TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Socialist., accuse t!ic Kiag o: Spalu of despotism. There ■were 1000 deaths from jilaguin Java during April. The French deficit thiis year Ui estimated at .___.tiO(l..("i. The Derby wn_. won by Ihirbar.. a. t\venty-tn-onc rhance. •Mr. Matwy gave a political address at InvercarffHl liio-. ni^hl. An Australian mail reached 'Auckland hy the Main Trunk express this morning. Kenny-more, the Derby favourite, was left at the post, ami was hopelessly out of the running. The Kaiser, in response to the Kaiserin's entreaties, has agreed to Prinec Oscar's engagement. The Xorth Eastern Hallway Company ha* built a fire-proof steel train for its Londou Kclinburvjli service. The late Lord Stratltcona- personai estate was valued ai £4.031.4-2. autl his realty at another million. The Admiralty has paid a warm tribute to M. Hamel's services as Britain's foremost exponent of the art of flying. Anv.ngementri are bein£ made for tho pnrclrat-e of a motor ambulajice with the £1.8.1) recently raj«ed for the purpose by the citizens ot Auckland. A man mimed William Woods was drowned in the iW-.injraitiii Rive,- at Rorinite. on Sunday. The accident, was cauiserf by the overturning of _■ canoe. Mr. George <irimr_.oiie who was severely injured in the WiangamaTrno railway t-olliiiioll. died in the Uamilum: hospital yesterday afternoon. A youth mimed Francis Ottmminfr. or Palmerßton Xort'h. got lost in the bnsh during heavy rain and mist, and his dead. body wa s fonnd hy a search body. 'It is now suggested thai the 'Whan-, gamarino railway disaster w«fl tauseif hy the lump signal sticking at '"cleaT" afcer "the lever liad been pnat Iracfc tot "danger." If: is proposed to make a presentation to .Mr. SI. •). loyle. ex-Mayor of MA. Albert. in consideration of Iris services to the 'iTO.otigh. ■extending over a number of years. A report on ;he progress of Hvft •Auckland drainage scheme during the past financial year was presented iby th-e engineer (Mr. \V. I_. Bushl at ilia. Drainage Board's; meeting last night. A;- the 'Supreme Court yesterdur - Claud* Hamilton Ms*_wel. was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for a serie.- of burglaries, the judge remarking that it was no case for trifling. The Bombardier Wells-Colin 801 l fight has been fixed for -Inne ..nth at Olympia. London. Wells is being coached by Georges Hackenschmidt. the famous wrestler. - American army circles in Honolulu are stirred by the reported theft from the military headquarters of complete maps of the island of Oahu and other information relating to the defrm-c of ' the island. Mr. H. E. Moller < .intradiots a rumour that he bus definitely decided to contest the. Chalmers seat at the general election. :He s_Ys that if he does stand, ie will not be as -an Independent.—Press •Association. The convention between the I'nited States and European nations for tbe suppression of the traffic in obscene post-cards and other publications of an improper character lias been ratified ibj the Benate. A student named W'estropp. at tha RoyaJ College of Seienre. has discovered a tiny .brown insect, hitherto unknown, which destroys the delicate grass on golf greens. He has a]-., invented a powder which kills them. The President of lhe WeHingum Chamber of Commerce is optimistic over file increasing annual value of the Dcminion's exports, and experts lietrefite to accrue from tiie'lower rates of interest in London. iMr_. Auke.t. an elderly woman, fell beneath the Main Trunk express a_fc Otahuhu last evening, and- died on tbe way to the hospital Her granddaughter, a little child of throe, bad both feet cut off. Up to the present .C3.t1.00- worth of conslruetkm work has been <lone by thei Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board, including __J miles of completed oewer. I,_lV7__ of outfall, ami the. recently finished storage tanks. I The Hamburg-American liner Vaterland, the largest ship in tire w-orid, ou arrival in Xew York on her maiden voyage lust week, broke away from the tugs lliat were helping to .berth her, and began to drift down tbe Hudson, helpless in the grip of the ebb tide that was; running. The big liner swrani; broadside across tbe river, and was carried steadily down the stream. Afternic had drifted more than a mile, the tugs siui'eede.d in getting hold of the Vateriand again. TO-MORROW! A big .ba_ga,lo day a.t our alteration sale, opeu till H pjn* — Grey and Ford. Karangahape Road —Ad.