TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

- - --~-;;->.;-; . . . , ■ St. Patrick's' Day. - • ' 225 th day of the war.- '" *;' Autumn begins cdSa-tufday~n*asfc.T."~" The Admiralty that the crew .of tih* Dresden set; her.on fire..'. ;.*."'".., 1.".C1 '.".C There are about' 320 men - *fr work -on the-tNorth- Auckland/railway lint- — ■ For. the nineteenth year in succession a Maori regatta.is beingheld at Ngania"-. wahia. ~.""::."-.:" '." ■■'•;--- The' death of Walter. Crane,., the famous decorative painter: and. -writer, -is announced. . ;- — The English mail; via : which left here -on - February. 3, '.' arrived in London'on "."" '"-"'■ A Tecord opening .break of .402 has. just been: made -by.- young .George Gray,- tie Australian- buUiardVplayerii ------ - Encouraging -results are reported -in the low level,",No.rlC«t.» "deptfiof 1300 feet, in the .Waihi mine..... ... The yearly 'match., bet ween : teams, 'of Auckland -"arod took- place-ait-Auckiand-io-dayi -~—-'• — Gambridge'-has-been• selected. . ae'riKa rendezvous -for ; .-the. Easter rujf ;!o£- ' the - f'.'The German; GoTernmKnV.feaakiilglithe school children^""^ply/ , their''m(mey_ boseSi-in order i» "pay* - ■■- Ar year-book containing-information -'of/ use -to-motorßte- ti:to-be the Auckland Automobile. -ABSociatToh".-- . 3!he"27tib :sessr6nL~o£ the' Grand "Lodge of,the Independant'Orderlof Oddfellows", of Ngw.Zealand is being held in Anekland. .;The. of .the "Ancient will -be' opened' to-morrow. - Tbe •Gefmah'-Gorernor-C^riefal-oYTBd--gium has issued an order - introducing compulsory attendance at "school in BeL • .: 1 " ■ ~JI European eanie" via 'Wellington" from cisco will arrive ia Auckland to-morrow morning... .-,_-. ;:;„ . Thereare.jeomeisixty.;m3eT,.of streets andrroadsyto.be dealt.,wsh , ;jji jßemuera, Arhich.now fonE3^part: J pf~tJie;City''of / ■■ AucMandrj ■■;-; ;r_'_:z .;;;.•; -.;;."„_";; "it" 1-TiT 7r'T.be-_la3t- eight icaauni.tyi-lißtß^f;- ;thV Prussian 33,142 n*n*esj-m- ; ; eluding those of eleven airmen who have been-killed.- -■ ~ ~.""-— ■ ..:-.. --Germany'fe'-greatry disureased at -the einiring of the Dresden. Tiro .Kaiser describes it ac tfhe saddest incident-, of the naval war." . "".~-" r. "v;i" ; S ""."-"—_- -.1-"'.'-. -" The .byihe'Taviuhi'we'e.lamded in a-ueh a.condition that the damage' b-'estimated at about* £2«K>: --W- ; : < ; "•/-; y'yr - An old masa >wiho was given wetk. in the garden- at "a-houee -in GiUiee Avenue yesterday'morning was found dead during the afternoon. ' Many of the Austrian prisoners taken - in the Carpathians were found to haverbeen shot in the back, apparently by itheir -own officers.'"' ' " 7. "'" ■.'""•It is 'touch" arid 'go'Tvherther there .will '. be a /deficit, inthe Public- Works Ac-/ . count, says the Minister for ll«ance, the Hon. James Allen.- ~ Auckland's, share of the £5,000 a. month the" ;Goveriiirient' ia :askingvthe people to contribute towards the Belgian i Relief,Fuha : ,is' £Llpd. ;i;:;;-.; ;./;.::. It's reckoned that *he armed' merchant; steajner ..Priire;/Mtelta damage to British shipping' totalling: ; half a'mUlion of money.. v -; '..' Cdago'University wants- the Auckland Hospital Board to allow medical students from Dunedin to attend .