TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 155, 1 July 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The union of Grey Lynn with the city took effect to-day. During Jane 1,360 persons left the port of Auckland, and 792 arrived. All restrictions; upon travelling by natives have been removed a& from today. Suffragettes flooded the swell cf the organ at the Albert HaJl. damagin" it to the extent of £2,000. A tidal wave swept over the island of Nassau, in the Soutli pacific, doing great damage to the island. A ■puH for the raising of £29,500 will lie held liy the Slon.lt Albert Borough Council on TnesJii.v next. ■Mr. Ceorge Collingwood diedcßudde.nlr wihile. .prcskling at a. solvation Army iiiefi.t,injr iv Xcw Plymouth. Stir Douglas aslawson was invested Knight Bachelor by the King at St. •James' Palace on Monday. .Motions of condolence with Austria ami the Emperor wore carried by the British Parliament yesterday. Inquiries into two recent mrniaeal accidents were hold, by Mr. <'. C. 'Kettle. S.M.. and two :i«ssosasors to-day. During .7i.no 20!) 'births. 113 deaths, and 134 miirriafr.es were registered in Auckland. The registrar married 32 couples. Johnson will fight Langford in the middle of October. The big black will receive £G.OOO and half the cinema receipts. During the year the Post unci Telegraph Department has erected: 1.073 miles <if pole telephone line, and 34,80fl miles of wire. A motor cyclist was knocked over and badly injured near T'maami "by another motor cyclist, who rode off without attempting to help him. The 'gates'' at the English iVorthern Uuion matches in .Australia, have so far totalled £10.000. of which the English Union receives £0,50(1. A man named Peter Ewurt <was killed at, Paroa, Yv'csdland. by the 'breaking of a trolley coupling on a steep incline, « truck running away with him. The owner of a fishing launch was fined £.."> ait Whairgarei 'for fa-iling to carry lights, this omission havinp nearjy caused a collision with a steamier. The bottom was ripped out of the liner California when she ran on the rocks off the North of Ireland yesterday. Three passengers were killed during the landing. Ernest Austin, an engineer of the steamer M'akarini. tell down- the hatchway of the vessel last night and, sustained injuries which, it fe ifeaTed, will prove fatal. A no-confidence amendment to the Addros»-in-Reply was moved by Sir Joseph Ward lust night, Hon. .Tas. Allen replying for the Government. The-idebate was adjourned. Tlie Postal Department intend.* to replace a inimbw rrf damaged overhead cables which are detracting from the eftlciency of tlie telephone gysteins nt Auckland and Wellington. In tbe House cf Lords yesterday Earl Crewe announced that tbe second rending of the Home Rule Bill would stand over till the Amending Bill hud boon read a second time. A League football match- at Ngiarnauuilin, on ■-Saturday, is to l.ay* I'evel-opc.l into .what wiis virtiKillv- a free light, .with the res_t tliat the referee ordered both team* off before haT£... time. 5J Messrs. Winstone. Ltd.. have expressed their willingness to refrain from establishing a scoria, pit on (Mount St. John, .provided ihe owner of the site undertakes not to grant quarry rights to anyone else. A new San Vrancisrco mail contract for five year* ..from to-day has 'been let hy the Postal Department. A condition is two new steamers with 30,000 cubic feei of cold storage, to 'be put on he-fore December, 'lfllp. tit consequemae -of the publication of a ■dcseriptioil of -tiie neglected: condition of Bracken's 'grave, a fund has; been etaTted in 'Wciliugtoiv for the purpose of repairing the neglect of ihe past and marking the poet's last resting-place with' iltting distinction. —.(Press 'Association.'!