TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Franklin Winter Show tomorrow. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the reEei of llaiekinj. ■] Prince of Wales capturing the Sonta Island in chunki . r July 1 fixed for introduction o» mcreaeed tram s*. Threepence the minimum. Sunday car fare after June 30. New tram fares provide for 23 per cent, concession on all sections. Newmarket and Onehnnga tlie only local bodies hanging- back. Newmarket Council wants a, bigger concession on the 3d eeetionAnother smallpox suspect found in InvereargiH yesterday. Gnehunga proposes to epend ;£4600f this year on road works. lonic due to-morrow morning "witlx small draft of returning soldiers. Two Imlay freezing works strikers were fined £ 10 each and others £5 each. Abandoned schooner Ketriever picked up by Talune and being towed, to Papeete. Minister of Public Works Sid some "stunts" in aeroplane at Christciurcii yesterday. Value of family boot repairing doubted by Technical College JBoard, at Managers. Aviation company formed in THmaru to work from TAnraru to Mount Cook and. southward. Tauranga has ibeen granted Govern-" mart loan of £34,600, krgejy fo? elec* trierfcy extensions. The United States railways face immediate collapse owing to disorganisation and car shortage. Fines inflicted at Otorahanga yesterday for failure to combat rabbit nuisance satisfactorily. I University Council asking for. Government grant of £30,000 for assistance in building and instruction. Seamen at Lyttelton hare declared racehorses to be "black" cargo iminl the jockeys' dispute is settled. Oarranza made a spectacular charge at the head of hie "troops prior to his flight to the mountains south of Mexico City. Meetings of householders in 89 tricts on June 7; which failed to eleeS school committees on the statutory day.