TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 30 October 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

£lee:ors. enrol! An attempt has been made on tie lil* of General Villa. Both.i ha? Beyers* rebel* commando on the run near Rnsteubnvg. The British are tjow advanced eleven mile-: north eajt of Ypre?. There is reported to bo a steady flow of German deserters iDto tlollaml. The Germane admit that thpy nevef last so many men as on the Y.-er. It is reported that the German attacks the Yser are lessening in tiolpnee. Canterbury College 3* asking the Govcrnm'ent for a grant of £lß.oun for new building-. Sharp earthquake >hockj; «ere fe'.t at Dannevirki- anil Pahi3tua yesterday afternoon. It is stated that the new Russian arm}- has mussed the Vistula, mirth ol Lvangoroil. An, anti-Ciennaii league to prevent trading with ihe enemy i» being formed in Melbourne. Many Americans are offering fo join the, Canadian fortes now being enrolled for the war. See if your name is on the Toll. If it is not you have a few day.* in which to get it put there. It is reported that the Ja.pa.uese steamer Kamikawa Mam. 1404 tons, hag been sunk by the Emden. Revised regulations governing trout fishing in the Botorua, acclimatisation district have heen gazetted. The Auckland* master bakers lmve increased thp price of bread from 44 t-o 41d the :21b lofrf, .is from to-morrow. Xearly forty 'bodies have been recovered' from the Ko.valston mine, in Illinois, where there wae an explosion. There was a heavy fall of snow yesterday morning at Parek»napa. on the ■hills between C.isborno and Wairoa. German prisoners from Xew Britain and New Guinea have arrived at Sydney on tho captured German gunboat Komet. It i~ asserted thai cargoes of copper, nickel and benzine are being forwarded to Germany from Liverpool through neutral port-. It is suggested that the Orakau pa should be re-erected on its original sit* as a memorial tv the Ma.ori. s who iel! lw its defence. A proclamation issued in Antwerp forbids German soldiers to pillage, and orders them to pay cash for everything they receive. Ex-Kin;: Manool of Portugal has offered to serve with the British forces, or else .under the Kepublican regime in his late kingdom. The Otago Expansion League i* Mig-■ze-ting to the Government that steps be taken to bring out Belgian women for domestic service. Reservist* summoned to the Austrian colours are expected to lind their own boots and winter clothing, a-s the army stores are exhausted. The rifle-shooting match 'between ths Auckland .md Cbristchurch Stock Exchanges resulted in a win for the former by- "4C points to :127. A New ZeaJander named Lieutenant Kobert Gee. whose parents live, at Wellington, was wounded in France, and has since died from Jus wounds. Mark Hambourg. who is a Russian, was called a German by the London "Daily Mail,"' and the Court awarded, him £500 damages for the imsult. Chinese drawing (Jorman pay, and wearing Japanese, uniiorms, were responsible for misconduct which was attri-tra-ted to the Japanese at Shantung. The Russians tset fire to a. forest Lα ■which there was a number of German soldiers, and a thousand of the enemy were suffocated or 'burned to death. A Chinaman who had dodged the police for nearly two years was filled £2 at Wellington yesterday for being in possession of opium in September, 1912. At Dixnrude the greater part *>f-a~Ger-imn battalion \va» captured "by the Allies, the prisoners being mainly young men '"with, a mild, studious expression." Louis Paulhan. the famotis airman, had an exciting encounter with some German iroops. near ■whom his machine had to alight owing to shot l ; damaging the motor. The British Trade Commissioner at Wellington is asking for agents to handls certain lines of goods for British firms wild wish, to take advantage of the cessation of German trade. Hon. T. M- B. Fisher has informed the Mayor that as soon as the new municipal fish market i≤ open the surplus trout caught at Rotorua and Taupo will lie sent to Auckland for sale. Until the Commontrealth Government ascertains whether or not Amqadca will undertake not to re-export, permits for the export of Australian wool to ill* States wfll not 'be permitted. The Legislative Council and the House of Representative* h.we disagreed over certain clauses in the Education and Legislative Council Bills, and conferences are being arranged to get over the difficulty. Five of the prisoners tried for the murder of the Archduke Franz; Ferdinand have 'been sentenced, to death. Others •were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from three to twenty years. Thp Government offers a Toward of £100 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer of a. Chinaman named Wong Way Ching. who was found dead in his. shop"at Wellington on September 12. The hotel* in Ghent are filled with Gorman officers, who are campaigning in a most luxurious manner. They c-.irry dressing-cases with Told and silver-fitted: toilet articles, manicure set*, and bottles of perfumes. Swiss clock-makers are protesting to the Federal Council against an attempt made by German debtors to pay their accounts" with the new German war loan bonds. This is regarded as .* violation of Swiss neutrality. The London County Council has been inquiring into the reason why certain German firms have ibeen erecting trattdingß with such heavy foundations, and the reetdt of then- investigations haa been forwarded to the War Office. There are complainfe that tlie American officials in Germany have been iesning -passports -which permit Germans to enter Great Britain, and the authorities at Washington have- undertaken to exercise the strictest caution in the future. A man known ac John Hammond, alias Hackett, aliae Harcourt, <who ia wanted on several charges of false pretences at Auckland, Hamilton, and in the Stratford district, jumped from the express train near Te Ruiti and Scaped frotf^cnetddr.