-" the Auckland Hospital for clinical; study. ' It is. hoped by the military authorities that ithe" 'garrison-at the Aueklalnd forfcj . will be redueed-now tb/t£ ihebe.ia ttg fear ofHiiTvSft. SrohT J th&"3H^ctea..... „,.„.« .~-A i •?• dTfcalia*" cays the .decisive for . making. Italy greater,: stronger, and hap*. pier is- inevitably approaching. i-;'_ * J ■• The '. iepjorted crisis in -the Bulgarian Ministry is officially and'_it i -"'~iB stated coiinse .of :tbe: strictest neutrality. "" - :.' There/is' ; no.- intention "wet^!.canteenjat the Minister ot I>fenee (Mr. J.-Men) informed , a temperance deputationllist iiigb.t7:p.'l •' V v Some complaint* made,.by'."' German prisoners at Motuihi were inveetiga.ted yesterday ;by.; • and found to be trifling in nature; ■ nrgtor ambulance, /-which- tha citlzeri of obtained'" by suDscriptibhj: will oe"teihded'*<SV*3r;to" th*-' Hospiltal.'B'aard 'on' .Wetoesd*y.,«jaxt-.;; ; -;| '..Complainfe of by ; cars when; gojngjthrough Cornwall Park weremade list night- at the meeting of , the ."Afißpoiifioh. f I . -The- late Premier. bi.Gfeecekf urging his, fellow.-countTyri!en:to.-.war,,J.Be.-sa3!» . that Greece., has norr : an. o|_ " quadrupling her she comes) •in.; - _ "'".;. T. C-.; "l: ■ ' " "■'■"'■' Foui' -windows -in" memory-of "BishopsT Selwyn-ahd':Paitieion-...aad —nhe 'early CM.S. missiohairjes'.'aDe to.ie-'.unveuled- at_ : : St. Marys Cathedral, Earnell, this afters. noon.; . ■'■:_•__ -';..-.'..;;.;{;:; :','y. .-■■-.. Heports of atbig battle-;~at""Suovo Suliska;^r' _Ir<m Bucharest. It is Eaid that.the Austrians . are;",Tetreating jafter'i; suffering"; Jtenribls, losses.. -.. .".«„;'. /.'." ..,.' J '-," '.-':-. .:Stiil another appeal i 3 being made to . the generosity of-the Australian people. This -time-it--is- the-Montenegra-Bed". Ctoss. Society-that-is.urgently,ia,aeed" of funds. V~-.' : '."-/./'-".»... Appreciation..of. Mr:, Partridge's - munificent., gift ,of .his Lindauer .cplleCr. tion of Maori, portraits, to 'the_;Beigian Eund was. expressed by his the Governor.- - - • ;-. .""■'- ' ■""•-'-■ ' As the Danish postal regulatiohs'Tprdhibit anything, blasphemous being transr. mitted, by post,..Gernjah. letters„bearing. . , the. German wish, "God punish are not accepted. - ■ ' " * -';" ■".': A-scheme for the esta-bUshrnent of a bacteriological and pathological laborar*--tory in cohhectiori'"-with the. Auckland: 'Hospital was.: approved "by" the"Hospital" - Board last evening. .; - : In future all donations received in.' Auckland for .the Belgians wiil.be sent to the .High Conunisaiorier- in London, ■'." arid he will hand the money over to the Belgian Belief Commission;":"': : "' reason" for 'the" sloiw advance "of the - Ruesiaiis intheOarpathiahs is vJiat" the" men have to mairoh* in Indian -file along the beaten tracks, through the snow,land this- involves a- terrible Joss of life; ■ - Miners on the south coast of X»W South Wales are indignant, that membem of the unions, should have been sent i». prison for failing to pay'.fines''imposed. jin connection ■with--recent.-strike3..- - ;-■■ ! We. made it good. -~.. .. - ". .The people .siadej.it famous. -.-• vv-'i'i■■>-".