TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

After the Apparn was captured el.a was armed and captured two British vessels en route to America, sinking them.

A total eclipse of the sun was due tii.s morninjr. observable only in a line that runs well to the north of New Zealand.

The Governor and five members ol tl'.o National Ministry are in Auckland today -fur the parade of troops in tha Domain.

David Walker, a wharf worker, aged 55 years, was killed. ibU morning through falling between a steamer and the wharf.

A report from Salonika state 3 that two -shells fell in a Greek prefecture and in a bank, the casualties including two Soldiers killed and fifteen wounded.

The Germans are exulting over the Zeppelin raids, declaring that the punishment of France and England constltutes a reprisal in th<* liaralnn? case.

A traveller from Auckland on the night Main Trunk express has complained that while he was in a sleeping berth £G was stolen from his clothes.

The verdict at the inquest on the. late Walter Ernest Neal. killed in a tram accident at Khyber Pass Road, exonerates the motormen of the trams from any blame.

A Labour Council meeting in Sydney, which attempted to debate a motion endorsing the action of the Broken Hill strikers, broke up in confusion, the speakers being hooted. The Minister of Education states that a scheme is now being formulated to bring all certificated teachers within an even graduation, so that all appointments may be made on a fair basis.

Mrs. McKinney, who went to Queen's wharf, yesterday, to meet her Bon, Trooper R. H. McKinney, returning homo by the s.s. Rotorua, had a fall on the wharf, and broke a small bone in her right leg near the ankle.

Very great satisfaction is felt in Britain at the safety of the passengers and crew of the Appam. Some of the relatives had already gone into mourning before the news was received that the vessel had reached port.

The mystery of the Moewe's origin is as deep as that surrounding the German raider's present whereabouts. The general opinion among the mercantile marine is that the Germans armed; the ship in an obscure American jporir. "■

Tho Clan Mactavish. which was sunk by the Oerman raider after giving fight, was valued at £140,000. and her cargo at £350,000. Lieutenant Berg, the commander of the raider, says that fifteen of the Clan Mactavish's crew were killed in the fight.

Tlie Prime Minister states that a system of inquiry bureaux for soldiers is about to be established in the principal centres of the Dominion, so that a soldier in difficulty about pay, etc., may at once get into touch with the Defence headquarters.

Prince Youssouf Izzedin, the Turkish heir apparent, is stated to have opened veins in his left arm. The principal Constantinople doctors have signed a statement that the death of the prince, who was believed to favour peace being mads with the Allies, was due to suicide.

The "Daily Mail" correspondent who recently travelled through enemy territory in the Near East, warns the Allies ajrainst allowing the Germans to establish themselves in Asia ilinor, as being a very real menace to England's hold in India and Egypt, and calculated to alter the whole history of the world.

Sir Thos. Mackenzie, the High Commissioner, accompanied by a number of Xew Zealand officers and men, presented the silver model of a Maori war canoe, on behalf of the Xew Zealand Expeditionary Force, to the Japanese Ambassador iii London, for <;onveyanc& to the captain and officers of the cruiser Ibubi, which assisted in convoying the ilain Body from New Zealand to Colombo:"

You may scour the colony for your purchases, but you'll always come back to Pearson's of the Karangahape Road, for your boots. — (Ad.)

Wonderful bargains—Xeckwear 3d, epecial black hose 1/ pair, windowful millinery 1/lU.—At the "cheapest shop in Auckland," Tudehope's. top' o' Symonds Street.—(Ad.)

Hart Bros., Ltd., have bought £3,000 drapery from Walker and Jones, Ponsonby Road, at 6/S in the £. Slaughter starts on Monday at nine o'clock. See windows.— (Ad.)