TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 172, 20 July 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Australia wants £50jO0O ; IX)O;a; yeaWoi'.' •'• war purposes. ■ -.-..:.■•■."■::■■... Six persons were shot by »' negro Telfci-' ,?ious maniac in Chicago. ' ' -■"">■■■■..■■■ Canada is sending a millioa-sterling .<* day to-the United States. .. v. A tactical success by the Russians iV reported from the Lutzk region. - ■' The Germans 'have been attacking tha" new British positions on the Sonnnc.:" " ; It is two years to-day eince the .HojjJe Rule Conference, convened by the King?' Heavy cannonading in the Baltic has been heard by eteamers'' arriving-• at "..* ■ Copenhagen. " . ._ '- '•- ' Many more deaths-have been.recorded'as tile result of tlic lieat wave wEich* con- ' tinues unabated in Xew York."" " German prisoners captured on the BfF-\ tisli front stonily deny ttiat; ihe're ie-ariy , suffering or hunger in Germany". ' Half a million shells Tiave~foeeß fired ' : by the British every "day'since June "28,* ' . save a newspaper correspondent" ';':"'" The United States naAy has"'been cup- ; ' . plied with powerful new anti-aircraft; guns, with a range 'of 27.000' yards'."": ": • The Pe£itfdns''"Cdnfmiifiee''uai. recommended Parliament "to "establish'a Board . of Censors of moving'picture 'films. • America: :is. printing paiper,. especially as_to .the..allegation that a combine is inflating the' rates. ." .'" ■ '.";■ .An Australian wireless' he : has .proved cpn?lußive]3L.tt l *fe..'he_._caii' - "stimulate" lig-h't •sfcowers*iy~ i electrical I means. ■■ '."...;."..,™; "" The War Regulations Bill, dealinj. witS- ; early closing of hotels, anti-shouting re- • strietions, etc., k-now-under discussion Iby Parliament. ■" ■■ '_■ • --* ,_' ; ; Twe*paiitical jifirties wp" Jbieing evolvecl in Germany—-one -favouring- -pestice- with-- - out and tile othere wanting ■■ "Arm • frontiere." - , The-Kaiser has. , been-preaching to-hie I field-chaplains, and inking them to ex-_ i Kbit-practical Chrfe'tiiinity 'in the" pre? : cent time of trial.-'— : ——.~,—~ —^. - k A message received from Petrograd" Vf -, way of Rome"-states'thafa general re- -. treat of the enemy has begun 6n'^_thfi. ' eastern battle front. I The Petitions Committee has reebmi mended Parliament to make aa annual I allowance to: Thomas Greeham, late City.' Coroner at Auckland. ... : ■ :' ' The Ne\v-Z*ealand;:Tunnelters", now iit » FlandeM, are specially nientioned by the : High ; Commissioner . for : tha" OsceHent • work they arc doingT" The enemy has recaptured a portion ' > of Pelyille Wood,.:and_also .obtained, a ■ footing in the. trenches on the _ noTtticrn i ; outskirts.of Longueyal. ..... :; , _ L . '• i Members of .the- pverseas Bfitfeh Par- ' liaments who are now in Europe were;* > moet cordially welcomed "to France by - I the. President and Premier. • : A. committee,, has been appointed bw 7 the British 'Parliament to inquire into the best steps to take in conserving* • '■ British trade after the .war.' ' General Hiridenburg is eaid to in' -. supreme, command on the Sussiaii front. .He \yas recently summoned :io the west--7 erii' ■ .. Ja _ ;. iTurkey ]ias sent; .an unsatisfactory , reply to the United States''concerning 1 the Hl-treatment : of a" conenlar agent, :• . and,.trouble.is feared by the "Xew York ; suit."- ■ --• ■ ' ■. ~ • '. Ernest Devoin has been committed for I trial at Wellington on a.charge of the • murder 61 Louisa" White ia March. Both ! were-found jn. a, reserve, suffering from , revolver wounds, and the woman died. ; The Germans who liave been taken prir soner in France call the British "ama- ' teur gunners," but'are, surprieed at the' results'our men lmve achieved. They always speak of the British artillerj; with terror. Officers he had met had felt the results. :pl. ""disiateii • jnbsf"lce'enly,-yet"-the battle"had-been the ' : fine"st action eyef "fought"iu'liistory, «aiil • Xord Beresfor'd, in commenting. on' this Jutland fight. The Antarctic" relief ship" lAnrora, now > refitting at Port Chalmers for tne pur-« pose of gmng to the relief of a party of Shackletdn's men. on the Southern, ice continent, is expected to be ready.to sail •in six weeks. ', —~- • ~ '. ' A - new: "of 'Direclore"" vras' ap> ' pointed yesterday" By "a .special meeting [ of : . shareholders in the New , Zealanl 1 ;Home Buildesg.. shareholders .i* • the Dominion' Mortgage . "and '•-. Fiaanc* ' Co', authorised legal' ;1 ■ i Percy V. Catling, - "df the-small ship Enterprise- that''reeentiy'''pe£iirned from' the Auckland Islands' alter unsucL cessful search!for.the funeral Grant i gold, was lined £•> at Dunedin for .making the voyage without the certificated officers required by the Shipping Act. I Japanese trade .commissioners who ~ have been "spying out tlip land" in. Ane- '. tralia are coming to New Zealand. They, . explain that- they. da. not-want- to com.- - pete with local manufactures.—They, only; want to capture the trade.....that has J hitherto been in .the -han-ds. .of the Ger« mans and Austrians. ~'L..' ' ............" ■ ..Something, to ponder b glace Derby ibootSj Bostof.k-inake. for -21/; - pair at Pearson's Boot Store, TCaranga- , ■' hape Eoad, Newton.—(Ad.). ■ -"■ ' •