TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 113, 15 May 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I .—__ A;-' land fruitgrowers in conference. ' t< i . 1.-1 \ . Sir Rider Haggard, the famous novelist, is dead. To Aroha Trolling- Club's annual Rainfall o{ over 6.81 inches at Tau- • martinui since Tuesday. The LTimaroa sailed this afternoon on. her return trip to Sydney. Kginont Racing Club concludes its "• autumn meeting to-morrow. Six new companies have been registered in Auckland this week. The C'vrouu arrived this morning with a cargo of case oil from Sin pa pore. King Country rivers are flooded, and a large area of country is submerged. Sir .Francis Bell was sworn, in aa Prime Minister last evening at Government. J rouse, Wellington. The Rona radios that she will not reach Auckland with lief freight of raw sugar from Fiji till Sunday morning. Thomas Isaac Dance placed on probation for three years at Supreme Court to-day on a grave sexual charge. Two cases til" infantile paralysis reported to-duv— ono from Xorth Auckland and the otSer from South Auckland. .Auckland provincial fruitgrowers iv conference to-day emphatically protested against early closing of fruit shops in the city. Several bridges damaged and endangered in the province by flood waters. Weather in an unpleasantly dripping mood again to-day. "Which will yon liavo —beer or the baby V'asked Air. )•'. K. Hunt., -SAL. at the Court this morning, and the husband replied, "The baby." An armed American fleet lias induced all but four liquor ships in Runt Row to depart fur Halifax. Not a drop of blood or rum lias been spilt. The drink hill of N.S.W. has increased £295,000 this year, but it is not said if this represents increase in the price of j the commodity or increase in consumption. The Senato of {her Sydney University ■ forbade a commemoration procession > and in retaliation the students will - boycott the functions orgauised by the ; Senate. t New taxes in Franco have resulted in - increasing the price of the poorest ' tobacco 40 per cent, and of better brands 25 per cent. There "was a rush, for supi plies beforo tlte price went up (to-day). The authorities of Cambridge Univer- . sity will forbid students to use motor ? cars, on the ground that some under- • graduates iiave used cars or cycles to • take undesirable women into the coun- - try. ; Exceedingly stubborn fighting is [ taking place in the French zone in " Morocco, aud the French are finding it j difficult to dislodge these clever tribes- - men. They used the bayonet in relieving I posts. Gilligan says that the eigTit ball over " is the rottenest thing ever invented 3 in cricket. If the Australians like it ~ they should liave it, but it is unfair to ' c inflict it on the English team, the strain 1 being unnecessary.