TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Summers v.Hoci Keys, Town Hall To-night Five cub leopards were horn at the Onehunga Zoo this morning. ...... Germany is gathering a squadron to be stationed in distant seas. Further epidemic cases are reported among natives in the country districts,, A cottage at Ellersli'e was gutted by fire last night while the occupants were away. It is estimated that one-half of the total population of Sydney been vaccinated. ,'.j i The English mail, via Suez, which' left here on June 26, arrived in London on August 7. Five cases of smallpox were discovered in Sydney yesterday, including one in the Sydney Hospital. F. P. Riley perished in a fire -which destroyed a boarding-house at Waiharara, near Awanui. • ...,,. Suffragettes burned down the late Sijr Geo. Newnes' residence, valued at f 12,000, at Lynton. Prospects of peace in the 'Balkans are not now so bright, owing to Serbia's uncompromising attitude. Four hundred Welshmen have sworn to shoot any Suffragettes who disturb the national Eisteddfod. The steamer Waimana reached Wellington from London last night with:' eight cases of scarletina "aboard." i France will spend ten millions sterling in the next twelve years in tarring roads. in order to attract motor tourists. The annual return of crime for the Dominion shows an increase in the number of offences, but a falling off in serioue crime. Mr. Thomas, a Cardiff millionaire coal-owner, says that he is not afraid ol oil supplanting coal in this generation or the next. The want-of-confidence motion in the New South Wales House of Assembly . was defeated iby 40 to 35. Mr. Willis did not vote. Rata. sawdust is poispnotß to', trout. This fact was given voice .to by Mc James Frouse at a, meeting Ol Levitt settlers, the other nigWfc. The Auckland Education Board draws a line somewhere, and. the Thames Committee has been informed that the Board does not supply doormats to schools. The officers of the - Auckland Health. District have been informed during July of 196 "smallpox." and.l 44 "chicken-posr" cases in the city, suburbs, and country. The proposed New Zealand tour of an English hockey team has been finally: arranged by Mr. Eliot Davie, of Auckland, subject only to confirmation locally. The German officers who sold army secrets to Krupps have" been dismissed the service and sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from, one month to six. A man named Claude Binson, working 'on a farm near Kaiapoi, was caught in a circular saw. Hie right leg was. mangled and torn, and his left ankle fractured. Two nights running the Fire Brigade has been called out to false alarms from the bos at the corner of Union arid Wellington Streets, each time aftes midnight. - _ . -j» " . The British Government does not con-""' sider itself justified in spending £250,000 over the Panama Exposition of 1915, and finds that there is no active desire in commercial circles to participate. Constable Adams and Captain Stentford returned yesterday afternoon after a fruitless search for the Maori who was stated in a,'recently-found 'bottle' message to be adrift in a boat off the Great Barrier. Three" men who were discovered oa the roof of the Opera House last night were- taken for burglare, but it .turned out . that ; they had climbed over frora. adjoining premises, where they were, working, with the' object of getting a free show. The Minister for Education has authorised an increase of the grant for the erection of a separate infant department at the Hamilton Wcrt eehoolj and.the tender' of 3Fr. J. M. Henderson (at £1945) for the erection of a building in brick, has been accented. Tie JTqurft Eden resident who favoured us with a forecast.on the appearance of the last new moon, which proved accurate, writes: —There will "be heavy and almost continued rain during the present moon's stay with us, and at times very high ■winds. I advise contractors to temporarily well buildings in course of erection. TheTe will be odd dry days, which should be taken advantage of by all." The native conference at present eitting at Wellington has asked the Government to submit all proposed native legislation to it in order that suggestions and recommendations may be made. The annual report of the Commissioner of Police recommends the addition of 30 men to the force, and Superintendent Mitchell in his report on the Auckland district says that aix more men aTe needed at the city station and one at Newmarket.