TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

» - Oat Malt Stout—Best Spring Tonic. (Ad.); Anglican Synod resumed its business this afternoon, aud is expected to finish) to-morrow evening. The Maori Rugby team opened their tour of England with a win against Somerset by 21 to 8. Heavy downpour of rain yesterdayafternoon niarred a promising week-end. The glass is now rising. The Caulfield Cup on Saturday was won by Manfred, with the ex-Xew; Zealander, The Banker, second. Arrangements are now completed for the Waitemata Power Board to take over the Devonport borough area. E. J. Moss and A. J. Shaw tied for tho Xew Zealand open golf championship on Saturday, aud will play oil' next Thursday. The cricket season was opened in Wellington and Christchurch on Saturday, when the scoring generally was on the low side. The main playing ground at Eden Park is undergoing extensive drainage and returfing in preparation for the interprovincial cricket season. A man who was caught by a policeman in the act of drinking milk from a jug at the front door of a Hobson StreeD house, was fined to-day £1 and costs. The New Zealand League team on. Saturday defeated the powerful Hull side by 15 to 13. This was the first defeat sustained by Hull in 36 matches. The late Sir Arthur Myers bequeathed £2000 for the purchase of pictures for the City of Auckland, and £500 for the Hebrew congregation for charitable purposes. Charles Powell Cooke, w T ho, among other offences, broke into a store at Wiri recently and stole £12 worth of groceries, was this morning committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The water is now lapping over the platform of the Mercer railway station, while the main road is under 3ft 4in of water. It is hoped that the flood has now reached its maximum. A single middle-aged man, Thomaa George Cooper, an inmate of the Auckland Infirmary, was found dead in his bath early this morning. At the inquest the coroner returned a verdict of suicide. The Auckland Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday showed a decrease in the totalisator turnover of £5449 compared with the first day of the spring meeting last year. Sales on 'Change to-day: B.X.Z. £3 1/, South British Insurance £2 19/9, Wilsons Cement £1 13/6, New Waiotahi 1/4, Alburnia 5/1, 5/2, 5/, Moanataiari 2/1, 2/2, Mount Lyell £1 8/3. The death occurred at the Auckland Hospital last evening of Angus Joseph Jamieson, a middle-aged, married man, an inmate of the Auckland Infirmary, i who sustained a fractured skull on ' Thursday morning last through an . accidental fall. Mr. Justice Herdman decided to-day, in reference to the Takapuna tramways purchase proposal, that electors as con- ■ stituted by the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, can vote on all matters upon which ratepayers are allowed to vote, excepting proposals relating to loans and rates. Butter dishes, 3-piece English make, - silver plated; usual prices, 5/, G/, 6/0; centre bargain price for Tuesday only 2/6 at David Silk's two jewellery stores, Queen St.—(Ad.) Forty-five thousand—White Taxis' telephone number—3o weddings booked last month. Secure your cars.—(Ad.) English pleated skirts, 17/0; clearing samples. Simply w r onderful value.— 3rd floor, Warrens, Strand Arcade.—Ad. Keen buyers invited to Greatest Sale ever held. Rings, watches, clocks, jewellery, silver, silverplate ware, art china, cut glass, etc. Displayed half-price and less. Choose gifts now. David Silk's 2 Jewellery Stores, Queen St. Small deposits taken. (Ad.)