TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 8 April 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

O.ituialt Stout Tones up the System. (Art.) L'limaron loaves Sydney to-morrow for Auckland, arriving on .Monday. No eases of infantile paralysis reported to Auckland Health Department to-day. George. IJoighway, 07 years old, nun I a his 145 th apponrau'ce at the Police Court Matthew Wrislit was lined £1 for assaulting a taxi driver in the early hours. At the Empire Exhibition only hmpiro products will be used by caterers for meals. Annual conference of (He Xcw Zealand Rugby League at Wellington on Saturday. " Sydney Parker was killed at Riverlea, near liawera, by a motor lorry out ot control. Malicno from Sydney this afternoon, sailing on her 'return at 10 p.m. to-morrow. The motor vessel TTaiiraki arrives ah noon to-morrow from the Pacilie. (.'oast with general cargo. The British tiovc.rnment has decided to revert to the gold standard lit tho end of this year. A youth of 1!) placed on probation this morning for the theft of £10 from a work mate on a farm. Prospect of a contest at Mount Eden. Mr. \V. J. Hammill has agreed to stand either for the mayoralty or for a scat, on the Council. One hundred and twenty coal mines in Britain have closed in the past three months. Twenty-five Rhondda miners arc? on the dole. A hyena broke loose in a Paris boulevard and mangled three people, creating; j a tremendous panic. The animal took I refuge in a taxi-cab. Stroncr criticism of city administration, particularly the Civic Square scheme, made at meeting of Mount Albert ratepayers last evening. A young man who attended a birthday celebration over a five-gallon keg of beer in the cemetery gully was before tho Court to-day for breaking probation rules. The Niagara has completed her overhaul at Sydney, and leaves to-morrow for Vancouver. She will reach Auckland on Monday and resume her voyage the I following day. j Arrangements have been made for the. Auckland Mariet Brothers' League team to play at Christehureh on Saturday ■ week in opening the new ground at - Monica Park.

No poll on amalgamation question enn be taken in 'Mount Albert on went, petition as it contains - 2SS informal names, and lias 171 signatures below the necessary quota. >7ev\ r Dominion -swimming record for ]00 metres established by L. L. Kron'fcld at the Tepid Baths last night, N. S. Batchclor's previous time of OSs being ] lowered by 3-.IS. All schools, including Grammar school-, in city and in Eden, Mannkau, and Franklin counties open on April IS. Attendance of teachers compulsory, bub attendance of pupils optional. During the hearing of the appeal by ] Norman Thorn against sentence of death for the murder of Elsie Cameron at Crowborough, Hie "jitdges on the Bench examined through microscopes sections of skin taken from the dead