TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 25 September 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Tim war taxation bills -xill be bt.'orc Parliament far dibcuseion neit week. The embargo on the export of butteand potatoes from New Zealand has bv:i lifted, i Thomas Owens, a einple man. commii , i suitidr- at Kawhia by drinkiDg a poisouous liqui.l. j The KuasUns claim to have made a. pap in the Orman linen between l'-.-£i and Dvinek. •'lt'a half the battle won," ut« a Pars newt-paper, in commenting on the e!Te i uf the British budget. There ie much opposition to the abortion of the halfpenny postage a-i proposed in the British Budget. Sl.arj..- defeated Hadfi.-ld yctcrlay hy two lengths fur the amato-ir ecull championship of New Zealand. Warsaw ha? fjlicri and .liiea. '•* in danger, but Russia is still'calm. Rays ± correspondent telegraphins from Mo*™w, Auckland Chamber of Commerce is eskin;.' the (lovcrnment to move in the matter r.f tire monopoly of 1-land trade by a German firm. Owing to a straineil heart Captain •'. A. Wallinfiford, formerly stationed at Auckland. i« retiring from tho Nt v Zealand Force. "They are only fit for fire logs i* tho rompliinent with" which a Rur-sian new»pa;*?r makea the K:*i.-<-r ( ]i=iniss some of hi? incompetent penerals. A I'arU newspaper isays the Turks are preparing for a <■<■• un<! attack nn Egypt. There arc. it is *aid, -2n(K) 'ierman oti'Ker* in Syria training an army. Fren traderi are Kii'i to be anxi.m? over the import duties in Mr. MeKenna propoeab, and an attempt in being made to revive the Free Trade I'nion. There art owr a million and a half destitute people in Belgium, say« t'.io Lord Mayor of London, in the c.ou:-r v: an urgent appeal for relief fund*. ' A fisherman says he saw a Oman. (■rui?or dif-appear in a column of water ' niT the southern end of Sweden. The presumption was that the vessel was torpedoed. Four spent Turki-h «hrspnu! shell*, sent lioiie by Chaplain Luxford as i souvenirs of GallipoJi. were oif v!m in the Houi-r of R.-presintatives, Wellington, tiili week. "I am irrevocably oppo*e<] to consrription." Raid Mr. Andrew Fisher,. Premier of Australia, to a deputation that waited upon him for .1 pronouncement on the question. Koiistantin DumlKi. the Austrian Ambassador at Washington, who took ailvantage of his position to endeavour to cause, strikes in America, now want.- .1 safe conduct to Austria. Among the donations to the war funds yesterday '.vere included un area of land at Takapunu valued at over £1000. and aevpti Tramway Company shares, whii-li were sold on the Exchange at 28/6 e:x-h. Allii'd airmen bombed the harl>our works at Bruges, and paid particular at tention to the submarines which air being built there. The harbour w.-irk.i and a factory -ere said to have been destroyed. Captain yon Papen, the ex-sjttache to the German Embassy at Washington, who used, the phrase "thefo idiotic Yankees"' in a letter to hie wife, has moved on to Mexico, and the U.S.A. CJoyernnieut thinks he- will endeavour to l stir up trouble there. Mr. W. S. Thornton, formerly a prominent New Zealand accountant, an«l latterly secretary of the Mount 1 Morgan, Co., has been uppointed secretary to tbe committei.' which is to go out to Egypt and administer the funds of. the Australian Red Cross. Although there is not much outmard sign of the war in the eastern provinces of Ruesja. there are many Teal ehangrs, saV3 Mr. Stephen Graham. Food is dearer, railway • travelling cost* 25 per cent more than it [did, and the rouble has decreased, 50 per /cent, in value. A cofnrnnnder of a Gorman airship has been giving a representative o£ a New York jiaper an account of a Zeppelin raid over liondon. He says it is always possible t*> pick up any point by taking the river Thames an a starting poijnt. Hα says the glare of London can be seen at a distance of 37 miles. ( (

In an article in the "Metropolitan Magazine," Mr. Theodore Roosevfclt Bay* tliat even if the Hague Convention had not imposed on America the fluty of fighting for Belgium, she ought .to have obeyed the generous instincts o( humanity and done so. Ho saye very . hard thing about the. professional' pacififita and the "beef and cotton™ Americana. Wiiy doea baby tnrlve 60 ; well oa Bycroft'e Milk Arrowroot Biacaite! Becauee nothing but the finest of materials are used in their manufacture. All grocers.— (Ad.)