TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 53, 4 March 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Hinemoa sails for Norfolk Island this afternoon. The training ship Iwate sailed for Noumea last evening. Eose and Hahn meet for the fourth time to-night at Master-ton. The schooner Kaimiloa returned from a fishing trip to Russell this morning. The commission, of injuiry into the Wairau stream bridge is still sitting. Regulations have been drafted for the .conduct and control of hairdressers' establishments. Xew regulations governing the B.A. degree course are to operate immediately. A higher standard is the object. Adnmson and Fairgray in the re-swim for the fifty yards championship of Auckland last night, again dead heated. Mr. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning suggested a new rule of the road for motor cars after hearing of collision case. Shocking fatality near Shannon. A motor car and its sole occupant, Mr. W. Campbell of Tokomaru blown to pieces by an explosion. The Harbour Board ambulance has been discontinued, and waterfront ambulance work will be carried out by the St. John Ambulance. An unconfirmed report states that a fine at the torpedo factory at the Kure naval arsenal resulted in the destruction of the main portion of the building, with. the plant An action between Sims, Cooper and Company and the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company involving damages of over £500 commenced at the Supreme Court this morning. Tragedy atClevedon early this morning when a farmer in the Otau settlement cut the throats of his two infant children. He "then attemped to commit suicide by cutting his own throat. The Mount Eden Borough Council feels dissatisfied with the Tramway Department's delay in attending to the rails in. Mount Eden, and will at Monday's meeting consider what action will he taken.