TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 13 December 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sultry summer weather set in. Wiian'ga.ei .how to-day and to-mor-row. Ralph Desmond" Waterson hanged mmself near Ohakune. Arrival of English cricket ti__q this afternoon from An ..alia. Members of the City Council visiting Nihotiijm dam works to-day. Navua sails for the Western Pacific islands on Friday morning. Bona arrives at noon to-morrow Irom Fiji with a cargo of raw sugar. Civic reception to English cricketers at Town Hall to-morrow morniiio;. I City Council debentures, totalling' jfIoO.OOO, successfully issued iv Australia !at j-l per cent. Kitty-one seamen being prosecuted afc Police Court to-day on a charge of having taken part i" an unlawful strike. The ston.ncr Orteric was stranded j seventy miles no.rth of San Francisco in 'a fog vestordoy. Ifer crew was rescticd. Tlie ' liigh price of lOd lb. was realise! at Aslihtirton yesterday nt the opeiiiiicr export sale of the season in the South ~Mand. The French Bosirg Federation ha.s sanctioned ;t mutch between Carpentier and Siki. providing all tire reoeipts go to scientific research funds. Return assured of Macpherson, the Liberal candidate, for O-imani. He is 15 aliead of the lion. E. P. Lee, with only 12 more votes to come in. General election writs returnable to Wellington to-morrow. Most of the official" counts completed to-day. Licensing votes now being counted. Extraordinary high percentage of electors voted in some districts at the recent polls, hi Waitemata the percentage was 93 of those on the rolls, and in Grey Lynn it was 02.7. Bonar Law informed ' the Premier's C-nferetve. that the settlement of Ktiror-eon affairs would not he fixed up in such a way that Britain would be the only nation to virtually pay an indem- ' nitty. ( Auckland Education Board, afterTiear. ing the schorl meilicnl officer this mornin;_. decided to carry out the provisions of the Health Act. which says that children with verminous heads shall n_t be . admitted to State schools. ' Ladies' Oct g°h- expanding wristlet ; watches, lever movement, fully guaranteed. Usual price £3 10/, now £5. , War l»an certificates taken. —Victor . Brownson, Hi. Queen Street. — (Ad.) ' Thursday special showing of knit silk . frocks, job purchase, wonderful value. ; Boudoir. Karangahape Road, near ' Tivoli.—(Ad.) : Xmas presents by auction to-morrow, 1 10.30 a.m.. anj following days. Stock ."_ of late -1. Prince, on the premises of S Ernest fl. Ske-te*. Jeweller, 26_, Queen ;• Street, (opp. Strand Theatre). — (Ad.)