TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

♦ iSiews of the Siberian strikes ia being suppressed. Mr Leon Roche's concert at Alexandra Park ( to-night. Mr R. Hobbs has resigned from tias Board of Education. Procurator of the Finnish Senate has been assassinated. Legal proceedings in. the CDonoghua case have bum dropped. Yesterday's was the last meeting of the present Harbour Board. lively scene at the meeting of the. Greytown Borough Council. The entry of-new pupils at the Auckland Grammar School this afternoon ia 174. A boy was terribly injured on the Wellington tramways yesterday afternoon. Russian attack on the Chiataizu has given place to 1 a retirement northwards. Lord Rothschild is negotiating for the establishment of Jewish colonies ia British 2-Jbrth America. It now appears that Roshdeatvensky'a fleet fired upon the yacht of the Kinj of Greece in the North Sea. The English mail via Suez, which left here on December 25, arrived in London on the afternoon of the sth inst. The Board of Education has decided to establish a training college for teachers at the Wellesley-street ScheioL The codlin moth is doing great destruction in Ashburton orchards, writes a correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times." Marine Department's criticisms of" the harbour improvement plana were dealt with, at the Harbour Board meeting yesterday. _, A letter found by the Czar in his study informed him of a plot of 12 men to assassinate him owing to the recent massacre. The Otago Presbytery has placed on record its gratification that the sale of liquor in the Cook Islands has been prohibited by the Licensing Act. Efforts are being made to arrange for ' an excursion of the Christchurch Automobile Association shortly in honour of His Eseellencv the Governor and Lady Plunket. A proposal which has been submitted to the City Council by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company for the erection of abattoirs is to be considered by the Streets Committee to-morrow night. " y Napier people are agitating for greater prominence being given to. the tourist' route to the North via Taupo, aad the matter is under the consideration of the Minister in charge of the Tourist Department. Certain remarks made at a funeral by the Presbyterian missioner at Waipu, which gave considerable offence to the relatives of the deceased, were dealt with at a meeting of-the Presbytery last night. At Ashburton on Thursday one of a. Lyttelton school picnic party, named '~W. Ager, while bathing in? the Domain swimming baths,, got.out of-his'.depth* but was rescued by an Ashburton boy' named Wynacott. • Opinion of the Wellington electric tramway service expressed by a lady visitor i„ the Tourist Department's visitor's book: "Tram service excellent, the only drawback being, in'fine weather you can never go where _you want to, and ia wet weather you. <ca3r never get in." The copies of the ''New Zealand Graphic " recently placed on the table oi the Ladies' Department of the Christchnreh Public Library have all been stolen. Other magazines and papers have been missed, and several illustrated periodicals have been shamefully mutilated (says a Christchurch. paper).