TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Annual Sale.—Skeates Bros., JewelleipS English mail delivered. 5; Tramway service resumed. V ZeaJandia leaving for Sydney. Victoria, from Sydney-, arrived. Harbour Board won the Calliope Dodali

America and Japan—an increasing danger. .

Mr. Julius Knight and Company t» "Raffles" to-night. *

The linglish mail which arrived yester-* day bears date May 24.

Costs in the Calliope Dock case aie* estimated at over £2300. Peter Close, of New South Wales laml trials celebrity, has died in Sydney. London newspapers express great plea-» sure over New Zealand's neV status. Later news shows that the sco-a; Tramp had a terrible experience in thq g-ale.

The strength of the Duke of Devonshire, whose health, has lately been causing anxiety, is returning. F. b. Edge, the well-known motorist, kept up an average speed of U6 miles an hour on the track for 24 hours.

There was much rejoicing this morning over the resumption oi the running of the trams—more, said one witness. John Waterman, a fruiterer, was run over by a train at Glanville station, (A(k'Jaide) yesterday week, and. killed. A goose belonging to a Long Island farmer has hatched two (goslings from a single egg, says a New York paper. The "New York Herald" and "Thet Call" (San Francisco) are agitating foij the strengthening of America in the Pa* cific.

The Sydney lumpers claim that a. sixpenny telegram from the executive woultl now be sufficient to paralyse all Austra-. lian trade.

One American paper refers to thef " treasonable nonsense" of keeping •ai ■weak force in the Pacific to- spare Jap™ anese susceptibilities.

The captain of the Tramp was lashed to the wheel in order to attempt, to beach, the vessel, which he was event* ually able to do at Parkhurst.

Two prisoners, John Delaney and Ralph Gibbons, who escaped from thai Hokitika gaol on the 25th ult., were recaptured at Coalgate on Saturday; night. ' .

■*. West . Tamaki carpenter, named eitht-r Bertraiu or John Ferguson committed suicide on Saturday night by; talcing rat poison. Ec had been in hai health.

Miss Marie Hall, the violinist, who has just concluded a brilliant tour of Australia, is a passenger by the Hud-dart-Parker steamer Wimmera, whichi left to-day for Kew Zealand.

The weekly return of the Mount EdeiJr Gaol shows that the total number of prisoners on Saturday waa 209.men -and 22 women, of whoni 18 men and one woman were received during the week. Drummer Sandwell, of the 2nd (Queen's) Own) Royal West Kent Regiment, rail amock in the barracks at Singapore, on May 15, killed Corporal Hurley- ahdl wounded.another man with a bayonet.

' 'Lord Lansdowne said that Sir Ht Campbell-Bannerman's proposal as: to the ■■EbiSir'wofiKl pivt-ili?..Hqus£ of :ot?nnn.on* ah.l the people under "the heel 'ofgovernment, no matter'for- what purpose elected. ... :.

A crowd of sympathisers with cattle* removing prisoners at Parsonstown! (Ireland) stoned an escort of 155 pc*i lice, who were obliged to.charge. The injured numbered 26, including six policemen. .;:„

An inquest was held to-day on.-a! Mercer flax-mill hand, named David: Adams, who accidentally shot himself through a main artery ion Sunday morning. He died on the way by train te, Auckland.

It is expected that the between the Federal Government and the Australian Mail Syndicate-will be cartcelled forthwith and an interim service! substituted.

Ac a fire at a Mohtinartre factory-enori mots damage was done through! "Apaches," or Paris hooligans, cutting the fire hose, and rendering the effort? of the firemen abortive. -A gendarme was stabbed.

A youth named Pellegrino, drawn at the annual levy of army conscripts afc Cuneo, Italy, is less than three feet tall, -while his cousin Ugo, the same age, stands seven feet seven and' a-half inches, in his socks-

An increasing serious situation is likely tc arise between America and Japan owing to the action of the San Francisco Police Commissioners in refusing renewals of permits to Japanese registry offices, and thus cutting off a large number 08 Japanese from domestic service. :

There was much enthusiasm, afc Port Chalmers on. Satuidav over the knigjiix ing .of Mr. Mills. The Queen's Driv» Boating Club has. cabled congratulations to its president, and numerous other congratulatory messages navel been despatched from Dunedin. _ > _ . As the Empress Marie was driving ia : St. Petersburg, .on May 13, a child was knocked down by her carriage. She ordered the co-achman to stop, alighted,; and herself picked up the child. The; Empress gave instructions that everyj attention should be paid to the child, who was taken to the hospital, where it was ascertained that no injuries had I been sustained.