TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 303, 20 December 1913, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ladies, See-.... H. Dalton's Xma-s Box Advt iSeaimen's strike ends. The tramwaymen on strike in Leeds have resumed work.

The holiday influx: of visitors to Auck. land has commenced.

European and EngEsh mail by tl*> Manuka from Sydney.

Cecil Clive New, painter, of Onehunga, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The new Methodist Orphanage erected at Mount Albert was opened this afternoon.

A site has been acquired in Bloomsbury for a National Theater at a cost of £60,000.

An offer of' 55,000gs was made lor the famous racehorse Lembrey, but was refused.

All branches of the Federated Seamen's Union are to register amder the Arbitration Act.

An agreement between the ship-owners and seamen has been signed to cover a period of three years. A chemist -At Stratford was fined yesterday for failing to enter details of the sale ot tincture of opium. It is believed that between 400 and 500 antives perished as a result of the Amboyb volcanic outburst. The Manuka from Sydney, manned by an amateur crew, reached port early this morning, and sails for Sydney this evening. Semple was fined £20 and costs for inciting to resist special conetailee. The charge of using seditious langnage twas 1 withdrawn.

Through crashing into a tramway pole in Ponsonby Road yesterday, a motorcyclist named Low sustained series internal injuries. Kshermen who have been netting §o Oamaru Har-bonr for the past "thiiy years axe being prohibited, and 'they intend to 'bring on a test case...

It was indrcarted at the meetmg of the Eemnera Road BoaTd last evening that loan moneys had not been satisfactorily expended, the previous board being blamed.

The North. Atlantic pool which fixed the rates of fares and friedghts lias heed broken by the withdrawal of the Han*-burg-Amerika line, and a ra£e-catfcing wax is expected. The Master-ton Chamber of Commerce is urging the io consider the deviation of the Rimnt&ka railway; before -making a start with, the eton-MartinboTOUgh line.

The foot "specials" were entertaineS at a smoke concert in the Town Hall last night, when presentations were made to Major Lusk and otter officers of the mounted and foot forces,

The rules of the new Hirotty Miners? Union contain stringent pro-viaons wilit regard .to affiliation with non-registered bodies and admission to anemSbership, and also for a four-fifths majority on. important issues. The Prime Minister informed' a deputation from the Society of Friends yesterday that something would tie done to meet conscientious objectors under the j Defence Act next session, but the law worfd tie administered in strict compliaaice with its «pirit.

It is reported that Mr. W. T. Young, president of the Federation of labour, ■informed a meeting of strikers yesterday that fundi were low, £L,OOO being required this week, and there was only £400 in hand, and very little money was coming from Australia or tmions in Xew Zealand, and it was impossible to carry on the strike successfully.

A 500-year-old boy came to New York __a_st week in a. wooden box. He was a mummy found an the Peruvian mountains by .Thomas Taylor, of Montreal. He is believed, to be the remains of the son of an and although lie -has been for centuries in the tomb his black hair is still lustrous and the .body lias shrunk only slightly. *"_ . . . _• . .