TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 231, 28 September 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.Jam.-* I'armh. a farmer, uf YVoakamara. l.anjrcd himself thm inunung. The. Creek reeerrifta in the rraamoowraith nave been called to the colours. Mr \aquith ha- appointed a Special Committee charged with the oversight of tl: ■ war. ' l> til. R.-roplan-M ;,onrb,-d and derailed (;,-nnan tram, at Itoimi. <"''»• l« ln WM fiill , ! ~-rii.a:i troop-. \UHtria ha* iimoinlitKTnaUy acrrred to withdraw Dr. Konstantin Dumba, brr Ambus-Mi,lor u> America. Merchant* -tut.- t ; :;it there m an atv normally larjjr mpply oi i-pjrs in Auckland lit tbc pr«M-nt time. Tt,. 1 muz Tnr'K= arc threatening r<,n.iUntiiiuf.!r w.tb μ-wn.- t" kerp the di«aff«.-t/«l population in aw. I The Minmter of Defence says he has reason to believe that the SiAth Rein-f,,rrr-m.-fUs huvv reached (iaUipoli. A niwfc court hc'il nt Whangarei on SoturJas realiwd for the Swk and Wounded Fund approximately £466 6/i The French offensive in the Charapaprto continue,, and the > have boon nuun-tain.-d. new (Jerroan positions bnnp captured. , , _ In to Sunday mormn? Mr lohn Frcnrn ,la,med I.TOo 'prieonere. eight ?uns an.l M-vcral machine puns as trophies of the r.M-.-nt fighting, ItaJiaiis captnreJ a inotintair. li.ooo feet hijrh in the Tyro!, and repulsed jenerm attack- on thf whole front from Ciiliii.Tolo to Avostania I'i'uk. Rotterdam reporte state that morcmentß tH-hind the German lines aiter the Anglo-French on»laujrhi points at somethine in the nature of a retreat. The explosion of an ajnnroma tank at the Wellington (la* Tompany's works yjwterday rr-ulu-d in a workman named (vr:l Sinclair brin- injured al>o\it the fa'e and hand.-. Both in Vartß an.l London news of the Allied a-rmirt*' victory »as taken calmly, The general comment m France vs-a?: " Thinpa arc poinc well." and -John Bull api>eared to be quit.- of the s*rr.e opinion. It if reported from Wellington that the .iamir.s Amendment Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives last incht. i« intend.-.1 to give legal banction to lottrrice held to ra,.-.- money for purely patriotic purposes. Tlie buildinpi hitherto occupied by the j Department of Ajrriculturi- have been !->.ld for removal to make way fur llio .lenriyn Street trariir echeme. and the D.-partment has moved to the Public Trust Building* in Albert Street. The Utjjb speed of the motor traffic to ! and from the Avondale races »a S the subject ot discueion at tlie Mount Albert [ Borough l ouncil last nipht. with a view Ito having action taken to limit the s[X>ed of motors on the New North Road. A Frenrh correspondent with the Russian headqS&rtcra states Uiat the Ku»hiaiu in the southern area are proßreseing ronetantly westward. raethodirallT . waU'rcoursee winch the trtrmans previously captured at enormou-f ; cost. • Russians repulsed nianv enemy attacks I ejst of Vilna. ani <-arr.ed with tna I Sayonet a fortified north-west wf i \ ileika. Ka«t of Novo <irodek they capJ titrpd ("rf)o (ienuans. machine gana, t\ro l>n~;.l_\ i-olumnn, artilkry and ammunition.' ■■ The bayonet not to work in tile Herman trencher. for the first time for months." says an official Krench dispatch. French picked tronpn foupht like demons, and turned out the tiermans in spite of furious resistance. Orders -Acre recently issued to the German soldiers operating again»t Uvinsk, that tens of thousands of their comrades movinp eastward are endangered while Dvinsk remains Russian. It was absolutely necessary, the order stated, to take the town—but it is still Ruseian.

A German communique mininuees the serious charartrr of the reverse in the West, and astrrts that "counter attacks" an- '• progreasing favourably "—all of which is small comfort in view of t.'ie bi<: advance made by the Allied armies. ami tin- - fearful bringing hack of wounded " behind the (rf-rman lines. ('Team blanket tvreed. and fleecy, for sports coats, 50in. 7/11 yd. at Tudehopo's. top o' SvTnonds Street.— (Ad.)