TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

An important Russian victory is reported from Galicia.' "'"" The Germans claim to have captured three villages in the fighting this week. The peril of floods still hangs over Holland, and now Amsterdam is threatened. The retail price of buttsr'in Wellington \rill be raised to .1/6 per lb "on Monday. " ..,". "Z~"'.' Heav}' weather is reported on the coast of JTew South Wales," and a barque has put into Sydney damaged. " Canterbury Rugby Union proposes to confine its footbaiicoinpetitions-this-year-to players not over 20 years of age.- • The death of Admiral yon Pbhi; -who was in command of the" German'fleet for. some time during the .war,"is"slnnoHnced. The collection in the Auckland streets, etc., yesterday in-aid of the French-Red Cross resulted in about £2,000 being realised. A test at Trenthain Tvith,steel\helmets showed _that. the. smopth-surfaced helmet is penetrated' by shrapnel "bullets, and fragments. - —• a —__j__^.~_ Thirteen steamers were sunk by. the mysterious German" raider'MiSewe, and the value" of their" -totalled" £1,450,000.. ■..,".;"„ r.j:-:lz ::.:t;..Thomas ■ -Broadbent" * ■ aged r "63,''-.--wae "by -paralysis-when-Ac .was returning home from work at Huntly. on Monday, and died. - - Turks are beginning to take alarm, in ' spite of the fact that the Minister for - War has assured them that Erzefouni'.is an unimportant t0wn..',..;."-VV .;. .',V.; ..It is .reported..that the .Germans.-lost 20,000,. men. in. three days _during the recent attacks on,the lines to the noijth of the Verdun fortress. "Sir. A. P. Whatman, of Jlastertori; has presented a large house at Russell to the Salvation Army for- tlie purpose's of a home for> soldiers'" children;^.----'.--'" - New. Zealand^.products" exported last week were valued a££r.275303j including butter' £141,735", cheese. £189,099. Irozen m;eat:,£L6JiQs4; , a.n*-woot^.oM9ft^it?» - There is &~- considerabl& in infantry--for the -Fourteenth Reinforcements. The South.lsland is recruiting very Badly.- 'Branchea btler-than- infantry, are -"-—^'*-'~. William F. "Stepherison, S'Maori wSr / veteran, 'aged.;Bs.years,.;'was :acqideptally : shot at_Gishorne.y.esterday ■vrienr.hejwas handling .a-; gun; intended to -shoot a. ■■■ '*•-;- The white-population-ef-Sew-Zealand ■ on December 3T,7"excluding the. .Expeditionary Force members, was 1,102,825. The Maori. population was 49,844, and the. Islanders numbered 12,508.-

: Paris opinion ■ views "the'attacks on Verdun with, perfect calm.LV"_The l iTffinch, have had to withdraw, at certain parts of the line, , but this jmanpeuvre jiakea their position -all ihc-strongetv; '—j "--■; .Over .2,000 sTups-of.3,U>iiiiti6ns"Ka*iQ been:' destroyed, ..captured of.'detained since.the ■\ya.r.began. The total number . of British ships affected is 485,' representing over a million and. a-hal£ .tonsc In order to prevent.a repetition! of the Grcnvn Prince's previous mistakes, he. has . ' been given the assistance of the veteran yon Haeseler in the operations which are ' developing to the-north east !of Verdun..: ■-..<, .:_ v ;,.;... ; -._',-,". ■ /.The. Savings jCommittee;i3, j impressing ~ on. : , Britain.. tlie .necessity for down their expenses and living ■ as^simplyr-as possible,-in order to release as-inanyrinen as.:pdssible-for,.the.;war.i. -«*~,.-.V ,L- . ,»c..., ... TUelurkisn.General.Staff ■ the" ;Kaiser's ;habitV t,The" Atheias;.""correspondent. says: the. staff has .issued." a com- • "forting to Erzeroum-will.-shortly be t Tetaken;"'aTict ending, God.is , 'The view is held in Teneriffe that : :the real 3roe\ve"was*sunk^^ ''owinglto shel'had .sustained," jiii'd". thai 'fhe","name " steamer - - was -sunk-Tjy-th'e" priie 'crew-after"ihe %^lan3ed>a large number' .~. : "Japaii las "protested" against*the "sinKr ing. oi the-YasSha: - iew weeks ago, and has informed. • tKs-;.nnlau-ful and. continues guarantee geherousP tfeatmenCto' "Gerinan .prisoners.''." :.~.T."°,"ZC-'. 7Z~X'. I'-:..' sight:. • P9ii^i'.:^dmij^;.jiat^'TOn;;:Tirp i itz' may have produced sqmetluTig ; of' -a super-submarine, "armoured and; carrying possibly. -sbc-inch!guns_.; England,, awaits' the,","new;,fDrm:_Qi,^frightf»laes^JSJfe!aSr