TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lion Ale is Sustaining and Refreshing. (Ad.) Concluding day of the Te Aroha races. The North Island croquet tournament opens at Auckland to-morrow. ■ Annual meeting held this afternoon o£ the District Railway Advisory Board. Duchess of York called by Maoris Kahurangi—"something rare and beautiful." Troops have taken up positions outside the International Settle-' ment in Shanghai. A young man named Athol James Aley was fined £10 at ths Police Court this morning for bookmaking. A well-known farmer, Walter Y\ illiaui, Jones, was found dead at Mangarongiv , with a gunshot wound in his head. ; Only one sale on the Auckland Stock) Exchange to-day, a parcel of Auckland ' Gas shares (con) changing hands at 14/0. The Marama arrives from Sydney tomorrow morning, her passengers includ- \ ing the members of the League football; touring team. Weird marriage customs amongst ;i hitherto unknown race of pigmies in ' Dutch Xew Guinea are described by ;i returned expedition. , About 15,000 people visited tha • Renown in the week-end, and another large crowd looked over the battlecruiser this afternoon. A delegate from the Chinese National-. ists has arrived in Tokyo for the furtherance of a possible fuller understanding with Japan. The resignation of the French Premier, • if. Poincaro, is hinted at owing to the difficulties of the inter-Allied debt question and electoral reform. Another diamond rush in the Transvaal drew a field of 1700 starters. A, false start was made and numerous claims have been illegally pegged. The Maori Rugby footballers will land home by the Tahiti to-morrow morning from their tour in France and England. They will bo given a civic reception at Auckland.

The rainfall at Auckland this month has totalled 5.5S inches, which is 2.55 inches above the February average, but a long way below the record fall of 12.67j inches established'in February, 1917. ,

Two American flying officers were killed at Buenos Ayres as the result of a j collision between two aeroplanes of the \ U.S. Air Force squadron which is on a 20,000 mile flight round South America. :

The Tahiti radios that she will arrive at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning from Vancouver and Suva. Among her;through passengers is Ignace Paderewski, the famous pianist and Polish patriot.

John Francis Holcombe, the movie director who confessed some time ago to being a victim of the cocaine habit, was to-day sentenced to three months' inn prisonment for a breach of probation and false pretences.

Rotorua gave an enthusiastic welcome to the Royal visitors on Saturday afternoon, despite the drizzle of rain which' vainly tried to dampen the ardour oc Maori and pakeha. To-day, in brilliant weather, the combined tribes made, a, magnificent display on A raw a. Park. The Frenchman and his wife who were fcharged with vagrancy on Saturday] were this morning ordered up for sentence when called upon, provided they, took the first available steamer for Tahiti. The man was also ordered to pay £2 1/ in costs and to forfeit a fully loaded automatic pistol.

School girls' and boys' wristlet' watches, complete with black ribbon belt, silver mounted, Swiss made. Guaranteed good timekeepers. Usual prise, 20/. Centre bargain price for Tuesday only, 9/6 at David Silk's 2 Jewellery] Stores, Queen Street.—(Ad.)

Till Thursday only Wingate's are selling Wostenholm's Sheffield stainless knives, 22/6 doz, post free (Jdoz table, 4doz dessert).—Opp. G.P.O.—(Ad.)

127 Weddings have been done by 1 White Taxis since the beginning of December.—(Ad.)

Remainder of summer stock still further reduced at Mrs. McDowell's, Uj Strand Arcade. —(Ad.)

Stripe neglige sliirte, 5/6; flannelette pyjamas, 7/6, at Kemp's better bargain sale, now going strong.—(Ad.)