TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Sensation at Onehunga. Borough official arrested. Racing and trotting conferences being held at Wellington to-day Birkenella. an outsider, won the £1000 Wellington Steeplechase yesterday. The Mariston left Aiakatea last Satux« day for Auckland with phosphate. Second day of the Wellington R.C. winter meeting at Trentham to-morrow. George Knowles, a returned soldier, was killed near Fordell by a tractor overturning. Schools savings banks are to be established in the Auckland district at an early date. The motor vessel Hauraki reports that she will arrive from the Pacific Coast next Wednesday. Burglars dynamited the safe at !L. Adams and Co.'s premises, City Markets, last night, but failed to burst it open. Alan Cobham's flight from England to Australia baa been abandoned, owing to a mortal injury caused to his mechanic, Elliott, by a shot fired in the desert. The Crothall Way Dry Cleaning Co.'a factory at Mt. Eden was broken into last night, and a sum of over £40 stolen from the safe. The derailment of a roadside wagon between Newmarket and Remuera this morning caused a short delay to inward railway traffic Light list of traffic department prosecutions against offending motorists and cyclists to-day, but a fairly heavy list of police actions. William Theodore Parry, a recent arrival from London, sentenced to-day to six months' imprisonment for the theft of a wallet containing £42. The Australians beat Notts by an innings and 136 runs. A two-days' match against Worcester starts to-day, and the third Test on Saturday. Claim by Alfred Hall Skelton against H. H. Seabrook for £5000 damages for alleged libel opened at Supreme Court this morning before a special jury There is great congestion of traffic in New York owing to the strike of subway men. The surface traffic system is overtaxed and -nuch inconvenience exists. Mr. J. H. Thomas had a lively twe hours' session with the Railwaymen's Conference, ending in a motion of confidence in Mr. Thomas being carried witJi only sis dissentients. Application made to Arbitration Court toflay that the wages of coach and motor-tody builders' apprentices be fixed as in other skilled trades. Court postponed decision until evidence had been heard in the other centres. t The Auckland health officer declares there is no cause for alarm regarding pneumatic influenza in the Auckland Province. Sixteen cases have been reported to date from the whole of the area, the majority being in the country, including three new cases this morning, two from the suburbs and one from Tβ Aroha Sales on 'Change to-day: Bank of Australasia £14 10/, Union Bank £15 10/, Auckland Gas £1 3/11 (Con. 11/8), British Tobacco £2 12/6, Alburnia 4/S, 4/7, Kawarau 8/1 to 7/10, 7/11 (forward 8/4, 8/3, Euranui 7d, Ohinemuri Mines 5/9, Grand Junction 1/, Colonial Sugar ,£54 5/, Taranaki Oil 13/3, Wilsons Cement £1 13/4.