of Representatives, signed hy superannuated railway-men, who claim to be placed on the same ■footing as active - menxbere of the railWay service in respect to- privilege ■tickets and free passes. . In an address last night, Mr. Manghan Barnett strongly condemned the system . of musical examinations, especially with • reference, to the setting'!of prescribeil examination pieces unsuited to the varying requirements of different students, and to tbe harmful practice of-eramming. The Municipal Corporations Ac 6 Amendment Bill, circulated yesterday, provides for the election of mayors by councils from among their members, and gives councils additional powers in regard to the establishment of public transport services, the alteration of boundaries, licensing of boaruing-houses, billiard-rooms, and in other directions. 3 ■