TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 263, 4 November 1914, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Electors, -■eraoifi . .%■ *he GovecHnsst.;, _ _ All Turkish imbjeeteJiaveieeir ordered to Jeave Bussia in a -week. lAiuddand USaeing Ckib' e Spring"(Me«tjng opened- to-day at -EBereHe. Jfc.dS said .thit_Ba]gsuriaa. sympathies ja»Kii»etly. jn.iaT.o.ar.asf.EtiEoia.J .: T .i -Good .candies of trout-are reported 'turrjous «>f idle- province. Bulgaria's -first line has-been mobilised, and the second will follow, in a week. .Owing to indiscriminate mine-laying, {ho "Admiralty lias closed the jSorth'Sea. Oerman generals continue to. sacrifice thoTiianiis, apparently on the oiScnanee gi~ victory. . . ■ Twelve hundred wounded <scrmaß3 art passing through. Cologne and Maakfcirfc every day. .. , An. old man-tnamed WilHam Johnißaker was found dead in hißahantysnear Waihi yesterday morning. It is stated in Vienna thai a battle has begnn between the Russians and Turks in.Tfebizbnd.. "I. . .11 ißobert Maesey, aged 73, ieSl from""a cart at Paikuranga yesterday, anil frac« tared tie right thigh. Some transhipped cargo from the German -steamer Soon, now interned at Java, fiae- arrived afriWcUingtqn.. _ ; Prisoners taken fey the: :Mliee; hs&t !been found loaded up with jewellery and nroney whadi they looted in # Belgium. Army Burgeons "are struck by t£e marvelloas recsveiies made by s<Mcrs snflcrteg irom ajiparently wotmds. -Tbe'Gennasisare.said to th* wHte flag to such an extent "that the British soldiers now ignore "it" aliogetuer. . Signs are iot wanting that the enemy's tremendous offensive in western Belgium and northern.France has spent its "force. _-©nringOctolber £29498 worfb of kauri gum to America from-Juick-land, as against £8,366 in October, ISI3. It is believed- in South Africa that -the crisis of lie-rebellion has passed, the only, danger now anticipated being, from Dβ Wet. - - -" " ■' ■ - [Lieutenant-IL- J.- 1. AValk«r,.of Auok; land, who Trent to" the ilie Warsrickshire Feyiment, _ .._ " i.Z.... ' -.-'..'.. it.*.':. , -^■■■.■• J, - J i6Tig:'.>> Men being shot aiid drowned' at the .sjmnt.tiffle:.is . described, bj a German lictrtcnairt ~«s one ~<si ~£!tK inoetr iolUble Eights the . has seen. • . '; •W: ■Geraiany is eeeking to induce Bulgaril te join." the campaign by offermg her that portion- of Servia annexed from Turkey iTier■ "the'"Balkan wai-H. •"■ -. "len. chatpes or perty tacit against a, union secretary wre • dismissed I>y the "Wellington Magistraie", -who eaii that they never haxe 'been: laid/ lie post aM telegraph officiate *jf tie Auckland district have subscribed £327 •purchase o£ horees und iquipmenfcfor the Espeditioßary Sterce. : The "Harbour BoaTdtas granted Si(WB--mg space in 53>ed !H. iSo. 2 Jetly, for -tie -tratetaside..workers' motor amwance, to the cost of-which it is also contnhrating 20 guineas. ' An Englishman who has reechea London from Germany reports that nothing is known there concerning the smashing defeat of the • German, jflans for the march on Calais. •The master and a seaman- of the schooneriEkideavour were fined £2 apiece for firing signal hanQys in , VHiangarei Harbour '<me' night recently, - tp- the alarm of people ashore. . ..»' ,Tihe Commissioners' reportron'the (Rotorn* -town- feeds-tenure Teeommends -* change-in. the present ■leasehold"system bo as -to enstifte "tciuutts to obtain the vfreeteW 'under cerfein cehffilions." "~ "•- • " It" is asserted- that at'- i" war' council meeting the Kaieet ana "hls'ioyal friend* decided that no sacrifice was too great in order, tliat. the German, army might reach the north coast of Ranee. The gntvity- of the eituatioa -which has been brought about by the actioa of Turkey" ie fnßy realaed- in. where it is foreseen tiat-Btdgittia trill soon be confronted-with fateful qoestions rtorde-. eide. . , ■. : ':.■■ -:":T3 , . , 'A eorrespowtent, aesctibing -the R\asiad Hea^foxUas, . are .sjtuaied in a qmet part-of "Western Easrfa, saje there is (Boie of -Ufe gSuno«r-of oWWime campaigns'about it, ~ The staff conducte things mock on-the. lineßrof a great ness concetn. . '.'. ... ', '...'.' ■Kegarding t-he remarkable secrecy m»iniained about the 42 centimetre guiu, whiei the • Aljies refused to.'-beßere existed, a Berlin -ineeeage says that the Germans w6re aetiiallT in possession, ot the guns for cix yeaTs, and men had been constantly practising with them. . '. ' -