TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A Japanese cruiser has been ordered to Mexico. Krupp's works made a profit for lasi year of £1.800,000. Tliere are signs of a collapse in the Natal Indians' strike. iPohutu geyser at Rotorua has been very active this week. The first wool sale of the season will be held on Wednesda.-. Mr. William Findl'ay has left £500 to the Wellington Hospital. The Vancouver mail stea-mor Marama arrived from .Sydney 'this morning. The West " Australian loan of £2.000,000 is quoad at one-half premium. The warship Philomel, en route from China to Auckland, has reached Thursday Island. Loading operations on a large number of vessels are being proceeded with at Wellington. . A ballot of the C_ri____irc_ tramwaymen went against affiliating with the Federation of Labour. The Quinlan Grand Opera season in Auckland lias been abandoned owing to continuance of the strike. Alfred Diddle was sentenced to death at Chris'tcliui'L-.i yesterday for the murder of Mrs. Lilley at Mayfield. France intends to limit the number of public-houses. At present there is one house to even- 82 people. A well 100 feet deep Is being sunk at Three Kings by the Mount Roskill Road Board for water supply purposes. Federation deleg-ates made an unsuccessful attempt yesterday to induce the Wanganui watersiders to stop work. The Auckland timber mills star-ted work this morning, a good proportion of the hands returning to 'their jobs. President Wilson believes that Huerta will resign the Mexican Presidency as soon as he can find 'a dignified way out. The American Labour Federation has decided that the time is not ripe for the formation of an American Labour purty. •Mrs. Alice Hare, the wife of a schoolmaster, hanged herself from a door in her house at Newmarket yesterday afternoon. A steamer with gold worth £45,000 abourd has been nipped in the ice in the Yukon River. The gold is to be sledged down the river. A man was sentenced to two months at Blenheim yesterday for the theft of £102 worth of gas. The theft extended over three years. An old man named Sydney Plaw was assaulted in a Dunedin street last night, and it is feared that he will lose tho sight of one eye. There was another all-night stonewall in the House last night over the Second Ballot Eepeal Bill, followed by an adjournment for breakfast. It is now unlikely that the new Parncll 'baths will be completed till well after the New Year, as the strike has interfered with the building operations. A motor reel and _n_ permanent firemen have been stationed in Parnell pending a settlement of the dispute between the Fire Board and the Parnell Fire Brigade.