TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 63, 15 March 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

;'. 223 rd day of tie -war. .. r.. British, auxiliary cruiser sunk. Bucharest is crowded with fugitives from Coas-antinopl.. |' The Allies have decided to tighten the blockade round-Germany. The, death of Count "Witte, a famous Russian statesman, is announced. Kve hundred men are hard at work at Antwerp huilding German submarines. Germany. denies that the Norwegian i steamer Belridge -wa_ sunk by a German submarine. An old man. named Miinchin Keenan. was burned .to death at Oobden, near Greyalouth. The [Dresden and Kronprins IWilhelm are both credited with having sunk another vessel. An "Ambulance Saturday" in. Wellington resulted in £.16 being collected, as against f97 in May last. i The Belgians have* made further pro* glees round the Yser,:-ai_l aU coimteir - attacks have been repulsed. ' A young man named Webber Jell fron, a yacht ia Bavensbbuiße Bay, _-__edi_i on Saturday, and -was drowned. . (When the Glasgow _____ the. Germaa ' cruiser Karlsruhe, the latter was reduced i to her last five ionsTof coaX •A German _-ydrop]_ne' __»' been wrecked off the coast of Denmark, £_» crew being-rescued; by fishing-boats. British, losses among the mercantile , marine during the first six months of the; war'were only seventy-three rawels. . f. Two- French generals were wounded when .visiting troops in the trenches*. '.. «_lyji_i^.'-!TOfiei.?i^m^_M-i^i^^i3 A Norwegian steamer whose cargo of on, had been; released by the Brltisb was seized in the' Baltic by a German cruiser. Fish-oil and lead are among the articles ■ which th e Commonwealth Government • says must not be exported from Anaj tralia. --."..-.-: ■.--j- g ■■; --■■ -.---- ---i 11 State bakeries were started in New, South Wales, says the -.ttoraey-General, a penny a -loaf iwouldba eared io the public., 7 " — " A memorial: tablet to the memory of CoL W. R. Bloomfield, was unveiled at St.7___ry»s yesterda* j toorning. r. •• .'...■■ James. Hannigan (43) was caught by ; the tide, and drowned when driving _omi over Kaiti Beach at'Gisborne on Saint- ' --y evening. ------------- ..-■-■_■.■ , with the exception of on* mine. worls will be resumed at the _____•__ collieries where there was troubla snt the a.teH noon ___..- ■-'- --:-—-...-■ - -• - James Nicholson, a farmer at Manak, had several ribs broken ;by being kicked by a home he was driving In a plough. . on Saturday. 7,-,... . German deputies whojhave visited the ; prisoners' camp at Doberit- say that the >' arrangements are admirable, and that • the soldiers held there-are contented. i 7 When 2 the Dardanelles are opened ? W_l be ret leased. Qfrthat number eleven are 1 British, ve__-l_7 and ,wenty.__ren\ Ens- • sian. >.-; \ '~_. ,_ A British prisoner named Bramble who- > sergeant who struck r" h__i was 'sentenced to three years' -im* . prisotunent for disrespect and. disohedi- ' ence. '■ "... _-_■.■.-: ~r~~ _ -V...... - • " It is not considered likely that there ; will be a strike among the miners of : -Torth Wales* ag the differences of opinion, will»probably. be Settled by confer* ence. " Australia has over 250,000 men and ; boys for -h__ie7 defence. _n'7ad_ltionrto > this,-' number;,the -Commonwealth also ■ possesses the' 30,000 men now away on, : active service.;' 2 • -_. - 'A Maori boy, who had been 'driving for, pennies at' Whakarewarewa, wa» brought to the Auckland hospital on Satnrday to . have a penny removed-fi_m-h_rthroaty ' where the'coin, had" Btuek." ' -_- : * " Storage*' room for 35,000 additional tons ,i» being rapidly built-for "thePoirtr of London Authority, in order to relieve the great congestion which has arisen atr - ; the docks since, the: war. began. . [ . A. German doctor - who. .although a*."' prisoner of .War,*.attended to the Austra- ; —an troops in German Kew GuiheaV'waii'"- . presented .withjah.'illun—narted, address . when the force.landed;in2A__rtral__'~\;;*': It is now. proposed -to caneel-the Ger- : man Olympiad7_or.lol6,'-as : it Is feared that very few German-athletes who s—W vive the- war .will he, unwo_uded7-:;7T}iei . stadium,; which coat. "W_--t«* ■ sold. ... _.'. ■ ' " ""; 'j The Government -. is definitely 2- com*' ' mitted to' the" cohtflbution'.of ""£SO-0-pe* . month, to the Belgian _ruhd, ""and par* poses to give it by way of ■£ tot £ subsidy on public subscription, tip- toi. •£SOOO. ■"'■.-■■■- ' 2 A:bottle message thrown from"i'STei.'- ---■ Zealand transport on February.'2?7by m .'• Maori contingeirter, drifted to, the. 2"Vle*^ 2 torian coast, and on being picked np Wa*. 2 forwarded to. - ihe.-"2nan_ "fathet at.\ Botorua. ; - ( -■: A- " " ~~~"i 'Edward Hughes (21), a farm labo_rer, ; who' had .been missing from Maaarewa ' for a number of days, was foand in al dying condition; yesterday in Home scrub' ' near. M_.niir.wa,:- He/died. two-hoars: : after he had been "admitted td-the Auck». j land hospital. 7 „ ; .V*;. 2 72 * 2: : : T he exploit- of"the. jnerchahfecruceer j 2Brias Eitel Freidrich;;pnt the ■ raids of; i the Emden in. the; shade; according to American naval circles. 2'jKaiik admira*. '- tion of the merchantman's feat, from a' 7 " ; technical standpoint, is' expressed hy the American naval men.-2 . .2 Ai 7at r the7pre3ent / position from' the German .'standpoint, there is noreason'why rtbeyi.sbould' bo says "Eye-witness." ..-The; Kaiser2-ca_7 choose, a TRusoian, Belgian. or"7&end_f ; town at will in.whichto makevatrium--'- ---; phant.entry, and toe: German.'are. still fighting in the enemy's devastated coun- ;, try. ■" EyePwitness" says-it.-is only '~ry ■ a;crnshmg\defeat in the;fieid that the-- . Germans can be oyerthrbwh.2 . .7.-; t . last week" of half-price bargains at ,72 Tudehope's sale. " Beautiful lace inser- • tions, lid to 2/6; now-half-price.—(Ad) Children and infants are fond, of ' Bycroft's ideal milk arrowroot., , and thrive on them. Scores of testimonials. Ask-for Bycroft's: "all grocers. ; (Ad.) '~ _ - •We made it good. ... .'Arj~ '.-.-. ! The people made .it 'famous. . . . , "EOTAL (Ad.) Hnapai Fruit Fruitlai_|j, Ltd)—A representative and expert will meet the B_2o ajn. Eaipara express , on arrival at Kiimeu, and the 1050 ajn;-; • • train on arrival at Huapai, on Wednea- \ day (St. Patrick's Day). Intending .vial-- ■ tors would oblige by- calling or. nngjig. i up,—Gray and Cockroft,',sole agents, " ■ Smeeton'a y Buildinag u l 7Quseu Street 1 Thane 7 "A 7 * ; A