TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Education Board met to-day. Typhoid outbreak steadily on the wane. Fiona from Fiji this morning with raw sugar. Moeraki for Sydney at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Makura due from Vancouver at 6 a.m. on Friday. Wellington city finances are £350,000 iv arrears. Arbitration Court opens in Auckland to-morrow. London wool sales opened strong at 7J to 15 per cent advance. Ellen Jones, a married woman, -shot herself dead at Riwaka, Nelson. . Irregulars invaded Kilkenny city and occupied all the strategic positions. Meeting of Papatoetoe residents tonight respecting proposed borough formation. Mr. H. R. Mackenzie elected chairman of tlie Harbour Board at yesterdays meeting. Divorce laws discussed at the Anglican Synod yesterday. Animadversions by the bishops. Stanley Herbert Englebreton, a mill hand, was killed by falling from a train near Horopito. One-tree Hill Road Board election. At the principal booth this morning fifteen electors voted. The Lake Takapuna Board of Control ! visiting the Lake and other sources of water supply to-day. Navua expected to resume her interrupted voyage to the Western Pacific to-morrow afternoon. Speeding along Ponsonby Road several .Sundays ago cost a motorist £5 at the Police Court this morning. Five persons sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning, one getting three years' reformative treatment. The proposal to centralise the Anglican Primacy at Wellington was rejected by Synod yesterday by one vote. A Mercer resident shot through the heart while duck shooting on Monday through accidental gun discharge. A motorist fined £2 and costs this morning for dazzling the driver of another car in Khyber Pass Road with his headlight. Extensive defalcations were admitted hy "William Henry Pollock, as secretary to Nelson, Moate, Ltd., committed for i trial on bail of £500. West Mahwah arrived from San Francisco last night with a quantity of general cargo for Auckland. She also ! has a large shipment of lumber for Australia. Canterbury College Board of Governors have decided to invite applications for the position vacated on the High •School staff by Mr. Page, who refused to take the oath of allegiance without modification. If you have indigestion try a tot of "Sandy Mac" old Scotch. It'o wonderful how it bucks you up.—(Ad.l Great variety of seasonable gifts to suit every purse for babies, school children, ladies,' gents, friends and sweethearts. These can be seen at one •rlance, without wasting time and thought, at Silk's, Jeweller.—(Ad.)