TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 256, 2 November 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK .

' ■ I I II I French are building sixteen 398-toji submersibles. Plural Voting Biil passed through com* mittee of the Commons. < South African footballers defeated Glamorganshire by six points to three. The total output oi.gold from the Waiotabi mine amounts vow to £452,----iys 10/9. House of Lords adopted the separate religious teaching amending clause of the Education Bill. Residents of fc't. Helena are indignant over the withdrawal from the island of the British garrison. French patrol, consisting of an officer and CO men, was annihilated in the Sahara by the Senussi tribesmen. A record monthly crushing at the Wuiotahi mine yielded 72800z 14dwt oil melted gold., valued at £20,010 17/. Moderates' chance at the English borough elections is increased by labour's voting independently of the Progressives^ building strike is proceeding. Some 50 of the non federated employers have granted the men's de-* mands. The New Zealand bowlers yesterday morning visited Auldania and Messrs. Penfold's vineyards, and in the afternooa left for Ballarat. William .Stevenson Ait-kin was further remanded for a week in custody on the charge of sending a threatening letter to the Premier. The attendance at the Exhibition ye I ** terday totalled 30,095, or more than 900 above the first day's attendance at the Melbourne Exhibition. The Tasmanian friendly societies arq protesting against the proposal to niulcg them pay the cost of auditing their, books by Government auditors. Notice has been given of the intention of the Government of N.S.W. to pay off two and a-quarter millions of loan money in London in January next. Sir H. Campbell-Baimerman announced, probable legislation next year enabling women to sit as members of County Councils and other local authorities. Newfoundland Government has decided to enforce its own Bait Act, as againat the Anglo-American agreement, pending a decision by the highest Court, The body of the late Pope Leo. XIIL, will shortly be removed from its temporary resting-place to its permanent tomb in the basilica of St. John Lateran. Wellington Customs revenue for the past month was £G4,3G3, against 54,779 for the same month last year. The beer duty figures are £ 1053 and £ 969 respectively. Arrangements by the Oceanic Company will necessitate the laying , up for one month of each of the 'Frisco mailboats, beginning with the Sonoma, which is now at Sydney. "No "contractor who prohibits his work-people from joining their respective trade unions shall be allowed to tender for corporation contracts."—Resolution adopted in Sluekburir* (Engl). Louis Perlstein, who was believed to bo the oldest man in New York, has just died at the age of 112 years. His 2S grandchildren and '2G great-grandchildren were present at his death-bed. ' Mr Winston Churchill stated that the j views of Australia and New Zealand ia I the matter of the New Hebrides conI vention had been ascertained, and their i acquiescence, although reluctantly given, ! had been obtained. ! The treaties officially stated to be contradicted by the Shipping Clause of the Australian Preference Bill, are between Great Britain en the one point, aivt Egypt, Greece, Italy, Japan and Russia, respectively, on the other. The month just past was exceptionally dry in Wellington. Only 70 points oE rain fell, as compared with 0.17 in in the same month last year, and 12.94 in 1904, the heaviest rainfall that has;ever occurred in the city in one month. Dunedin parents have been roused by the recent vaccination circular of the Public Health Department to more vigorous conformity with the Act. Five hundred tubes of lymph have been applied for during the past month. To combat the superstitious prejudice against cremation in Belgium, it.was recently decided to hold the first cremation congress at Charier oi, under the auspices of the Eationalist Federation. The cremation societies of Paris, Lille, and Geneva will attend, and advise as to means for overcoming Belgian antagonism. A louching incident was mentioji?d in Hull at the inquest on a little girl named •Simpson, who lost her life through her nightdress catching fire. While suffering much agony the child exclaimed to her mother, "Don't take mc to the infirmary, or I shall die there. 1 want to go to school, or else I shall lost my prize."