TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 283, 28 November 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Get Your New Teeth at Howey Walker's. (Ad) All Blacks play Wales at Swansea to-morrow. Third series of senior cricket matches start to-morrow. Sir Eyre Hutson has been appointed Governor of Fiji. Hauraki due on Tuesday with a cargo from tho Pacific Slope. Rona arrives on Sunday from Fiji with. a cargo of raw sugar. Takapuna Jockey Club's Spring Meeting oppns to-morrow. Dr. Dundas Mackenzie adjudicated a bankrupt this morning. Twelve new companies registered at Auckland during the week. A brief but sharp earthquake shock was felt at Masterton at 5.55 last night. A bonus of £10,000 is offered for an sfficient and economic method of exterminating the -blackberry pest. A civic reception is to be accorded a body of Samoan faipules who arrive on a visit next Wednesday by the Tofua. Fast additional express between Auckland and Wellington, making only six stops and saving 3_ hours, promised by Minister. There is an extensive, drought in Namaqualand, South Africa, and great distress among natives -who are abandoning their children. An 11-months-old child died at Christchurch yesterday afternoon from scalds through upsetting a basin of boiling water over itself. Miss Elsie Roberts, who was knocked down by a motor car in Upper Queen Street on November 3, died at the Hospital last evening. Number of bankrupts received their discharge at Supreme Court this morning, including E. S. Wheeler, late of Wheelers Stores, Ltd. Minister of Defence arrived in Auckland this morning to inspect the proposed Tamaki aerodrome site and the Devonport naval yards. The rent of the Auckland Domain has been reduced to £25 for each day of the New Zealand brass band contests, which are to be held from February 23 to February 28, inclusive. Professor Selikovitsch expresses the belief that Tut-ankh-amen was really the Joseph of the Bible, and that the coffin may be empty as the children of Israel took Joseph's bones away. Quebec City makes port this afternoon from Port Arthur, U.S.A., and the Port Hunter to-morrow from London. The Port Hunter's cargo for Auckland consists of 200 tons of explosives. Protest before the City Council last night from the Mount Eden Borough Council against the Council's decision to defer the construction of tramway extensions in the Mount Eden district. Young man who purchased prussic acid and pretended he was going to give it to a girl, in the hope that she would be frightened into marrying him, was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months and advised to keep away from the girl. Gwen Smith. 13, His Majesty's Arcade. Attractive cotton georgette frocks, also exclusive imported marocain models.— (Ad.) Striped ratine, 40 inch; usually 1/11, now selling at 1/ yard. Snedden's, Upper Symonds Street.—(Ad). Special bargain for early Christmas shoppers. Solid silver manicure sets in cases, at half the usual prices for a few days only, at David Silk, Jeweller, Queen Street.—(Ad.)