TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 261, 3 November 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Melbourne Cup run to-morrow. Concluding day o£ the A.R.C jspriii" ■Meeting. All Blacks defeated Ireland by six points lo nil in a gruelling tussle a: Dublin. Tile Cumberland radios (hat. site will arrive on Wednesday from Liverpool witli cargo.

Kemuora shipped a big sea off Wei lington Heads, and a. seaman was don ously injured.

Citizens' farewell to the Governorgeneral and Viscountess Jcllicoo at tlio Town Hall to-night.

Harry Hope Balniain, up this morn "|R on 15 charges, admitted to proba tion for two years.

Walter John Barton fined £o, alternative seven days, for being drunk while in charge of a motor ear.

Taintti duo from Southampton, via Suva, towards the end of the week tvith passengers, mails, and cargo.

Civic Centro designs to be on exhibition from Wednesday morning till the end of the week at the Parnell Library.

Another win for Gloaming- on Saturday, the New Zealand horse winning the Melbourne Stakes in easy style.

Benjamin Jlnrris Shutes, the American seaman, charged at Supremo Court to-day with the, murder ol" LouU Short at the Aurora. Hotel.

Heavy rain. and floods in the South. Damage in tho Wairarapa Valley and phenomenal downpour in Marlborough, 17in falling- at Picton in 4."> hours.

The New Zealand jockey G. Youngadded two more to hi swimiing- lis! in Australia on Saturday, ridiit"; Gloaming and Spearfclt to victory.

Domestic tragedy nt Oamnru Testerday, a labourer named John Holmes shooting bis wifo with a pen, rifle as she lay in bed and then cutting his own throat. The. woman is not expected to recover.

Drowning fatality nt Paratn, Coromandcl, yesterday, a young man named George Alexander Hansford losing his life through the capsize of a dinghy in a heavy sea. Three companions had a narrow escape from drowning.

Large display of artistic Solid Gold Brooches at "given away" prices: 2/6, '■>/, 7/6, 10/, 12/6, 15/, 17/6 and £1. Each bmoch worth four times its price.— At David Silk, Jeweller, Queen St.—Ad.