TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Bolsheviks have capture, the greater portion of the Ukraine. The prohibition of the import and export of unset diamonds is revoked. The peace terms will prevent the surreptitious training oi a largo German army. The French have occupied Karlsruhe and Mannlieim as a result of Spartaciat outbreaks. Luxemburg has expressed its unshakable determination to maintain its independence. Mr. A. Harris, M.P., last night declined nomination for the Takapuna mayoralty. The Polish Government has decided to mobilise five classes of recruits to check Bolshevism. A steamer is to be sent from Samoa to Niue to search for the missing schooner Awanui. The transport Athenie, with part of a returning draft, is due from Wellington to-morrow morning. To-day is the anniversary of the opening of the great German offensive in France last year. Mr. Lloyd George says that legislation will be introduced without delay to nationalise the railways. The local hemp exporters' position is still very unsatisfactory, owing to high freights and lack of shipping space. The City Council has decided to carry out a programme of drainage improvements recommended by the City Engineer. The new children's playground in Victoria Park, given to the city by Mr. John Court, will be opened next Wednesday afternoon. Permission is sought from the City Council for alterations to the Victoria Arcade, and if necessary, for the closing of the arcade proper. Hindenburg defends the ex-Kaiser's flight, and says that it was due to the weakening of the army by the spread ol revolutionary opinions. Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald says that he has no official information of the Board of Trade's proposal for a subsidy of £2 17/8 a ton on flour. There is reported to be a strong revulsion of feeling in Berlin against the ruthlessness of the Government troop. in suppressing the revolt. Miss Leggat and Miss Wiggs were appointed to the positions of junior assistants at the Public Library out of a total.of 29 applicants by the City Council last evening. The South Canterbury Hospital Board complains that the Government is not doing its duty to consumptive soldiers by maintaining them in proper sanatoriums till cured. % Miss Mabel Brooks, of Christchurch, has been awarded a gold medal as first prize-winner of the green-room screen contest held in Australia, in which there were 600 competitors. The general Becretary of the -Te*W Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association voices grave dissatisfaction at the allowances -to wives and children of soldiers who volunteered not being made retrospective and appeals to the Press and public to support these demands. Al-ways a choice selection of blouses at Matthews and Andrews', 147, Upper Symonds Steet, opposite Lyric.—(Ad.) "Such nice goods, such low prices," constant remarks at Tudehopa's, Symonds Street. See our special value new dress materials, 4/6, 4/9 yard. (Ad.)