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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Miss Alice Inglis, of Devonport, has 3 slight lead for "Trip to Japan."* A motor bus company has been, formed at Marton with a capital of £5,000. Three hundred bodies have now beerecovered from the Sengenhydd mine. Mr. Redmond says that when Home Rule is law- Ulster will make the best of it. Amundsen leaves San Francisco next June on his live years' drift over the North Pole. The Hospital Board has decided to subsidise a qualified nurse in the Warkworth district. A saddler's shop in Brown Street, Thames, was considerably damaged by rirst last evening. Albany will probably claim the world's sculling championship owing to Barry ignoring his challenge. Three persons were, knocked over bymotor cars in the city yesterday, but no serious injuries resulted. The wircle.s station on the Macqitaries is to be maintained by the Federal Government as a weather bureau. To-day is the fifty-second anniversary of the arrival of the ship Black Eagle at Auckland, with 1-14 passengers. The Fiji Government is considering a proposal to build 50 miles of railway from Suva up the fertile Rewa Valley. A new union of Auckland seamen -and firemen has been formed, and will shortly be registered under the Arbitration Act. Ir, is reported that Yelbhalmjai- Stefansson. the Arctic explorer, has been lost, but no confirmation of the rumour is available. Twenty-six Government sections in Paeroa township were sold by auction yesterday, most of tbem fetching tho '. upset prices only. Members of the new Waterside Union . loaded 27,581 boxes of butter into the ' Opawa iv 20 hours —a record for the '. port of Auckland. '. The Kaiser lias put the veto on the ; tango by prohibiting army officers danc- \ ing it, or attending dances where it i 3 l on the programme. '. One of Huerta's Ministers, who tried - to persuade him to accept America's - terms, was peremptorily dismissed, and ■ sent to the sea coast. I At Warwick a crowd resenting a pari ! mutuel machine (a totalisator) placed ) outside the racecourse, seized and burned the whole paraphernalia. Two outbreaks of lire occurred last night in Campbell and Ehrenfried's malthouse at Newmarket, under circumstances pointing to incendiarism. ■• • •; : In the ease against Herbert Edward > Whitford, charged with arson,,, in the • Supreme Court at Nelson, the jury dis- " agreed, and a new trial was ordered. ' A youa** married .woman sustained such a. severe shock during the Welling- ', ton strike riot that she had io undergo' an operation, from which She did not recover. - The committee in charge of the Costley Home .has decided not. to readmit. , inmates who leave the home -without permission or return iii a state of ' intoxication. Strikers stopped all work on the Lyttelton wharves yesterday afternoon, and ' J mounted special constables are being, rapidly collected from the country to - deal with the situation. The commission,, which inquired into the Rand riots, reports that the soldiers - who fired upon the rioters did not exceed their dnty, and commends the bravery ~ and patience of the police. II The Hospital Board last night decided i. to raise .the fees charged..at. the General ; . Hospital from 4/G to 6/ a day, with a, 0 discount of Od a day on all fees paid Within a month of the patient's dis.3 charge. The speaker of the House of RepreS sentatives had to be sent for last evening by the Chairman of Committees inorder to end a lively scene in which. Mr. T. M. Wilford and the Premier were the leading figures. S A determined stonewall of the/second ballot repeal proposals kept the House of Representatives in session until 6.45 this '• morning, when an adjournment was taken till 2.30 p.m. on account of the death of Mr G. Laurenson, M.P. for Lyttelton. Don't miss the auction sale of household furniture to-morrow at No. 1, Mason's Avenue, Heme Bay, Ponsonby. jo No trams means small attendance and big bargains.—(Ad.)