TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■I ■ _ ' A.' Harbour Boaj-d met to-day. Farndale. alleged murder c%se resumed t Supreme Court. ..' .'.'" .V:"'..... . . Russian troops are concentrating on he Balkan frontier! ~ Busk-fires still cause trouble' ttaoughut the North Island. The Dominion Fair was opened "by Carlinal Itoran. last night. .. ." Sir Henry Campbell-Bannennan is navr naking good progress towards recovery. The Charitable "Aid Board has overr pent its £ 25,000 loan to the extent of £1750. ■ .■■ •"" A war in the Near East is regarded is an ultimate certainty, if Austria perists in her policy. • ■ •*■ - - Mn- Keir Hardie-,-M.Pv.--was^-mobbed it Johannesburg station, and pelted with ;ggs,"tomatoes .arid stones. " ■ ■"" "."'-■ j English newspapers -condemn 4hc iru;al tactics on "botli side" in the New Zeaand Professionals' match at Cheltenham, "Times" (London) published a column and a-half received "by wireless telegraphy from its New-Xork"correspondent. The proposed cricket match between " hbrdeJSZii£'~the Hunfcei Shield, and.the rest'of New-Zealand, has jeen abandoned". ~"" The Indian frontier expedition has completely surrounded the tribesmen' at the loss of one Highlander killed, and one gunner wounded. The death has occurred of John Camp? beir White, first Lord Qvertoun, the'wellknown chemical manufacturer, in his 65th year". He .leaves no. heir.. Clairvoyant's suggestion to look under, the tombstones:in two churchyards in Ireland failed 7 to 1 lead -to* the finding of the Dublin Castle Crown jewels. The Charitable Aid Board has decided to maintain the buildings' originally erected on the Domain-during th<j plague scare, as an auxiliary typhoid ward when no longer, required for' infectious Siftease. ■... .■;.■'_.. ..'',.-.'..-. ~:.V\~.z~-'.~.'' The Premier sfe-ted, in. r,eply to a. Hamilton . deputation that .the .utilisation :.of water power to provide electric power, for the railways was too:costly, but that regulations would be framed to...permit its use'lor other .purposes-by private enr terprise, under certain.conditions. ...