TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume 23, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

City Council to-night. lielcnsville Show to-morrow. Lord ami Lady A lien by arrived at Wellington this morning. University scholarships- results are published on another page. Good progress made to-day in Auckland provincial tennis championships. Final combined meeting of the Play Association at Carlo,w Park to-day, over 500 children taking part. Dr. Stopford, formerly of the Now South Wales Legislative Council, and previously of New Zealand, is dead. A young man who stole tho whole of a bather's clothes from a swimming bath was remanded this morning for sentence. Lord and Lady Allenby left by the Limited Express last night for Wellington en route to Dunedin and Queenstowu. Electric lighting of Waitomo caves now practically completed, nnd lanterns and magnesium flares are now things of the past. The superintendent of the Hamilton Fire Brigade fell through a skylight, last night while directing the operations of the brigade. Two girls, 10 and 12 years of age, were drowned while bathing in the Wanganui River yesterday through being swept off their feet by the current. . ill of 16 "years killed Inst evening in a motor smnsh on the Edendale Road. A lad of 16 years Wind to be sent to hospital from the same car. Robinson, the adventurer involved in the "Mr. A." case f Hurl Singh, the extremely wealthy Indian rajah 1 is bankrupt. Assets. 10/: liabilities, £SSSS. Teachers' Summer School at Cambridge has closed. It was so great a success that the movement is expected to become permanent and to be greatly extended. ft. Ramsay, of the crew of tho Mnrama, bad his arm -torn off. The captain attended him. Marama reached Sydney two hours abend of time. Ramsay in hospital. Horticutural Conference nt Dunedin carried a resolution in favour of establishing a national botanic garden for Xew Zealand. Dunedin being suggested as the most suitable site. Marshall, who is tit present serving a term of five years for attempting to rob the Newmarket Savings Bank, was sentenced to three months at the Police. : Court this morning for carrying a revolver without a license. flood variety of Anni versa ry Day sports and amusements for to-morrow. In addition to the regatta there aru races at Takapuna. cricket championships at Eden Park and .Devonport. tennis championships, rowing regatta at Hamilton, bowling tournaments, and the usual water excursions.