TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Presbytery meets to-night. Further reduction of gas prossaio. Allied Army to advance into Germany. Heavy rain predicted. Good news for farmers. Christchurch on -the verge of a sugar famine. Waterside barometer swinging towards settlement. Russian revolutionaries said to he in control of Petrograd. Insurance companies' united pienle at Motutapu to-morrow. . Dominion Poultry Confereneo opens at Auckland, to-morrow. Wanganui had a record export year in 1920, totalling £4,037,118. Re-allocation of portfolios relinquished by Sir William Herries. Wheat prices for coming season fixed by Cabinet, but not yet announced. Kauri Gum Commission to begin Us sittings next Monday at Auckland. F. J. Causley, of "Thamoa, won the Kelson Match at Trentham yo*terday, German delegation failed to offer any alternative scheme to tho Allies' demand for reparation. A Maori was killed and another severely injured by a railway accident at Whakatane. Thirty-four probationer nurses have been appointed to train for dental nervice in schools. R. S. A. deputation to Chamber et Commerce on soldiers' pensions matters this afternoon. Crown and settlement lands aggregating over 100,000 acres will be offered to soldiers this month. Eight -year-old boy died at Rotorua hospital yesterday from the effects ef a horse's kick last "week. Mt. Albert Council appreciated efforts of City Council to relieve the ru»h-hour congestion on tramways. Auckland Tramways I'nion fined £*2.*>o for inciting to an unlawful strike In .Tune last year. Security for appeal fixed. Waitaki High School boy run over last evening at Oamarti while trying to board a motor bus, and killed instantly. Onehunga Council last night decided to urge the Minister to allow the Eden-Manukau electric power scheme to proceed. Verdict of accidental death due to deceased's negligence at inquest on the victim of the Queen Street tramway fatality. Big falling off in last week's street collection for the hospital patients* benevolent fund —only about half the amount needed obtained. Lord .Tcllicoo's Iron Dnkfl WTO represent Auckland and !*T. W. J. P. Mef'ullough's Heather., (Mago, m a series or five races to "be held here at F.a*t-»r. MetTwiflst conference heartily supports*? the Minister of Internal Affairs in ajiy measure he may take to check the release of undesirable cinema pictures. A second victim of the motor-bus accident at Henderson has died--Mrs. Anne Marden, of New Lynn, dying at the hospital last evening from sthc effects of her immersion. See the window display of McMahon's. the only registered hair restorer, at Woollams. 04, Queen Street. — (Ad.)