TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 252, 23 October 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

All Blacks beat Lancashire 23—0. English election fight, very bitter. Prince of Wales ill in Canada, with!:' bad cold. New Zealand competes poorly at Lou--don Dairy Show. Unprecedented bitterness promised., in German elections. Very generous concessions in terms? allowed Germany by Allies. Afghan rebellion quashed, and Pretender to throne in refuge. Calendar for Supreme Court criminal sessions published to-day. The Makura left Vancouver yesterday, and is due here on November 10. Sanguinary righting in China, 100,000 killed and wounded in one battle. Australian and New Zealand doctors take big.' part in New York Surgeons' Congress. | Auckland Agricultural Show at tbei Epsom, grounds to-morrow and Saturn day. ( Young.woman placed on probation foe three years to-day for concealment of birth. Murder charge against Benjamin* Harrison Shutes continued at Polico Court to-day. Auckland Grammar School sports at the Domain to-day. A total of 407) competitors engaged. Annual meeting of tlie South British Insurance Co. this morning. Dividend of 1/11 per share declared. The Trelissick, coming from Montreal and New York, radios that she will arrive in port on Saturday. House of Representatives had another all-night debate on the Gaming Bill* adjourned for breakfast, and resumed at 9.30 a.m. H.M.S. Veronica, which has beea absent from Auckland for some months, is scheduled to arrive from Tonga on.. Saturday. A new shipping contract for butter and cheese represents a saving of £121,875 for the : first two years, and £140,833 for the third year. The Niagara left Sydney to-day for? Auckland. She ia due here on Monday* and is ito continue 'her voyage to Vancouver the following day. Municipal Conference opened this morning at the City Council Chamber. Delegates welcomed by tho DeputyMayor, Mr. G. Baildon. Two married men were drowned justV off the shore at New Plymouth yesterday afternoon through their dinghy, capsizing as they were setting fishing lines.-,' SunJmer prices are the feature of the> Melba. Fur Company's sale of stoles, furs-find fur coats.—33B, Queen Street, opposite Civic Square,;—( Ad.) Labjbur's Grand Carnival, 3 days.—Ad., Beautiful selection of model frocks and ."costumes. Elsie Ginn, 40, Winstonei Builtjfing, Queen Street.—(Ad.) > Large display of artistic Solid Gold Broophes at "given away" prices: 2/6, 5//""i"/6, 10/, 12/6, 15/, 17/6 and £1, Each;brooch worth four times its price.—. At David-Silk, Jeweller, Queen St.—Ad. Bills wine—the supreme tonio restorative —gives great benefits for? small cost. — (Ad.) Lfidies! To be smartly dressed isjessentiaL Melba Fur Company offer four smart frocks at prices which wilt as'iphish you. —338, Queen Street, opposite' Civic Square.—(Ad.)