TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 197, 19 August 1907, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

t Vancouver mail due to-night. Suez mail by the Mokoia. Disarmament proposals—resolution at The-Hague. Apparently a fresh fight is impending •at Casablanca. There is a, general exodus of Europeans from Morocco. Officials or soldiers found smoking m China are to be beheaded. New Zealand Professionals beat New South Wales by 12 points to 8. At football on Saturday Auckland defeated Goldfields by 32 points to 5. There was another violent scene at Saturday's lacrosse match in Adelaide. For 700 vacancies in the Victorian railway service there were 5000 applications. To-day is the 78th anniversary of the birth of the Emperor Francis Joseph of 1 Only 5000 people remain at Casablanca normally a town of nearly double thai population. The Currie steamer Fortunatus has been sighted ablaze and deserted on tha track from Colombo to Fremantle. A plumber discovered the bodies of , four infants under a plug in the sewer at Park-road, Paddington, Sydney, last week. The number of births in Victoria last ! year was 30,844, and the excess of births over deaths was to 12.72 pcs 1000 of the population. It is estimated for the benefit of New South Wales exhibitors that twelve million visits will be paid to the FrancoBritish exhibition in London. Sir C. Fry expressed at The Hague Conference Great Britain's readiness to communicat.2 with the other Powers annually in regard to matters of armament. Mrs Maker was seriously injured through the blowing down of her house at Sawyer's Point, near Raymond Terrace, Sydney, during a heavy gale. Mr E. R White, of Denman (N.S.W.)' lost seven bullocks through eating wild onion. Sixty others in a travelling mob were suffering from supposed poisoning. A gigantic steel bridge, over a mile long and 300 feet high, across the Belly River at Lethbridge, is about to be constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway. I At Broken Hill (N.S.W.), A. E. A Tylor. who was about to be arrested on a charge of assaulting his wife, shot himself with a pea rifle, and died soon afterwards. Fifty thousand North of England •boiler-makers have received a week's notice to leave work owing to the employers' Federation's grievance against their union. Asked for a grant of £ 200 towards an operating theatre at Grenfell Hospital, the New South Wales Premier said he would make no promises during election time. The subscriptions in aid of the widow and orphans of Alfred Burns, the carter who lost his life in Sydney recently, while rescuing his child from a lift, at latest total £859. Hague Conference adopted.by accla_n_» iion tte academic Tesbltition, of \ _89&;-_E«<««s« i *« pressing the desirability of limiting arina-.. ments, and made ah addition in favour of - resuming the serious sluuy of the tion.The Mayor of Perth, W. A., said last week that he thought the tariff would mean ruin pretty generally to West Australia. The man in business in a mode* rate way will be wiped out. - The weekly return of the Mt. Eden Gaol shows that the total number of prisoners on Saturday was 217 men and 24 women, of whom 25 men and 4 women . were received during the week. ' Sir H. Carnpbell-Bannerman indicated that if hasty partisan action were taken by the House of Lords with regard to the English Small Holdings Bill, great indeed would be their responsibility. Mr. Botha .has proposed the presentation to King Edward of the Cullinan cua* mond, worth one million sterling, as a token x>f loyalty, and to commemorate the granting of responsible government. This is opposed, on economic grounds, by tha « Progressive party. Mr G. H. Reid alluded in the Crick case before the New South Wales Full Court to the evidence, elsewhere, of a "blackmailer," mentioning the name of the late Mr Peter Close. Mr Justica Simpson remonstrated with Mr Reid for saying anything for which he (h_T Honor) did not think there was any justification. Mr Reid replied that he could not consider whether a man was dead or alive, when he was fighting the casa of his client.