TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 308, 29 December 1924, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Imperial Ale is a valuable appetiser. (Ad.) Miss Dixon for New Year Hat 6 i All Blacks beat London Counties by 28 to 3. Variable and unseasonable holiday weather. "Racing at Ellerslie to-morro-w. Chief event the Summer Cup. Second day of the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting at Alexandra Park today. Three Christchurch-owned horses filled the leading places in the Auckland Trotting Cup. Section play in Auckland Christmas tournament being continued to-day on six greens. Two cases of infantile paralysis reported to the Auckland health authorities on Saturday. The Rangiriris were in a state of quagmire on Boxing Day, and 16 motor cars were held up. Toftta arrived this morning from the Western Pacific Islands with passengers and a quantity of fruit. Huntly Presbyterian Church and several dwellings destroyed by fire about midnight on Saturday. The Governor-General. Sir Charles Fergusson, arrives to-morrow- morning on his first official visit to Auckland. Two surf-bathing fatalities over the week-end are reported, also the drowning of a ten-year-old girl near Marsden Point. Robert YViffen' '30) remanded till Wednesday on a charge of assaulting John Bailey, who is at present in hospital. Heavy rain and flood in South Canterbury. Heavy losses of stock and damage to roads, bridges and cereal crops in low-lying country. The totalisator turnover at the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday was £80,030 10/. which is £11.518 more than on Cup Day last year. On Christmas Day in a Swiss forest a man named Jauch shot one named Ashwonden in continuation of a family feud which began 238 years ago. Negro delegates from Africa are touring Russia under Soviet guides. Communists in South Africa intend to "frc* the enslaved blacks from the British yoke." In Plunket Shield match against Canterbury, which began on Saturday, the Auckland eleven made only 88 runs in the first innings, against 214 by Canterbury. " The Green Crescent Society, a Turkish prohibition organisation, declares that young Turkish women of the upper class are taking to drink in supposed imitation of the smart set of other countries. The society prescribes outdoor games as a substitute. The opening of the Holy Door by the Pope to inaugurate Holy Year in Romo was a spectacle of unparalleled magnificence. His holiness effected the actual opening by striking the masonry with a golden hammer, the fastening being so contrived that the door opened after two blows. ' Visitors, don't miss this opportunity and come to 3rd floor Strand Arcade. Big New Year bargains, Warren's noted show rooms. — (Ad.) Life's -whole outlook is altered *-<*hen you let Hall's wine build up your health.—(Ad.)