TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bloods took sale at Takapuna racecourse this morning. A youth (lied from injuries sustained when <living at Hawera. Sninoan Crown estates to be offered on lease to private enterprise. Big rush for home yesterday and today by country and Southern holidaymakers. Play in the Aurkland challenge for the Wilding Shield starts at Christcliurch to-morrow. A trespasser on Ellerslie racecourse fined £10 this morning, the alternative being a month's imprisonment. Tofua arrived from Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji this morning with and a freight of bananas, after a smooth water trip. Boy was taken to England from South Africa for insulin treatment. He was treated and taken home, where he died of diabetic coma. K2U, the largest British submarine, is setting out on a 10/100 miles voyage — the greatest ever attempted by any submarine vessel. A child was killed and its mother, Mrs. R. Hammond seriously injured through a gig falling over a bank on Turakina Valley Road. Three participants in an affray on Ellerslie yesterday each fined £2 to-day. A recent arrival from Christchureh similarly fined for hitting an old man. Combined doubles in the New Zealand tennis championships won Dy Hiss Marjorie Maefarlane and H. L. Robson, the mnners-up also being Aucklanders. The totalisators at Ellerslie and Alexandra Park handled £605.248 in the seven days, showing an aggregate increase of £20,608 10/ over last ycar'3 racing carnival. Wellington won from Canterbury by a margin of four wickets in the Plunket Shield contests. When stumps were drawn last night Auckland held a substantial lead from Otago. Unemployment among mariners at Liverpool is the worst in British shipping history. Thirty thousand are idle. Masters are doing menial jobs, and there is much hunger. Greer, Mabel Xormand's chauffeur, shot C. S. Dines, an oil promoter, because he was bothering her. The chauffeur. Miss Xormand, and Miss Edna Purviance, another picture star, are in the hands of the police. Impudent theft reported of a taxicar from the Customs Street rank last night, a big five-seater Hudson being driven off while the driver wan «t tea. A Ford car also disappeared yesterday afternoon from a paddock near Ellerslie racecourse. Young man named Lennox Owen dashed to death this morning in the lift well of the Shortland Flats building being erected at the top of Shortland Street. Apparently he caught hold of a loose end of rope running through a pulley and fell the whole four storeys. Get in before the busy season commences and have your old furs and coats remodelled or renovated by the noted experts.—Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) If you are run down let Hall's wine bring you back to health. — (Ad.) Model House attraction price Sponge Cloth Costumes. Usual])' (JO/0; now ■23/0. Mrs. Barton-Walker, Strand Arcade.—(Ad.) Model House attraction price, Lincu Frocks in variety of shades, daintily embroidered. Usually 49/1) and 59/ ii; now 39/ li. Mrs. Barton-Walker, Strand Arcade.—(Ad.) Xow is the time to secure unheard of bargains in 1924 season's furs, coats. Latest arrivals offering at half window prices. Only from Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Model House attraction price dainty Linen Frocks. Usually 25/0; now 19/0. Mrs. Barton-Walker, Strand Arcade. — (Ad.)