TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 181, 1 August 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Permits for railway passengers are being issued as from to-day.

The net proceeds of the Trentham scholarships art union are estimated at £35,000.

During July, 271 births, IGS deaths, and 143 marriages were registered at Auckland.

William James Carroll, an inmate of the Napier Old People's Home, celebrated his 100 th birthday yesterday.

The customs revenue collected in the Dominion last year was £3 2/6 a head, as compared with £2 11/7 in 1909. Albert Wisemanf a married man, died from exposure in a dinghy after a launch to which it belonged drifted away.

The Government is endeavouring to get a first class English artist to come to New Zealand to advise on war memorials.

Admiral Jellicoe has consented to lay the foundation stone of the returned soil diers' club-house during his visit to Chris tchurch.

Over a hundred employees have "been discharged from Rotorua hotels and boarding-houses on account of the railway restrictions.

The allocation of 200 workers' dwellings among New Zealand towns ha 3 aroused some protests. Hastings complains that it has been left out of the allocation entirely.

Sir James Allen says that it has not been decided that the New Zealand army shall consist of two divisions, though sufficient equipment for a force of that size ia being imported.The steamer Baden-Powell ran out of coal between Wanganui and Wellington, and had to burn wooden Sittings. The Mokoia arrived at Gisborne short of coal, and had to be supplied with 50 tons.

"The Laffitte" millinary showrooms and workrooms, 2nd floor, Security Buildings, opens new season's models, August 7. •" Mrs. Gilboye, late "La Paris."—(Ad.) Miss Dixon is now showing beautiful new spring millinery. Your inspection invited. —34, Victoria Street. —(Ad.)

Men's winter underwear at -wholesale prices, Bridgman's sale by the Economic, Queen Street.—(Ad.)

Sheetings and calicoes at 6ane prices. Bridgman's sale by the Economic, Queen Street, opposite Town Hall. —(Ad.) You can buy a splendid calico for l'ljd per yard at Bridgman's sale by the Economic, Queen Street. —(Ad.) If mothers only knew the wonderful value in boys' tweed sports suits that are ibeing simply thrown away at the Economic sale of Bridgman's stook, opposite Town Hall. — (Ad.)

There are some ■wonderfully cheap dress materials, including English, serges and costume cloths, being simply slaughtered at the Economic sale of Bridgman's stock, opposite Town HalL— (Ad.) J

If jou need a really good, tailor-mad* suit, try R. Jaffe, 58, Queen Street, over Cooke's Soda Fountain.—(Ad.)"'