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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 301, 18 December 1917, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

T. Clark for Christmas Footwear. —(A_)' ■ Still no sign of the Motuihi fugitives. Opening by. the Prime Minister to-day of the Ohakune-Kaetihi railway. _- •—- A special half-holiday will be observed to-morrow —Surprise Packet Day. __. .__ Grammar School retained the Heath ' cote-Williams' Shield by a,.margin of seven wickets. The majority of the sailors <J_ the? Black Sea fleet thave joined the) Ukranian forces. Bolshevik troops at Odessa attacked the Ukranian Parliament, but were driven off by Ukranian troops. -A boy of ten years was kicked in tho region of the heart by a horse at Myross a in Southland, and died 20 minutes later. The victor of Jerusalem, Sir Edmund Allenby. has been rewarded with tho ■Grand Cross of St. (Michael and St. George. _. The Motuihi inquiry will probably be) open to the Press, but not to the general public. The date of hearing has not yefc been fixed. ._„ The British and German Governments have agreed to exchange invalid prison* ers of war. The work is expected t _ take four months. _.■ The City Fire Brigade were called oufi twice last night, the outbreaks in each case being extinguished before muc_ - damage had occurred." ' ... — A German message states 'thai a four* ■weeks' armistice with Russia was signed on Saturday, and that peace negotiations will start immediately. Mr. Baker, U.S. War Secretary, de»" clares that. Germany is more anxious than ever to conclude a speedy peace, ■before the war map is less favourable. The American Secretary for War de* clares that Germany will gain no per-' I manent strategic advantages ».n thei • West front by her heavy concentrations. Three members of the _T.Z. Expedition- i ary Force have each been sentenced to ! two years' imprisonment for' wilfully f disobeying an order to attend for medical' examination. Two men were injured last evening by a motor-car in which they were driving being overturned in Massey Road, i Mangere. One of them (Clyde McPhail)' was taken to the Hospital, but the other (Mr. Miller, of Spinks and Miller, Albert Street) was able to go home. ~_ .-"■'■-.'