TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 115, 17 May 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

"Children's Week" at Whitcombe's. (Afl.l Ruahine due from Southampton on i Saturday night. Makura and Manuka botli sail from Sydney to-morrow for Auckland. Franklin Winter Show opened this afternoon by the Prime Minister. Annual meeting of shareholders in the Taupiri Coal Mines this afternoon. General Chang has declared the independence of Manchuria and Mongolia. Yarding of fat cattle at Westtteld today in excess of demand. Nearly 600 penned. Trade stagnation in Ireland is predicted unless the existing: trouble is controlled. A ''Klondike rush" is promised for concessions in Russia when the Genoa Congress ends. Hospital extrusions and improvemen+3 to cost £132.000 were decided upon by the Board last night. The balance-sheet of the Canterbury) Jockey Club shows a debit balance for; the year of £740 4/5. The recent fall in the price of coal means a weekly saving of .04. 3/ to tha Auckland Hospital Board. The li.ial convention settling the affairs of L'pper Silesia has been signed by German and Polish plenipotentiaries. Three fresh eases of typhoid notified this morning, one each from Mount Albert, Mount Eden, and the city. Education Board discussed the desirableness of compulsory teeth cleansing in the Auckland schools this morning. Black opossums are to be released on the Waitakeres for commercial purposes by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Evidence and addresses by counsel in tTie case against Bishop histon concluded this morning. Judge summed up imme-

diately after the luncheon adjournment. Great variety of seasonable gifts to suit every purse, for babies, school children, ladies, gents, friends, and sweethearts. These can be seen at one glance, without wasting time and thought, at Silk's. Jeweller.—(Ad.) Heavy ribbed silk hose, all colours, ladies' 21/, gentlemen's 13/6. —Cecelia, 824 (basement), N.Z. Insurance Build-ings.—-(Ad.) For a few days only, 2/ in the £ refunded in cash off all overcoats and fur coats. —''The Boudoir." 244, Queen Street and Karangahape Road, near Tivoli. Ad. Free gift for every child this -week at Whitconfbe's "Children's Week." Ad. "Change is in the air," but once you try "Sandy Maedonald" you will never change your drink.— (Ad.) Ladies' coats, frocks, jumpers, dainty lingerie, and children's wear specialist. Model House, Strand Arcade.—(Ad.) Never more busy than now. K. Kitchener Ltd., Auckland's leading footwear distributors, of Karangahape Road, are , working at even greater pressure than ever.— (Ad.) Ladie»» Special offer. All hats one • price, 29/6. Be early, "The Boudoir," [ Karangahape Rd., near Tivoli. — (Ad.) Mary Pickford and her secret "Kur- ' lean" now on sale, 3/6, all ehemist6. Used by most film stars.— (Ad.)