TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 14, 16 January 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

An outbreak of infantile -paralysis is reported from Dunedin. A general strike 'has been-declared or the Portuguese railways. Good competition for all sorts ie reported, from the I/oitdon wool sale. I All clafeeE are contributing towards the funds for ShacJdetonfe expedition. Terrible 6toriee of the sufferings of the people in the Sakuxa Shima, eruption. Five waterside workers were arrested yesterday on charges of cargo broaching. The Te Kao Maori schoolboys are visiting the Waikato. They leave-tot : the North on Tuesday. Great loss of life was caused by the Saknr-a Shima eruption. The rescue "work is now proceeding. Over a million pounds worth of netr motor cars ■were registered .in 2few South Wales last year. All the passengers are safe on the steamer Cobequid, which went ashore of! the coast of Nova Scotia. Tie keels of tihe Royal Sovereign and the Royal Oak, 25,000-ton. ibattleehipe, have just been laid down. Until assured of a majority in the Senate, the Canadian Government will not reintroduce the Naval Bill. - American woolgrowers are complain* ing about the competition they have (to meet since the tariff was lowered. In order to attract recruits for the army, the War. Office intends to start an advertising campaign in the Press. According "to the "Daily Grapibiee" Berlin correspondent, the Kaieer is displeased at the reeult of the Zabern affair. The list of fires in Sydney was added to yesterday by a blaze at an oilskin factory, the damage done amounting to £20,000. . . . Blight is reported to *c making serious havoc amongst the potato crop •in the axeas lying between Timaru and Maheno. It is considered probaMe that July 1 •will ha fixed ac the date of the opening of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power n-orks. Two men were committed for trial at Timaru on a charge of taking a. drunken man out for α-motor ride and robbing him on the road. Yesterday afternoon member's of the City Council visited the Gillies property at Parnell, which it is proposed to acquire as a park. Nearly 100 delegates will attend the second New Zealand national V.M.C.A. Convention, to be held in Auckland'the first week in February. The Mayor of Birkenhead proposes that Nortacote shall join with Birkenhead in purchasing an up-to-date motor reel for fire-fighting piirposes. Walter George Stewart, a:a elderly waterside worker, fell down the hold of' the Tainui at Lyttelton yesterday, and subsequently died from shock. In 1903 there..were ,five airmen in Europe, and they flew about » thousand mites. In 1012 there were 4,500 -airmen, aiid they flew over t'vvo million miles. The body of a young man named Shaw, ■ who -was missed from Hanmer Springs on Sunday, was fblind yesterduv by a search party, lying near a waterfall. Nineteen hockey playere, eeveral of them ibeing internatioriaJe, are willing to make the trip if the English Hockey Council decides to eend a team-to New Zealand.

At an airmen*s banquet in London the loopiug-tlie-loop is 'being , extended to the menu, which is afco aipside down. They ibegin at coffee and end.i\vi-th the. jh-ors d'oeuvw.: - . '""■ • -"■"--".*■"■' .\-. - yTJie-, llnanoial affairs of the - "Smirt Set" entertainers were explained to the Wellington magistrate yesterday in;a judgment summons case, but no order was made. The Auckland Builders' Association is protesting to the Government re discrimination against imported timber in the proposed new Auckland Timberworkers' award. A resolution ha.-nmg for Hβ aim ■ the devel&pment of the constitution in the directioa of making Alsace a Federal State hae ■been introduced in the Alsatian second , chamber.