TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ 'I Visit The West End Theatre. (Ad.) Anglican Diocesan .Synod resumed this afternoon. Public Works Statement will be talili-d in the House this week. Maheno due about 1 p.m. to-morrow from Sydney with 270 passengers. Purser, ridden by the Xew Zealand horseman. (!. Young, won the Caulfield Cup on Saturday. Exactly an inch of rain fell over the week-end. bringing the month's total so far to 4.MS inches. The N'gakuta arrived yesterday afternoon from tlie Cook Islands with a large cargo of fruit and copra. Che-Kiangites being bought off for 20 dollars a head, and foreigners in I'ck'n now believe all danger is past. The tote returns at the Whangarei meeting showed an increase of £4802 over the club's meeting last year. City won the Roope Rooster competition on Saturday, when they heat the holders (I'onsonby) 0 points to 3. Hoy at Port Melbourne attacked si shark with a penknife and rescued a companion who was bitten in the leg. A Chinaman paid 10/f) for a petrol case of mushrooms at the Wellington city markets last Friday morning. Cold bleak weather experienced on Saturday and Sunday, the change being keenly felt following the warmth of Friday. When the Lyttelton dry dock was drained recently, hundreds' of young salmon were found in the mud on the bottom. All Blacks defeated Yorkshire on Saturday by 42 points to 4, the eleventh successive win for the Xew Zealanders in England. Xaial manoeuvres off Hawaii and cruise to Australian waters arc part of a plan that was formed -before Washington Copfcrencc. One of the crew of the steamer Mahana fined £5 and costs to-day for kicking a fellow inmate at the police cells and chewing oil' part of his ear. The English cricketers opened their Australian tour on Saturday in * match against West Australia. Batting well, the Englishmen made 330 for seven wickets. Axal Thornbald Mollcr, an attendant at the Auckland Mental Hospital, sent to gaol for 14 days this morning for assaulting two boys in a picture theatre on Saturday. Dr| Dundas "Mackenzie's application to have evidence taken abroad upon matters connected with the motion to have him struck off the medical register dismissed this morning hy Judge Herdman. An Otago wireless enthusiast, Mr. Frank Bell, of Waihemo, has heen successful in the last few days in sending and receiving clear messages to and from London, the first wireless talks across the world.