TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 31 August 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The price of the quartern loaf is Britain is to be Teduced from 1/ to Dα after September 17. The total amount subscribed towards the war loan in 2sew Zealand yesterday nas just under 2J million pounds. Sir Douglas Haig reports the capture of a strong German post near Langemarckj and successful raid's at two other points. Canadian -women, with the exception of the' wives of naturalised or unnaturalised enemies, are to bo enfranchised. The Board of Trade and the Christchurch master butchers have agreed to certain fixed prices for meat from Bth, September to 31st December. It is officially announced that whereas a record harvest was expected in Britain a few weeks ago, the position has been entirely changed i>y the recent storms. The Moscow conference has closed, XI. Kerenskv making a final declaration ot uncompromising hostility to anarchic and counter-revolutionary forces. Patrick O'Brian, a settler near Isgaruawahia, had a leg broken by a fall from a horse, and lay nineteen hours before a neighbour chanced to pass by, and readered help. The stand of the Rumanians in .Moldavia was a heroic feat. It lasted a fortnight, and sometimes as many as 14 counter-attacks by fresh troops were repelled in a day. Important -railways supplying the Austrians near Trieste have "been wrecked by the British and Italian monitors, which are now shelling the rear ot Monte Hermada.. The first standardised . merchanV steamer, a vessel of 8000 tons, has been delivered to the British Government after highly successful trials. She was' built in five months. The Allied Socialist Congress has concluded without reaching unanimity, buxs it ie announced that • another similar conference is to be held in preparation for the Stockholm Congress. The whole of the. Bsinsizza plateau, north-east of dorz, is in' the hands of the Italians, who have made a breach in the Austrian line in: the Aoschex Valley, where a staggering blow wae dealt. It is stated that two new political par* ties are being formed in Britain, one by Liberal and Unionist followers of Mr. Lloyd George, and the other by Unionists specially interested in after-war reconstruction. ' M. Venizelos states that he advised Gonstantine to enter the war in September, 1914. Had this 'been done he believes Gallipoli could have been taken in five days and Constantinople* in a fortnight. Tlie German admiral, yon Crapon, in a news-paper article, advocates the extension of German possessions in the Souta Seas, and the establishment of a fasc cruieer squadron in the Pacific, •with a strongly, fortified base, in. _ view ol trouble- -with the United States -anti Japan. A runholder"& eon in ""sortb. Canterfmry was- refused allowance of timfr to get ready for camp becahe* ne and a brother who had been exempted ac necessary to carrying* on'the run had afforded'themselves a holiday at the Christchurch race meeting. A Problem. —How is it possible for Pearson and Co., the Boot People,.'of Newton, to be selling gent's newest models in Bostock-made boots at 25/ per pair?— (Ad.) * Furnitui;e Kings.—Window display of oak • to-night.—Roland Mens, opposite Xewton Post Office.—(Ad.) *