TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 82, 6 April 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

COfcPANVS OFFICE: QUAY STBBBT-

Arbitration Court eittJuge continued to-day. lA. coloasal laadslid«l an. Italy dcetroyed seven coltogee. 'A Gernmn firm, ie making 18 aeroilance for the British. Navy. iA cyclonic storm destroyed flic townehip of Cxmbooya, yeeterday. A foirr-toomed cottage, in .Albert Road, Epsom, ivrui burned down on Saturday night. Improvements to the 'Auckland Club have been completed at x-cost,of about £4000. Charles Bush, a fisherman*..was capsized from a dinghy, at Thames and . drowned. ' 1 The Minister for Finance has--received £107 as "conscience money" from some person unknown. ' It is expected that many Sonth-iCanter-bury farmers will be raising -sheepn|ietead of growing wheat. ■ ./*,.-, The -Earl of iM.ea.tli cnggesie Jane' 22, Diamond Jubilee Day, am Kmpirc D»y, . instead of May 24. . ~ A Chicago meat packing company has. declared a dividend of sixty-four <|>er cent.; on its capital stock. Bishop Averill laid the foundation stone or' a new church at Hendersan on Saturday afternoon. lion. Jae. Allen is submitting to Cabinet to-day two areas in Auckiand City ac possible university sites. ■ ■ „...-.. The death roll by the sinking of the sealer Sotttlu-rn Croae off iSewfoundland' is now estimated l at 75. .' Mrs. Annie Davis, aged 70, was burned to death in a house in Upper Queen Street early on Sunday "morning. iFive convicte were shot dead while trying to escape from their celte in Sacramento, California, on Saturday. t/ord Beresford eaid .that il the airny." weTe used againsb Ulster it woold iireak: the navy as well ac the army. ;Kranee is to junta! wirelesß tekgrkph stations in liter Pacific paeeeß&iane, and to -build a -coaling station at -Papeete. < A. man named Henry Jauning wae kil- r led at the destructor this morning, by- , being pinned.against- a walLipr the pole of a dray. '" ",< ■ -.; Mr. Maasey -eaTs-'-thatthe conduct .of ■ the rowdy section at Mr. Jfishert reerrrt < Wellington meeting was a disgrace to New Zealand. Xhe Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the proposed union of Rcmucra with the city commenced its sittings thie morning.' A man named Arthur .T. King had a foot crushed by the wheel'- of a motor •bus he was attempting to board at the ; Exhibition on Saturday night. Mr. P. G. Morgan, director of the Geological survey, nae reported hopefully on' the possibilities of payable . oil and natural gae in the Gisborne district. Two German journalists* have been sentenced to imprisonment for libelling the .Crown JMnce- >by eatiriaing his farewell 'to the Death's (Head Husears at Dantzig. iifri' Aequi't-h, tae new Minister for, WaT, cays that the Armjr TriQ «hear no-' rthing of politics from him. ' Is return lie expects to !h%af kotnttg: "of" politicft A from the army. .. _ Gelignite, detonators, aad several., skeleton, keys were found in the pockets of a man named Artiinr Hamilton, wiio«as arrested 011 Saturday drf&moon on a charge of rbmglary. ■ ' An original feature of a sportsmen's service at St. Colnmha's Church Hall. Grey LynnJ last night, was the delivery of two •sermons by Revs. ,W. G. Monckton' and Jasper Calder. . . .''•• A mbther isapprying te the Supreme Court at Wellington for the restoration of her 17 year-old daughter, triune preference for her stepfather led to the mother leaving hex home. ' A Texan planter ihas hrn wunaiioned rnider the Wlhite Save Act. He mar- i rted sixteen women, in iftftggp year* without bothering to go through theformality of wife-murder tor divorce. s,