TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Austrian Cabinet hae resigned. Mr. George Fenwick has been knighted. Thirteen steamers are due at Audcand this week. Supreme Court civil sessions opened at Auckland to-day. Two more burglaries occurred in Ham* ilton during the week-end. Savings Bank deposits for the June quarter exceeded withdrawals toy £499,----156. Charles Walter Keane, a baker, -has been inising from Hamilton wor several days. Germany has been ordered to retire her troops from the Baltic provinces -within three weeks. There were 188 male and 18 female prisoners in Mount Eden gaol at the end of last week. Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward an due at Auckland tomorrow morning, and will .be given a civic reception at 3 pjm. The subscriptions received for the final Victory Loan total £460,000, making a total of £3,500,000 voluntarily su!bscrlbed to date. , ', A particularly fine specimen of the mollyhawk family was captured on the beach, in the vicinity of the Kew Ply* mouth harbour recently. The question of getting slot telephone boxes established more plentifully on'the northern shores of the harbour is agitating the minds of residents. 7 It is expected that Major-General ftir E. W. C. Chaytor -will succeed MajcjrGeneral Sir Alfred Robin as Commandant of the New Zealand JForces. Two loud explosions were heard in the neighbourhood of Wellington Heads on Saturday afternoon, and all attempts to account for them have failed. . .'.'■ The girl Pearl Burke, who wae the principal witness at the inquest on Jessie West, who was' found drowned at Whangarei on June 3, has 'been arrested on a charge of abetting suicide. - The Auckland Education Board will hold a conference with local members of Parliament on August 12, to consider the urgent need for more school accommodation, .with kindred matters. His Majesty King George advises economy. Practice it by getting some ol the bargains at the sale of Bridgman'e stock by the Economic. —(Ad.) Search the town, and you will not find men's Harvard shirts anywhere bat at the sale of Bridgman's stock, by the (Economic, at 5/6 each.—(Ad.) You really .should make your money buy the best-value these days. A sure way to save on drapery is the sale of Bridgman's stock by the Economic- (Ad.) Bargains for Ladies. - — Siberian natural colour fox furs, originally .22 guineas, now £6 10/ Only six left. Bast guineas, now £6 10/. Only six left. Beat £5 5/, will take 25/. —Empire Furriers, opp. Town Halt—'(Ad.) If j ou need % really good tailor-made ■nit,! try R. Jaffe, 58, Queen Street, aver Cooke'i: Soda Fountain.—(Ad.) . ■