TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

City Council to-night. Sixty-one points of rain fell last night. The "general strike in Great Britain has ended.

Opening of the steeplechase season to-day at Hawera.

Prime Minister will open new post office at Paeroa next week.

The criminal cases for trial at the Supreme Court May sessions will be completed to-morrow. Motor van driver fined £5 and his license cancelled for two years for negligent driving. Six out of 14 New Zealand University scholarships gained this year by Auckland, one student winning two.

The German Cabinet has resigned. A widespread monarchist plot has been unearthed, and many arrests made. Good polls at the local county council elections yesterday, and for several seats on the Waitemata Power Board.

A bus driver on the Onehunga run; William Charles Warwick, was fined £10 to-day for the theft of £9 from his bus takings. A young man was committed for trial this morning on a charge of having stolen a saxophone from Lewis R. Eady with £43.

Indian hockey team defeated a navy team by 11 goals to 1 yesterday. First schedufed match of the tour at Te Awamutu this afternoon.

The tram conductor who was injured on Monday afternoon through his head striking a centre pole, died at the hospital early this morning.

The murder of the missing detectives in West Australia has been disclosed by the discovery of their mutilated bodies at the bottom of a disused mining shaft.

Sales on 'Change to-day: B.X.Z. £3 0/3, Pukemiro Collieries £2 7/6, Waihi £1 0/3, Alburnia 7/5, 7/6, Moanataiari 2/11, Kawarau 7/3, Lucky Shot (3d call paid) 1/3. Some anxiety being felt at the non arrival at New Plymouth of the Danish steamer Sierra Morena, which left Auckland last Saturday, and has not since been heard of.

Alfred James Dickinson to-day committed to the Supreme Court for trial on. a charge of having negligently driven a motor vehicle, thereby causing the death of Frank Wilson.

Andrew Donald on trial at Supreme Court to-day, charged with having driven a motor car negligently on the Remuera Road on April 1, and causing the death of Robert Thomas Dagg.

The Norge has radioed that she flew over the North Pole at 1 a.m. yesterday. This is the first time in the history of Arctic exploration that explorers have kept in continuous touch with their base.

Slip 11 mils-t- north of Taihape on the Main Trunk E_e last night. Line was clear again at 5 a.m. to-day. The two expresses frors Wellington are due to reach Auckland about 4 o'clock this afternoon.

Some of the classroom accommodation at the new University already overtaxed, said Professor Segar at the capping ceremony to-day. The building was planned to meet the needs of twenty years, and only five have passed since the planning.