TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 67, 19 March 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Robert Clarke, a single man, was burnt to death in a fire at Eltbam. The Athenic arrived at Wellington this morning, and is reported a cleaa ship. The National Efficiency Board is winding up its j-ffairs, and will soon go pu| of office. i The Bay of Plenty Dairy Association's factory at Te Puke was burned down) last week. The immediate electrification of the British main railway lines is to b* undertaken. Cabinet Has abandoned its proposal to -withhold progress reporte of th* licensing poll. The Esthonians heavily defeated the Bolsheviks on the Pskov front, southeast of Petrograd. It is expected t*hat the results of the University degree examinations will be made known in May. No settlement has been reached iai the Waihi miners' dispute and Mr, Harle Giles hae returned to Auckland. The Auckland Hospital Board ha* unanimously decided to erect a home for tuberculous cases ac soon as a site lia» been selected. After the fire at Tβ Aute Maori College, Waipawa, yesterday, a Maori youth was arrested oh a charge of setting fire to it. The Federation of Labour national executive hae formulated a scheme foi; the training of partially disabled men in various,trades. The "Daily Chronicle" forecasts that the Coal Commission recommends national control and an eight-hours day, from bank to bank. It is asserted that the Allies have abandoned the plan for the formation of an independent buffer republic on. thq west bank of the Rhine. Lloyd George, Wilson, and Clemencean are conferring with the object of at* ranging definite and final peace terms ■ to be offered to Germany. The Board of Trade has decided W recommend that a Government subeidy of £2 17/8 a ton be paid to enable the millers to coll at the fixed price. A schooner answering to the general description of the overdue Awanui v(aß seen toy the American schooner Elk* on February 12, east of Norfolk Island. Hon. G. W. Ruasell cays that mild cases of influenza throughout the Do« minion are steadily increasing in. numbers, and the matter-requires the doee»ft attention.. ...... The .Auckland . University College Council hae decided...to co-operate in the Senate's scheme for collecting data ol all University needs for presentation te the Government. A Dunedin paper warns soldiers eeek« ing land to make all' agreements for purchase subject to the approval of the Land Board being obtained, otherwise their deposits may jbe forfeited to the vendors.