TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 310, 30 December 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Anzac has been suggested as the name for the new Federal capital. There was a heavy fall of hail at Hamilton yesterday. A French war correspondent estimates that there are fifteen German submarines in the Mediterranean. "How to persuade people to a more sacred observance of Sunday" is the nut that the C.E.M.S. Conference has passed on to its executive to crack. The Prime Minister atd the Hona.'J. Allen, A. M. Myers, G. W. Russell, W. H. Herries, and A. L. D. Eerdman are at present in the Auckland province. The New Zealand Locomotive Enginedrivers, Firemen, and Cleanera' Association supports the voluntary syetem of recruiting as against conscription. In the fight in which a 'battalion of the Liverpools participated it is stated that the Senussi were 3000 strong, and left 2000 dead on t)ie field. An allied inter-Parliamentary Conference is to be held in Paris in March to discuss matters of commercial importance. The Dominions will 'be represented by their High Commissioners. Cyril Martin, a boy of about three years, had one of his thighs broken accidentally when he was playing with a companion at his home at Glenmore yesterday. Gilbert Parkinson, a railway cadet, was run over by an engine at the Lambton station, Wellington, yesterday, and had to have his left leg and right foot amputated. "King" Eata is reported to have made a Christmas appeal to tlie Waikaio Maoris to enlist for war service 5 and is co-operating with the Hon. Dr. Pomare jin active recruiting among the tribes. L The submarine which torpedoed the Ville de la Ciotat waited until the steamer sank, and then circled round the lifeboats, the crew jeering at the survivors. The "Chronicle" states that of 600.000 unmarried men who did not attest, under 300,000 will be available after' excluding the unfit, munition workers, seamen and railwaymen. The volume of telegraph and postal matter transmitted this Christmas shows a slight decrease on last year's figures, but stamp sales went up in value about £2500 in consequence of the war surcharge on postage. Professor Zorn, of Bonn' TJniversity, states, under official-sanction, that Germany only wants to live in peace in Her own country., and is only warring her existence. The "Times" says that the majority of the Cabinet have agreed that Mr Asquith's pledge to married men should be iedeemed immediately, and that the principle of compulsion should be accepted. A woman named Emily Barton was charged at Te Euiti yesterday with having assaulted her husband so as to cause actual bodily harm; the man had sustained a cut on the neck from a breadknife. Japan's war profile can be gauged from the fact that the exports showed an excess of,, £20,000,000 over imports, for the,_pasfc year, whereas in the previous five yeara the aggregate, adverse balance was £26,000,000. The Tailway engine-drivers and firemen have addressed a request to the. -Minister for that the number of trains on Christmas Day be reduced to a minimum, and that the public be discouraged from travelling on that day. The military governor of Yun> Nan has proclaimed the independence of the province, declaring that Yuan Shih Kal has broken his oaths and failed to comply with the exhortations to restore the republic. Visitors to Auckland are wise" in visiting Pearson's great boot sale, Newtoik(Ad.).; -,-■-. ~.. ...:,.; tr ™. The-great white'footwear season, has never been better catered: for than' by Pearson and Co., of Karangaha'pe Eoad. (Ad.) ■ • . Balance of two large, city boot retoeks being sacrificed by .Pearson's, cornerUpper Queen Street and Karangahape r Road, Newton.—(Ad.) •-■- . • The Edison diamond disc phonographhas taken Mr-Edison over forty yeais to perfectly reproduce.sound. -CaU.arii'hear., them and judge. for..yourself. :FuU stock, of all machines"'and records.—Hawie, Talking Machine Specialist, T . Endean'e Buildings, Quay. Street.—(Ad:J ' ■?-•-• —_-r

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