TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 18, 21 January 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

S.s. Makurf duo on Monday : from Sydney/ . _ -- ■ .'■ •■'••■ The Austrians-claini-'io-haveTep'uked. four different Eussiaa attacks' in Bukowina. ■■..■ .' \. ..,', , ~ .' The Germans ' officially.. admit. \ .538,986 men killed, 1.566,549 wounded and 356,153 miseing... . \ ._■. ... An Allied War Council has been meeting in Iwndon to coneider the -general position;- - -. '-" .-'.,.,,..,.... It is a- year tie National. Reserve was organised in Auckland.".,.'.,'... ~./;.' ''; _. A threerstoriei Hpek..'6rij«tgHinge;iit Rutland Street was gutted; Sy fixe early this morning. - ~ '■ > ! The exports of New-Zealaal during the week ended Tuesday were valued at £523,673. . ....... . A French, newspaper states , that; the King of with Kβ: Government, has left for Italy. The Greek • Premier .. declares that Greece will continue her. neutrality, and will keep her army, intact. The hospital ship Marama iStakjug s full complement" of "wounded men. from, the Mediterranean to England.- '' The Serbian Government'has- arrived! at Corfu, and'wiU'probably make " : the . Kaiser's villa its headquarters.' *""'" In discussing*-the" rise in "freights,' , 'tEe "Daily Mail" shggests that*a maximum may "have to 'be fixed 'by 'legielatioiir" ~' ; ' The conference ■ of" teachersrjiris' - *l)eing Tcontinned— ak~- St. Stephen's -/College/ Parnell,-^io-day. : - : ■ The Auoklahd". military "Headquarters etaffi-appeal to'tfie.publietd'discbuinteiiance 'in : iis~criiiiifiat~e'-. "treating? "of '""SpK diers. "~ '"■ - Albanian.'tfiibesmea are' massacring Serbian "refngeesj alleging-that Serbia, intends ta occupyv the ■ country per- , manently* » — '-. —^_—.----.-_ Fifteen wireless operators from" the Auckland and Nortl Auckland districts have been called up to go immediately to Trentham. • ■ "' ■• • , '* • Sixteen British., aeroplanes in.Flanders fought 19. dueb;iu; one; day, driving down five enemy -aeroplanes, with the loss of two machines. ■ ' It has teen admitted in the ReicEstag that the German, eastern '.harvest is smallowing to the wet, and economy:will be'neceesaryv" , ' _. :- ; . Francis aged 60 years, a., labourer; -residing at : had" a hip fractured yesterday by being thrown from, a'uoree.-". '".\ -..'--. ■■~- \' ■'■'"•-'.'.;- ~: ;J. Chapman, :agedV27 years, a railway porter' at Petone,'fell under a-moving train at the r yard -~ yesterday, evening, and was .killed. _ "_^ .Tlie Foreign* Office* ia enifeivoufing to: obtain : information about British" "prison- ■ ers' ! of "war ' in-"Turkey','.through .:.tlie American, Ambassador at : CoHstantinople. ■ An amendment: to the Compulsion 8i11,., exempting men who declare on ; oath to-iie conscientious objeotorsi ■vyas thrown; out by the House o£ Cemmons. ,i a • • " The German. Press is suggesting; that Russia may be.allowed an outlet on the Persian 'that , by'rthis \ conces- - sion her ''organic mptive"; for war will be ',' j -■ " :" ' \. t ~ ...;.; "-.J.. It is rumoured in England "that * the enemy are"equipping" of heavy "bbmo-carrying aeroplanes for - the puirattacks on Xondoii from a base at Ostend... ,- ..:..,- ---: Theiliinister "for Defence deplares that it is absolutely; on of national defence,,thit the.custoniary.: texritdrial.: training', camps_,ibe .;held;jas ; usual.this year;;.: ';_-. . :_ r .; ... _.-. .. y; ■ Wellington., for, two _. days hae "been "..-. in -thethroes of'a water famine/in consequence" of anenoTinous nhlbcated leakJlge;in :"rffi"erTpir.~an:d4iiiV; cj*3p,":;' , _":-;-«--~ , r?*" i ■' violent ■jfcnrasf in. the- .Caucasus Kas |riv£u-back-the TttfSs" .; over fronin)r7o"'nures,"anji 'twelve gu4§": . and a quantity of munitions have' been. •captuTed by tie Russians. r . "-*' i.i -•■ '.A- new■ ißritisfirGbverninent "'tcriprev^ntl*en6n)y not.only: till.. the';cl6Se'.:of the" waf;"~.l)ut''untn.'- pe , nnifi6ion. J 'iox: - 'its-rV-;; ;.sumpttpn: is :7Cofa; Derby "is ■nndertakipg'a;big ;cruiting.rcampaign.^for:^otn - m»rnedr;aod: 'single men!; The /first lour grcKjra £1- " tested during ttie last campaign,"a nd i now.-, ■*.-"■ :' ; -"'' .':' ~zi-r"'-"f" -.".'^ -*Thej German, censorship .has .been, .it-., aH':partieß.':in""the-.;Ryohstag^ ;th^Soaalistte-/^ate;- ; t6'-demandin^that ;- :df rsiegeL\ r "sWjjM.^-^'e4ij^ l iii^itife. ;pe.Qp;]e - s.h9uH"_be_gtven;the_ right.cuss. peace terms. ■; . ;..■ ■";■"/ •'■'- -"" '- "The JlEpho-de Paris" 1 declares .that GefmanTagents-ire .buyirig-l»igU3;.vessel67; ■prwidiigrih'ein^iwtE'.'fdrged. "papers, ;Md; fusing" 'coast, undei;.the^i:oj*&tipn_o^ : neutra^^ :cy.en. Allied' .....;.\l:.; -■..•;."'"""-"■"*; : ; ■■ A . laiourerywho - was demented. ; was arrested "at ;Hamiltbn an-tKeimorningr'-wlienV'-aflnea".-with: .a~ :BiEle,~aeDiad: JSSen' fffO.'lsta,nd:;jn.iße_ "emptyistteets jand.Jwas:ip,n,dlr H decla.imjng r :that 'he had.:be,ea ,cent - a,s£ecial mis'.sibn,.to.' stop.,the_; / wa.r.,;.. „„_ ._ ;. _.-; '■ bargains 4P wn 6ale > Island..Conier-Stote, -:Balance:.of mercery;st(icK bffered :at;iiuge -sacrificec-Readj-; Jfelt" -iat6j«r-underwear,- tieSj-'— gloves, •' ; pyjaniaS-, ; 'sljirts.-eollarSj-umbTellas, -etc.;ji't HAiiFPRIGB.-"Qnly-tnree-^inore,lays. : Do not miss- 'this opportunity.—(M~) v_;,.