TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1923, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Manuka for Sydney at 11 a.m. to* morrovv. Makira leaves Sydney to-day for Auckland and Vancouver. Arawa sails from Wellington on Saturday afternoon for London. Split in Tramway Officers' Union revealed at Conciliation Council to-day. Heavy damage aiiong the early potato crops at Pukekohe by the recent frosts. The Armagh, with 1500 bags of English mail, arrives from London on Sunday. Final to-morrow at Jliddlemore of the ladies' open provincial golf.championship. Complaints of vandalism in the district reported last night to the One Tree HiU Road Board. Alfred Brophy a young man, charged to-day with assaulting a man by striking him so as to do actual bodily harm. Man had his jaw fractured. The four prisoners who escaped from iMount Eden on June 6 before the Supreme Court to-day. They pleaded extenuating circumstances. Man named George \V. McDonald, a painter, committed to tlie Supreme Court to-day on three charges of obtaining goods by false pretences. Economic pensions, to supplement war pensions, are proposed in an amending bill introduced yesterday. The additional cost is estimated at £60,000. lAlready subscriptions exceeding £4000 have been received by the Auckland Plunket Society towards the Karitane Home fund,, which aims at £ 15,000. Flora brought 13,000 cases er orange* and 3000 cases of tomatoes from Eastern Pacific Islands to-day. About 25 per cent of the oranges arrived unfit for use, and 10 per cent of the tomatoes.