TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• ' 'Arthur' Sfcrothef 3aekson;,van ; Oiicimngm. resident, dted swMeiily "in; bed~laetTnghfc : Tte" London- stock in*rk?t is very buoyant : «graj>g"~ to- tbV ■v.V:heaj>Bess?trf money)• ;■--- -— _ --•'; : ■ ■ : ..Stories are told of -Cologne policemen ■who. acaep£ed-£5 bribes'. in luncheon hampers. ---- - - : —"..". ; . I " 11ie'"£DglieB~m.aH» : via -'Frisco, whidj 1 left- here on December-16, :. arrived in. iLondon on January 15.: ...:'- "<'''•'?' • •:'•"■ ■ ■ I>r. Jtfilroy sustained aerioua injury t» His eyes through an ex.pl oe ion of carbide used in connection with his motor cir. ■ , A.--Fi : Wilding -lias'had another 'win ternational' tournament af San Remo. < The chairman of the. KenJuera . Road Board stated last night that the capital value.of the district was how £2,134,400. i An Auckland party, with four, rods, captured 39 kingfish at the Bay of Islands «ri Kridajt weighing 351b. ;- : ':. '•■''• / ■■"'. •'.-'. . A huge canal casting £40,000,000. is said, to, be projected "for the purpose of bringing the Rhine, through all' German territory. ' 'A. sixteen-year-old girl• named Max Yatea was-drowned while bathing ; in the ' Waikato River at Hamilton yesterday afternoon.' • ~'~; —~— ~~~Ji." ' .'-■ ■' ' "The^lass 'iniwaffes during- the- past' ten' years .owing—to— the Old Country, is ' estimated -to-- run into £i7,40b,000.:.T -~"i-..". ~.-:.;it;"; :~~'Z..~.~ -A. special misfeion of Hip Waiapa Dio ; eesan'""Synoa >Ts "'being , ?, held -this.'weelc for .of electing a Bishop fo succeed'nKTAVlriir."';^"'■".■"" '.'SZ'-"~ .".".' Ettigrone. "; '/Sedjjwiefe -.toys'*" Jeached Auckland thii's morning in the • steamer "AyrsEtire.. x& i take—up -lanhZjiiork under Governmentisuperiision.-' '" A] ne.w~propeller ancT shafjTKavei.'.been fitted to-^hei-st'eamer'Hiinitangi af -the Chatham Islands, aiid she leaves for Lytteltb.H~tOTffiOTr.ow inornirig.-","" - —:v _;Sydney -wharf -labourers i.refuae: "16 °f "Vertinie be;settled,'a,nd jn:.the nieanfeffif?. .t ne . - -The steamer -IHord,- which had a bad fire-:ih her Melbourne^!! at Auckland last night' with a cargo- 'of hard- ' wood/ 7 '-- ■•''•- : - -- -•■* - .-- ••• "A-Beabon <rf Empire" is'the idea of tiie "promoters; of., the to -house ' all .the. Overseas Dominions "'representatives...on .the-Jine:-Aldwych Ufte in -the Strand.- --..; ,'-. ; ';■.' -7;'. ~_: ■ _■_;'_..;-.- : The _first'female'"gratfd' Tjury T in America told by this judge JMzb jA- w * s no and that it baeed I its finding!?' on inadequate knowledge and-tMvialitjes.T ""-■" ' " ' : " - ; Owing-:-4o ■ persistent threats', from' members, of. .the Blank" r -Hana7r:w;ho Remand WacKmail, Paaerewski 3ias: been abandon tbiir for-the- pWjSjent."' '-' ~—-- -'-■ ' ■ ' : - Sfr. BriS Doyle; pronibtei- ~ijf the "Exhibition" lottery, has decided to abandon. the Jatter, and arrangements are -being: .made to return their .money to the pujrcliasers p(_ • . : -V ".;■■■ ■7 ' ;':?It "iis"; umlerstood that, parkin., has' advised the; Dublie strikers &> r goback, (as the BnglWd jare practically; at an' ene, 'but he urg%r the men not to sign any agreements^ Kiiig Alphoneo has beten felling J»reas- <, men that he is' going -in for expensive schemes for housing the ■ Royal :woxk men, so that.'he fears, he ,"Trill :eventually have everything "up the spout." Strenuoas. efforts' are ilieing.made ,tolocate the lost • .submarine in "which eleven lives; were. lost. German experts Tare saying that the disaster, was due to .the "criminal/ negligences of '.the -Admiralty. • ,'• ; " • • —A—young. Maori woman, .recently impnsoited for has been charged .at rWengmnUi ,wjth obtaining gopdaVand-ehanger-'by-means of a welt.kipwn resident " ' ;: "THie Kemuera Road "Board luta decided to protest aga-inet the-amalgamation pi its district:: wftTiJtUe a decided majority of v the ratepayers shall ihaTe expressed-a definite wish for the chinge. A> f%ht 'took" 'place*fyesterdky 'betweeii, two: r of the"Ohirieie crew'of tfie coffier Harflete, riirw --at Wellingteh,'both : meß being:-"ihjureaj;'one".seve"relj ; '. v.r > SS"■ 'Tp'tae.--lefifcin .the main Building.' .'"riie Exhibition Art- tUniori";'-' tickets >' 2/e; ; and'-inarker; net. coet. of making, f756.-rr(Ad.) ...;_'"- ---; We obserre <hat: Daimler .omntbueet are. , r y<sryviinucb...4ii,,evidence in A-ucldand. The pjrbfic ■ evidently /•.appreciate ■ the" eilent,- smooth runtting, .and the.- abeenct .torehams^Ad:)--,-^:.;^....,,..:^^;^,