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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fire on steamer Muritai. Criminal sessions resumed. Japs six miles beyond Hun River. Strikes in Poland are still spreading. Sanguinary fighting at Radonij itSf Poland. 3 I Six thousand reservists mutinied a£ Peterhof. Seven hundred arrests have been made; in Warsaw. Te Awaite murder trial is expected! to last a week. The Czar has put forward several in-i dustrial reforms. Grand Jury returned "No bill" in tb.o Mercer murder charge, pondents say that he is seriously com-< promised in Court circles. What appears to be a general strike of miners in Belgium has begun. Sonoma with English mails left 'Friscor 4 a.m. on the 3rd, 14 hours late. Mr Lockhart, the Standard Oil magnate, has left a fortune of thirtfy millions. Manslaughter charge against Dr. Col-< lins was thrown out by the Grand Jury. The Japanese are pressing upon tho ranks of the enemy across the Hun!.. RiveT. One hundred thousand strikers afl Sosnonice, in Poland, are all well" armed. , Fifteen head of cattle, two horses and four and a-half tons of flax destroyed.bjj fire on steamer Muritai. A severe conflict took place between soldiers and civilians at the burial of victims at Lodz, in Poland. While the German Colonel Gadke, says that Kuropatkirff ought to be recalled, the French corresRehearsals for the second work of the season, Sullivan's "Martyr of Antioch," will be resumed by the Choral SocietJ on Tuesday next. Mr Arthur Lee's speecli upon the navy has irritated the German press owing to its references to the possibilities o§ conflict in the- North S«a. The Anglican churches throughout; New South Wales last week commemorated the 117 th anniversary of the first; divine service held in Australia. While cycling at Gundagai (NJ3.W.), "Lieutenant" Jones, of the Salvation Army, collided with another cyclist, and received injuries from which be has since died. Protestant congregations at Christchurch protested against the running of excursion trains in connection with the opening of the Roman Catholic Cathe* dral. An Adelaide resident named William! James Kilworth -committed suicide by, tying a piece of string to a gun trigger; and discharging the weapon with baa foot. A leading Sydney undertaker argues that because the Jews never bury their) dead on the Sabbath the Gentiles should follow suit, and so lessen the hours of undertakers. Moscow nobles disagreed as to reform* and eventually sent to the Czar a majority address expressing reliance on Hil Majesty, and a minority address in fay*' your of representation. "We would all be..-better for afc good bath."—A new aspect of the ba«is question as it struck tbe Mayor, of! Gisborne at a recent meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council. At a special meeting of the Whangarei Borough Council it was resolved, on the motion of the Mayor, to abolish the wards after April. Wards were •es," tablishcd in Wliarigarei in 1899. , j The number of prohibition orders lhV force in Masterton at present is Said tot constitute a record, being no less than 40* The whole of the orders, with one or twtf exceptions, have been issued by the consent of the parties concerned. The report of the New South Waled Railway Commissioners on the tender for locomotive building in the State indicated that the gain by buying on tho open market would allow of a bonus of £400 for each of the men who would. be employed on the works. , In conversation with a representa* tive of the Christchureh "Press," Sirs Joseph Ward stated that the mewl double express service had been a great success.' i The Government will eventually take over the jC&terijigl aft the refreshment cars, and it is ltate^?that ; a dinner similar to the meal now served' on the Auckland-Rotorua line wfH then be, provided. .