TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Don't forget to order Liou Ale for Xmas. (Ail)' Between 500 and 600 immigrants will arrive from London by the Rotorua early ori Friday morning. The 36th -annual chess championship tourney of New Zealand opens at Auckland on Boxing Day. Sales on 'Change to-day Moanataiari 5/ 4/10, Pukemiro Collieries £2 IS)/, Kawarau 3/3, Waihi 16/9. The Maori footballers will be quartered at Paris for the remainder of their tour, which closes on January 26. Civic reception tendered the New South. Wales lawn tennis team at the City; Council Chamber this afternoon. The three expresses from Wellington this morning landed between them approximately 900 people In Auckland. A two-storeyed grocery store and an adjoining furniture store in Queen Street, Onehunga, were damaged by fire this morning. Clifford Webb Verran was fined £23 oil each of four charges this morning of ■laving made false entries under the Customs Act. The electric current officially turned on within the Waitemata Power Board's area this afternoon by the Minister of Public Works. All taxis in Auckland will have to carry- taxi metere after January 1, and owners are now preparing for the enforcement of the by-law. Further argument iv the application for an injunction against the No. 2 Motor Bus Licensing Authority has been adjourned till January 14. Over 500 passengers arrived by the second express-- from Wellington thie morning, including 150 immigrants who arrived from London by the Athenic. The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross returnt . this afternoon from her three months' cruise among the Solomons and New Hebrides. Three large sharks estimated to be each between eleven and twelve feet long eeen off the Western wharf thie morning. Two of them were hooked, but both broke away. As a result of the recent increase in the wholesale price of sugar, it ie understood the local storekeepers are increasing their selling price by 6d per 701b bag. There is no alteration in smaller packages. Out of a total of £401,644 the sum of £188,279 of the city ratee have been collected. It is expected that before the penalty operates on January 15, about 90 per cent of the total will be in the city treasury. The boy who escaped from the Children's Court on Saturday was recaptured last night, and thie morning sent to the .Borstal Institute for three years. He admitted having stolen a wallet containing £4 10/ since hie escape. The Takaipuna bus tangle was before the S.M. Court again to-day, when Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., who had been directed by Mr. Justice Adams to impose a penalty en A. H. Smith, proprietor of the Yellow Buses, inflicted a nominal fine of 10/ and costs 30/. Cake baskets, best silver-plate on nickel silver, English made, usual prices, 25/ and 30/. Centre bargain price for Thursday only 10/ at David Silk's 2 Jewellery Stores, Queen St. —(Ad.) Special Xmas Attraction.—Real marmot, squirrel and chapelle coats at onefourth their value. Beautiful coats worth £28 for £10. Clearance Sale, Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Xmas Poultry: if you want frest, clean poultry for Xmas dinner come to White Fish Shop,,near reservoir, Newton. Turkeys, ducks, geese, cockerels, and fowls all ready for the oven.—(Ad.)j Xmas cakes, mince pies, plum puddings. Dundee mince cake, shortbread,— Ye Olde English Cake Shoppe, Wellesley, Street.—(Ad.) The K.K. Shoe Store, Karangahape Road, is crowded daily with visitors to the Queen City. They are laying in stocks for future and present needs. (Ad.) Get in early and secure a real fox fur worth 12gns for 3gns. End of Season Sale. —Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. (Ad.) Send flowers for Christmas. Arrangement made for delivery Xmas morning. 'Phone Miss Carney, 21, Karangahape Road, 40-035.—(Ad.) Xmae presents at Wiseman's, cheapest place for attache cases and travel goods, Wiseman's tennis goods.—Wiseman's, Queen Street and Karangahape Road.— (Ad.) Automatic Wtstinghouse electric irons, 42/6, and all electrical Xmas gifts. Turnbull aud Jones, Ltd., Wellesley St. E. Ad. Tennis racquets, English, 65/, 50/,' 40/. 30/, 25/, 15/G; tennis balls, 4/ pair t W. J. Heape, 105, Queen St.—(Ad.) A dream garden for Christmas shoppers, unique and delightful, 3rd flour, Strand Arcade, Warren's. — (Ad.) She would be delighted with a beautiful fox fur for Xmas. Originally 12gns, now :3gns, at End of Season Sale.— Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall.—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. Choosa gifts now. David Silk's 2 jewellery stores, Queen St. Small deposits taken. —(Ad.)