TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Centenary of the "battle of Waterloo. A fierce fight in Flanders is anticipated in the neiir future. A flag sold at v patriotic concert in -Lastorton realised J_7o_tl. 'Several in.ire steamers have been sen! to the bottom hy (lerman submarines. City Council has adopted a comprehensive market inrporvemrnt scheme. Patrick Toomey. a labourer, wa* killed by an explosion in Otira TunneL The submarine commander who torpedoed the Lusitania has been decorated by the Kaiser. Three British airmen Cropped bombs on another Zeppelin shed, at Gronrade, south of Ghent. By adopting an amended echeme the City Council saves JUSUIO on Jermyn, Street- outlet work. In the third trial at Timaru of R. Cuthrie, charged with sheep stealing, the jury disagreed. Proportion of deaths during "May was f1.11.l per 1000 of population—exactly the same as Wellington. 'The taxation of profits made out of the war contracts its being considered by the British Government. Sixteen people were killed, and forty injured in the Zeppelin raids on the no-rlb-eafit coast of England. Epsom district to be .supplied with water from the City C'O-nefl'a reservoirs, commencing next week. Appeal against life wentence imposed upon the Napier woman Alice May Parkinson bus lieen di.mi_.ed. A pei-ißteiit drought in East Prussia is said to he likely to affect the next German harvest very seriously. A report from Petrograd states that tbe Turkish cruiser Hamidich was damat'.il by the Russian Black Sea, Fleet. The City Council last night approved thi' installation of a slot telephone cabinet ut the Grafton Bridge tram stop. Ministerial satisfaction has been ex-pri-ssed with the site chosen for the training of the second Maori contingent at Narrow Neck. Many (ierman mines have been found nt tiie entrance to the White Sea, at the head of which is '..\rcnangel, the izro.u Russian wheat port. Sydney wool sales closed with the heist sorts of wool five to ten per cent above the rates at the last sales. Faulty wools were still being neglected. During the month of May, 1572 persons arrived in New Zealand from oversea and 2,4!)t5 left, as against 2.812 arrivals and 3.7:10 departures in May last year. \n the Karlsruhe raid three officers and two soldiers were killed, and over 200 civilians, aot-ording to a report by a neutrai. who was there at the time of the raid. I The Prime Minister states that tbe term of the appointment of the Hon. T. Mackenzie as High Commissioner foi New Zealand in London has been extended by one year. All cotton from overseas suspected of being destined for Germany will be seized by the warships of the Allies, brought to port, and restored to the owners on terms laid down by the priz3 courts. While the Montenegrins nave invaded Albania on the north, Greek and Servian troops are operating in the south. The colonel who is commanding the Greeks is a cousin of the ex-Greek Premier, M. Yonizelos. According to tho statements of a neutral observer the German public, has been brought to believe that the annexation by (lermany of Belgium and the Belgian Congo is a natural outcome of the war. Germany is bringing up tremendous reinforcements against, tne Kussians on the river San in (ialicia. It is officially announced in Petrograd tnat the German attacks northward of Przemysl were unsuccessful. Solicitor lust night submitted for execution an agreement of sale and purchase from the Harbour Board to the Council for a portion of the "Kil-bryde" Estate. The Council authorised tho soli.-itor to execute the deed. In a dignified speech in the House of Commons. Mr. Asquith, in explaining his position, denied that he had sacrificed one jot of his Liberal principles in the present crisis, or that he waa trvino to serve ar.v personal ambitions of'his own. A Gentian officer cut a large slice out uf the back of a Russian serfceantmtijor. who refused to divulge information when t.iken prisoner. This tortured man was examined by the Russian commission which is inquiring into the German atrocities. T|ie •■Pull Mall Gazette" suggestthat tiie Treasury should finance tbe pressing needs of the colonies until a general re-arrangement is made after > the war. and in any case a tight must he kept on new loan issues for the colonial Governments. "There is a real heroism of the stricken home as well ad the heroism of the shell-swept trench and the quivering deck." said the Archbishop of Canterbury iv his sermon at the memorial service for the Australasians who have fallen at the Dardanelles. "For these brave Iwomen o|f England and the Southern Seas we thank God," he added. A mile of German trenches east of Festhubert was captured -V tho British on Tuesday, but the attackers had to give way under a fierce German counterattack. * To the north of Hooge the British occupied the first line of German trenches over a front of a thousand yards, and also part of trie second line, strong German counter-attacks being repulsed. When two partners of the firm of Jacks and Company were charged at Glasgow with having supplied Krttpps' works with 7,">00 ton - of won ore from Nova Scotia, they explained that they ■merely acted as selling agents for the Nova Scotian firm, and when they thought the otc was going to reach Krupps they tried to stop the steamer, but failed to do so.

Flutter in millinery to-day at Tudehope's, top o' Symonds Street. Military and ready-to-wearß, all 4/11.—(Ad.)