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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 24 August 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Food Tonic, Beverage—Oat Malt Stout. (Ad.) Moeraki arrives from .Sydney at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Ponsonby won the Roope Rooster from City on Saturday at Carlaw Park. Annual meeting at Auckland to-mor-row of the New Zealand Friesian Association. Over £.50,000 was passed through the lotalisators at the Auckland Trotting Club's Fleet Meeting on Saturday. Forty vessels of the U.S. Fleet left Wellington this morning. Heavy rain, thunder and hail made a gloomy departure. The U.S.N, storeship Arctic sailed this morning for Pago Pago, and the Medusa and Kanawha will leave at daybreak to-morrow. _. Rumours of an early general election, in order that it may not clash with, the opening of the Dunedin Exhibition; on November 17. There are one million \memployed In Germany, and two hundred thousand receive doles. The population of. Germany is 59,852,082. Rough seas frustrated the second, attempt of Colonel B. C. Freyberg, V.C., C.M.G., D.5.0., the famous New Zealand, soldier, to swim the English Channel. 'While the driver of a motor bis was making a purchase at a restaurant in, Onehunga this morning, " eomebody boarded the bus and rifled the cash-box. The Hon. R. F. Bollard paid a ceremonial farewell visit to the flagship California this morning on behalf of the Government. Commander Miles, R.N.,; also called. Sensational incident at meet of Pakuranga Hunt Club on Saturday. Runaway horse collided with the -wellknown hunter Dandy, which had to be shot. Police at Darlinghurst, Sydney, brake into the refrigerating chamber of a butcher's shop and found Herbert Wilkinson, a cleaner, dead, asphyxiated by; ammonia fumes. The Empire Press delegates yesterday motored from the King Country to NewPlymouth, and io-day are visiting Mt. Egmoet. To-morrow the partjr leaves Taranaki for Wellington. Touching immigration, and partlcuV larly the group system, Lord Burnham, president of the Empire Press Union, says the authorities in- New Zealand have been very backward. The bat, with which Hobhs macte Kβ latest century, thus beating the record of centuries made by Dr. W. G. Grace, is to be offered as a prize, the object of the competition being to benefit hospitals. Tragic drowning accident at the Manawatu Heads on Saturday, a father and four children, from. 14 to 19 years, being lost through the swamping of a smalt boat. The widow is left with, three small children of from 3 to 5 years. William Unitt, formerly of the Royal Navy, and his 14-year-old daughter, will attempt to reach New Zealand from Plymouth in a nine-ton yawl rigged boat. The . navaj. optimist expects to take four months. The flagship California leaves her berth at the Prince's wharf at 8.30 to-morrow morning, and anchors till 9.30, when she leads the American Battle Fleet to sea. The entire fleet of 6 vessels will rendezvous at a point about 280 miles northeast of Auckland. Three overseas steamers arrived during the week-end—Penmorvah on Saturday night with a part cargo of guano from the Seychelles, Benicia yesterday from Newport News, and City of Bombay yesterday from New York. The Zinal is due to-morrow with phosphate from Nauru. To-night is the last night of tho Idaho Jazz Band at the Rialto Theatre. (Ad.) Inexpensive day and evening gowns. Mabel Lawrence, 3rd floor, Brunswick Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland. (Ad.) To-night is the last night of the Idaho Jazz Band at the Rialto Theatre. (Ad.)