TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Brown's Bay sale on Monday evening.—Ad. A Norwegian, captain says the North Sea is full of German mines. The first London daily newspaper was published on this date in 1709 —207 years ago. A street collection 'in aid of the Auckland Hospital Auxiliary Fund i<% being made to-day. French airmen did a lot of damage by bombing German railway depots ill I Central Belgium. A 10ft shark was caught in the trawl net of the steam trawler Countess off Cape Colville yesterday. , ' ' ,' In German East Africa the British, troops under General Smuts are advancing, and improving their position. All companies in Australia have now to supply lists showing the" names of . enemy subjects on their share registers. A five-roomed house at Mountain, * Road, Mt. Albert, -occupied by Mr. Holts, * saa destroyed by fire early this morning. Hoy Bygrave, a resident of Manawaru, near Te, Aroha,'..was jpelced in the face by a horse on Thursday, and knocked unconscious. The immense losses before Verdun are becoming known in Germany, in spite of the precautions). and the people are r getting depressed. • Richard W. Irwin, aged 52 years, died, suddenly at his liome in Baker- Street, Freeman's Bay,, yesterday, under circumstances requiring aninquest. . .-*;',.-■ Some very ungallan-fc ."friends."., of Major Winston Churchill suggest "that lie made his remarkable speech in the House under the influence of hie mother and his wife. ■*- ■ ■ • &' Jn the opinion" of Colonel Repington, the Germans are out - for a big decision, and the temporary lulls in the "attack on Verdun are only stages in their culminating offensive of the war.".- • ■ ■ Owing to the decrease'in the amount < oi shipping available,... the Commons wealth" authorities, are taking "atepg" to prevent any overseas ships' leaving un-' less under license of-the Government..; There are still conflicting accounts about'Enver Pasha. Some reports haye , him shot and killed, while a Co'ristahti- ■', nople message says he is on a .visit to ' Medina. ..:.:... -■~. -.:.".. "C: •• The Hon. James Carrpiris" prdseiutinij. \, a proposal that native' soldiers .of.Jfew" j • ' Zealand should be .put on the sama footing as their pakeha comrades, in tba ! natter of being settled on the land on ■'■- ; '.favoured terms. . . . ■/. •- r Great Britain Qiad bound herself "body -. v and soul to the German.-octopus' , coil- :' trolling the copper, zinc, and lead marr , kets, said Mr. Hughes, in a speech at a / . luncheon given to him by the members of the House of Commons. ■ . In a speecli at a luncheon to llr.-TV. ' Hughes, Premier of Australia, Mr. Bonar Law, Colonial Secretary, plainly- mdi,- , cated his belief -that after the war. .the ..,.- Connies must be in closer touch wifcli J the management of Imparial affair*. _~ The British force to relieve the trop.[X ■' at . Kut-el-Amara 'is now within eeven ' ; milis of its objective. A battle too'v ' place only .seven miles ..east, of "iku ■:.■■': village, but the enemy hung on- to. h:s' 7. • position, notwithstanding, ihis /'■ losses. .. - ■_'.; _' .... . .... ..:.:...,.. ' wreck has been, reported on th:* Minerva- Beef, - Fiji, but it is thongiit .'-.'■: that this is the -remains of tSe Caiilo Board's auxiliary, schooner ■ Strathconu, which came to grief last winter -when ~ on her - maiden trip down from- ■A-iick- ■ Jand-.- -■■••';->•;:•;.•. ■'. ;". :;•£.; " r:: r -' : - ■-United States troops fiave btSen ordered to invade Mexican...territory and .ihake , : an sfttenipt to take Villa and his band of rebels \v3lo "shot up" the town: of Columbus, on the American side-of the border and killed a number of American citi-. " zens. . ~"..". *.>. ■■■'■ "J"-' ~- .-.".' ~ It: is. current talk on the .West,., Coast of' the South Island that the population there has ..been: so gravely affected:-oy enlistments".'that customary ■ population basis the Obajstjwill lose one of its-electoral districts' for-the next / l'arlianientary election.—probably G-rey-mouth electorate.-;-- ~; ; •--_■■•;•• .■•■ - ; /does " baby thrive : bo~ r on: Bycroft's "Milk -■ Arrowroot- "Biscuitst' Because Tipthing but -the; flne_st '■ of , materials are used-in their inanuiacture. All grocers.—(Ad.) " - ; ;