TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 41, 17 February 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The cricket match, Australia, v. Wellington, resultediif awin for the visitors. ~\A kingfish, sft. in length, and weighing 911b., was caught at Russell on Saturday. Peary suggests that girdling the earth, by the way of the poles is the next feat for explorers. A -haystack valued at £70 was burned down at Huntly on Saturday night, and incendiarism is suspected. Moses Hanrahan. aged 77, fell over a, hundred-foot face at St. Batban's, Otago, receiving very severe injuries. The King will lay the foundation stone of the, New Zealand office in London, adjoining'the Adelphi Theatre. The tuatara lizard recently confiscated by the police at Paeroa. has 'been forwarded to the Auckland Museum. Hon. James Allen replied to a number of Opposition criticisms in the course of an address at Hastings last night. A lad named Ernest King got out of Jus depth in the Manawatu River at Palmerston North, and was drowned. Mr. Justice Heydon, judge of the N.S.W. Arbitration Court, considers that £2 8/ is the minimum living wage in Sydney. W. E. 'Poster, aged 30, collided with a cow while motor-cycling at Waimate, and received injuries which resulted in his -death. It is expected that 15,000 men will he out of work in Melbourne in the course, of a day or two unless the strike trouble is settled. '. St. Andrew's Church, Epsom, which has recently been enlarged, will he reopened this evening toy the Anglican Bishop of Auckland. The King's presence at the football match between England and. Ireland is interpreted as a desire to show his personal concern in the Irish prisis. A verdict of death from hemorrhage of the lungs was returned at the inquest on -Alexander Johnson, who was found dead .in a backyard at Grey Lynn yesterday morning. An error in the transmission of a Dunedin telegram published yesterday made it appear that the Dunedin City Council's proposed new electric loan was of £15,000 instead of £150,000: The Chinese Government is growing alarmed at the progress of the White Wolves, and has sent an army of 30,000 men to endeavour to hem in the gang. Many army officers have joined the rebels. A roadman named Bert Jones was drowned while crossing the Wanganui River at night, and at the inquest the coroner found that -the fatality was due to deceased's own recklessness while Tinder the influence of drink. London Millinery Salon, Mrs. Scarll, 50, Karangahape Road; only five days left. Every hat must oe sold; no reasonable offer Tefused. — (Ad.)