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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 78, 3 April 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Fine weather for the holiday. Special Easter services at most of the churches to-morrow. Hinemoa due from Suva with, a cargo of fruit on Monday afternoon. St. John Ambulance intercolonial competitions at the Domain to-day. Launch burned on Lake Taupo, owner having a half-mile swim to shore. Auckland provincial golf championships opened at Middlemore to-day. Auckland Easter bowling tournament being continued to-day and Monday. Canadian Challenger sails this afternoon for New York, Boston, and Montreal. Heavy railway traffic to Dunedin for Easter period, and record attendances at Exhibition. Races to-day at Masterton, Eeilding. Tuapeka and Riverton, and trots at Christchurch and Hawera. Heavy outward and inward rail traffic on Thursday night, but business very slack last night and to-day. Races on Easter Monday at Ellerslie. Feilding, Wairarapa, Waipukurau, Riccarton, Rivertcn, Beaumont, and Kumara. Another deliberate attempt at railway derailment is reported from Palmerston North line, the third within a short period. Inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the jockey, Preston, resumed on Thursday afternoon and adjourned for further evidence. Auckland dismissed the minor associations team for 12S yesterday and then knocked up 359 for the loss of six wickets. The game was resumed this morning. Two fatal motor accidents on Thursday evening, an elderly man being knocked down by a car at the Remuera P. 0.. and a middle-aged married woman meeting her death in a similar accident at Onehunga.

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