TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The next ballot in Class B of the Second Division, will be taken early in June.

Mary Rush, alias Haslett, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for an illegal operation.

The Russian Baltic Heet. which ltaa been, icebound at llelsingfors, has been freed, and has departed. A new War Appropriation Bill is being framed at Washington, providing for an outlay of £1,400,000,000. Unspeakable chaos is reigning in Petrograd, but conditions in Moscow are said to be somewhat better, though bad enough. A Chinaman has been fined £15 at Marton for sending six bottles of gin. to Ohakune concealed in three caees of spring onions. At the tepid baths last nigat Miss Dorothy Farquhar swam 100 yds in 1.15 2-5, beating the Xew Zealand (Tier owi:) record by os. A false alarm of fire, was given at Ponsouby yesterday afternoon by a bolting horse, which collided, with and smashed the call box. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has ' rejected the "British Government's man-power proposals by 121,017 votes to 27,470. In reply to a statement that there would be no food in Germany by next May," yon Hiudenburg declared, "I shall be in Paris by April 1." Half the town of Ladysmith has been submerged by the South African floods. Forty-two European residents of a village in Znluland are missing. There is at present no lack of vessels on the American seaboard, but the problem is the speeding up of railway transport, which is lagging behind.

The third trial of Sirs. Hannah Matilda Dal ton on a charge of performing an illegal operation concluded yesterday afternoon, the accused being acquitted.

Sinn Fein outbreaks are reported from Counties Clare and Sligo. In the latter 400 men seized 200 acres of grazing land in the name of the Irish Republic, for croppiug purposes.

Lenin and Trotzky have accepted the peace conditions dictated by the Central Powers at Brest Litovsk, and have made a formal protest against the invasion of the Baltic provinces.

It it; reported that there is a serious ehortage of sugar in th.c Wellington province, owing to the lack of shipping facilities from Auckland and the prohibitive cost of railage. Sir James Allen has promised to inquire into the system under which losses, and breakages of messroom equipment on the voyage are charged up against returning imalid soldiers. Ladies' raincoats, newest shapes, just opened. Boys' Norfolk serge suite, extension knickers, all wool, at lese than, pre-war_prices.. to clear.—=-<irey and Ford. (Ad:)... ~. '. Stop! and consider-Hannah's footwear values during bargain week. We are crowded, out with, shrewd, buyers. Shop early -to'avoid the rush.— -R. Hannah and Co., footwear specialists, 197, Queen Street, and 120, Karangahape Road. Ad. Warning to Friday night shoppers. You must read this, ladiesy See page. 7. Warren's,' Strand .Arcade.—(Ad.)