TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 259, 6 November 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Mutiny of 300 stokers at Portsmouth narrowly averted. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., left estate valued at £227,114 gross. Sir Wilfrid Laurier gave Japan a hint at the desirability of reciprocal trade. There are 524 passngers from England ill the Athenic, due at Wellington today. Encounter between French troops and Moors ended in severe losses on both sides. The South Australian Government now has an absolute majority at the polls. French deputies are discussing a bill for the abolition of the punishment of death. Ten million Chinese are on the brink of starvation in the province of North Kiang-su. The French bishops have ordered the, clergy to refuse to form Public Worship Associations. Rioting at the Galway by-election led to a series of charges by the polieu with drawn batons. A sixpenny piece was recently found in the yolk of an egg by an inmate of the Essex and Colchester Hospital. ■ Bleak wintry conditions prevail in New South Wales, and snow and hail storms occurred yesterday on the highlands. Mrs Ayrton, the eminent physicist, has received the Hughes' medal of th-j Royal Society for her electrical researches. Mr Keir Hardie said that the refusal of Parliament to discuss Socialism would lead to an armed revolution and general strikes. German Professor Burgess caused great indignation by his description of Monroeism, in the presence of the Kaiser, as "antiquated and senseless." The colonies will be invited to send representatives to an Imperial Conference on education in 1!)07. held to promote schemes of reciprocal education. Guy Fawkes night passed off without any bad mishap, although the fire brigade found it necessary to put out the flames envelopinb some trees in Selwyn Terrace. Some of the Dreadnought's quick-firers at certain elevations'obstruct the range of the 12-inchers. They will have to be removed or receive disappearing mountings. In the Willis case at one of last week's hearings Mr. Justice Pring censured counsel for the defence for laughing, and said he would deal with the next offender for contempt of Court. Mr J. Ramsay Mac Donald, interviewed by a Christchurch "Press" representative, expressed incredulity as- to tho full measure of the alleged route of the Socialists at the English Municipal elections. Herr Bassermann, the German National Liberal Leader, regards King Edward as pursuing "with • iron • persistency" a policy to promote Great Britain's greatness and to secure the isolation of Germany..*- ;,;.,' ......,.. yi . ....,.....,,.,,..,•>, . . Mr. K. W. Bligh spent yesterday at Onehunga. He had very successful meetings. The young men in the evening thoroughly endorsed his message. Mr. Bligh will speak at Newmarket to-night, in the Public Hall. Sarah Robinson, widow, was awarded £300 by a Wellington jury yesterday for the loss of her husband from heart disease alleged to have been brought on by attending to the fires on the Rotoiti between Nelson and Wellington. For the Holiday.—The new "Helmet" hat, trimmed and untrimmed, in different straws. Showing for the first time by Milne and Choyce, Ltd.— (Ad.) Smith and Caughey, Ltd., have much pleasure in announcing that Madame Kenny, the famous expert corset fitter, will be in attendance daily in their ftt-ung-room, to demonstrate and fit La Villa and W.B. corsets, from to-morrow Tuesday), 6th inst., till following Saturday, 10th inst.—(Ad.) This week, open all day Wednesday. Just opened, 98 pieces of grey dress materials, 1/1 li and 2/6 per yard, much under regular value. Bradstreet, Karan-gahape-road. — (Ad.) This week, open all day Wednesday. Ladies blouses just opened, hundreds to choose from. J. A. Bradstreet, Karan-gahape-road.— (Ad.)