TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i The "Gentler" methodatHowcy\ralker's. The Ep-irote insiir<jenifi. have captured Korrtza. from Albania, Tlie body of C.iwtav Hamrf hae been ion ml in the rat-off ißoulogne. !It is proposed to borrow £-1,000 for wharf ext-raision at. Tofccmam Bay. 'livrmany is increasing her naval personnel before again atldinjyto her army. ■David JMnrgira -ivao -lined j£r«i and ocrts at Taumarnnui for ely to"-----selHng. be The Ep*om (Road Board- ie aebin£ the city to extend the electric maiiis-int-o ito (ijtvbornp Jβ suffering from a famine in ■road metal, and is looking far a-fielti for supplies. 'Tlie Austrian Press is T-ehemeirUy-at-Lackimr Servia a& a TTt=uli-of the munier of the Archduke. Tiie Lan-iatiliire cott-on , iradV ami the spinners eiiomeet •working-oniy tlirpp-fotinhe time. The Kiiglish mail, via Xancouupr, which left liere on June s,._arTived in London on July 7. l-V committee of experts is -to-foe appointed to consider a deviation evhemi" for the Rinintaka railway. IA hospital eoTvice. including 3.000 'been orjrajideedi in connection with :ihe I'lster volunieed-s. •Sine objeetimis to ihv. widening of (Beavih Ronil' and .TeT.mrTr £U.reet> "were received by a lie? Ctly Council iast night. (\V«lli-ngion had th« l-omest deaii-raie in tlie iaur centres-during .Twne, Auckland coining next, and Chrietchurch last. Sir William Osier, cine at Oxford, cays th-a* OOpe-r cent of the people have a small area-o£ tubervuCapt. Bar.tlett reports tha.fc liff-wlhole of .the members of .the Sitefa-neson.' ex-peji-tion are safe, but that il'ao-'Karhik iwae wrecked. H-'our revohitio-ms are proceeding at orw in San Domingo, ami American warships have been, dispatched l - .to the .Republic The value of t.he exports tfiT-'tihe -porti of Auckland for ilav Tva<3 £201:206, making .t!],SOO.OfiO for; •JamiarT-ilay liiwlusire). Tlie English Gener.il -LalwuTere nml Transporters' Union are amaJgajnafinji, the membership of the combination .being .400,000. 'It W statft.ii 'by resideatis of the Solomons that ill? will .become a Crown colony instead of a protectorate within a year. v\n .attempt was- made to •wreck the Main Trunk e.vpre™; near Palmereron'on ■Wednesday night by pljcinj a 'beam a<rcfc>s the rails. Tlie aiuiuul reunion oF i'iip old Txvrs of KLnw-ri Collet was opened with a iliniie.r last night, and will he non,ti«ued tomorrow and on Sur.'.lav. Mr. K. Jf. llilty, CiejieraT Manager n f Railway, iri preparing an elaborate re port mi t-iie workinor of xhe wholv railway sTOtem of tlie (Dominion. An offer from tho Sisters of 'Mercy to 81*11 the Auckland City Council 4 aerei of land fronting College Hill, was la=t nijjht sent on to the Finance Committeo for consideration. The arrivals in Xew Zealand from oversea durinjr May totalled -2512. compared with 0001 l in' May, 1913. The departures in the same month numbered 37.">0. as afraiiHt 31.">l'in May last year. 'Mr. .lusiioc JJvnnisron graatetl an npppfll the InvercaTpll magisa<M]ui:tal of a hotelkeepcr who bad allowed liquor Jo h? brought in by ciistompyt- an.i co-n:-Timed in a 'te-mpor-anrp bar." Inder a deed executed lasi night Vtween the Auckland City Council -and tinowners of the Gillies' estate which is to be acquired by the city as a park, the Council will take possession of the property at once, and immediate steps will he t-iken to as3iime the property under the Puhlic "Work? Act. Onr ready-to-wear euits are known l>y lheir smart appearance «.nd splendid fit.I—Todirl.1 —Todirl. Jamc=. and! Co, Wakefivld ■^t^-lAd.)