TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 187, 7 August 1916, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Parliamentary session concludes to-day. Bitter -fighting continues on the Ver- ' dun front. Canada' 3 share of the •war bill is now £200,000 a day. Inspiriting messages have been sent by His Majesty the King to the Allies. A thousand deaths resnlted from the epidemic of infantile paralysis in New : York. The election of members of the Legislative Council has ibeen postponed for ' four years. Shackleton's third attempt to rescua the men marooned.on Elephant Island : has failed. ; Among the sick in the New. Zealand military hospitals one man is reported ; dangerously ill. The Kaiser is said tolnaro acquired a ; healthy tan as the result of working in - the 'harvest fields. Four children named McNeil were . burned to death at Stafford, near Hokitika, this morning. Australasians took part in the fight ! north of Pozieres on Friday, and are re- ' ported to have_done good work. Government has issued a return of the individual payments to doctors in New '■ Zealand for the examination of recruits. 1 Brussels refuses to pay the fine im- ' posed on account of the demonstration : on Belgian Fete Day, and 'a crisis ia I feared. ! The Shaw, Savill steamer Matatun, • -which was damaged by fire at St.- John's, ' New Brunswick, is long overdue at 1 London. ! Danish Cabinet has approved of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States, the price ibeing £5,000,000. Twenty-seven thousand soldiers have ■been released in Great Britain in order that tiaey may assist the farmers with ! the harvest. z '■ The second officer of the harquentine Ysabel disappeared on Saturday. A t boat in which ihe was rowing ashore is ' also missing. "Captain Fryatt's murder has out- ■ raged the civilised world," said Jlr. Asquith at a big patriotic meeting 'at > Queen's Hall, London. . . ; Welsh miners, who were reported to have decided on taking the August bank holiday, have now decided by a majority i of twelve hundred to work. Three hundred thousand pounds is put ■ down in the Supplementary Estimates to ! provide war bonus payments to tfae'pub- , lie service and railwaymen. British fire pulverised out of all recognition the Germans' secondTSne trenches at Pozieres during the bombardment which, preceded last Friday's attack. The German forces in German East Africa have been well ronnded up, and it is felt that a fight which is impending ] will-be decisive if the enemy iforce be • beateni. "-' *" -' * Fiunie, the 'Austrian port on the I Adriatic, has been well Ixanbed by i Italian airmen, much damage ibeing done I to munition ,depofß and a .submarine : building yard. ': .ChxistchuTch divines, in their war- ; anniversary speeches, indulged in caustic , criticism of the Government sanction of Queen Carnival art unions and of the i, continuance of racing. The Germans' main second line north . of Pozieres has been captured by the • British on a front of over 2,000 yards, and during the attack several hundred prisoners were taken. I Airmen have been active dropping , -bombs on the German munitions depots ) and aerodromes in Belgium, and. the Germans arc said to be withdrawing all . their ammunition depots to Antwerp.; A return made to f Parliament showed that the average cost per.man for the interned prisoners in New Zealand; was £5 4/6 a month at Somes Island,-and at Motuihi £14 8/4 per man per month. Motor bandits held up the'pay" clerks I of an adding-machine company, and got away with the "swag."' . Die employees, thinking it was. a reheersal'.'for.a., "movie ,, drama, watched the Trfiole thing, and never lifted a hand. '■' '•' ■ • - Turks have been attacking- tlie British positions east of: Port Said since Thursday without making . any . impression. • The British captured between 400 and 500 prisoners. - Fourteen thousand Turks were engaged. • ~ ;,. The latest atrocity of {he Germane in France is for the airmen to fly low and pour in machine-gun fire on the defenceless inhabitants. In the newest style. 1 oi tombs dropped glass is used, causing deaths among women and children. Australia's war loan has ibeen reopened until September 1. The gum of ' over £21,000,000 was snbeciibed, but the Treasurer had previously announced that the Government iwoTdd be. willing to take £25,000,000 if it were forthcoming. , 1 ■'.." JT.Z" You are all wonted) to cave starving Serbian iwomen and children by your donation. Semember Serbian Day nest' Friday—(Ad.) Children ana infante are icmi ol Bycroft's ideal milk arrowroot beeuiU, and thrive on, them. Scores of tvti> ■ moniale. Ask for Bycroftfc; all grocer«. i (Ad.)