TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 302, 19 December 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

T. Clark for Christmas Footwear. —(A_> ■ Over 12,000 Turkish prisoners have been taken in Palestine to date.. Sir Robert Borden has won every province save Quebec in the Canadian "elec* Lions. •» News from Russia indicates that near* ly the whole country is being torn byj civil war. Mrs Jane Clark (69) was killed ia «" motor accident in Mdunt Cargill Road, bunedin, yesterday. Mr .Hughes' received a remarkably en* thusiastic reception on arrival in Sydnejj to advocate conscription. - Harbin is reported to be under BoI» shevik control, confusion reigningChinese troops are on their way to the city. The neutrals in the Scandinavian! steamers sunk by the German destroyers refused to enter the German ships when offered a rescue. Mre Alice Joliffe (54) fell from a tram at a stop in Upper Queen Street last night, and was sent to hospital suffering from shock J and bruises. The sum of £2750 has been allowed the Auckland Board for additions to the hospital annexe, where it is proposed tot establish a massage room. A timber-mill worker named Andrew. R. Bartlett (32) was fatally injured by an accident at the- Kauri Timber Co-s mill at Onehunga'yesterday. Sir -Joseph Ward states ' that New Zealand pays for the munitions, gxms, etc, used in every battle in -which the New Zealanders are- engaged. i - .... A convoy of one British and five neutral merchantmen, together with their escort of one destroyer and four armed ; trawlers, were all sunk _y a, German raiding squadron."