TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 195, 16 August 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

;• Constance;Craig /wrecked. .... ■■■:, ..Bomb outrage in Ireland. .. .;._ Barg-je!s disastrous collision. \./■.. ; * ... The;lngeb9?S- sun ' c "^ :?even lives lost.; _ ■:• -Russo-Japanese treaty has been'signed. '■. Attempted assassination of' librd;Ash.----town'.-:::-'■'..■— . - . " •' Thirty- thousand Belfast workers are .: now-idle. ■.-.'" '" '•■' :"'■'.: ." "7" ? /.Meeting .of .King and Kaiser was-.-exr-. . trenieiy ■ cordial. - All -Belfast flax-spinners have ■ given a fortnight's-: notice: - ■-.•—-:- -.-"-' --.__ : Raisiili.. now threatens the <leportatiori of-SirHaiTy-Macliean-to-a ■•—.-.. . Aicoriference for of the "is proceeding at' . , . Parliament adjourned half an hour earlier" in order 'to'- welcome the sculler Webb:- •■.■'.•.• -'■-■ ■'-. '-'■'-■ :::-.-,:. "V^rDeceaseTTSnfe's Sister Bill .passed through' all.. fts stages": "in. the House; of CbmmonsT" ,"•'"."' .' '"."""'•. .'/...-. , ; Embezzlements'amoiinting to £1,700,- :, QoO_.ha.ve~.:been discovered"in'thfe working of.the'Siberian, railway. . ■ ." .r; j reported in..Melbourne .that t&e position ■of Federal High .Commissioner .- ■;- iS-Logdon will be. offered.rirp MrrG, Hi - , Keid.~: ■"" ; . - ' '• • .v • -Russo-Japanese treaiy. provides -for. : the'-inaintenance of the Chinese status . : quo, and.' the - principle., of -.equality. ■;of ; ; _ .:. . ...'..j.. '; ■An' American Government-representa-tive in Europe is endeavouring to arrange anjnternational-conference to deal with food adulteration. - -The--barqufr'-ingeboig, fr'oin Wellington for Newcastle, came in-collision with, the ~ •> -steamer Arawatta, and sanlc. . Z l ': Seven of .her grew are missing. " Frank llaher reported to- the ■Bath-" urst (NS-JV-l police last week that two . . shots. _were; fired at him while crossing,? a bridge .near-Evans Plains:: _' .' ...-.-' . .Ail' inquest js proceeding a? to the .'■'•'. =-. death: of; John Cockburtt Owen- Bassett, . .found dead, in a Hobsqn-street ftoardinghouse under circumstances ■pointing to suicide by. poisoning. ' . ■ . :.. _ ■ At .a hare, arid fox drive: at Dervrris Island, 12 miles: 'irom. .Bathurst (NIS.W.), 181:. animals, including; two; foxes;'were shot.... Out of 27 "shooters, Mr. "Arthur. ■Wilson-top : scored::.with 17...": ... .. The- , ■thVee-year-bld "daughter "6i Ccnstalle Murphy,.-of" Junee , (SBSiSEij-dfedi from the effects, of injuries caused by " I)er : 'clothes catching ftre ■while she.was playing with .matches. _ lXx-1 There are indications that the~'Ash■town- .bomb- outrage was', planned with great tleliberationr -shattered ladder- •.: indicated an attempfty'jto reach.■' Lord • . Ashtown's bedroom.' .-•■--■ .--.... As-a;resulfr of applying a.lighted match, -toa leak- in a- gas pipe at Wellington, a , Chinaman and. two Europeans, had. their iac.es--"6urned.; The force ..of the explo-* : ' siojj. shattered thewindpws iiuthe.ishop. Pajrnerston. v Chamber of Commerce appointed a, deputation,: ' in.. conjunction with.a deputation of M.H.R.'s, toi wait . . upon the Premier,, urging- the > Govern-- : ■ • trient's takiiig over the Manawatu. Tail- . way- : . ," :...-" _ The bqmbj which i»as plaeejj.'.pn.' the dr^wingarpo;^.:.■ window : at. IJorS. ;-Ash- ~ '» town's shooting seat, completely- "wrecked :i6hat ; , rppm,-.'aiid gravely imperilled, -his , ■ iprdshipj/sleepitig ~ ■ ; the notorious New York ' :J.?;>Vyer r -who . figured in : the THaw case, all appeals -against his conviction for. perjury, gave a. "goingdinner" to his friends in ivew York-, recently, on. the eve of-his cPmroitment to • ,' - - ,~J?°. nfe ?S n g fliat he ■ had put a heavy -plank 10ft long on the Great,-Eastern Railway near Station-road Bridge, and i , . "nearly, wrecked a train,", a boy of 11 ■■■ naified .Ere'denck'Cuthbsrt -Bennett, was '? afc-,Wood ■ Green.strokes of,, the birch ".L. -. i ...... - '". ■ • '-i - ; - - "action oWhe_House!if,Lords,;in ,• adjourning;; theSebate on the '- ;reading of the Scottish Small Holdings -' .Bill; the H;ous"e shpiila have.iconsid- i, ered"the English Bill, drew a.vehement .protest/.from'. .against-j/'thi'a .-^ linprecedented treatment of a" Govera- )'• ■m'eht ineasufe." . : ; -, . ,';":,:; A commercial traveller, who, r6de on- - V 'hofseb'ack ± rbin Port Awanui to: Gss-' : '-i-.-'' borne; states, that. the , is : --\ in a.feaTful state. For the greater.-part .V-". of .the;journey the mud was .up.'to ih> .hole's,girth, and in. some places, it waa' - v',V. % ; f °¥S.4.:*9. safest to .leave the road' a . l *^B«* li ?? : ' a ° d travel"along-paddocks. "' - ; Saler-nowon. Maids' long-cloaks,ire- "' duced to 3/11 and 4/11 eaeh'. "Qne'quaf-. ;:, ter regular. prices. ■ See window. %- A.•' ' ' Bradstreet," draper, KarangaSape-Toad^ (Ad:),."..: ~';.;;■' ''.' '■'; -. - - It . • - :v q;.^-' ■. ■