TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 196, 18 August 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» Mrs Partkhurst and Miss Kenney have gone to Prance. Wellington beat Auckland by 8 to 3 at lacrosse on Saturday. The British Navy will possess 4'i Dreadnoughts by 1915. European, foreign and Australian mail by the Riverina yesterday, j Three new Dreadnoughts are to be I laid dmvn in British yards. Criminal sessions of the Auckland Supreme Court opened to-day. Thirteen per cent of the dwellings in London con-tain only one room. Three syndicates have ibeeE formed to build America Cup defenders. There have been 400 cases of smallpox in Sydney since the outbreak commenced. The Civil sittings of the Auckland Supreme Court will continue to-morrow. A bill providing for amendments to the Arbitration Court will be introduced this week. Gold Pin accounted for the Xineota Steeplechase at the C..J.C. meeting , on Saturday. Tnranaki beat Auckland for the Ran--1 furly Shield on Saturday after a vigorous tussle. There is a cat famine in London, owing to thieves catching house pets and selling them for their fur. Further rioting has occurred' in Londonderry, a policeman ha-ving been wounded by a bullet. The "Daily Mail" waterplane race i round England for a prize of £5,000 I commences next Saturday. Totalisjitor investments on the concluding day of the C..J.C. ■ meeting totalled £45.00!). ng-ainst £37,319 last year. Six Bulgarian soldiers guilty of masssicrns at Dcxato were executed by the Greeks on the graves of their victims. .John Roberts has decided to retire from billiard phiying, and lias handed his favourite match cue over to Recce. Minister for Public Works visited Stratford and district at the •week-end, iind was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The wholesale price of butter has been reduced to 1/1 J, due to improved, pasturage conditions, and a further decline is probable. A clash occurred between three men at Arch Hill on Saturday nisjht, and a revolver, a knife, and a baton : figured in the incident. The police are camped in ,the streets at Manaimo, Vancouver, with, machine guns, in order to keep the striking miners in order. The Otago floods, which are now subsiding, have been responsible for slips on the railway line and a, consequent disorganised service. The Riverina. now brought into tha Sydney-Auckland service, made her first visit to Auckland yesterday, and leaves for the south to-morrow. Owing to the success of waterplanes in the recent manoeuvres, the British. Admiralty has invited .200 lieutenants to volunteer for the flying corp3. Tnere were! 263 -male and .at female prisoners in Mount Ipden <3aol at, the end of last week, including 19 prisoners awa-iting trial aud four on remand. A burglar entered the premises of tha Union B*ink of Australia at Tfe Awamutu on Saturday, but decamped ■ when confronted with a revolver by the teller. In a speech at the Bluff on Saturday Sir Joseph Ward agreed with: the complaint made that Southland'- had not been properly treated in connectionivitir the visit of the battleship; E. Serle was fined-.£5, and costs at Dunedin for having acted as agent in the. Dominion,, not being the' holder of a warrant from the _Commi3siorier;.of, Taxes or Collector of Customs so to do. The jury found for the claimant' on all issues of fact in the action Dudley Bruqe Hill v. Railway Department, in which, the negligent upkeep of a" level crossing was alleged, and awarded, the full amountof the claim, £1,000. ... The charge against A. T. Simp3on, of ■having stabbed Robert Blackmorc with a knife in a scuffle between boys at Invereargill, was dismissed. There was no ill-feeling between the boys* no deliberation on the part of accused, and probably the stabbing was accidental. The championship recitation at tlie Invercargill competitions was won by. Miss A. Sa traders (Christchurch), Mr L. ! H. Hunt (Dunedinj won the impromptu speecli championship, and Miss E. McL Dougall (Dunedin) was the prize winner ' in the champion prano solo competition. The price of New Zealand Dairy Association and Anchor brands of butter will- ; be 1/1 J per lb wholesale as from today.—(Ad.)