TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 242, 13 October 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

i j - .« . 1 Wrestling at tlie Town Hall this ; evening. Monthly meeting of the Auckland - Presbytery to-day. j Prime Minister had a good meeting at ; Invercargill last night. " A child died at Wanganui after eating . a mothball in mistake for a lollie. The Queensland footballers leave for home by the Aorangi at midday tomorrow. Australian Davis Cup players are ; giving exhibition matches this afternoon ■ and evening. ' A single man named Nicholson wae ' run over-'by a -tram in a tunnel at Pukehuia, and killed. Violent rain, windstorms, and bush fires are endangering lives and property in . New South Wales and Queensland. The body of Donald McConnell, aged 11J years, was found hanging by a rope • in an unfinished building at Caulfield, Victoria. The British shipowners' . representatives in 'Sydney expect the strike among . British seamen in Australia to end this week. Thick weather delayed the arrival of the Maunganui from Sydney by over five hours, the vessel not making port till early this afternoon. Man charged with burglary from ■ Symonds Street music shop arrested and \ remanded. Stolen property, the police allege, was found in a family tomb under " Grafton Bridge. A special meeting of the Auckland Industrial Association being held this - afternoon to consider voting-a sum of money to the New Zealand and Soutii Seas Exhibition. 1 It is hoped to get the Port Hacking and ; Devon away for Wellington to-day, i while the Treverbyn is expected to , follow. The Matakana will probably 1 leave for the South to-morrow. , Matter of the Harbour Board expendi- ; ture and its charges to; the owners in ■ connection with the fire on the steamer . Kent being made a cause of dispute at . this afternoon's meeting of the board. 1 The Shaw Savill steamer Arawa got • away from Wellington last evening for English ports after being held up for ' over six weeks. She carries a cargo estimated to be worth nearly a million > pounds. Despite the Disarmament Conference j at Washington, the year 1925 is a record 1 one for the 'building of new and terrible . engines of destruction, the navies of the s Powers vicing with each, other as never 8 before. i) Greatest opportunity ever offered to I investors and home-seekers on Mission - Bay Estate, • Kohimarama. Night 5 auction sales. Next Monday and Tueio day evenings, 19th and 20th instant, at '' 7.30 each evening, Chamber, of. Commerce, - Swanson Street. Send for litho plane g to C. F. Bennett, N.Z, Insurance Buildt ings.—(Ad.) - -••-■ The Empire's Spring Sale "is now on. c Marvellous bargains in English, fur coats, - stolesj and chokers. -To*" buy now is to " save money.—Empire Furriers, opposite ,; Town Hall.—(Ad.)