TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The WiUochra's crew has 'been paid off in Sydney-. A sharp earthquake shock -was felt at Marton at 7.4.'i la*t evening. Barry lias covered Paddon'e £100 deposit to bind a rare on the Thames. The Ulster volunteer force is now reported to lie ninety thousand strong. The Hastings' dhow ground 'has been purchased by the Hawked Bay Jockey Club. H.M.s. New Zealand's programme has been altered, and .-lie is now to go to .Mexico. Several assaults on workers are reported to have occurred at Lyttelton yesterday. The Bank oi Xt»w Zealand Bill was read a third time in the Legislative Council yesterday. General C'axranxa. the Mexican rebel lea-der. announces his intention of marchinjr on the capital. There is no sifm of a resuscitation of picketing at Huntiy. and evervthinir is quiet in the town. A carrier pigeon from Mow Zealand arrived at Aberdeen.. Washington territory. l\S_i... yesterday. The Marama leaves to-day for Vancouver, taking a l.ir<:e carp-o of New Zealand butter and cheese. The - Daily Mail " declares that there is a serious dissension in the Cabinet on. the Home Rule question. Recent, arrivals from England are complaining greatly of the difficulty of finding work during the strike. The stonewall on Hie second ballot repeal was continued in the House overnight, and resumed this morning-. The strength of the new Auckland Waterside Workers' Union is now 600. Since its formation ."10,000 tons of cargo have been handled at the port. A special constable, who was making his way from A-hbiirton to Christchnrch, was attacked by three men at Sockburn, and kicked us lie lay on the ground. The New Zealand Dairy Association yesterday paid out £t>4.444 7/6 to its suppliers a.- for the month of October. The correspoiKkDg pa;-ment last year was £.17,901 1/8. A service will be held in the Domain camp to-morrow at 10 a_m. by Rev. Jasper Calder (Anglican), and services will also be held at the wharf and drill ball camps. A resolution to form a Fanners' Union constabulary corps, and appointing a. provisional committee, was passed at a. meeting of .-pecial constables held at 1 the Domain camp la-t evening. The pictures at the Paris Salon this year show a marked decline in eccentricity. Both the eurvists and the cubists are. represented, hut an air of respectability is slowly creeping over the exhibition. A 'train entered a tunnel, two miles long, near l.'orunna. -Spain, .gradually slackened i»peed, and started to run backwards. The guard jumped down and ran to the front of the train, where he foimd tiie driver and fireman lying on the. footplate unconscious owing to the sulphurous fumes from the firraa.ee. The guard managed to fret the train out into the open air. A three-century old farnihonse at Ipstoner, in Staffordshire, is reputed to be haunted. The residents state that when they are going; upstairs they feel a sensation like a breath of air passing, and they also fancy that someone is walking near them. A lady in one of the bedrooms was suddenly pulled down to the, floor by some invisible agency. ALSO the furniture moves about, and the doors cannot 'be kept shut.