TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 27 December 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» i It is twenty years to-day since tha Jamieson Raid in South Africa. Austrian artillery is believed in Athens to be approaching Greece. | Deaths from starvation are said to oc- ; cur daily among the Serbians at Honay [ stir. t A German military attache at Athens s boasts that Salonika will he another i Antwerp. . Real estate business in Sydney has ' declined over a million during the curg rent year. Heavy guns for the expedition against . Egypt continue to arrive at Con- . stantinople. [ Thirty thousand troops were Tequired - to quell a revolution in the Chinese pro- * vinee of Yunan. " A gold strike estimated at 600ozs to '' the ton is reported on the Upper Clarence, in N.S.W. 4 London butter market is said to hava i weakened even before the arrival of the 7 Arawa's shipment. Cannibal Papuans invited a neighbour--0 ing tribe to a feast and converted their B guests into the feast. ; Andrew E. Taylor, a married man aged 1 30 years, was drowned at the Whangarei r wharf on Friday night. ? The miners' award just framed iby the d Commonwealth Arbitration Court apf- pears to have given satisfaction. Jj William Dent, a cobbler, aged 73 8 years, died suddenly of heart failure at f Henderson on Saturday morning. 7 An Italian destroyer sank an Austrian j: supply ship in the Adriatic, and later , rammed a submarine with similar suei cess. The difference in value of the imports through Sydney this year and last amounts to nearly seven and a-ihalf million pounds. Fearful and determined resistance are making the lot of the Austrians and Germans in Montenegro particularly hard. A New South Wales delegate -will goto London to try to arrange for direct food supplies from Australia to the Imperial Government. Wenzl Jolhoph, a Bohemian, aged 73 years, .broke his right leg by a fall whea he was milking a cow on his farm at Puhoi on Thursday. , Serbian refugees arriving at Rome 5 attribute their misfortunes to the mistakes of the Allies in not realising tho urgencies of the military situation. Richard J. Thompson, a boy of five years, had one of his tots almost severed by tramping on a broken bottle when ho ' was bathing at Heme Bay on Christmas Day Emily Sophia Martin, a widow aged CO years, died suddenly at her daugh- . ter's house in Church Street, Ponsonby, on Friday afternoon. Death wa6 due to heart failure. .-.-.• Earl of Cranbrook, reported to have n died at the age of 45 years, was a son-'in-e law of the Earl of Glasgow, having marj. ried Lady Dorothy Boyle, who died only ;o a fortnight ago. J A cyclist named Hugh McLeod, aged 5 55 years, was cycling on the railway is track near Otira (Westland) on Thurst. day evening, when he was fun down by a train and killed. Over fifty sick and wounded soldiers _ of the Auckland district that returned 7 to New Zealand by the s.s. Tahiti are expected to reach Auckland on Thure- - day from Wellington. a CMldren and infants are fond ol 4 Bycroft's ideal milk arrowroot biscuits, 5 arid thrive 'on them. Scores of testimonials. Ask for Bycroft's; all grocers* . (Ad.). •.:.-;•.,::--: _:.;.:.' .v