TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

; -New /caland Cup today. ! Suez mail due to-morrow. J Auckland and Christohureh races. ttea/l Krod M. Whiter "A Fatal J)o=r." Sir John Ivognu Campbell's 88th birthday. ■ VPbst-Breseian Company changes its l'lograinnio 10-iii«ht. Mr. George Herring, the well-kuowff philanthropihl, is dead. Tliere. is no intention of publishing the War. Office report on tho Chicago 'meat yards. Auckland (..'arrison Band gives a performance cm Mouut Eden to-morrow at •I IMB. Ail English mail, via {-Hiez. is due to arrive hero from .Sydney per Victoria tomorrow. Marion Edwards, the male personator, has been acquitted on the charge of housibreaking. The president of the Russian Working Men's Council and 14 colleagues havo been, exiled to Siberia. The Federal Postmaster-General contemplates the introduction of farmers' telephones at a shilling a week each. -Moderates are making great gains in the .English Municipal elections, and labour candidates are suffering many reverses. Three miniature geysers broke out in the Maori settlement at Whukarevarcwa last night, and caused llie native residents much concern. Germany will have to make an annual gTant of H millions to South-West Africa for ten years, besides the cost of extending the railways. Revelations have been made showing that LDr. Lenhartz. director of a Hamburg hospital, has been selling bodies of patients to various medical colleges. Christcliiireh Chamber of Commerce entertained a number of oversea suicl other distinguished guests last night* including the British and Canadian Commissioners. Of the Preobrajensky Guards, who were recently sent from Petorhotf owing to active revolutionary sympathies, 155 men have been more or lose severely punished. Mr. Bent has informed a deputation from the National Council of Women that there is no chance of a Woman's Suffrage Bill being introduced in the Victorian Parliament this session. Evidence given at the enquiry last week concerning the fire at the office of. the "Chinese Herald," Sydney, showed that there ' wore several separate fires, and that kerosene had been used. TK~ O~.J "IT '1 i-i__ • •

The Sydney Railway Commissioner RJiv they regret that the circumstances attending Lawton'a dismissal from tho tramway service were of such a character that they cannot reinstate hini in tho service.

A scene among the Irish members oE the House ol Commons followed on v. Unionist statement that '"under tho Land league's baneful tyranny, the living were refused the necessaries of life and the dead were denied cotlirtf."

Mr. T. 11, lieeee, Canadian Commissioners to the Exhibition, in a line patriotic; speech, referred to the dangers irt the growth of the United fc!ta,tes, nnd said that it would be a, sad ilay for tho Motherland should she lose one foot of her colonial possessions.

A Jady uttenciing a aucctiitg of the Tariff Reform Association in Kngland displayed much interest in what she had heard. "Yes." she ssiitl, rising at the end of the discussion, "I .s'h-.UI certainly join the league, for at all the hotels 1 have; over stayed, at the tariff was positively extortionate!"

' .Ex lndracferi: Second shipment of Moriey's hosiery and Dent's gloves, largest Va'fiety and best value we have ever shown. See window at McCullagh and Gower's.—(Ad.)

Another novelty. Even striped millinery ribbons, black and navy aud white, sky and white, and other colours, 1/4 yard. John Court, Ltd., Queeastreet— (Ad.)