TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 80, 6 April 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Hinemoa arrives at midday to-morrow with a cargo of fruit from Suva, Annual meeting this afternoon of subscribers to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Trelyon arrived this morning with, a general cargo from New York. Matakana due at midnight from Liverpool. Banks, insurance 'and legal offices, Stock Exchange, and Chamber of Commerce still keeping Easter vacation. City Council is going to lay a section of footpath in Queen St. in flagstones ac an experiment. The work will be done this month. Exceptionally heavy tramway traffic during the "Easter holidays. Over 17,000 people were carried yesterday by race cars alone. Victoria College -won the inter- ' Varsity sports shield at the Dunedin tourney yesterday, Otago being second and Auckland last. Two big scores yesterday in the Wel-lington-Auckland V.M.C.A. match, Dempster getting 200 for Wellington and Cooper 14G for Auckland. Final of the Auckland golf championship at Middlemore this afternoon. Prizes to be presented by the GovernorGeneral at the end of the play. City water has been discoloured in the past ten days through slips at the iNihotupu dam. Mayor points to this in emphasis of the need for filters. " Three nominations received for the Eden by-election, Sir James Gunson and Miss Melville (Reform), and Mr. H. G. R. Mason (Labour). Election on April 15. Number plates for 1926 under the Motor Kegistrations Act are being issued to-day. Over 500 yere given out at the Wellesley Street P.O. in the first three hours. Thousands of motorists were invited by gilt-edged card to drive through the new Harwich-Felbcstowe undersea tunnel. The motorists came. There is no tunnel. Drunken motorist before the Police Court to-day fined £10 and £2 costs, his license was suspended for six months, and he was ordered to pay £5 to a pedestrian whom his car knocked down. Mr. F. W. Jowett, chairman of the Labour party conference, mentioning that British workers had had their wages redueed»by £590,000,000 in five years, declares that capitalists will again drench Europe in blood. The aggregate amount invested on the totalisator at Ellerslie for the Easter meeting -was £179,379 10/, which is £33,751 less than was put through at the 1925 Easter meeting. There were 14 races this year as against 16 last year. Special 25 per cent discount sale of diamond and other gem rings for April, at David Silk's two jewellery stores. —Ad. Cheerfulness is easy when you are healthy. Hall's Wine will keep you well. (Ad.)