TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 January 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sfc —r-r— Tie Kaiipoi sailed from Sydney ye* terday afternoon for the Bluff. The troopship Athenic arrived at -Auckland from Alexandria, "Egy.pt, this morning. - — -— -- • Germany went wild-with delight-when it heard about the air raid on. the Englisb coast. " ""."".". Auckland tennis championships will be commenced to-moirow at Eden-Epsom courts. • The seventy-fifth anniversary of the ■foundation of Wellington, was- celebrated to-day. The (British Government has brought copra into tihe list of articles prohibited for export. ". Between 40 and 50 recruits for the fifth reinforcement draft were medically examined to-day.. .. ... The weather ,in Sydney js, ..cooler* though the' thermometer ,still r- regji»teK> over 100 degrees. An increased demand for insurance against damage by aircraft followed tha Zeppelin raid on Yarmouth. It is generally believed in England that two Zeppelins, took. .part..in. the. raid on the 'Norfolk coast towns.. , .. ~ . The forfeiture of MrrE. E..N».Gaudies seat upon the City Council was officially reported at last might's meeting. -"> *- The concentration-. of - 400,000 AustroGerman troops -in the-. Servian - front is causing serious., anxiety -in. Rumania...... The "Times" strongly. criticises ,tihe silence of the Government upon the preparations made to prosecute tbe "war. The American Navy is declared to.be alarmingly under-manned, and not ready to fight under modern war conditions. ■ A territorial "At Home", at the Penrose Rifle Range will to-morrow: afternoon by the Post amd Tel^graphuCo. An English governess gives some interesting little personal details about-the Kaiser and his "goggling"-eyed hopeful. Mt was decided at last night's, meeting of the City Council to make the.usual . grant to the Auckland Regatta Chilrof £20. ..... -"." „■.. L" ...; ; r. The St. Patrick's day celebrations' committee have been; granted the use of the Domain. Cricket Ground for the ,17th March. ''"*.. "■' Recanting activities in future wiU.be so arranged as to cause tbe least possible degree- of dislocation - in.'. the - labour market. '!■■'.'■ T ', '." -.7— i-T*'*-. An'amount of Hobson Street baths; up .to 'January 12, representing an average -£12 per day; -—"•"-■-• ■'--~'~^—s!—r._",_.. :. :z:.' "A commercial traveller named Herbert \ McLean was drowned at. a, beach .fete at'Waikanae ;BeiK:h-.(G^bprne)'''ye L st.lfr.r : day afternoon.. ; P.. ..:....;...!. •.' It .has ibeen decided to, change the names of a number of streets in Ngaruawahia which at present bear names of German. origin. . .-^......... A new telephone office and bureau at "Bayswater, .td.Jbe set up at'ionce, bas'■-. been authorised 'by the "Post and: Telegraph Department. 7.7777 In. .order to: - meet the shrinkage in. railway revenue, the 25ew South,' 1 Wales time-tables are'to'be'redticed ij. a million train.mile,3>„ : annually./', \ .;„:_..; :>';'■ ..Tt.:is proposed .to treat\Mbert.Street ; with tar and sand, and-it i» boped that this '"will. abate7-tbe.'„ dust" nufeanee. in that busy thoroughfare. ■■•:■- It -was; stated at last night's : meeting of the. Oily Conned, that if .-Remuera joined the city, the amalgamation would be made .unconditionally. - -,-., , The r Soiith - Arfican forces: hold \the line off'Oxange Riv'ertas a'result 1 of> the recent'operations, and have chiecked?the Jnearithe'jfeiSldeiL^lli.* Mirers on.' theJ:!Maitland;soJdfielda^o|. New; South Wales of the • against'the increased price of beer. ! The Auckland hranch of tbe. National Reserve will -.parade ■at "the "Drill -Hall this evening, and "afterwards /inarch through the principal streets of .tbe city; Two rooms and the kitchen "of--.the . Gillies' • mansion, -at Gillies' -jferk, have been utilised- by the City.. Council -as-a. tea kiosk, "the other rooms being kept locked up. .. .. ..7,...' '".".".-. Post and telegraph, revenue ,f or rthe_ December quarter of 1914 sbows an increase of more t£an £150,000 over -the '' revenue for the same quarter of the pre- - ceding years. • The Socialist Peace Congrese has made an appeal to interna^(Ma"L.iwx>iiers.^±Q : .; stop a war caused -By. capitalism. At the same time it protests yetaM.eatly against Belgium's violation. . ..'/:.. The "Times" " commends the British Treasury's action in.. prohibiting p™& isstfes of stock in the United Kingdom except where • advisable : in" - the 'naUonajl interest as being tbe merest prudence." The Onehunga and -the "Temperanoe Guards brass bands asked the City Coim-;, cil for permission' to use Domain or Victoria Park for drill"pfai? ; tice on Sunday mornings'.'' The'request was acceded to. *""! ."*"'. '"'.,' '','■■' public notification, in accordance with legal requirements• is being garding the Mount Eden loan proposals of £135,000 for" drainage - ind-'-other; works, and of £16,000 for tbe; aojinsvi •tion of a park. When the Queen Street ''ttaniway' ex- " tension work is carried, the George.Grey statute will be placed in front of the Town Hall at the apex of the triangular piece of land-at-the -corner-of •Queen and Grey Streets.- '-- ."-'-.. ,'..'""-—' Evidence before the New South WalS" ■Commission show that" Sydney mer-~ chants had been buying up bran" and tpollard at higher than the fixed prkes;and exporting to Melbourne, result that local consumers were unable to obtain any. r . :"'",.. ~.'.";.

Remnants half sale prices to-day.—" Walker and. Jones, corner of Ponsonby and Franklin Roads:—(Ad.)" ! " ' ".."''-' . Fishermen, buy your fishing lines, rods;; hooks, etc., from the oH. reliable -shop.Sam Paul, bairdresEer, opp. -Potv JBuUdmgs.—(Ad.) ; ' ■-■■-■