TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

There his been considerable improvement i:i the reprinting in Sydney duriu.: the past (c « days. It I- estimated in ran* that ther* nr. i.500.000 (JprmanE m t ljc west anl '.fiOO.OOO in th" f |M sydney is asking for a Royal Comrni.s ,nn to'inquire into the administration of thr. ratnotir Funds Dunn- the first eeven months of 1 Ml New Zealand imported from Germany "oods valued at »2 I.tH.VOOO. W Wharf- a fchoulhov, broke his ri-ht arm by falling from a fence at the Coromamlel .-cbool yesterday. German and lUlian new.-sp-.perK fay that ii-.il-'an.T ha* not yet made a rom-r-art with any of the belligerent.*. \ cor.imittec of employers has Imn formed in Sydney to assist the Government in finding work lor returnod soldiers. Queensland's drought neem* to have broken. In some districts rivers and streams are running for the first time thin year. It is manifest that the prime objective of the Allies is the railway communications of the enemy, gave a London comment It EPems certain that the main thrust of the Allies -nil! be in the Champagne. where there is plenty of open country to manoeuvre in. W. H. Greenwood 124 years), a farm labourer, who was subject to fits, wa< found dead yesterday on W. Jewell's farm at Rangiotu. Wililam Kent [1\ years), earner, of St. Alban'e Road. Mount Eden. received painful injuries tr> his head by a fall from his cart yesterday. The Premier of Victoria declines the request of the Liberal me.mbers that tho Cabinet shall resign, and F.ayß he is resolved to remain in office. ' A man who had knocked an old woman of 70 years about when he ■was drunk, was sentenced to two months' hard labour at Dunedin yesterday. A prisoner nnmetl Daniel Black, awaiting trial.on a charge of having attempted to commit a series assault escaped from the Dunedin gaol yesterday. The Women's Patriotic League, makes an appeal for bocUk for the soldiers, the idea being to fully equip the Seventh Reinforcements in this rej-pect. When the Queen of the Belgians vaa on a visit to the trenches recently she was under fire, but went on calmly chatting to those who were with her in the dup-outA_ A Xew Z.ialandcr. Lieut. .1. Parker, Army Medical Corps, ha* been killed at the Dardanelles. Dr. Parker, who was attached to the belonged to Dunedin. An agreement has virtually been reached by the Commission of the Allies and the New York bankers concerning the loan of £100.000.000 which U being raised there. German lasses in the Dvinek district have been enormous, says an Amsterdam telegram. It is estimated that in the lis,t few days the .number killed reached 14.000. In Wellington yesterday a. woman named Annie Rudd. for Bending to the Minister for Justice a letter containing grossly abusive language concerning a constable, was fined £10. While admitting tliat the elan of the Allies was irresistible in the recent advance, the "Xew York Herald" says it will he necessary to find out what lies Miin-J the first German trenches. At a special meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club it was unanimously decided to dovote all the net profits for the ensuing season to patriotic funds. Last season's'profits amounted to £1100. A party of three men who had been at the Auckland Islands for three months, locating the site of the wrecked treasure ship General Grant, called at Bluff yesterday for supplies in order to carry on the search. A noteworthy feature of the Alries* advance was the aeroplane attacks, 40 miles to the rear of the German lines, the idea being to interfere with the enemy's communications, and prevent him bringing up reinforcements. "Wi must not forget that the German? put their trust not in their first lines,, which are mainly defended with machine guns, but iv the deferu-ive 'organJintion of their Hrcond and tiird. lines," save tic ''Petit Parisian.' , An unsuccessful search has been madn for the British steamer Yeddo, 4,552 tons reported last week to be two hundred mill* south-east of Albany with a broken tail-shaft. The steamer is bound from Texas to Fremantle with a cargo of oiL A spark from a workman's hammer set fire to a tank-car of and th-> explosion wrecked the main street of Ardraore, Oklahoma. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered from the ruins, and over rajurcd have been sent to hospital. As a sequel to the theft of £40 worth of official stamps from a Government Department in Wellington. William Uire.nce Hooper, stamp dealer in Dunedin, was yesterday arrested on a charge of receiving stamps, knowing fhem to have been dishonestly obtained. The Federal Ministry has been assured that there will be a surplus of srbcat and flour, and that a fair price would te maintained, said the Hon. Mr. F. r,. Tudor to a millers' deputation. The L'nited Kinsrdom is the only country to which wheat can be exported. Tin Kaiser is said to have written io the freiitrak m command on the western battlefront stating that the issue of war depends on events there, and tb-at any important success obtained by the Allies would be considered due to'culpable negligence on the part of the German commanders. "First storm beaten off* is the heading in au article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" on the Allies' advance. The paper remark- the poeition in i, so brilliant that the Germans are able to send considerable armies from the east to the west, and so can view the I situation with equanimity. 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