TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 2 November 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The elections throughout U.S.A. will take place to-morrow. Xew cadet club room at the Drill Hall opened to-night. Wholesale price of sugar down a further 10/ per ton to-day. Prime Minister speaking at Onehunga and Town Hall to-night. Yesterday was the anniversary of the foundation of Marlborough province. The A.J.C. Derby winner Manfred, won tlie Victorian Derby on Saturday. The British bowlers will arrive in Aucklaud by the Aorangi ou December 21. St. Helier's Bay school war memorial gates officially opened yesterday afternoon. Increase of £0395 in tlie totalisator turnover at the Te Aroha trots on Saturday. The election of the four Maori members to tlie House of Representatives will take place to-morrow. A motor car salesman fined £10 today and his license cancelled for six months—intoxicated while in charge of a car in YVyndham Street. Picture theatres in Auckland have shown a drop of about twenty per cent in receipts during the present election campaign. Max Linder, the brilliant French film actor, and his wife both committed suicide at Baltimore. U.S.A., by severing arteries in their wrists with a razor. lt is alleged that the Greeks who recently invaded Bulgaria laid a large district* waste, taking everything of value, and destroying the whole harvest. The French army in Syria has, since 1920, lost (iOOO men, killed and missing. This includes native levies, who probably account for the larger proportion.

The ex-Kaiser says that far from ever referring to the British Army as "Tho Contemptible Little Army," lie continually emphasised its high value, and warned his staff not to under estimate it. A correspondent, writing to an English | mi, declares that the French bombarded tlie poor quarters of Damascus for 24 hours, destroying thousands of men, women and children, burying them in ruins. The New Zealand-bred Pilliewinkie, won the Melbourne Stakes on Saturday, beating tbe Australian champion, Windbag. Pilliewinkie was recently purchased by Sir Samuel Hordern for £2500. Dr. Spahlinger, the discoverer and manufacturer of a serum which, it is claimed, gives cure and immunity from tuberculosis, is ill, and is about to sell tlie horses and cattle which were the basis of his research.

Dr. Stresemann, the German statesman, says that it was a cruel and poisonous forgery to say Germany used soldiers' corpses for commercial purposes in the war. The factories were used for the disposal of beasts that had beeu killed. The Prime Minister's speech from the Town Hall to-night will be repeated simultaneously to the overflow meeting, Grey Street.side, by Ratlio loud speaker apparatus ' by 'Tricity Hpuse., of Customs Street East.—(Ad.)