TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 246, 15 October 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A small party. of returned soldiers reached Auckland yesterday by train. The report of the. Cost of Living Committee will be placed before Parliament to-night. "The shipping outlook to the middle of December is fairly good," states thai Prime Minister. A Rhodes scholarship candidate for 191S has been nominated from a Canterbury College, the nominee being B. X Richards. Winter has broken prematurely on the Italian front, and fierce snowstorms and. gales are making operations extremely difficult. Germany has apologised to Sweden for the Luxburg incident, which, she alleges, has not affected German submarine policy. The alteration of electoral boundaries has brought the Kameu and Riverhead. hotels within the no-license -district oE Eden electorate. John Thomson, a butcher, of .Te Kopuru, Northern Wairoa, was found, dead in bed at the Waitemata, Hotel,. Auckland, yesterday. A British column in East Africa baa captured Ruponda, an important point threatening the line of retreat of the enemy's main body. Brazil intends to utilise 42 German. steamers, agrgegating 250.000 tons, in the transatlantic trade. They will fly the Brazilian flag. As a result of the German naval mutiny and the crisis in the Reichstag, Admiral yon Capelle, Secretary of the Navy, has resigned. The price of coal at the pit-mouth in Britain haj been raised 2/6 a .ton to pay the cost of the war increase granted to the miners. It is reported on reliable authority that prior to th Wilhelmshaven mutiny three sailors were shot for refusing to serve on U-boats, and that there is a strong and growing dislike for the work. The new British attack at Ypres is on th main Passchandaele Ridge, where much stubborn resistance has been encountered. The Australians and New Zealanders were given an honoured placo in it. The Germans have landed one or two divisions on islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, warships silencing the coast batteries. It is expected that the Russian defensive lines will have to ba modified. Lord Robert Cecil states that the embargo on Holland- is designed to prevent the transmission through Dutch territory of material for the construction of concrete field fortifications. He does not place any credence in the Dutch contention that the materials are intended for road making. "Best value in Auckland."' Tudehope'a costumes—the ladies all sayso. Piquefrom 25/6, tussore silk from" 42/6. white Jap. silk from 65/. —(Ad.) Next time you want flour ask for BycrofVs 'Snowdrift." You -will then realise the "difference" on baking daV-.' (Ad.) ...-...-. f T? *"T Here% a great bargain at Tudehope's, top o' Symonds • Street. Ladies' new tagel .hats, usually 7/11 to 14/6, now 4/6. Theyre selling, fast—<Ad) Where you ought to shop: Ttrdehope's, top o' Symonds Street. "We're out to help you to save." Here's proof: Doublewidth check voile, slightly waterstained, 1/C, usually 2/6.—(Ad.)