TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Ardiduko of Austria and wife assassinated. by a young (Icnnan student, i A bain- swallowed a, '•■dmmny 3 ' at "Wellington, suui iras srullbcxted. An old lady of 74 was killed at Xapier by a fa.ll from :> moving tram. The Marama. from Vancouver, is due at Auckland about S a_m. to-morrow. England beat Australia at Le.igim football nn Saturday by 23 points to ">. Jack Johnson beat Jack Moran on points in a fight in France on Saturday. Auckland find Tarnuald hockey representatives meet at Kcnmera to-morrow afternoon. There were 256 male and" 1" female prisoners in -Mt. Eden gaol at the end of last week. The Dominion's exports for May totalled £2.644,606. as against £2.05022(1 for May. 191.1. The Postal Department is friviting tenders for a bi-monthly snail service to the Chatham li-lands. Hawker, Ihe Australian airman, liad .a narrow escape from being killed nfc BrooklamU on Saturday. A further search for the missing fishing boat is to be made by the Government steamer Tutnnckai. The tinn of 11. 11. Clair and Company. New- York, dry poods jobbers, has failed with enormous liabilities. An earthquake shock, classed hy thrf townspeople as ■•seven , ."' was iclt tit , fircymnutli yesterday morning. The insurgent, Albaniaae insist on the nlxluetion of the Prince and the selection of a Mohammedan Sovereigu. An elderly market gardener name-t Thomas Webb Ins been missing from liis home at AvondoJp since Thiirfday. The which arrived from Syriner last evening, brought 600 hags of European and Australian rrui-iJs. A railway clerk named Arph.iba.M Campbell wji*h fatally crushed on. the Timani whan' by the Dreakjng nf s. cargo sling, a load of 4J tons falling upon him. Messrs. J. T. Aupden. E. GrifßEhs, E. S. Inwood. and TI. Tiarks hsro ttp.cn nominated for the two vacancies on, the ilt. Albert Borough CounriL A poll will be taken on Saturday. The identity of the young man concerned with the taxi "joy-rifle" case hafi been established by the CtadstelrujTh police, lml his whereabouts are iraknown. l:arr.ne=s Bertha Suttncr. famous as a worker for tl:e worid's peace, and who received the Xobel prize foT her efforts in that direction, has died in Vienna -.it Ihe agfi of 71. .An apparently dementpd Tnan ran amok ■'.villi a .nick in the ICanmai sawmill snttlvment on Friday, but w.is .seriircd by the police, nnd remanded by tho Dargaville. magistrate for observation. Wiilc work was in progress , ■ywtetdtiy in conncctioti with the railway tunnel that is being driven through Mont Orazrie.li. in luily. an immeo.se faD of earth oreiuTcd. Of 'H) men who were buried under the debris II were Mlled ami .seven wore Rpriously injured. There are now 45,000 OreeK refugees on the island of 'Xfitylene. The churches. schools, and factories are full, and thousands of people sire sleeping in gardens in open boats, and even in the streets. M-my are in hospital, suffering from gunshot, knife, or b.ivonei. wounds, and all are abaolutelv dostitnte.