TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Drink Imperial Stont. None Better. (Aα.) No improvement in the position of the southern waterfront deadlock. Xorth Otago knocked tip 130 in their first innings yesterday against Victoria. A large number of undefended divorce cases before the Supreme Court to-day. Marama still held up at Sydney through trouble with v her stokehold crew. Five new cases of infantile paralysis reported this morning in the Auckland health district. Quarterly, meeting of City Licensing Committee was held to-day, several transfers approved. Mr. Justice Sim fixed costs against the Crown in the recent action versus Distributors, Ltd., at £400. Record attendance of dairy managere and directors at the annual' dairy conference to-day at Southdown. Intersection play in the Auckland ■Centre pairs tournament will start tomorrow and be continued on Friday. The marine transport groups in Sydney have declared "black" all ships chartered by the Commonwealth Line. A watersider was sent to gaol to-day for three days for the theft of a -bottle of fruit salts yesterday from the steamer Kent. The Minister of Railways will address the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at its monthly luncheon to-morrow on the subject of railwayi. A ten-year-old boy who recently arrived from England with his parents, was drowned while bathing in the Manukau at Otahuhu yesterday. Sydney City Council have decided to permit the playing of tennis in tho parks on Sundays during the next three months as an experiment. The Huddart Parker Company pays a half-yearly dividend this month of 3 per cent on preference, and of 6J per cent on ordinary shares. Qualified electors have only till Friday in which to enrol within the prescribed time. After March G they are liable to a penalty for neglect to enrol. Takapuna ratepayers approved the new agreement between the borough: council and the tramway company respecting fares by a three to one majority. A six-weeks-old baby was killed at Woodville yesterday through the Wel-lington-Napier express dashing into a motor car. The mother and father are now in hospital. Eczema Psoriasis—loo per cent cure. No to suffer. Consult Nurse VaneWallace, Svmonds Street (over Snedden's.) —(Ad.)