TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 203, 26 August 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

First municipal poll at Takapuna takes place to-morrow. - . Jack Johnson has drawn the colourdine, ami will not ..fight Sam Langford. The ketch Spitfire has been '"arrested" at Whangarei for unpaid wharfage dues. •Mr. TJoyd George describe? golf as the greatest discovery of the 'age for middlei aged people. ! British army aeroplanes proved, very success!-jl -wjien used as scouts in the recentmanoKivMi. It is eta-ted that iflie. 3jsritish. Government is making preparations in reply to Ulster's armed appeal to' force against Home Ifcule. . The appearance of Jack Johnson at a London music hall has been ipostponed to enable him. to reply to the -American I white slave allegations. ] Hawker, the Australian airman, has started on the flight round England for : the " Daily Mail" prize. The only other competitor has ■witaidxa.-wn. ! The necessity i or ' a -wharf on the Rcmuera waterfront in Hobson Bay was emphasised -at the _Bemuera Bead .Board's.meeting last night. f ■■. ; Clarence Robinson,-, charged with embezzlement of £328. mone'y,.l3eloriging to the Auckland City Cojimeil/vas sentenced to three years' .reformatory- treatment. A middle-aged labourer jiajnedrjMartin. Magrath was struck by a tram" car at Pamell - yesterday. aiternoon, sustaining a broken ehouWer and other injuries. ; The Vancouver maU steamer. Marama arrived at Auckland.. this., morning, ■bringing , mails, passengers .and merchandise. She sails .foT Sydney to-night. The Federal-SbJre liner Devon "went ashore on the rocks at Eencarrbw Head last mg'nt as she-.was leaving' Wellington Harbour in' the face of a Boutheriv gale. . ■ "... ""■' Bishop AverLU is being very strongly urged by Anglicans throughout the Waiapu Dioceae to decline. .the. inyitetion extended to-him by the Anckiand Synod. - •-- -- . —7;".. ■ ■ .V.~ Tlie Government has decided to take over the control! of the mining, court.'-at the..., Auckland -Exhibition, , and ~the 'department " wiH~taKe~steps 'toCEnHire lan effective display. ... v ... -~ J A 14-year-old boy named John I Cooper, came into collision "with a motor io.'ir in .Jervois Bead yesterday-afternoon, and was rene'dered unconsciou6?through concussion of the brain.' "■ Owing to a .landslip at WaiporU- the Dunedin electric supply was inter/ered with yesterday. Trains are being, held up owing to landslides, and washouts caused by the floods in Otsgo. ■ ..,, Turkey is seeking to cornel to a direct arrangement- with: Bulgaria.as to i.the future of Adrianople. .. An immediate solution is imperative '-owing-..;;t0 ..the cost of maintaining ' 300,000-men, in Thrace. • ■,**• —*■ ~ - , • -'•;:'- The party of British MJVs.- touring the Empire, under the auspices of the Empire Parliamentary Association, reached Auckland by the' Venconv* jiiail steamer this morning, and were "Riven a civic reception and ''luncheon. They leave _ibr~-Kotorea v by special -train at 9 pjn., - - - -.<•