TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The fall of the French Bastille occurred 135 yeara ago to-day.. The Turks are still retreating in disorder before the Russians west o£ Erzeroum. Albert ilarke, a Wellington HarbourBoard employee, was killed by a lift accident yesterday. The Germans continue to-make-fierce., attacks on the Verdun front, Securing small temporary gains. Starvation is causing terrible mortality amongst children in the parts of Poland under German rule. A list of fifteen German warships. no\? undergoing extensive repairs has been obtained from a Dutch source.. —; • - The city treasurer estimates.the war allowances paid by the City Council at from £350 to £400 per month. The conference on the early closing o? hotels has not yet been able to establish an agreement on the subject. A boy scout named Charles Potts broke both wrists by a fall in the Y.II.C:A. gymnasium at Cambridge.- ":• ■ The British have regained some lost ground on the Somme front, huge numbers of German corpses being found.'■.;,;. Sir Ernest Shackleton. lias left Puhta" Arenas, in Magellan Strait, to rescue the ~ marooned members of'his expedition. The Canadian Government states that Canadian soldiers in Germany have been imprisoned for refusing tojmakemuni'--tions.: At the meeting of the Marine Boroughs'"Association last night, Mr.; J. B. Tonar was elected -chairman , for tit : ensuing year. . French; writers are demanding the eventual punishment of all Germans directly., or indirectly responsible for ;crimes and atrocities; The Auckland City Council last night decided to proceed with the establishment of a. winter garden in the Domain on the Exhibition site. The New Zealand troops, who are stationed. northward of the Somme battlefrorit, are still making, successful raids on the German lines. -*- r '_■ The Russians are pursuing the enemy across the River Stokhod. and have captured 70 guns and -21,000" prisoners.iathat region during five. days., j: ..,— ■•"■ A lieutenant in the Yorkshires U-re*' ported to have captured two unwounded Germans after he: had been twice wounded, and had lain twelve hours in the open. '.An American, -who has returned' from Germany after 22 months' imprisonment there, .states* that two attempts have heen made on the Kaiser'g life since February; Mr. John Redmond has violently • attacked Lord Lansdqwnelfor ~_ hie: recent speech -on the Irish question, which he declares 1 to be- a virtual declaration ?of war on -Ireland. ■ ' --..' - ■} It that the-Kaiser is flnancially interested in the trade submarine The;next vessel is to' bring a,-, cargo of: condensed mflk-from'Americ'a-' for German babies.- ~ .-..*■. ! ' state that tht Germans have:-• blown up * the' Perotine-St.' Quentin "rail- ■ ■way; :-and '-th'e-to wn->>£.Peronne is -being - prepared |or, :a_. dee^rate-reetot«icjß>t(>i ; the British adv*noe.. ; . '„• . C v* v " > Lord Hildane, former War Minister, ■' was challenged in the House of Lords to explain his of Britain, regard- ■ ing the German danger.He replied that he had.'beei badly misrepresented. The muck-debated nomenclature of - Cpburg ..Street and Stark Avenue waa the subject of a special meeting, of- the\ City Council last night, at which the respective names-were changed to Kit" chener Street and Waiata Avenue. .• A gentle 1 newest models in Bcetoek-made hoots now , being - • cleared at .21/ pair.—Pearson's. •Bo_ofe, Store, Newton.-r-(Ad;)._ _ '