TABLE-TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 113, 12 May 1917, Page 1

TABLE-TALK.

Hockey championships opened to-day. Zeebrugge was raided, again on Wednesday night. A display of the Aurora Australis was seen in the southern arc of the sky lasfc night. The programme of the Minister in charge of shipping control envisages an. annual output of 3,000,000 tons. The life of General Menoeal, dent of Cuba, was attempted with, ai bomb. Nine arrests were made. About 100 invalided soldiers will arrive in Auckland from Wellington by. special train to-morrow morning. The Main Trunk train will leave Auckland for Wellington at 8.45 p.m. instead of 8.50 p.m., as from to-morrow night. Tw.o girls, nine years of age, were washed off the rocks during a gale at the Mutton Bird Islands' and drowned. The percentage of British, shipping tonnage in the iw-orld's tonnage in June, 1914, was 45.2, and in December, 1916, it was 45.1. M. Venizelos disapproves of M. Zaimis accepting the Greek Premiership, believing it undesirable to prolong €he existing situation. The American Shipping Board las purchased seven interned Austrian steamers aggregating 52,600 tons for Government transport purposes. The coal mine owners and miners in: conference at Wellington have agreed to make nothing public about the business of tha conference until Monday. Mr. Lloyd George states that with the productivity of home supplies thete is. no fear of starvation. Britain will be self-supporting in 1918, he says. The Lutheran community at MartoH has decided to discontinue the use of the German language in their church; while the war is in progress. The Auckland Farmers' Freezing Com« paiiy and the Westfield Freezing Com* pany are both closing down their works within the next week owing to the' lack of storage space. The British Balkan army attacked oh a front of four miles to the south-west of Lake -Doiran on Tuesday night, and captured trenches over a length of twa miles to a depth of 500 yards. When the war started the British! Empire owned 20,523,000 tons of shipping, while last December it stood at 19,765,000 tons. An other countries owned 24,880.000 and 24,003,0-30 respec-" tively. In future no cablegram containing in* formation about a ship, her cargo, or! insurances, will be allowed to leave the Dominion until it has been censored by, an officer of the Marine Department in , Wellington. At the inquest on the body of Quarter* master-Sergeant C H. Quinn, at Dunedin, yesterday, a letter was read from deceased, stating that all shortages on a certain transport were caused through. - his neglect, adding, "Tell the Minister ' of Defence and it will save a good man, Captain Buxton, from trouble." - , Snowdrift is obtainable in small bags from all grocer's. Order it by name—' • Bycroft's "Snowdrift" flour—and see that you get it.— (Ad.) -