TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

221 st day of the war. Both sides are concentrating heavy forces for battle near Prasnysz. ' Two men. were drowned, at Panta> Bay yesterday afternoon by tne - capeiz'ing or a.- dinghy. • — ~The-presecutum of chemists for-faariing after .8 p.m. is causing public indignation. in. Christehurch.. . ...." :'. .• - It is believed, that eleven German sabmarines have been destroyed since the "blockade" began. There are indications of further trouble looming abead in the 2Jew South Wales Cabinet over the question of precedence. £ The carved gateway.of Te Koutu. pa, Lake Okataina, near Botoroa, has been acquired for the Auckland Mumeum, and is now on exhibition. . An American, named Odin. Semington, trading in Melbourne ac McLean and Co., was fined £200 on a charge of sttenrjjting to trade with the enemy.- • - All Seat supplies in the city Tefrigerators have been seized i.: Sydney under tb e scheme by which the deers meat for Imperial uses." ■ "■•"- ---; The; Prince' Eitel--'Frederick See /pn> into -Newport for : repairs. One of ler victims- -was - an. American »heat ship, lanara loud7outery has-arisen-in. Aaerica. • The Hon. A. 'L.Herdman expresses, the ;.9Pi n l99:th a t-jthe restrietjdnk'onrtl* opening up of native- land , iff thßUrwrera country- for ■-agriculture/ and sawmilling might.be.removedi~---»------*^ : - -''>• - ■■- 'In- a message -to'a (Russian association, King George- :expfes'ses" sympathy" -with "the effort:to promote.a lasting-imder-Russian nations. : .-™~ /—"■■" - -'—--' A brave New .Zealander.;n*iee_d Cecil Humphries, a private irr the- First Manchester Regiment, has received the mbted."to : the ranfc'of-sergeant — -■•--- tj rMr. Eider Haggard, in a. letter to the .Times," deplores the-decay «bf rurij life in England." .He says that' 'Hit, - farm-labouring, class, is almost exhausted in England is a ,serioua?inen»ce"46c tie Empire.--- "--■■ ' - • ■ —- ~ '•A poor odd lot/ is theyay anTAnatralian describes the Turks'who made an unsucceseftd-attack; € n the Suez Canal. [_The' colonial says the. enemy jtere "all oldish men,fand- iF seemed-"a; shamed shoot them.. ''_;'," .!-"!".,;.- '' ~'_;U .The .rebels : "in the. ■ Orange ■ Kiyer Free ,'. State *,3iaVe' : decided : for- all the..: damage during trouble. : .Some of the, loyalists"are 'mereljr claiming Jj-fie costrprice of; the articles commandeered. It is feared tbat * foreigners are.; in danger in Mexico, and an ultkttatum hSs been sent to the provisional president from the United States. «A report says that. President Carranza entered -the seizure of a British-steamer which, was' ■ ■ lying off Campecbe. •- "=. i."..-~ ■■ ■=—"■' This is the fitet 'campaign-in wtiidi tbere. has been no -grumbling- about the quantity or the quality-of the fck»d ; ' plied to the men an the tratiStiHL- ra •Mto^- M C . plaint is that the men* get plnm jam too' often. •-..'_. ;-:-:::■'. '. -■■_:;. : •,- --• /,;. -'../ : >■ During the debate in tie South African Parliament the r <3iainnan of -Con>mittee. _= announced "that on August 14th General ""-> V' ; ■Beyers, who: was then Mnfster for Dβf .commandarite th»t'. they c gping;to_the.G.erman bbider.,to get K&n& and- anftnnnitipnVjand- tfcen Jetuxnr '. ™g to Pretoria to Why -does r baby thrive cbo jwjjll": <in Bycroft'a : Milk: Arrowroot Biscuite?Vßei '■ ' the-fineit of are' .:usfea Tin- their --'■ manufacture., 'AH ;,-■"!■""..!; .1:'':.^.,2.^1:^1....1V'. -■ -' % ~7~~ m -"~.'7™Z"~~T~:?/l TK& people, made famods'.' "^"V : '~ ''■"■'■■■• jißOEAi^srasraa^^s^^H^E; ton.- : besß-tio-not i ify'tjig-YKtM ipf /wftprxif-■that-h&.is opjening--rbisj7new: ;l -niillinerT : (Mts. S Master and Shalder's old <n> Monday -in- " :f\ vjte"d;'".N'o;j>ne asteSio htiyl— XJisL) --"-'