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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last day of the A.It.C. meeting in Auckland. " Electrical storm and heavy rain at WhaUtaiio. Large area about Dargaville flooded. Water now subsiding. Tip' Niagara continues her voyage to Vancouver at 7 a.m. 10-morrow. Society of Arts varnishing day to-morrow for the animal exhibition. The West I'alora radios that she will arrive at midnight to-day Hoiu the I'acilic Slope. The three-masted schooner Alaroro put into Gisborne last night niter being 43 days out from Newcastle. A lire at Avondale early yesterday morning destroyed tlie Central Stores. Both stock and building were insured. Reactionaries in Japan have induced the (.'oyernment to place a linn on foreign dun,-ing except on licensed premises. ; The Ruapehu. which is coming from Liverpool with a number of immigrants, will reach Auckland on Thursday afternoon next. A young man of 22 years. Ronald Charles .Malm Hunt, sent to gaol lor six. months to-day for theft after breaking liis probation terms. Squabble between Long Bay nnd Brown's Day residents over their school aired before the Minister of Education i by a deputation this morning. I Large numbers of deaths have taken | place in the United States owing to the I al,normal heat. The beat in London I has been intolerable also causing deaths. Bulgarian police captured 30 villagers for some offence not disclosed. They tied them together. When they tried to escape all 50 wore stabbed to death. The Prime Minister is to take part in the elect ion contest for the Franklin seat, and will arrive in the electorate within the next few days for that purpose. Eight men who were found guilty of killing General Sir Lee .Stack, the Sirdar at Cairo, nre to lie executed. They struggled and screamed when the verdict was announced. The widow of an ex-Mayor of Auckland, llrs. F. At. Grey, is, by an order of the Supreme Court to-day, to benefit under her late husband's will, although no provision was made, for her in it. The names of seven prisoners before the Police Court this morning were suppressed, including the names of two men, remanded on charges of having converted a motor car at Devonport to their, own use. The first conference of the United Churches of Canada (Presbyterian. Methodist and Congregational) opened in Toronto with 1500 delegates representing a united church membership of 2..">0n.00n. Through her husband's motorcycle skidding in Remuera yesterday, and colliding with a telegraph post. Mrs. Emily F. Dohcrty, of Burgoyne Street, Newton, was thrown out of the side car md died on the way to the hospital. Northcote and Birkenhead residents waited on the Postmaster General to-day with a request for automatic telephone facilities. They wore promised consideration, and meantime tho present service will he extended. The new hours will be from 7 a.m. to !> p.m. All fur lovers should visit the Russian Fur Exhibition where n. huge display of fur samples are being cleared at less than half-price—Brunswick Buildings I (2nd floori, opposite Jiis Majesty's.— (Ad. I King 41-7(19 for vacuum and general cleaning of every description.—Vacuum Cleaning Co., Hellab»'a Buildings.—(Ad.) At tbe Russian Fur Exhibition now open to the public you will find exactly what you require in latest furs and coats at less than half-price.—Bruns-wick Buildings (2nd floor), opposite His .Majesty's.—(Ad.)