TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Auckland ladies' provincial golf championship opened to-day at Middlemore. Fourteen feet of water in shaft of Hikurangi mine as the result of heavy rain; 13U men idle. Busy preparations at the Prince's wharf to-day for the opening of the Winter Show to-morrow. Twelve out of the first thirteen prizes in the Big Three Art Union went south. Auckland got the thirteenth. The first trial section of flagstones in Queen Street was laid to-day between Shortland Street and Vulcan Lane. Sales on 'Change to-day: B.N.Z. £3 1/6, .Milne and Choyce (deb.) £1 5/3, Lucky Shot 1/6, Alburnia 6/, New Waiotahi 1/5. Yorkshire all out in their first innings for 155. Australia's second innings 177 for the loss of three wickets when stumps were drawn. William George Partridge, a married man, was swept from a launch into Alanukau Harbour last night. Search proved fruitless. Governor-General and Lady Alice Fei> gusson arrived in Wellington to-day on their return from their island tour la the Tutanekai. A decree nisi was granted at the Sup« reme Court this morning in an unde* fended divorce suit, and also an order for the restitution of conjugal rights. The money said to be voted by Russian ' miners to aid their British fellow workers has not arrived. Russian railwaymen are paid 12/6 weekly, and Russian miners 30/. A professional man was fined £50 this morning by Mr. Poynton, S.M., for being intoxicated while in charge of his motor car. The magistrate ordered the sup* pression of his name. The totalisator at the A.R.C. winter meeting showed an increase ot £1197 10/ compared with the 1925 Great Northern I fixture, the respective figures bein* £242,322 10/ and £241,125. A young woman of about twenty yeare was knocked down by a motor car ia Parnell this morning just after alight* ing from a tramcar. She was cut about the head and suffered a slight concussion. A team of three athletes to represent New Zealand at the Australian and New Zealand amateur athletic championships at Brisbane, in August, has been selected. It includes the Aucklander, J W. Shirley. The general manager of the Auckland municipal tramways, Mr. A. E. Ford, left by the Aorangi to-day on a cix months' visit to America and the United Kingdom, to study passenger transport in those countries. The amount put through the tota'lisa* tor by the A.R.C. yesterday was ti 2,034 10/, compared with £73,235 10/ for the concluding day of the Great sj™™ last year, a decrease Of- £1201-for the day. _The King: and Queen, with Prince Henry, motoring at Cowley, swerved t» avoid pedestrians, and struck a lady cyclist with the mudguard. The Royal party were deeply concerned The lady is said to be quickly recovering.

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