TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Annual gathering of City Council employees at Point Eiiin Park to-day^ The Hon. E. RTcjiardson, C.3LG., died in Wellington at the age of S4 years. Ellis and Burnand-'e box factory at Manunui was destroj-ed by fire early this morning. ' ■ Britain's expenditure on the war durr ing the current year will reach a total of [! £362,000,000. Russian reports indicate that the Geyman losses were greater than their ! own in the East Prussian fight : Xo 'less than 20 members of the Miramar (Wellington) Golf Club h»Ye joined the Expeditionary Forces. : Prince Leopold, eldest son of the King of the Belgians, has joined the troops at . the front. He is only 14 years of age. '■ The British repulsed an attack in Bell gium, and in addition gained a hundred i metres of trenches along the La- Bassee » Road. 1 Mr. J. H. Gunson definitely announces ? his intention not to seek re-election to i the chair of the Auckland Harbour L Board. The Paris "Journal- dcs Debate" de- ? Clares that the Germans lost 50,000 in j attacking the Russian positions on the i Rawka River. J Thomas Burrow, a miner, aged 20 ' years; "wag injured i"internally by being i caught in a fall of stone in the .Waihi I gold mine yesterday. t The dead-body found in the harbour [ yesterday has been identified ac -that of > Thomas Hawkins; who was employed -on r a farm at Tauranga. A tribe of Maoris at Ngatira, near - Rotorua, endeavoured to obstruct the sur- : vey. ol some land .on .Wednesday by pull- \ ing up the survey pegs. *~ An ex-railway employee, John Martin, r 66 yeans old, 'hanged himeelf ia an out- ~ hcuse the Bluff yesterday. '. He" had •- been in a state of depression for eoine £ time. ■ ■■'■ -- - i - Alfred Billings, a visiting bowler from ° the Thames, sustained concussion of the i brain by falling from a .Bayswater, train j yesterday afternoon, and died in the Auckland "Hospital this morning. r Norman Edwin Keals, who was not rep7. resented by counsel--at his preliminary 1 trial at the Police Court yesterday,-on i charges of double murder at Onewnero, _ made no plea at all, and was committed "' to the Supreme Court for trial. Jean Parsons, a -resident _of j Ngatapa, „ near Gisborne, who had been accidentally struck by a pea-rifle bullet, is claiming ) £90 damages from Harry T. Hill, who - fired the shot,.but alleged that".the:inl jury was purely accidental. The •case 3 stands adjourned, for Qn X-rays examina- ; tion. s After twenty motoefets had been.sum- - moned to the Police Court, at- Hamilton g yesterday, for breaches of by-law relat- - ing to certificates of driving proficiency, ,_ the charges were withdrawn by the police ■with the intimation, that the Borough Council intended to amend the by-law-. The defendants, who had prepared to a€tack the -by-law., made indignant but unsuccessful ■ application, for payment of expenses.... . . _. . " * - ~7~*W\hy,.3f)es babj- thrive "sb "weinSnißy^" - -croft's milk arrowroot biscuits? 'Because - nothing- ibut the finest of-materials axe used in their manufacture. .AH grocers. C4d.)-. r . . ~.:..... ..._._..:■ Remember your friends in. the Expeditionary Force, and post a tin' of li "Royal Standard" Tobacco.—(A<L) :