TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

< Willi i ragrdy. Kraprois of .1-ceJand ftrecked. A thousand lives Vest. Oeneral Sir Lm Hamilton 'Will attend the King> Birthday parade at. We Dinstoe. Next week- wdf ibe si- busy on&<ra tha waterfront, us my leas tt ha n seven oversea, steamers are due. The LhirWni Drivers' i'nion. has decided, by ti.'i to .10. t<>-so edot irom tho> Federation of Labour. Authorities at Stockluilm are sceptical about the lindiug of the remains.-«£ Andrce's balloon in Siberia. fashionable hankers in Paris are-said to l>e lia.ii .1 mkJlioli .-iK.rt. irs. their accounts of client.** money. There is no.\ more prosper;.-of pea-i-o in Mexico as the result or the- negntiatior.s at Niagara Kails. The dead body of .lohn. McKay. =in old v.ge pensioner, was found tin- the beach at Coromandel :his morning. The Kaiser is indisposed, .and the annual parade of Cuards therefore been postponed. The Vancouver mail sieamer-.Niapara. which left Suva at "> p.m. yesterday, is due at Auckland on Monday. The Post and Telegraph Depn.rtment is distributing gratis a l>ooklet. containing concise ]>ostal inform ition. One hundred aeroplane* arc expected to ta.ke par: in tii ( > military manoenvTCS at Salisbury Plain «n Monday next. Two pre.<ened .Mn.iri heads, brought from Tasmania, have been secured by tile Dominion Mirsewn. Wellington. London's building st.rik,. is. still unsettled, the men lurlding out. for ithe right to strike against non-urriorußts. Heavy tines and sentences have t>cen imposed in the caw- of the .Japanese iTtficers concerned in the recctrt naval scandals. An elderly uran was knocked down by a motor <w in rjpaoh Hoad last evening aud died at the hospital from a badly fractured skull. A female Dr. -lekyll and Mr. Ilyde, who ha- been discovered at Brighton, provided the material f.rr a most remarkable Court ease. 'Phi- inquest on the victims of th« (Jtahu.hu railway accident has been adjourned to June •">. to en-able ■further evidence to he obtained. 'Inhere is a bitter newspaper controversy at Cape Town over the omii-siott of the singing of Pile Nai-'pona! Anthem at. the Empire Day Parade. The schooner lva.eo. bound from Auckland to (iit-horne. wa.s blown 100 toiler out to sea during the recent storm, -.lils and deck i-arpi being damaged. Greece wants to buy a couple < f \\n- rships from the I'nite.l Stales, so -hit she may feel easier when she views Turkey's naval and political activity. Day baking and increased wa;c- 'i.e. c been granted in Melbourne, and the trouble in the bakiiif; trade is now it an end. The election of three membca-s -.1 the Eden Terrace Road Hoard, which is necessitated by the nullification o: the recent poll, will take place on .lime 20. According to a London scientist, h-: has invented a method for the transmission of light enabling people to see things that arc actually a long way oil. The Whangar<»i Harbour Board*- proposed Kin of r 100.00(1 will have to be authorised by Parliament, as the Board's borrowing powers arc limited to £10.000. ' The Indians waiting on tiic doorstep in Hriti.-ii foiiimibia say the; have the right to go in as agriculturists. The Canadians are tinu in the dewmtination to keep out the uninvited visitors. At Wanga.nui yesterday, Mr. .l-uslice Kdwards twice <ieclined to accept the verdict of a jury in a n assault charge, and after three retirements the jury found the prisoner net guilty on ad accounts. The steamer Waim.ite. hound from New Zealand to l.ondon. which into the. Falkland Islands with her cargo on fire, is expected to resume ijer voyage to-day. Hon. A. L. Uerdman anticipatfs that the 1913-14 Public Trust Office returns will ticcr* an increase of about £1 .UOO.OOO i n the. value of estates and accounts administered, making a total of about .£12.000.000. As a result of the Safety at .Sea l>)mmiEoion, it is proposed in Creat Britain to make all ships carrying fifty- passengers in-,ta! wireless ajul report dangers to any shipping within range. Jf British and Oerman owners cannot tome to a "working agreement" it i« expected that the entry of the North Oerman Lloyds into the carrying trade, between New Zealand and the Old World l will result in a rate war. A deputation asked the Taranaki K.lllration Board to remove a. teacher on i trc ground that til,, latter punished the children too severely. The 'Board, however, declined to nnjove the teacher or hold -an inquiry. Wellington teachers allege that fnndarrrental subj.-cts. such as penmanship, spelling and 'Englis+i compost; ion. are being neglected in 'he public schools with the result that many scholars leave practically illiterate. An influential British committee t> dl Miprrintcnd the British exhibits tit Panama, and the Tresidvnr. has raJ>led that they will receive the same consideration as if Oreat Britain we-re par-U"ipatin-rr officially. Owing t-o the operatHiu of the S-of tish Temperance: Act the hotel?, do not open before 10 a.m.. and the workimr man being unahle to .-ifiire bin breakfast be»>r. several hundred of him. went on strike at Glasgow.