TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 63, 14 March 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Races at Paeroa to-morrow and Monday. , _. _._ St. Patrick's Day sports at Domain to-morrow. Cross harbour swimming race tomorrow afternoon. The President of Germany lias dissolved tin* Reichstag. Wholesale price oi sugar put up il per ton from to-day. . Xew South Wales defeated Taranaki by an innings and _•'!! runs. 'The Ist Auckland Infantry won the Lewis eluiilenge trophy in the Lewis gun match. Hearing of glass-workers' dispute before the Industrial Disputes' Committee to-da v. An* Auck lander. R. H. Perkins, won this .cur's cadet championship at Trent-am. Taranaki bowling team won their test match against Auckland yesterday by 150 to 151. "Royal Navy estimales £55,000,000. Five "new cruisers and two destroyers are on its programme. Robert Herbert Inglis sent to goal to-day for two months for theft from a dwelling and assault. New Zealand Cricket Council is makino- an effort to induce another Dominion visit by an Knglish cricket team. A man who has been imprisoned in ; Australia ordered this morning to be deported as a undesirable immigrant. Protest lias been sent to Prime Minister respecting the destruction of the limestone rocks at Ware, near Hikurangi A young telegraphist who made small bets with fellow workers sentenced today to seven days' imprisonment without the option. Victorian Railway Department forbids women to travel in smoking carnages unless they qualify by visibly cremating tobacco. Prime Minister forecasts the maintenance by the Dominion within two or three years of a second cruiser of the Dunedin type, in order to help in policing the Pacific. For six months during the Empire Exhibition every shop in the United Kingdom will display Dominion and Colonial •roods for sale. This will be the greatest shopping carnival ever planned iv any country. Figures for December quarter sltow tliat the cost of living in "Wellington is 07 points higher than in Auckland, 54 above Christchurch, and 140 above Dunedin. Wellington unionists suggest an addition of 7' per cent to awards there to level things up. Kebuke by the Governor-General to the convent school authorities nt Kunanga for failure to have the children taught the X'ational Anthem. Lord Jellicoe. in refusing to visit the school unless the Anthem were sung, declared, "I am the representative of His Majesty the King, and 1 will not iiavo him insulted."