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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 19 December 1922, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■{■ m Jas. Pascoe for Engagement King valne. (IL&$ Grammar School prize-giving at Town Hall to-night. Queenfland bowling team ■welcomed at Wellington yesterday. English cricketers playing at Wanganui to-day and to-morrow. Advertising on letters for Toft Office revenue purposes is to be dropped. First train Whangarei to Auckland on Thursday. Trip will take nine hours. Grammar School old boys' memorial unveiled this afternoon by the GovernorGeneral. A block of native land at Whangara, near Gisborne, has been declared open for prospecting. The rainfall this month has now reached 2.30, or half an inch under tha December average. Bavarian police are now collecting a. tax on foreigners, though this is in direct defiance of the Treaty of Ycr. sailles. Remuera sailed from London yesterday s for Dunedin, her first voyage since her collision in the Channel with the Marengo. A woman bankrupt yesterday declared that she would rather go to gaol than reveal the whefeabouts of £SOO she was supposed to have. Vancouver longshoremen take a vot« on Thursday to decide whether they will work the Makura, due on that day from. Sydney and Auckland. Employment in various trades not so good in the past year as in previous years. However, outlook for New Year inspires optimism. Twenty-nine were drowned by the sinking of a tug in Lake Superior on Wednesday, seven survivors reaching shore after terrifying experiences. Opinion expressed at the inquest on the man electrocuted at Te Aroha on ■Sunday that a sparrow had been responsible for short-circuiting the current. (New arrival fined £lO this morning for bringing a firearm into New Zealand, without a permit. Magistrate said that in future he would impose the full penalty—a £IOO fine or three months' imprisonment. The American Secretary for Labour believes that the unemployment crises . in America are due to inability of workmen to adjust themselves to clrsumstances and to be able to take up another class of work when there is a slump in their own trade. Real buttery flavoured Xmas cake at 1/4 per lb. and 2/ per lb., iced, at Stor» mont's four shops.— (Ad.) 1 Lucille for Tace and holiday hats: also specially-priced jumpers for Christmas ' week.—264, Queen Street.— (Ad.) "Buy your presents where they're \ made."—Edith Korrish Art Depot, 266, ' Queen St.(near Savings Bank). —-(Ad.) i The Gift Superb: Buy her a handsome fur, fur coat, latest styles at half winter , prices. Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. i (Ad.) Race frocks, holiday frocks, crash. ; coats, 24/6; hats for all occasions: charming novelties for gifts: very special '. value.—Boudoir Sale, Karangahape Rd., j near Tivoli.—(Ad.) Mothers, fathers—see our 6d and 1/ > toy room and gifts of description. J Warren's, Strand Arcade.— (Ad.) Old china colleelon—Choice pieces of ; old Chinese porcelains for sale.—Mrs. • Nieol, 15, Alten Road, City.—(Ad.)