TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 3 November 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Melbourne Cup run at Remington to-day. Butter comes down twopence per lv this week. The Wirral radios that she will now arrive from Montreal at S o'clock this evening. Trout fishing season in the Taupo and Rotorua district opened with some excellent baskets. Among tho immigrants who arrived at Wellington on Saturday by the Rotorua were 43 for Auckland. The Union Company's new cargo steamer Waipahi paid her first visit to the port this morning. Negligent driving alleged against a senior detective in civil action this morning. Counter claim by defendant. The police at Waihi raided premises on which home brewed beer was manufactured and a prosecution is expected to follow. Final election campaign flurry to-night. Polling day to-morrow throughout New Zealand for the European seats. Maori elections to-day. Agreement reached in the concrete manufactures dispute, the workers being granted an increase hi accordance with the Arbitration Court's decree. The French burnt the Syrian villages svipposed to shelter brigands, rendering everybody homeless. All these people are now included (by the French) under the generic title "brignnde." Fine of £50, alternative two months' imprisonment, plus cancellation of his license for twelve months, imposed today on Joseph Bealc for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. There has been violent lighting at Fremnntle between strikers and the police, ami n large number of broken heads on both sides. The police showed a marked coolness and discipline under exceedingly rough conditions. "There is generally such ;i lot of hot air uhnut at this' time that electricity is at a discount." said Mr. \V. .1. Holdswortli. chairmnn-nf tin , Auckland Power Hoard, when moving a resolution iliat 11ip whole stall - In- granted a h:\lf-day holiday on election day.