TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 72, 25 March 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

233 rd day «f thenar.- _ „ Seven hundred big guns and many field pieces -were' captu'red-in'Przemyslr' Auckl^d'Provincial 'Kowiflg'-■<noon'pfc«* ships at KJohlmaTama. on "Saturday. British airmen'dr6p"ped bombs on GeT» man submarines at" HobSbenv^neaT- Anl^ wefpT :■--■:-■ "'An interim-dividend" of "8/ "per Miare has been'.'deflated':by-the- New -ZeaJaad Shipping QQicpany.'-'. ;■;; - ----- -- 'It is: that; another-Zegpeim airshipi.' his -- ~ y~ ~ Ifreighhs-from-.Lpndon--..'tar- -Melbourne andSydney;^Ws«n^^?« ! */i , ™% P?_ w tinge -from : 4o/"a : ~.~' ' ~-Z \.-Witbl : fi»"i3«. : . liteseldorf-a supertax has been put. on Wxed.'" *."- of "Educatioji "decided"to"" nominate -"itrZTK"PiraM\" 46*"* member" of the National Council of "Education. """" - ■ V' [ '';' MT.tMa66ey.«r"asked"to:attend is to bo openedrin. Sydsey.in May-^probahry-on, jM ioa.;:. y ::z.. y;y,y.: .l:;::. : '- . " : : ■ ■'■ On'the Chtogo market the. at work "Owing; to expertei' statemente that tfre-Sessian. fly has;been lifeimpng the •crops" ":Tr-*-.-.-;---;- ~~v: r" ~ . '"Crerman-^-antirorities'deeJare^ , On«t--tte 'alleged Bußfiian"assaTilta onwomen-and . ■'■''■•-:■ incendiarism, were-" almost ail pure inventions. .----.----. .;._--._ _.■> •-.Owingto :"smaiipox hems' discovered on the steamer was upon-arrwal at Fremantle. '■■■-.---' ~~, r~-7rr ; ;~-~ " Hotelkeepers in. the Old Gonntiry-aro; endeavouring- to in putting down, drunkennesa in the todu&trial centres.r; "--—n? •-.- i% -:-'-.—-: "tjlian'Hammond, aged-18 years,;-wa». admitted to the HospitaVyesterday eyeni£gi from~Bosf6ri Boad." suffering from the effects of poison. :" ~,. •""■"-"-".'""•. According to Sir J, A." Simon there no sign whatever, of-the'"end. of the'-'war, or" that Germany" would be "willing; t6~eonmight offer. thatr J baa , teTwh»Eh approach"withm "too ; ißtand'Jf^'"'be"ftre«JOH:'bv:.^:.Befltlie«;v.. City men.-consider -that-— there-.-.- -«ro difficulties in the way.of .the Government's proposals • to s limit the profits of ' war inanition .contractors to ten per centrT-^.-^v-"„"j:~-", , ';."•' : ~ ....■;■.-..../.; 11"'4_~tdhrte to.the ;. the : 'Aisiieiis'- rewdedPm-.thorlateat -inatalli^ • fthe .war7 : ----■----:-v \- ' •-■■-;.■■ ■......-. -VToi'lWrln»iardi - h"aß.'.'.be»m".v':WTiting'-sa. iTtJcfe'fwr"the"-NewTork'"Sun'*;-t©- prove that Germany is fighting l&e battle of the world against the": tyrannical yoko of the" English. r Owing■•■•to" » revival of trade' with -the Cast and tfte Mrge i Government ordeal ,' thathave- been placed since the war jbega»,, the ootabsin trade Mil BafSodla now alniiast axrnnal again. ,- : .. .-...'.:■ ~; ij |v-.;v y. """ :: were much disappointed with_ti*/.-^pipiSliiß,•;ii(iaL;., : fi»,; ; of warnings the citizens insisted in atorm- '•■■' which never occurred. '" A' tornble tale of th& state of Serria is brought back by Sir Thomas Lipton, who says that fire is the only thing which can sweep the country clean of the scourge of'typhus.-, ;*• The David; Syme priae, -for seienti&s research for the year" 1915;. haa been awarded to Mr. £. C. Andrews, HA., of bydney University, and of the Geological Survey of Xew South Wales. , The N.&W. Agent-General, the famous statistician Sir: T.. A. Coghlan, n« retired, and until hia sucoeeaor is appointed . the "Victorian ' \gent-franeral, BJx: P. Mcßride,* wfil aAtfoESEerSiite. :■: CSatrlea Pereival,a single aged 44 years, died in the train between Pokapu«ffdrWaipuna on Tuesday evening. when jhe;. w»V:ito consult a, doctor about pains in his chest. He was a road contractor. iflllieVerewj or_a ateamer, whic* was sunk.''by a eubrnarine,- were put - ahoird Gennana. TOiuo.on.tte"BU^Mri*3*^W-^J'.._ - that that particular submarine had sunk five Bntwh^veßßeie^N £• • David Walton," oao ofTtlie pioneers of Pukekohe.'was found dead.by- the : road at Pukekohe yestei*» ■} filled "dltth~and'"neeh"una,bla to break his way'ouE through" a blackberry-tangle. . Christopher Peck v(31).1*- cafter from Avohdale, had two xCOs, Jbroken by a fall Jr-om his cart in Syjnondß -Street y.estierr. day/; .~He _wsa jitting_on_lte;:idWta: ; ot •iheicptrtjerin'en:hisihorse.-shjed V.aft *,pass- --- ingmptori caueiPSrrthc ..dj3Tjff i»Jb«^-hi». balance/.; _':■_ ; ■'■._,'-'_-■-% .-;:-■•-.■.- ---'.-.' Tie -New-South; hflivs eight ba]ls\in •enpe ~ instead jrf aixi_ with a viewrol; iiiot approved by '■'^^_^>Sl^S' w4bcJi S"'would"-onTy save'"a.. few minutes, while it would prejudicially_ affect-young'fast bowlers.7:-; ■:" • Sir John French' i'"repwt : ed : "'V>" havi" said that"he and thoae' liafTuMy' expect "victory after three months-bird fighting. London newspapers' people that.'thSere.-iS" a"TofT"tb' do; betorei: the war ends," and that~ErrgTahd;"6u»T "be" prepared"for long and' lamentable casual —tfmted-ififtates ■war'-Yeßsefa haM-feee* senVliriJhV^e6lr^di*i^^ Kieg," to prevent the: e 3cape jf-internpa. German "liners,, which, were, rfiported-to-bk3ei;avavoiffjn^;.to."getra^ay^"c^ port of the..escape of the German liner Macedonia,.-which klinterned..'at T.aa :ht* -CaoaTy.-Inlanda;. '■■ d*nied;;_::-'^_--7-ot:-----.-- -- ' There Jb. a.serious : shortage.; of agricul* toiai labour ip Great Britain. _"Ihe-per-, ;qf Jjowatry. "iwpxkeijs;, jsh'Q_laaT« 15.6,; and. the, .ferme.ii. iraivt;Bo.ooo moM. ; pennanettt laboflrert. Stock' Exchange i ■good in spite., oj Ure fact i^t.oyjar.'jt;third.of.'thfe derka. lave ehli^t«l. ;_. : • "J^: tire sale bargain! Tp^dawnr ttcGrey;and r imim Sfc.).7hig" Tweeos from 1/o}, serges" from