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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 11 December 1925, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A list of new justices of the peace is . published to-day. : Racing at Te Awamutu and trotting at Chriatckurch. to-morrow. [ Senior cricket at Eden Park and Xorth [ Shore to-morrow. Short sitting in bankruptcy at the - Supreme Court this morning, 5 New Methodist Sunday school at , Dominion' Road to be opened and dedicated to-morrow afternoon. The Maunganui sailed this afternoon • on her return to Sydney vrith. an excep- . tionally heavy passenger list. • Pedigree stock breeders express apprey ciation at the way their stock was housed. • and fed at the recent show. j Whole question of the North Shore " water supply to be considered at a. meet- [ ing of the Water Board this evening. Three miners were killed by gas in . an Alabama mine, and several badly injured. An unknown number are not yet '. rescued. The Cutcombe arrived last evening from J\ T ew Plymouth to complete the i discharge of her phosphate cargo iroin i Nauru. The question of dealing -with the Civic Square will be dealt with lsy the City Council at a special meeting in committee early next year. , The drought has broken in those • States of America where it threatened great damage. Many people have been ruined. Three people were killed in a storm. Tlie King and Queen approve of the " idea th.xt the Queen Alexandra memorial should be the Queen Victoria ' Jubile Institute for Nurses, the funds being augmented. ■ • The Commonwealth and Dominion J Line's fine new cargo steamer Port Hobart, which was specially built for the New Zealand trade, arrived on her first visit to Auckland this morning. In the carpenters' award, filed in Wellington this week, and covering all but ; Marlborough and Westland, new provisions make members of the union liable ; for non-attendance at special meetings. The building in Queen Street occupied by Lewis R. Eady and Son and" C. H. Kingsford has been sold for £40,000, or £1053 17/6 per, foot, the purchasers being , Mr. C. H. Kingsford and Mr. D. M. Foreman. Appeal against magistrate's decision in holding that the operating of valvea on coastal vessels was part of a donkeyman's duties was heard at the Arbitration Court this morning, and decision, reserved. ; Secure some of the thousand £1 bargains this Xmae displayed at David . Silk's two jewellery Stores, Queen Street. See the £1 windows.—(Ad.) Exclusive frocks; your own material made up. Mabel Lawrence, Brunswick Bldjcs., Queen St.—(Ad.) . . Ideal Christmas presents at Jas. Pascoe's. Baby bangles 9ct. gold 9/6 to 13/6. , Girl's W/6 to 18/6. Armlets 20/ to 32/6. (Ad.) ' America's latest bouquets. Miss i Carney is back —21, Karangahape Road. ; (Ad-t, .^ wr >.- v »,.,....,, __