TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Trotting at Ashburton to-day. Annual church parade of the Girl Guides at the Town Hall to-morrow afternoon. A waitress, returning to her home in Sydney last night, was shot dead in the street. The murderer escaped. The Auckland ladies' provincial golf tourney will be held next week at Mid* dlemore, starting on Tuesday. Auckland's first community sing-song of the present winter will be held next Wednesday at the Strand Theatre. The Remuera is due at 9 o'clock tonight from Southampton. Her passengers will disembark to-morrov morning. The NJZ. cricketers defeated Worcester County by 194 runs. The county men were dismissed lor 209 in their second innings. The trial has commenced in Rome of the youth Lucetti who threw a bomb at a mot,.r car containing Signor Mussolini last September. New Zealand Made shopping week will start in Auckland on Monday, while on Wednesday a five days' display will open in the Town Hall. The steamer Foyle arrived last night from St. John, New Brunswick. No passenger steamer will arrive in New Zealand next week from Sydney. A two-days meeting of the AngloCatholic clergy in England has agreed unanimously that the revised Prayer Book is not acceptable in its present form. The sinister Soviet organisation known as the Cheka has revived the Red terror in Moscow. Twenty members of the former Russian aristocracy have been executed. Mr. Clarence Chamberlain, the American airman who recently flew from New York to Germany, says a non-stop round the world flight of 30,000 miles is not impossible. A Spaniard named Gomez, living in Paris, after killing four children, jumped on to the sill of a sixth storey window and blew out his brains, his body crashing into the street below. Britain will make another bid to capture the world's long distance flight record on Tuesday, when Lieutenants Carr and Mackworth wilj make a fresh attempt to reach Karachi, a distance of 4100 miles. The N.Z. Rugby League president han not yet received any official intimation that the residential ban has been removed, as reported by cable. Brown and Davidson, whose transfer to Wigan was lately refused, express themselves as delighted at the altered position. Sales on Tlhange to-day: Bank of Australasia £14 18/, Huddart Parker £2 7/, Alburnia 4/7.

At our Half-price Sale on Monday we will sacrifice real marmot, chapelle, and electric seal coats. Beautiful coats iu black and brown, worth 2Sgns, Monday 3 ■ price lOgns.—Empire Furriers, opp. Town HalL— (Ad.) Something new. Ask to see electric vacuum cleaner, £13 10/. —Wingatc's, opp. G.P.O.— (Ad.) Monday Special Day at the Model Furriers. 18 only, natural, biege, smoked, brown, etc., real fox chokers, full size pelts to be sacrificed below cost. 12 only, natural fox chokers, 35/, wonderful value to keen buyers.—oo, Karangahape Road.— (Ad.) Kellaway's S.C.D., 50 x TO, bush ruga 4/11, D. bed marcella quilts 12/11, 58 x 78 white flannelette blankets 3/11 each, 60 inch stripe ticking !/!-§ yd.—Newmarket.—^4.d.)

The "Empire's" trade is stupendous. Why? Because a discriminating public knows that The Empire Furriers sell only the best, but at bargain prices. Address: Opposite Town Hall. —(Ad.) Second-hand jewellery, bought, sold, renewed, exchanged or re-made. Newdesigns submitted at David Silk's 2 Jewellery Stores, Queen Street. — (Ad.) Readers of this column are strongly advised to get in early on Monday to the' Half-price Sale at The Empire Furriers. Fox furs at give-away prices.— Opposite Town Hall.—(Ad.) Don't forget Monday, Special Day, at the Model Furriers. Furs and fur coats being sacrified. Must clear heavy stock. Our loss your gain.—G. Green, 99, Karangahape Road. —(Ad.) New Zealand has never dreamed of such wonderful bargains as are now being cleared at The Empire Furriers' Half-price Sale. —Opp. Town Hall.—Ad. The finest furs at 50 per cent less than elsewhere are only to be had at Tha Empire Furriers, opp. Town Hall. —Ad. Kelleway's S.D.C. Ladies' marocaine overalls 2/11, children's tweed coats 5/11, all wool jazz jumpers 5/11. — Opposite Tram Safetv Zone, Newmarket. (Ad.) A well-known doctor writes: "1 consider Hall's Wine one of the finest tonics.' —(Ad.) The Model Furriers are offering a few only, real white fox chokers, full size, whole skins, guaranteed, at £14, were 25 guineas. A bargain not to be missed, j G. Green, 99, Karangahape Road.—(Ad.)