TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fads Monday next. Smith & Caughey. Ltd Takapuna Jockey Club brings its sum-, mer meeting to a close to-day. Cricket championship matches proceeding this afternoon. N.S.W. Premier'is enthusiastic o-boiit Xew Zealand's trout fishing. A culvert on a coal railway at Aberdare, N.S.W., has been dynamited. The Kaikorai (Dunedin) Band iiaa withdrawn from the Wanganui contest.Rich people have left the .British public £15,500,000 during the past foui years. Sir Wilfrid Laurier says he Is a Canadian first and an Imperialist afte£ wards. - _".; Dargaville Railway League is urging the immediate extension- of the Kaihu railway. A drunkard who bleaks a. prohibition order once can now be sent to an ia.-: ebriates' home for two years. For the season to date Auckland has exported orer 4000 tons of butter, which, may be roughly valued at £400,000. Major Saunders, officer in charge of the West Coast cadets, died suddenly Testerday, evidently as the Tesult of "taking poison. The Kaiser's latest feat is. the tation of a Universal Badge of Honour to a Somali chief whose antics at the Zoo amused him. : The first election, of HpspiCal and Charitable Aid Board Committees, under the new Act, by means of local body franchise, takes place on March 16th. ' From the 10th inst. the banks will reduce interest on. fixed deposits from 3 J to 3 per cent on money" at. 12 months' deposit, and 4to 34 per cent;at 24 months' deposit. The Invercargill Education Board does' not agree with other Boards that there is need for representation of such bodies at the coming education conference in Wellington. The formal assurance of , (3ree.ce that no representatives from Crete will be allowed to attend the new National Assembly has relieved an awkward tion with Turkey. The Dominion Bifle Association's meeting at Trentham has been postponed from March 2 to March 4, so as to enable Auckland competitors to take part in the Kitchener reception on that day. A most remarkable story of an alleged fraudulent attempt' to obtain possession of a deceased person's estate wa3 told in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Cooper remarking that it was "another Tichborne case." J. A. Bradstreet, Karangahape-road-r-? j Summer Sale now on. Soiled White ■ Quilts, Curtains and Towels greatly rei duced—(Ad.) J. A. Bradstreet, Karangahape-road.— t' Sale now on. Great reductions in Cotton Dress Goods. Special Ladies' "White .Robes, half-price, .from 9/11 each. — (Adi);