TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The mail steamer Aorangi resumes her voyage to Sydney at 8 o'clock to-night. The steamer Wirral radios that she expects to arrive from New York on Thursday. The well-known racing boat Mies X was destroyed by fire at Orakei late yesterday afternoon. A Cross of Sacrifice, bearing the names of 1179 New Zealanders, has been unveiled in the Ypres salient. A terrific whirlwind in Victoria struck a sawmill and carried beams weighing eight tons a distance of 50yds. Sentence of death has been passed on Lieutenant Dnffield who shot his commanding officer at Gibraltar last May. The Mararaa arrives from Sydney at 7-30 a.m. to-morrow, and the Waipahi in the afternoon from the Cook Islands. The Bishop of London has been much distressed by the discovery that his episcopal ring has been lost during his recent world tour. The New Zealand cricketers made 373 runs (Dempster 178) in their first innings against Durham, who have lost eight wickets for 111. An important change in Egyptian status is foreshadowed whereby Egypt will become a formal ally of Britain instead of a protectorate. Rotorua Winter Show opens to-mor-row, and on Wednesday the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association will take place at Rotorua. One hundred workers were buried in the collapse of a textile plant at Bogota, in Colombia, South America. The number killed has not been ascertained. Bitterly cold weather in New South Wales has caused heavy losses to sheepbreeders, one landowner having 1700 newly-shorn sheep frozen to death. Germany's only woman aviator intends to attempt to emulate the feat which Alcock and Brown accomplished in 1919, a flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. Tremendous toll of life has been taken during heavy fighting in China, where the unification of command of the Northern forces, it is believed, will alter the situation. The English Rugby League has informed the colonial bodies that the residential ban on colonial players wa* lifted definitely on June 18, and that the prohibition cannot be reinstated. A Chevrolet motor van started off while standing in Mount Eden Road this morning, and after narrowly missing a tram and a motor car, finished up violently against a telephone post, getting badly damaged. Mrs. Caffla, of St. Clair, and Miss Danshire, of Wellington, tied for first place in the New Zealand Ladies' Golf Union's Coronation medal tourney. The play off will take place at Wellington next week. Novel legal point raised in the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which Robert Newton Hooker, said to have been the last of the old-time cab drivers in Auckland, claimed increased allowance under his late wife's wilL Sale* on 'Change to-day: KZ- Insurance £1 19/9. Hamilton Borough 6 per cents £103, Wilsons Cement £1 14/e, Auckland Gas £1 3/6, Renown Collieries 6/, Devonport Steam f 1 5/6, Waihi 18/9 19/6, Kawarau 1/11, 2/, Grand Junction 1/6. A meeting of No. 1 Licensing Authority will be held next Monday, when the vexed question of Milford-Devon-port and Milford-Bayswater transport may be happily settled. The North Shore Transport Company will apply for permission to run the services. Billy Grime dfeated Pico Ramies, the Mexican featherweight champion, in a decisive manner on points at Hollywood on Friday. The New Zealand boxer McKnipht met his first defeat in Australia on Friday, when he was beaten at Newcastle in the 19th round by Jim Pearce. Something new. Ask to eee elect rie vacuum cleaner, £13 10/.— Wingate'a, npp. G.P.O.—(Ad.>