TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Maunganui arrives from Sydney at 7 a.m. to-morrow.

Man dangerously injured through being crushed between two trucks at Tβ Aroha

Bigamy charge against a Maori woman dismissed this morning at the Supreme Court.

Youth badly burned at Tauranga, through launch engine back-firing and setting cabin ablaze.

Archbishop Averill ill with laryngitis at Hamilton, but condition reported improved this morning.

The combined executives of the Winter Show have donated £100 to the Mayor's unemployment relief fund. Tli> first of the farmers' winter special excursion trains will be run from the Waikato to Hawera on June 30.

There were 527 unemployed on the official register to-day. Work has been found for 356 men to date.

Niagara resumes her voyage to Sydney at 11 o'clock to-night. Tahiti leaves Wellington for 'Frisco to-morrow afternoon.

The first presbytery in Auckland for the Marist Fathers was opened by Bishop Cleary at Mt. Albert yesterday afternoon.

The Indian hockey team defeated. Otago, at Dunedin on Saturday, by 11 goals to nil in the presence nf ]?000 people.

Sales on 'Change to-day: B.X.Z. £3 2/9, War Loan (inscr.) 5J per cent 1929 £97 17/6, British Tobacco £2 12/9, Majestic 1/3, Lucky Shot 1/3.

A sea leopard, the first seen in th« Manukau for about seven years, was captured on the mudflats near Otahuhu yesterday, and taken to the Zoo. A special train arrived this afternoon from Wellington with the exhibition sleeper. Various railway departmental heads came by the car to witness the trial run. The Auckland Winter Show closed on Saturday night with a record of £4843 in gate receipts for the ten days, just under £1000 over the £3859 "of last year. Entertaining passage at arms between the Maori Advisory.Board and the chairman- oi the N. 2. Rugby Union Management Committee dyer the Maori- tour arrangements. A chemist, shop in Queen Street broken into on Saturday and a quantity of drugs stolen. George Edward Barker was before the Court- this morning and remanded on a charge of having committed the theft.

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.) Tuesday star line: 200 pairs ladies* corsets, medium length, good fitting; pink and white, embroidered tops; -sizes, 21 to 26. Usual price, 9/11; Tuesday only, 3/6 pair.—Collinson and Williamsj Symond Street.—(Ad.) The home of guaranteed bedding. Honest prices at the new Bedding Shop, Karangahape Road" (opp. McCabe's.)—Ad. Clearance sale ladies' velour coats.— Regent Salon, top floor, H.M. Arcade. Coat week at Warrens. Velqur, rain and rejip; Save 20/, 30/, 3rd floor Strand' "Arcade:—(Ad.). Have you seen the diamond engage™.ent_ring3 selling, at half-price at David Silk's two Jewellery Stores, Queen St ? Ad