TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 124, 25 May 1920, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Harbour Board day. j ;M*heiio from Sydney. IVrnera' Conference. Invasion of country cousins. Finger print evidence at murder trial to-day. Dβ Wet is ill and is not expected to recover.

Fourteen cases of mild smallpox now in Southland Hospital. Another victim, Mr. E. Kidman, claimed by the Sandon motor emash. The Minister of Public Works hopes to ccc Otira tunnel working in two yeans, j Runaway in Customs Street this morning. Plucky hold-up by constable and bystander. j Coastal eteamei Aorere blown on to Rangitikei Beach. Crew reached the shore enfely.

Building busy in "Mt. Albert district. Permits totalling over £0000 in last three weeks.

Announcement by Public Minister of scheme "to settle the main roads problem.

Bady visitor knocked down iby motor car in Quay Street laet evening. Injured about the head.

Importation o£.<?having brushes made in Japan prohibited, if containing any hair of animals.

Motor crashed into gig at Riversdale. A Mies Lynch now lying in hospital with fractured skull.

Land ballot for soldiers to-morrow by Auckland Land Board. About 126 applications to date.

.Indian troops are being landed afc Batum, on the Black Sea, for an advance on Baku, on the Caspian Sea. | It is repDrted that a well known Hawke's Bay man has, during the last six months, purchased war bonds to the value of £80,000.

A day-long Soviet was established in the Italian province of Carnia, but troops.were poured in and re-established order by nightfall.

The Taranaki Egg Circle during the past year handled 40,374 dozen eggs, which Tealised £4011 8/7. The average price was 1/11 against 1/9 last year.