TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 72, 25 March 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Thero is no hope of immediate relief for the congestion of the Pacific cable. The transport Ajana, with a draft of 000 arrived in the stream this morning. The Czecho-Slovaks are reported to have dispatched an army against Hungary. The damage by the vVaihi Ore is about f 18,000. The insurances amount to £10,545. A Bolshevik army of 70,000 is reported to have crossed the Dneister and entered Galioia. A middle-aged married woman drowned herself in a bath at Dunedin during a fit of depression. The prospects of a peaceful settlement of the ltritish railway dispute axe considered brighter. The Baylield school was broken into on Sunday and some small sums of money were stolen. The question of indemnities from Germany will be raised in the House of Commons this week. The Onehunga Borough Council has decided to hold another poll on the question of paving the main road. Ten per cent of the New Zealand ;roops in Egypt are to go to England on leave at the Dominion's expense. The Trawling Commission held 26 sittings at Auckland, Thames and Helensvine, and examined 62 witnesses. About 190 Auckland people want telephones and cannot obtain them until the Exchange switchboards are extended. The Egyptian disturbances are lesa serious, and the soberer elements are endeavouring to calm the turbulent section. Tho new Hungarian Government ie openly communistic, and has announced that it will raise a proletariat army to fight the capitalists. General Richardson states that the pay of New Zealand officers in England has been raised according to a new scale, as from April 1, 1918. Sir James Allen and Sir Francis Bell told a combined deputation yesterday that without the sanction of Parliament it was legally impossible to do anything to give disfranchised soldiers the vote. Hon. G. W. Russell stated yesterday that the National Government had no reconstruction policy, and was hampered hy the absence of its leaders in England. Ministers were not even in a position to say what they thought should be done. It is expected that the Blockade of Germany will be lifted in June. The situation in Budapest is critical, and the Government is reported to "be signing a proclamation declaring a state of war between Hungary and the Entente. Auckland watereiders at a stopwork meeting entered strong protests against delay in giving effect to their demands for increased pay and improved working conditions. Special hose bargains, Warren's noted chow rooms, third floor, Strand Arcade; also, coats and blouses. —(Ad.) "Ironbark" flannelette, tougH as its name implies, 2/6 yard. All-<wool blankets, single-bed, special price, 27/6. —■ Tudehope's, Symonds Street. —(Ad.) Get rid of your "cost of living " problem—shop at Tudehope's, Symonds Street. See our special dress materials, 4/6, 4/9 yard.—(Ad.)