TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fresh naval riot at Portsmouth. Poseidon won the Melbourne Cup. City Band performs in the Albert Pars to-night. Willis, Hoskiugs and McNair were acquitted on the land conspiracy charges. Some 200 vehicles followed the body of Mr. Kirkbride from ihuruata to MaDgerc. . Local soap prices are rising in sympathy with the movements of the English combiner. French Konian Catholics are forming Public Worship Associations despite the Papal interdict. Lord Crewc declared that the House of Lords was battering the Education Bill out of recognition. W. S. Aickin, charged with sending threatening letters to the Premier, waa committed for trial. French Government contemplates a progressive income tax, taxation of capital and other democratic measures. French Government, says M. Clemen* ccau, will maintain a dignilied peace, and maintain and develop alliances. . The Earl of Levin and Melville, who was the sixth millionaire to die in England in five months, left £1.300,000. The English mail, via Sue, which left hero o;-. 24th September, arrived in London on the night of the 2nd inst. Of "the 25 workers' homes erected by the Government at Petonc. nine liave been taken, and others have been applied for. The Sierra, with outward English, instils, which left here on October 10th, arrived in 'Frisco at v a.m. on the Olh inst. A miniature rifle range lias been established for railway and tramway men at the old goods shed on the Sydney station. There have boon 4000 lynekinse in Ilia and ;>.» "p'er"""eent"St the "ic-tirn** " negroes. XMional .l--i-<x- Cburcll Counc-il n^ri-t-d that the House of Lords' uincnclninit.? t<? the Education Bill had stultitiod tho nation's verdict. Mr. Hughes, the Republican candidate, is expected to be an easy vicLoi* at the New York election. Corrupt prat-ticca are widespread. According to a return just issued, the population of Xcw South Wales on September 30 last totalled 1,524,580, males numbering 810,850 and females 713,730* A proposal to forbid newspaper artists to draw sketches in court has been tliscussed by London ' jjoliee magistrates, but no immediate action is contemplated. A purer form of methylated .spirit, called "industrial alcohol," is now legal, in great Britain, and its use will enable many British industries to be conducted profitably. All the Eussian forces in Northern Manchuria have now been withdrawn in accordance with the 'Russo-Japanese treaty, with the exception of the railway guards. Towards electing a member of the teaching profession lα. represent flic Educational Institute of Scotland in the Hou.se of Commons..ifc-iuncl .of ,Ji2ooo is being raised. A tender has been accepted fur the erection of the new Dunedin Art Gallery, the price being £5753. The i'oiuida-tion-stone will probably be laid at the end of the present month.

-The Portsmouth stokers broke out in. a fresh riot, smashed officers windows, -assaulted eilieers and police, and wrought other mischief before, they were arrested by armed detachments. - National- -Telephone -subscribers in L/ondcui can now telephone messages of thirty words (including address) 1o a Metropolitan -post-ooffice delivery within a mile as a telegram at a charge of 3d. The headquarters &i -the Y.M.C'.A. in London are being moved from Exeter Hall to 13 Russell Square, formerly the residence of Sir George Williams;, ihe founder. The. house, is the gift of. the Williams family. Only £ m,OOO was offered when Lundyi Island (1,047 acres), oil the Devonshire coast, was put up at auction,, and the property was •\vllhclrawn. The auctioneer urged in vain the advantages of the island as regards freedom from rates, intrusion and motor-dust. - The Portsmouth stokers' mutiny was due to the irritation caused by a martinet oflieer, who finally made the front rank kneel to enable him to see the rear ranks. Commodore Slopford decided to take no action against the men. ,Tlic Leader of the Opposition, Mr. W. F. Massey, arrived from the vSoutli today, and will confer with the branches of the Political Reform League in the Manukau electorate on the selection of a candidate in the Opposition interest for the seat rendered vacant by the death of Mr. M. M; Kirkbridc. That the Celtic races are particularly prone to niontal..disease is stated in au Irish Government report on insanity. The proportion Qf. the registered insane per 10,000 of the . population was, in 1901, in Ireland 50.2, in Scotland 40.4, and in England and Walos 40.5. As a, cause, intemperance is placed only second, to heredity. With this evening's instalment of Fred M. White's exciting story, ".V Fatnl Dose," a synopsis of earlier chapters is published, so that readers who have not, so far picked up the thread of the novel may satisfactorily do so. It is a romance well worth reading, and we can recommend anyone wlio likes a good novel to avail himself of this opportunity. An interesting account of an official visit on behalf of the Colonial Office to 'Tristan da Cunha has been published as a Blue Book. That crime and immorality are unknown among the seventyseven islanders, representing ei.sjht nationalities, the writer (Lieutenant Toqke) attributes partly to the fact that there is no liquor on the island. A tendency to indolence was the only failing discoverable. This week, open all day to-day. ~Sow offering, ladies' ready-made skirts in endless variety. J. A. Bradstrect, Karan-gahape-road.—(Ad.) I'or the Holiday.—The new '■Helmet" hat, trimmed and nntrimmed, in different straws. Showing for the lirst time by Milne and Choyce, Ltd.— (Ad.) Important.—Ouv assistants are instructed to offer every facility to ladies desirous of inspecting any special line, as owing to limited space it is impossible to display same, without placing our patrons under any obligation to pur* eliaso, A glance will convince you of the value w* give.—MeCullagh and Gower, tengorter B.—-. (A3*) j