TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 299, 15 December 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lenin is reported to be taking drastic steps to prevent an anti-Bolshevik insurrection. -' J Traces of an attempt to burn down the Richmond Road. School were discovered on' Thursday. The American Consul at Vladivostok denies that Japanese troops have occupied the city. The opening of the Russian Constituent Assembly was little more than a fiasco, only some 50 members out of 760 being present. Heathcote Shield cricket match, Christchurch High School v. Auckland Grammar School, commenced at Eden JParfc to-day. The second portion of the 31st Reinforcements, and the whole of the 32nd Reinforcements, have arrived at a port of call. The Austrians claim the capture of 16,639 officers and men, 293 guns, and 233 machine guns in four days on the Mount Moletta front. A well-informed authority states that within a few months the enormous shipbuilding operations should begin to outweigh the submarine depredations.' It is rumoured from Russia that the Bolshevik leaders now favour a constitutional monarchy, with the possible return of a Romanoff to the throne. At the inquest on the child Donald Carrick, who was found dead in a garden at Christchurch, the Coroner returned a verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown. The First Lord of the Admiralty states that Germany is still building submarines faster than the Allies are sink« ing them, and are also sinking Allied ~~ ships faster than they can be replaced. The "Times" military correspondent anticipates the arrival of at least half a million fresh German fighters on the western front, and urges quick action to counter the coming enemy offensive. Fifty unclaimed genuine tailor-made suits, in serges, worsteds, and tweeds, to suit all sizes and figures.. Usual prices b'gne to 7gns, to clear from 75/ to sgns. Schneideman Ltd., Queen Street. Our only address.—(Ad.) Madame Ray, Symonds. Street, invites ladies to inspect her special Xmas millinery. Prices, from 18/6 to 38/. Personal attention to order work.—(Ad.) A wise public The public'realise that Boot Stocks are becoming difficult to procure, and prices will be prohibitive. That accounts for raids on Pearson's boot stock, Karangahape Road, Newton. (Ad.) " ~ Give your children Bycroft's Milk .Arrowroot Biscuits as often as possible,, and you cannot go wrong. They are a real food. Buy whole tins.—(Ad.) ■ •