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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 308, 27 December 1920, Page 1

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Perfect holiday weather. Davis Cup draw announced. Trottin" at Kpsom to-morrow. Slump fn British trade ,1 - Butter and freights on the down Auckland Cup Day—immense crowd at Ellerslie. . No serious Christmas arcident= in Auckland. . . Beach patrol system _ operating at Devonport. . Boy Scout camp pitched at Heiuiorson Domain to-day. Auckland holiday railway traffic constitutes fi. record. ' Several heavy shipments of coal Irnm Australia in week-end. Heavy Xmas malls. Slight falling oft in telegraphic greetings. Light Xmas Police Court sheet. Sober and well-behaved revellers. Auckland Bowling centre's full riUiC tournament opened this morning. Monna due at Auckland this evening from Suva with passengers and sugar. Manuka due at Wellington from Sydney this morning with 420 parsonOpinion en Bolshevism divided among Socialists at French conference at Tour?. Transport Federation advises Australian stewards to return to work ac soon as possible. Commotion caused among British and French by news of- withdrawal of BritUh troops from Persia. Sailing of Maheno from Sydney lor Auckland cancelled. Niagara nnd Kiverina also held up. New Roman Catholic CoadjutorBishop of Auckland officially received at St. Patrick's last night. First Davis Cup singles matches tomorrow afternoon—Brook"? pays 'til den and Patterson plays Johnston. Brookes and Patterson to be the Australasian Davis Cup defenders, and Til den and Johnston, the American challengers. Arawa arrived on Christmas Dnv with big iba-tch of settlers from Old Country. Special train took away passengers f.ir South last night. Plunket Shield cricket at Eden Park— Hawke's Bay v. Auckland. Local team knocked up 537 runs in their first innings on Saturday. Four Ponsonby residents admitted to hospital last night suffering from ptomaine poisoning. Ham and sheep tongues boiled in a copper. Sad Christmas burning fatality at Xel<=on. Girls camping in a loft, which caught fire. One died of her burns and another in critical condition. Law's "odd sizes" boot sale finished. A clean sweep sale starts to-morrow at 10 o'clock for a few days only of remaining broken stock at less than auction prices. ■ Come early.—ls3 Karangakape Road.— (Ad.) Films developed and printed at Har- ; rington's, 144, Queen street. Best and . speediest service in the city.—(Ad.)