TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 79, 5 April 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Oat Malt Stout. Makes You Feel Better. (Ail.) Orange Conference in session at theNewton Road hall. Burglar rifled a Ponsonby Road fruit shop in the week-end. [Nominations due at noon to-morrow for the Eden by-election. C'.J.C. Autumn meeting opened at Riccarton to-day and concludes to-lUol--10 w. Fire totally destroyed a five-roomed house at Tauiaki West at 5 o'clock this morning. Twenty-three eases of mild diphtheria among school children at Ivaitangata have been isolated. Intersection play in the Auckland Easter bowling tournament matches at the Carlton green to-morrow. Semi-final and final of the Auckland Provincial golf championship will be played to-morrow at Middlemore. Smash at Takapuna this morning between a motor car and a steam tram, the car being considerably damaged. A married woman employed as housemaid at the Wai tenia ta Hotel was killed yesterday morning by falling from a, third floor window to the pavement. Collision this morning between a. motor lorry and a taxicar at the cornet of the Great South and Campbell Roads. Taxi badly damaged and a passenger Injured. A single man of about 45 years. Albert Edwin Robinson, whose parents live ill Auckland, was burned to death this morning in a fire at a private hotel at Manunui. The totalisator at Ellerslie on Saturday handled £86,240 10/, which was £13,566 10/ less than on the opening day last year, when, however, eight races were run. The day's card contains only seven this Easter. A crowd of 50,914 attended the Dunedin Exhibition on Saturday, only 57 short of New Years Eve record. Tae total attendance is now just under two and a-half millions, or nearly twice the population of the Dominion. Unusual accident at the military sports at Epsom on Saturday, the mounts of two troopers meeting in a head-on collision at full gallop. One horse was killed on the spot, the other had to be destroyed, and both riders were hurt. Easter visitore. Sample lot velour coats, raincoats, costumes, jumpers. We will save you pounds. —3rd floor, Strand Arcade. Warren's.— (Ad.) For good buying you should inspect the half-price windows and other great bargains displayed at David Silk's two jewellery stores, Queen Street.—(Ad.) White taxis, special wedding car, finest in New Zealand. Cadillac limousine, 15/ per hour. 'Phone 45-000.—(Ad.)