TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 154, 1 July 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

P. Groos and Co.. Tailors. Bemoved to 4-6. Durham Stieet East.—(Ad.)

Maheno arrives at 7 p.m. to-day from Sydney. "Wellington has had an exceptionally fine winter. Annual meeting of the Avondale Jockey Club this afternoon.

Waimana. from Liverpool, and Tairoa, from London, both expected on Thursday. jsirakuta made port this morning with a freight of 23,000 cases of fruit front Rarotonga. Four new petitions in bankruptcy filed with the Official Assignee—three farmers and one storekeeper.

Man sent to prison this morning for six months for defaulting in the payment of his wife's maintenance order.

This year's Rhodes Scholar, Dr. R. S. Aitken,"of Otago University, sailing for London' to-day by the Pakelia, from Wellington. The order for the deportation of *he Jewish boy Duval, who arrived by the Port Augusta last week, reversed by Magistrate this morning. Duval was alscTdiseharged from his ship and allowed to land.

Harried man named John Edward Jcnkinson appeared before the Police Court this morning on a charge of having attempted to murder his wife by cutting her throat with a razor. He was remanded for a week.

Liberal M.P.'s in England have protested at the proposed building of five new cruisers on the grounds that it will spur emulation in otltfr nations and postpone disarmament. Before Matteotti, the Italian Socialist ALP., was murdered, he had written an article, now published in an English paper, accusing the Fascisti Mussolini Government of very widespread and gros3 graft. The Customs duties collected at Auckland last month totalled £186,355, compared with £164,045 for June, 1923. For the past half-year the revenue amounted to £1,071,046, as against £1,069,309. for the corresponding half of last year. American professor lecturing in Sydney says that the United States is overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, and that only fourteen per cent of the one bundled and ten million people there are foreign born. Forty per cent of the people who emigrate to TJJSA. return to the lands in which they were torn.

Community Attraction. —Fifteen genuine fur coats, latest Parisian and London styles, original price 80 guineas, clearing at £10 10/; 14 necklets, -worth. £9. clearing at £2.—Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall door. —(Ad.) Out on Saturday!— Knight and Co., the boot people on the site of the new civic square, have received final marching orders. Your own price for the stock.—(Ad.) At the Indent Fur Supply Co., 54, City Chambers, Queen Street, you willget the greatest fur bargains of the year. Act at once to get the best. —(Ai.) Bargains in overcoats! New stock arrived late selling at cost to clear, boat 39/0. Jaffe, tailor, opp. G.P.O.—(Ad.) Feeling low '? Build up with Hall's ■wine. Unequalled for all run-down, conditions. — (Ad.)