TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 9 April 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland Centre Easter bowling tournament starts to-morrow. No new cases of infantile paralysis in the Auckland health district to-day. Auckland provincial golf championships start at Middlemore on Saturday. Sculling match between Pat Hannan and Darcy Hadfield at Tauranga on Saturday. A.J.C. Autumn Meeting opens at Sydney on Saturday. Doncaster Handicap run. Racing on Saturday at Feilding and Wairarapa, and trotting at Hawera and Christchurch. Prices obtained for the first of the season"s shipment of apples to London are exceptionally good. The City of Madras is flue at Auckland on Saturday morning from New York with general cargo. The Ranfurly Buildings, in Queen Street have been purchased by Mr. Le Eoy, the present occupier. Auckland cricket reps, leave to-night to play Taranaki at New Plymouth, starting to-morrow afternoon. Fatal dive by a ship's fireman from an electric crane platform on Queen's wharf yesterday afternoon. A middle-aged drug addict, Thomas Bilcliff, died from an overdose of heroin at the Waitemata Hotel last evening. Three Waitemata Rowing Club crews leave by the express to-night to take part in the Wanganui regatta on Saturday. The building permits issued in Mt. Eden borough for the year ended March 31, were of an estimated value of £186,559. The Greek steamer Electra Stravroudi radios that she will arrive on Saturday morning with a hardwood cargo from Bunbury, W.A. For stealing a gold watch from the cabin of the captain's steward on the Aorangi, John Brown Dunlop was sent to gaol to-day for a month. In Chicago the authorities have discovered a vast law-breaking business run like any other commercial organisation and with world-wide antennae. Marshal yon Hindenburg, the aged German military leader, refuses to be> a candidate for the presidency. He saya he has never bothered with politics. A.R.C. Easter meeting opens at Ellerslie on Saturday, when the Great Northern Champagne Stakesr the Oaks, and the Easter Handicap will be run. The Victoria (8.C.) Great War Veterans' Association have protested that the freedom of the seas exists no longer when the United States, in carrying out its dry law, searches for and captures British ships suspected of carrying liquor outside the twelve miles limit. George Leo Gussy, described as an assistant pastor of the Church of the [ Assembly of God, is alleged to have " sold all the church equipment, worth ! £00, for £7 10/, and got married on the i proceeds. He reached the Police Court this morning. Remanded for inquiries.