TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 104, 3 May 1923, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

1U more days Uut> Urapery Sale. 13/4 w*. (AjlJ Kacing at Blenheim to-morrow. Westmeath due from Liverpool oi» Sunday. Twenty-eight points of rain fell in tbg city overnight. A number of suburban Mayors vera installed last night. City Council holds its first post, election meeting to-night. French opinion condemns the Gennatf Note to the Aliies in advance. Commonwealth shipping line lost a> million in the year 1921-22. Lively passages at the first meeting ot the new Pukekohe Council last night. The ilaunganui will continue her? voyage to Sydney from Wellington on, Saturday. Strong demand in British Parliament for some adequate form of Imperial preference-. Prize-giving of the Diocesan Girls* School at the concert chamber to* morrow afternoon. Housebreaker committed for sentence to-day, as was a young warehouse clerW for theft and forgery. Man on probation was given two years' reformative treatment this morn* ing for false pretences. Exceptionally heavy rain at Waihi. Some of the streets are flooded through the blocking of culverts. Carlaw Park to be accepted by th 4 -Mayor to-morrow afternoon as a breath* ing space for the pedple when matches are not being played. Alore work for the Prime Minister. The Hon. Mr. Guthrie is expected to> require at least two months' rest from official duties, so Mr. Massey has taken over the portfolio- of Bailways. Since the reduced rate on telegrams' came into force three months ago the messages dispatched from Auckland show an increase of 7342 over the corresponding period last year, but the Tβvenue decreased iby £SOG3. The inscription on the grave of the late Katherine Mansfield in Avon Cemetery, near Fontainebleau, is taken from the title-page of "81i35," and reads: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."