TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 224, 22 September 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Manukau bar is workable to-day. The -N.S.W. Rugby team meets North Auckland at Whangarei to-morrow. Grammar School concert at Town Hall to-night in aid of the school sports fund. Brilliant display of the Aurora Australis witnessed at Gisborne and Masterton last night. The Athcaic, which radios that she will arrive at Auckland to-morrow morning, is bringing nearly 400 immigrants. There arc ]00f> men on the newly found osmiridium. field in Tasmania. It is in barren country, and is only capable of supporting 300. Tlie racing correspondent of the London "Times" says doping of racehorses is common. Some could not have madsuch good time without stimulation. It is not yet definite that the Australian cricket eleven will tour the Dominion on its way to England, but word to this" effect is hoped for within a few days. Crash between two motor cars at Onehunga last evening resulted in a lady passenger in ono having to be taken to tho hospital with scalp and leg wounds. The fourth meeting of Charlie Purdy with Reg. Trowern at the Town Hall last, night provided an exhibition of boxing that was disappointing. Purdy won on points. Rev. Smith-Dorrien (Prebendary of Exeter) says that Communism is an attack on Christianity, and that this Red menace can be dissipated by prayer, as the Great War was. The runaway lcopardf, reported to have been sighted yesterday at Mount Albert, has again retired to its lair. Leopards on tha prowl at night are said to give voice to "blood-curdling screams, but not a scream has yet been reported from this female of its species.