TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

tArbar Day. Tlie Bite d' Aosta. cousin of the King of Italy, is seriously ill. A woman smallpox patient died in .piarantine in Sydney yesterday. Wholesale resignations are reported among -the Royal Irish Constahalarv. Tie Albanian rebels have attacked Valorra. The Italian colony is being removed. The third-class cruiser Philomel -watt taken over by the New Zealand) Gorerament to day. The anti-Austrian movement is increasing in Servia. and hundreds of Austriuns' lives are endangered. <Jr_vo disclosures of the condition ot France's land defences .have .been made in the Chamber ot Deputies. 'Die Wellington Anglican. Synod advocate.* the establishment of a, Bos.rd of Al i>-3 :cn-3 for cho whole Dominion. Tiie Aiicktacd Acclimatisation Society i.- calling „ conference to <1 iaeus_ the best way oi dealing with hawks. The Broken Hill _UOO.OOO debenture issue wan substantially over-applied for, the subscriptions totalling £744,000. A French scientist has exhibited an apparatus for solving The problem of .seeing by means of a telephone, wire. A hundred thousand exc-urshvn-isrs wire marooned at Coney Island by a breakdown in the electric power plant. Mr. .1. A. Haiian. Al. ]'~ of Invercargill. i.xs burn.; need a -bill providing for the elcr.ion oi Uibicet .Ministers by the House. Nine re iv appointments to the-Legis-lative U.Hin-;' are announced. The appointors im-lude Mr. J ohm .Fisher liW-aikitol. Ti..' Me'inesiaai Mission steamer Southern Cru-.- returned! to Aucfclaaid .iii evening from Norfolk Teland and tin- Xc-.v llciridie. Tiie Iva.k.l h_3 beEn withdrawn from Lite li-.l of native game und-er the. Animate Protection Act, 1908* and is now absolutely protected. Tin- r-csom. Road' Board' decided las.t iii_lit to make a further appeal for r.'ownirrrent -in the improvement ,'i Minirtk-ju iRd-j-J. Captain Kendall, of tbe Empress of Ireland, is to be given a shore appoiutmeut, owing to the severe strain of the collision atm-ting his .health. An English cripple ha-* started to pros the Atlantic in a small sailing boat with forty gallons of water and a-halr-iiundred weight of biscuits. - - Tiie banking returns for the .Tune ouamr show an increase «_ £l2V)l),ril in free and fixed dt-potyits. Government, deposits accounting for _Jj302,74_. An Italian blackmailer held «_. hia native, village'for three hours, and murdered eight people, including his own : brother, lie es-.-jped from the town. Carranza is Hot anxious for Villa to iead the way to Mexico City, believing that ii his lirst lieutenant ever gets to the capital he will stop tihere—as President.. * iA meeting at Epsom lad ntgnt fcrsmihited -a scheme -of iinmediite action to protect tJhe volcanic, cones. . ..:" Auckland from injury .by" quarrying. It U not generally known that it it illegal to keep kiwis in captivity, ani fiat the Department of Internal AfFairt invariably refuses' applications for per-mi.-sipn to do.§o, The exec-.e, or Postal Savings Bank depesit > o--t-r withdrawals for June last v,-...s iJI3S,BOI. Tii_ is considered by ibe Prime Minster to ibe a good index of the country's' prosperity. The No. 1 Satire Rifles' reusion in the form-of a smoke social and oyster supper will take place in the Druids' Hall. I .North Street.'>,"ewtoii. on Friday evening j next. 17th hist., at S o'clock. All old memI bers are cordially., invited. .t9__ite.nA, sub.;;?/-.— i.Vti.i . ; ;■:_;;.: ~:;.i