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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 152, 27 June 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Calliope Dock ease continued.. " Kia Ora inquiry resumed coon. ' . yr - 0 --"1 * " The s.s. Wanaka had: exceedingly rouaH passage from Gisborne; °* ron sa Considerable damage Vas 'done by ±he • gale in several suburbs. ' "fi*aa The Colonial Sugar Company decided' to increase its capital by £300 000. The total debt of London, 'according to the la;test figures, is- £109,928,546. Warship tcommunicaited direcfflv hv wireless telegraphy front Melbourne ■:-tl Sydney. " • <* London Music Halls.' have received a warning -with regard tp liyiog statoatY exhibitions. ' * An English" mail, via Suez, is-due td arrive here, per Victoria, from Sydnej on Sunday next. '• » ■ $ Parliamentary party had a pleasant* and successful trip to' Weffington' vi£ the Main Trunk line. • *i£v H.M.S. Encounter has been -ordered to leave New Zealand in connection,"-witt the stranding of the Pjramus. , ' ".; Relief is felt in London at 1 the with", drawal of the proposed issue of Transvaal stock during the current financial year. At Gunning (2T.5.W.) Theo Noble 10. narrowly escaped death by poisoning, i Hβ took a quantity of iodine by-mistake-ioc cough mixture. Mi. A. R. Latraelle, who was gaining colonial experience on Chsrlton" station! near Brewarrina (N.S.W.), was dashel against a tree while riding., a few dava ago, and killed. '-•-.? The Australian mail syndicate has agreed to give the further £20-000 bond conditionally on the .Victorian' Government's guarantee. : ■ ."■ ■" Sir Joseph Ward spoke strongly, against local navies at the cost- ; of the withdrawal of the -fleet to Singapore or; some eastern station. Ten bombs, thrown in successionin tha heart of Tifiis, in Russian Caucasia, killed many, destroyed much property, .and ' caused a terrible panic. ; i Semi-official "Kiel Gazette'*,.urges a ' German alliance with Japan, and' .emphasises, the increasing cordiality, '• of, relations with Great Britain..'., ..'■■-..' ■] ■,- A rat which had become sayage-througa losing its way back 'to ite haunt, sprang • at a man in a street at Credrton (Devonp Several people came to the man's assistance, and the rat was;killed. ••■•..,•; ; ) Sir Joseph Ward said that when his hearers'read the Governor's, speech they, would find in it one item that would be a matter of very great plea.sure,-t6-everj political class in New Zealand. ■ ■ . f Major-General Baden-Powell, addressing the Sheffield Boys' Brigade, "urged the boys to do their duty in the small.affair 3 of life until it became a. habit. It would then be no bother to them to.be killed, In giving an assurance as to the> Go-' vernment's resolve to push through Welsh Disestablishment, Mr- Lloy4 George referred to the possibility; thai Pope 'has fefSsedTvt.6 "sanction thi expenditure of £5000 in restoring a fall* ing wall in the Vatican grounds, which! ■threatens to destroy what'is consideredi to be the finest example o£ aJJenaassanca garden in existence.-. .';...' ' On May 8, when Johann von"H«ttlin<t gen, son of Constantin yon- HettDngen;Prefect of Schwytz,- near Geneva, was searching for a -hunting'dog which had ■been lost on the Mythen, he fell';oven* precipice, and was 'killedThe King's message through Sir JosepU Ward to the colony inter alia expresses His Majesty's deep interest in the wetfare of New Zealand, and the pleaiurei it gave him to see the rapid strides News Zealand, was making industrially and. socially. • ' \ '..."',; : A doctor who evidence-afc ah Inquest at Warning Camp, Sussex, said; b« remonstrated with a mother for ,: mipiy> perly feeding her infant with bjscoits, and she replied: "Well, doctor, I: , ought to know; I have had thirteen-ciildreni and buried eight." . ..-..'. The managing director of a cab com-' j. pany, w-hich owns 1300. horses, mentioned in a London County Court .recently'that'' the average life of a London ■cab hiiraer was six years. Some lasted- only three: " months, he said, while goodt. after twelve years' service. ■ Trades and Labour Council condemned the practice of selecting coroner's juiors , from a certain number of men who habitually themselves in the way of obtaining summonses and recernnj" the. emoluments. A protest was-aenfc to the Minister for Justice. • . ". ■.■'<• Driver Jas. Guest, of Petexboroagb; '■'% who has just retired from the sereice of Great Northern Railway Company, in England, has not only travelled 2,132,700' • miles (exclusive of six years dtirmgrarhich he acted as fireman),, but also nevEr'sus•tained an injury during his half-cen-tury's work. . The wife of a Manchester barber's--as-sistant has gained a separation ordet on the ground that since her husband! had been a pupil of a teacher of physical culture, he had persistently practised Ju-Jitsu upon her, twisting her arms, and otherwise maltreating her so severely that her screams brought neighbours to the rescue.