TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 20, 23 January 1920, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» ' • Substantial increase in Greater Auckland, valuations. City Council favours Dominion aware for tramway men. Anniversary to-morrow Dogger Bank fight and sinking of Blucher. ■ Kuapehu, witli troops aboard; due at Auckland on Wednesday next. Scheme for widening Queen Street before City Council last evening. Proposed tramway extension to Anzac Avenue to be completed by October. I Yelverton Terrace resident fined £20 ior being privy to illegal sale of liquor. Maheno sails for Sydney at 5 pjn. to-day with full complement of passengers. "Victory" stamps to be issued next week and to be placed on. sale as they arrive. • Town-planning League's request to Government for large hostel for Tongariro Park. Siberia is turning "Red" according to the French, Japanese and British, diplomatic stalls. Consideration by City Council of effect coal shortage has had on tramways and lighting services. Special rate of 2Jd struck by City Council in connection with, the £90,000 Grey Lvnn loan. Relations between Winston Churchill and Lloyd George are said to be strained over the Russian question. Toilet brushes from Japan imported into Australia must have certificate that they are free from disease. Wave of disease spreading westward from Russia, where typhus and smallpox are said to be rampant among the armies. Kaiseriem will ultimately return to Germany is the opinion of yon Bernhardi, interviewed by the "New York Times." British Government is said to have made £60,000.000 -out of colonial wool, I and is called the biggest profiteer of the ' lot by a Yorkshire ■warehouseman. i Bon Ton millinery sale; 200 models at greatly reduced prices-—151, Symonds iStreet, opp. Lyric.—(Ad.) j Smart poplin sports coats (hjock : stripes), 35/, for 19/11.—The grea* sale at the Economic, opp. Town. Ha.lL—(Ad) Very cheap! Large white towels, only 3/11 pair.—The great sale at the Economic, opp. Town H-alL —(Ad.) Ladies , stylisi pique costumes, 46/, for 19/11. —The great sale at the EcoI nomic, opp. Town HalL—(Ad.)