TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

j I IVmin on Ihc. next Moil lav I Australia's i-a-ualtK.s now ' ..mount to - 2n,1!7. .'in-l nf tli.u number 4,070 haie ' lu-en killed. ;' A girl n.ciiei Klva 1.. Allmond was , I run over In a tram and killed at I aver- , .-ham. Dun',-din. ,v,-ei< r.ia;. evening. New regulations as tv public conduct. ,j an I the iv-, of firearms have been gazetted to meet .hi c ndih >;i- ,n Nc.v Zealand. 1 '1 real in- nf soldier* i.v- lie, n prnhihit--J 7 in the London Metropolitan area. The order applies to dub- and restaurant s. as ; well as to lintels. The Government has de, old to c.imf 1 New Zealand, to -..;l for Kgypt the first J week .ii Ilcccmbrr. | General wni lliiuk-nl urp s work- in Rus- . urn ben:.- finished, he will be fiven com- • mand id th.- army in lurk,-;, aavs a Oirnaii newspaper. .',' I I he municipality nf Potsdam has voted -' the cn.-t of a submarine, ami is appealing ( to other towns to help m replacing boats ', win,!, have been lost. A Herman seaplane was wrecked in the North Sea, the two r>, cifpants being ; rescued ami landed at TerSclioiling, oil | the cast of ll,.Hand. '' A large party of wounded Australians and New /colanders was taken out fnr a ' motor rid.- ou Sunday under the auspices 7 n| the National Liberal ( lub. : A "War league" to as-;st the Givern-n-.ent to organise the men and resources of New Zealand for war purposes war formed in Wellington ia-t night. Wanganui Patriot., Committee yortor- , day rciolvt-J tn urge tic- Defen •■ De- - partment to di»>pate}i Immediately I another contingent uf lulniO troopts. The voluntary system nf recruiting has '' not produced anything like the result in Australia that it has in Knpland, sava ; Mr. \V. A. Hulman. the N.S.W. Premier. ; In the Smith African election campaign a strong argument in i.noir of Kngtand > i- being made nut of the rvaisor's false promises to ihc Boers at the jane of the , Boor war. At a ps>ll taken .;. Maor. Mill yesterday i on the proposal that the borough should - no amalgamated with the r.tv v: Dune- '• dm. the proposal was tarried by 537 ' vote- to I.TI. The ■ .fleet-,r of ' t:-toms at Auckland 1 has ':,. -n advised that the custom of reizing boats us.-j in connection w.th I illegal oyster-pi. krng will be reverted to as frn::i Ntoven:' "i 1. A U-lat.-d dispatch by Sir lan Hamilton, toiling ~i tl ■ doings round Kntr.ta ; early in May. lias just boon published. The New X-.-.ilar.d-T- rome in t„r some I complumxntarv remarks. The French* advance in Alsace is, -aid ' to !<■ causing the German- alarm, and r workmen tir,- continuously throwing up defensive trenches, w inch now extend almost to the Swiss frontier. George LOVagrove. of Dunbar Moid. Mount Eden, wan found lying dead on a , cliff near Fort Cautlev. Dcvonport. yesterday, with a shot wound in his head ' and a revolver l,y hi- side. "The British Navy has done its work (j to perfection," says the "Times" military - correspondent. He considers that the , chimes of nn overseas attack are less 1 proßablo than they were a year ago. American meat packers are said to be indignant at the recent judgment of the i Prize Court in London condemning j Scandinavian steamers' which carried meat fnr Scandinavian ports, but which was obviously intended fnr the Germans. ' Sir George Heid is much surprised at , the attitude oi the Federal Premier over the offer to continue in office until the end of the war without, salary. "The help I offered was not LI.OOO a year." said Sir George, "but my ttervuvs in London." A contractor named Arthur Kidman. two ofneera and a non-commissioned officer have been placed on trial in Sydney nn a chnrge of conspiring to defraud the , Commonwealth Government in connection - with contracts to supple tlies, troops with ; fcod. The German Pre-s. in commenting on Mr. Lloyd George's speech, lays stress on the frank admission of German sucr-csscs, and throws epithets at the Allies for havr ing to admit that the Germanic power* I have 'still a vast superiority in war materia! and equipment.