TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 107, 9 May 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Imperial Ale, Sustaining. Refreshing. (Atr Wliangarei winter show opens tomorrow.

An English Rugby League team is to tour Australia in 1928.

Tom Newman retains the professional billiards championship, having defeated Joe Davis.

Hawke's Bay Jockey Club showed a decrease of £9081 for its autumn meeting. William Thomas Osmand, a bookmaker in a • small way, was fined £30 this morning. The Wairuna radios that she will arrive from the Pacific Coast at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. G. Kells beat Savidan on the scratch mark in the two miles steeplechase at the Domain on Saturday. .

The fate of New Orleans, menaced by the approaching crest of the Mississippi flood, is still in the balance.

An Auckland woman won the first prize in the Last of All Art Union, drawn on Saturday night.

The Marama is meeting with heavy weather, and will not reach port from Sydney till 5 p.m. to-morrow. The Tahiti arrived this morning at Wellington from 'Frisco and resumes her voyage to Sydney to-morrow-Captain Nungesser, a French air ace, has started on a trans-Atlantic flight from Le Bourget to Newfoundland. White Island is again active, and launches stood by yesterday to rescue the residents if an emergency came. The Manukau ten miles cycling championship was won on Saturday by the Auckland rider, M. P. Byrnes. Official opening by the Duke of York to-day of the new Federal capital of Canberra and Parliament Buildings. The Aorangi arrived this morning several hours late from Sydney and goes on to Vancouver at 11 a.m. to-morrow.

The New Zealand cricket team starts the first match of the tour to-day against Mr. H. Martineau's eleven at Holyport. The War Memorial Chapel on the Mount of Olives and the War Memorial Cemetery in Jerusalem were dedicated on Saturday. The Soviet delegates to the Economic Conference at Geneva expressed the willingness of Russia to work with capitalistic countries. , Sales on 'Change to-day: Bank of New South Wales, £47 10/; N.Z. Breweries, £1 4/; Ohinemuri Mines, 4/3 j New Waiotahi (cont.), 9d.

The Hinemoa, which is returning from Norfolk Island, is encountering an east-sou'-east gale and the time of her arrival is uncertain.

Anxiety is felt for the safety of the French airman, Captain St. Romain, who started on a trans-Atlantic flight from the coast of Africa to Brazil.

Contributions totalling nearly £2,000,000 have been received by the Red Cross for the rehabilitation of refugees from the Mississippi disaster. The revolution in Nicaragua is likely to be settled as a result of a truce signed between the opposing forces under the direction of the United States.

A middle-aged main named Georga Warren was sent to gaol to-day for three months on one of six charges of obtaining money from business people by false pretences.

Last night's outward railway, traffic was one of the heaviest Sunday nights at the Auckland railway station since the Christmas holidays. The second express drew out with 19 cars loaded with passengers.

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