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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 1

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> Jack Sharkey is fixed to meet Jack Dempsey on July 21, the winner to meet j Tunney for the world's title. [ M. Leon Daudet, the Paris Boyalist, , who released from gaol through » a hoax, is still eluding re-arrest. I The hearing of the remainder of the . community bus cases has been set down . for Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Matatua from Liverpool and the 1 Port Dunedin from London via Wellingj ton are both due at Auckland on Friday. . The Duke and Duchess of York, with ' the baby Princess Elizabeth, have taken \ up their residence in their new home at , k Mr. Van Lear Black, the American - millionaire newspaper proprietor, who is flying to Java, has arirved at Bang- • kok in Siain. I U.S. army air officers, Lieutenants j Mahland and Hegenberger. have started 5 from San Francisco on a non-stop flight ? to Hawaii. ? SaJes on 'Change to-day:— X.Z. . Insurance, £1 19/6: Kawaraii. 1/6; \ Grand Junction, 1/5; Luckr .Shot. ■>/; Waihi, 19/1. l Interesting litigation in Supreme > Court to-day with regard to a contract . (alleged) for the building of a picture theatre at Remuera. The Port of Auckland has becx. Un- , usually slack so far tlfts week, and today there is not an overseas steamer at 1 any of the wharves. I A report that he had offered £30,000 , to Miss Betty Xuthall, the young teni nis star, to turn professional, is denied » by Mr. C. B. Cochran. » The management committee of the A.F.A. have suspended their consideraI tion of the Thistle dispute until legal advice has been received. j A meeting of Auckland fish dealers yesterday decided to forward a resolu- • tion to the Government urging the discontinuance of State control of ovster i beds. 1 Sixteen New Guinea natives who were - imprisoned at Kabaul, pending trial for . the murder of two white prospectors, have made a mvsterious escape from I gaol. i \ The Aorangi is to leave Sydney to- , morrow, and is due at Auckland on . Monday morning. She is to resume her voyage to Vancouver at 11 a.m. on 1 Tuesday. : The ashes of the late Mr. Arthur Mci Manus, the British Communist, who ' died hist February, have been sent to I Moscow for interment under a wall in • the Kremlin. • Viscount Acker's bill to qualify peer- • esses in their oxrn right to sit in tne > House of Lords has heen withdrawn on ; account of the new situation created by . the House of Lords Reform Bill. • At the inquiry in Sydney into the ; stranding of the steamer Riverina off 1 the Victorian Coast last month, the '<• master said an abnormal current had carried the vessel 13 miles out of her j course. 9 The match between theX.Z.cricketers \, and the Scottish Counties team was , drawn, the counties making 287 and the L colonials declaring at eight wickets for " 103. They then got rid of four Scottish ' wickets for 72. ! Miss Betty Xuthall has been knocked , out of the women's open singles at . Wimbledon by a compatriot, Miss Joan I Fry. Lacoste ana Borotra, the French , cracks, were beaten in the men's doubles ; by Crole-Rees and Eaines, an English pair. ; A Ion;: discussion in the House of Representatives on Samoa, ended early ; this niorning when the Prime Minister . agreed to consider a proposal made by the Labour party that a small, representative committee visit the territory in the recess. Magistrate, in his decision dealing with the action by the City Council against community bus owners, found that the owners were attempting to evade the provisions of the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act. 1926. The two defendents were convicted and fined £-■> 1/ each and costs. Security for appeal was fixed at £10 10/. To-morrow's a sale bargain Thursdav and half-price remnant day at George Court's, Karangahape Poad. See full page of bargains this issue.—(Ad.) Radiators and electric vacuum cleaners. Very best prices at Winjrate"s, opp. G.P.O.—(Ad.) " CaudwelFs men's store. Xewton, ctcv knitted sox 9d- boys' golf hose' J/6, men's pullovers 6/1 i, fleecy singlets 2/6, doctor flannels 4/11. — (Ad.) Women, visit the open warehouse. You will want to come again. Drapery, boots, crockery, fancy goods, etc-—G. C* Munns, , Browning, Ifwersen's wholesale warehouse, Kingston Street, off Albert Street, just behind Buckland"s.—(Ad.)