TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Przemysl has fallen. f--231st day of the war.Canterbury returns show ireord -wtfieat yieWe for 'ftuseeestmr " The Ruesiane have 'captured Przemvsl after a seven months' siege.. AH able-bodied. A«strjena.._up' to. -52 years, of. age hare been called to jthe colours. Ait .Auckland: fisherman was yesterday fined £10 for dynamiting fieh at the Great Barrier. . New Zealand flaxmills aire working inS time as the. result of. the. increased de> mund for ihemp. , The Dhrititohtirah police vfsterday raided a two-up school, and arrested five men, after a chase. .A :protest against the taxing' of ab-sentee-Belgians hae.been made by .the Belgian „-_„. John Haigh, a deck band tihe. eteamer Kaipatiki, was drowned at KiveribxsuT last "nigHt." ~ "'" ' ,: ~ ~~~"" " Italy has' added 20 submartee' to £er fleet in the last six months. " She' 300 planes and 20. dirigibles.. ' :- ■ • -; The dead body of a newly-born male infant was found, yesterdajr- aftenioon on the beachin f rontfo'f * New Plymouth. -It is officially announced :by" the-TGer— mains' that the Russians have Jraetf driven put of Memel after-obstinate street figh£mg- ■,-.:./■ 7~ .' ■'Gladys Martateall, aged ifaiseedied at-Waitoo, near-T-e -Aroiiii-'irbni-a ■fractured eknU.riae'reßuJt of ."a kick : by*i. j Kxn j e _ - ■- . - ■■;..:-;■ '';"'.; ~'"'~.. ' ' .£ maiiried (58) wae kSfed at Gore yesterday-as fhi result of a collision by- -iuis 'cart-Tritii -■»'-. ." .- - train:Bt a level crossing.;; -•'.■.""' ;""' Twelve *lroueand Dutch arid Flemeah women- ere appealing t*' General" "Botha to show leniency to Ilet Wet, wiho'is nwr being-tried for : A.-German deserter "says' that a .number of British prisoners were murdered by/the' Germans, and.ihe names the officers who were' responsible for 'iHim outrage. ! ; ..'' r '[ .•.'■',';! ■;.; .."[".\"'~~,r!-".*'. : ,~' ' - Two "German aeroplanee- were »ff.from Xancy on Saturday, and-a Zeppelin ai-rahip \tfhieh -visited' Fort-"Vert, . north-east' of Calais; wae aiso isuccasßfuHy'driven backT .'. r ' ".*"_ • . ..'■■•' -.-Two:Socialists, in. .the Reichstag voted against the Budget, while the rest of the this, party were absent from.the Chamber when the division was taken, says the' German , Socialist paper, tt* -"Vorwaerts."' ■ ■■' ..,•'>.'; -'■ - ,—•- - i A Palis conminu^ne,tea* *4 Jkiul to hand fighting : 46* French', took a- ceaple of ■ tcendbjee, and' drove back a coaster-attack with heavy - kiEßej-tothe enemy.- _ :: ". ■- - •—., The .half-yearly.. sessions -; of the- Masterton. Supreme Court opened yesterday. There were "no criminal cases--for; hearing, mad his;. Honor Mr Justice^bringer• • coHsequence;presented ; *fjth,. » pair" of -white gloves. ' '". ' .'.:' Great .'ja»iserof th»" Canadians 13. coiitainedin a dispatch from the Australiaa .'../ jjnnrtr mi i TTi mji Ihiji iiii.uiT dash, and their- steadineee is -not eurpaeeed by-' the regulers. : : :'J~ .■ V ."2V : The funeral "of tfie! late. lieutenant-. Coloniel Rjchardson, who died .'suddenly -" at the" , Totara Flat training camp on Friday night, took' place at Christchurcn' yceterday afternoon, military honour! . being accorded to the deceased officer: China is making a good many concessions to Japan,, who seek* to widen her influence in the Flowery lend,- but the Japanese Government still continueiits ".press . its ;,original demaada, vhich are much more sweeping than these 'that - havejbe"ei7g^aiftei'- v^ -A -Swedish "copper" foundry "nadT a eudr den acceaEion-* di . ordere. from Germany for copper statues, "bnt --.. came to the conclusion that ihie waa only another attempt to evade the pro- ■ hibition qt the>export-ofv-raw copper, • .: and put a stop to-the trade. ■■■->- , ■We -will have men at the front "before the campaign, .-ia, mnch ' - older, -says;, "the.';: niaitiiay-: «or-V. respondent. This will be one- hundred; , and ten timee the number of men ttact fought at Aginconrt, and thirty- three times;the number that fought in th«- - Appalling accounts of the state, oi- theArmenians ba,Y»-.,heea,,:^iewayA r JtifKai r . the. Armenia* Red Crpe, Society. After - the: Kuseians, d withdrew,. th*, Khurda ' cqjnimittieed_ _»trcritt«iu Men, ' women and childreni were ioosA atrevm about the -Plain -of Alaehgizd, frozen is pools - of- ther own blood. —i~.-< ."r 7,',". -^;- -The French- Press is unanimons ia expressing, a determination, to cany througa the DardaneDe operation*. There is mneh reticence about tile siae and disposition of the ■■ landing fore*, but -expected- that the -■ force : make easier the task of the warehip* in -reducing,the, fortressea. i ..^l_, :-,- .'_ T .'.;;,..-' ' : ladieß, get that' JSaßtetJmfc at^^de:;.. hope's Symonds Street,. the wdl-knowa house prieea.-— - ■{Ad.y --.- •■■.':->. ;-^.-.-;;:';-:.^-- r - FERE SALE. Anotherfc* of aahraga. See wiadowß - Sale. 10 ajn. to- . manrow. —CJreyand'Fordj Ltd., . hape Boad^(Ad.);.. __,; . i^:. ....'.:. : L».