TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 113, 12 May 1920, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Tram fare conference to-nigit. "■ Bookmaker fined £200 at Feilding. Mr. Massey busy shuffling porfefoUoa. Thick mist with, more heavy rain last night. Conference of educationists in Wellington to-day. Mataura railway station destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Decision of Baitwaye tribunal subject to ballot by railwaymen. Complaints about mail service belweeu Auckland and East Coast. Report on nurses' grievances before the Hospital Board last nigfafc. Dominion record in Customs revenue collected at Wellington yesterday. 'Korthcote Council broke up last nighfc over a dispute about the minutes. Wild agitations against the peace treaty are reported from Budapest. Dispute between employers and butchers at W&ttield Freezing works. Hoepitafl (Board approved plans for addition to the nurses' 'home laet nigbi. Prince of Wales admitted a member of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. Auckland branch of R.S.A. urge requisition of timber for -building soldiers' homes. Another increase in ifche price of booii decided by the Auokland yesterday. Customs revenue collected at Wellington yesterday amounted to £22,381 5/9, a Dominion record. * Howard, M.P., has had his invitation to meet the Prince at Chriatchurch railway station cancelled, Man shockingly injured in * box factory *£ Daanenririce yesterday tSuough being caught in a machinery belt* Auckland eoJdiew laet protested against suspension of the operation of Returned Soldiers , Settlement Act. Port Melbourne berthed thJe morning with first cargo of sulphur for (New Zealand from Texas; 4500 ions of it. Grafton School* Committee alarmed at children being allowed to attend picture shows while schools are closed. The Japanese have began to make peace with the Bolsheriks, and have arranged for the withdrawal of 20,000 of their troops. The Mexican revolutionaries, have got every big city in the republic undet their control. The revolution was practically bloodless. '

Mmry Elizabeth hats, exclusive designs, at popular prices.—Ground floor, A.M.P. Bnildinge.—(Ad.) No mutter bow ehabby your fore or fur coats *re, the Empire Furriera will renew them lor a few eMlings. Right oppoette Town HaJk^Ad.) The Civic (League svnd Women's Club protest against high prices. 'What comment do they make on prices which obtain .at Pearson's Boot Stores, Newton! Men's Rubber Goloshes 3f\l pair. (Women's doth Gaitera 2/11 pair.