TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Tahiti is stll held up at Wellington for lack of a crew. The latest about Bulgaria is a suggestion that she ■will remain neutral The mail steamer Makura ie due at Auckland from Vancouver on Monday morning. A severe cannonading is proceeding along the whole of the front ia France \ and Flanders. The Federal Minister of Defence em- : phasises the fact that he wants every ' man he can get. ! The annual conference of the New Zea--5 land Baptist Union will be opened in Auckland on October 6. Sydney has raised £700,000 towards ■ the " Australia- Day" funds for the relief of wounded eoidriers. The strike ait the Xew South Wales ■ small arms factory is mot likely to '. affect the output of rifles. There is still violent opposition among . the pro-Germans in Xew York fto the ■ proposed loan to the Allies. : Australia's wheat crop -was offered ta Great Britain, but was mot wanted, says . the Federal Attorney-General. '. The new schedule of increased fares and freights on the railways will be ; brought into operation on Monday.. ' The higher postal and telegraphic rates, by way of war surtax, will proi bably come into operation next week.. It is believed that the Turks intend to exitenniinate the Armenians, a task ; which would involve a million murders. Recruiting yesterday in Sydney wag '. the worst since the beginning of the ■ wa,r, only thirty-one men conning for- [ ward. An award, intended to operate as a. • Dominion award, governing ilourmill in--1 dustrial conditions, has been filed in Wellington. i A French officer invalided from the ? Dardanelles is confident that iuhe Allies , ■will 3>e in Qo-nstaoitinople before the end 1 of September. . ~..', Before the arrival of the Eighth. Rein- . forcemenits at Gallipoß, some of ,the - Australians toad 'been under fire for ". nineteen weeks. i' Government aid is promised in Australia towards the. scheme for reinsuring members of Friendly'SoCteMesnrho ■ have gone to the front. While one traveller reports jOonstanf tinople to be the gayest city in Europe, ~ another says the conditions at the Turic- ■ ish capital are mearly desperate. ' Leaders of the conspiracy in Lahore, . India, were aware months 'before the 1 war Ibroke out that Germany intended j to emibaTk on a great ca-mpaigifc — , There is a. Tumour of an impending \ election in Great Britain. The "Daiily - Mews" says the country is faced with ? a political crisis of the "firet mnjnjtiide. '■■ Bush fires in ilarlborough district [ have interrupted telegraphic communication with Christchureh. such wires hav- \ ing now to be sent by the Greymouth, 3 route. ; Reports from Athens suggest that the w Turidfiih inision to Berlin represented •, to the Germans that Turkey was in, j danger of immediate disaster unless • helip was cent. 1 Mjiclmel Sands (60 years), a greaser ! oiithe steamer Hawkes "Bay, had a.rib : broken last night as the result of a "fall 2 caused by his tripping over an iron girder on the ship. r Raymond Moore, aged nine..years, 'died ' at Dunedin from meningitis - , which set • in as a complication after the youngster had injured an eye with a pointed stick \ wlen Jje was "playing, soldiers." At the request of the Imperial authori- ' ties, the Government proposes to raise a company of 300 to 400 minere and . pick-men as tunnellers, the training camp for. whom will be "located" near Auckland. _... ~ ~, .....».„., „"__ .*, \ Labour 'leadera in Coventry -iaTe beettjtaken $o. task ;by Mr. Lloyd George for ' ■diseounitenancing men who in eight and ; a-ihalf hours -ftrvfelipd a Certain part o£ ', a 'howitzer ordinarifly took lihirteen and a-llmlf hours. • , " Sγ George EeH. the Austrailian High Co-m.missic-ner, ha 3 generously offered 'to ' cantiuue in office Aiu'tir the end of the year without salary, iii view of tie anxious 'time aiiead in regard to,finaScia'l and industrial mat tors. , v.A rise in the:ptice of butter in. Wel--1 lingtoit-from .1/3" tn'i/f psr 11) — brought a comment from the Prime Minister that lie will 'hare the matter in* quired into, with a view to legislating against improper exploitation. .3t is unnecessary to. pemaxk that no suggestion for the payment of..a;n,indemeity by Great Britain, will be taMieid, said the Parliamentary Undersecretary of-itlie Foreign Office, in the • course of a statement in the House of , Oommons. ' *"• ■-" .'.,'' " , The Prime "Xliuiiter-states- tliat-it »igthe'.Go\'erhment's', intention I :as..j3Ueeessor' to "tie" late" Jls\ 'EbVa : lick a man will: lie r Qualified -.its' ; undertake- .the_dir.e:ctioif.:-6fMhe^medica.V • examinatrbn 'of ;sch.ooi cliildxen, 'as Well • as-of, physical .instruction. .:■.::: ■The people , oi,ATLiEtralia have effaiq forward fou.r; times; more sk>wiy than the coniparatiwly unwarlike; population; of the Otd Country, said-the- Premier af.Xew-Sjuiu Wale's-4n the of; a. ' "speeoh calling atteuitio-n-to tha-etowbess- •' !"oi..recpititing" in. the Coniniojiwealti.'-. ." " _T3ie House of Comimons was startled ■by a speech from Miv J. Thomas, :LabSMr: for Dert>r, on the qnestion.'Of' 3 oampufcion. He foTeshadowd"the stop' page of the railways- if coneerigtwnr were insisted-upoiK--He dM not justifyT such action, ibut-poimted-out-the-great ?. difficulty of eoßtrcflrag.-the ■ railway-^ • men. In a case in which liquor' Was senfe" i from the-lieense-district of Dunqdin into" { the no-licerise area of Clutha or; 3 te|e- - graphel-order, Bartholomew, L decided-ihat the .transcript ~of~a telegram, giving .address,., occupation," and, • name-of'tiie;person ordering was not-a ' -signed oi-der under the Licensing ,A"eJ7" ' md- -consequently the pending of • tjje liquor was a breach of the-Act. -