TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Marama made her first visit ta this port to-day as an oil-burner. The Niagara resumed her voyage to Vancouver this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Auckland Education Board holds its first meeting of the new- year to-morrow. The Surrey will arrive at the powder anchorage from London on Thursday night. Pairs competition in the Dominion bowling tournament proceeding at Dunedin. Taneatua railway station, <m the Bay of Plenty line, to be officially opened to-morrow morning. Dead heat in the 50 yards Auckland championship at the Mount Eden Baths last night between Adamson and Fairgray. The habitual criminal who escaped yesterday morning from Mount Eden Prison was recaptured this morning in Grey Lynn. Tremendous gas and petrol explosion in Berlin. Five people killed and a large number extricated suffering from injuries Many houses collapsed. Newest Paris fashion dictates dinner jackets for ladies exactly the same as men's, but with the necessary feminine fal de lals and a velvet collar. The widow of Rev. W. Christy, just dead of poison in Ohio, confesses that she murdered him and her four previous husbands for the insurances on their lives. Wellington Racing Club's summer meeting opens at Trentham to-morrow. The Wellington Cup and Stakes are the leading events of the first day's programme. Prime Minister announces the addi» tion to the Cabinet of Messrs. Young, Hawken, and F. J. Rolleston. Mr. Downie Stewart takes over the AttorneyGeneralship. A special meeting of the Manukau County Council will be held on Friday morning to consider the proposed regulations for the control of motor buses, and also road matters. New Imperial Relations Department to be established by the Prime Minister, with Mr. F. D. Thomson, at present chief private secretary to the Premier, as its permanent head. Sir George Beatson, surgeon at the Glasgow Cancer Hospital, doubts that Dr. Gye and Mr. Barnard have isolated the cancer germ. He believes that what they found was a synthetic creation of photography. Wife of an Auckland accountant who has been missing from home since January 11 has received a letter stating he intended to commit suicide. A similar intent is expressed in a letter received from the missing man lay his employers. Auckland's leading expert fur renovators and remodellers are now accepting all fur work at reduced summer prices. Bring your old fur coats and furs to the old reliable firm—Empire Furriers, opposite Town HalL—(Ad.) Men's clothing and mercery sale now started; sweeping reductions. The Economic, Queen Street, right opposite Town Hall.—(Ad.) A doctor writes: "Hall's Wine as a< tonic vitaliser is, in my judgment, unrivalled." — (Ad.)