TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Horticaltural Society's spring shon at the Town Hall concert, chamber to-mo.-row and Friday. Supreme Court judgment against New Zealand Insurance Company on a clienl'e claim for £1000. The St. Leger. the last of tiie EngUri racing season's classic races is run l<.day at l)onca»ter. The Wanganui Jockey Club's t-prla-meeting opens to-morrow and will b.continued on Saturday. Xo trains running in Queensland thir we*V. and doubts exist as to whethc. aa'y will, run next week. Life imprisonment, with hard labour, was the sentence passed on Allan Srmoii for attearpting to shoot his mother. Unemployed engineers in New Soutl Wales warned against applying fo. employment on Queensland railways. Tragedy near Tβ Hihi, near Karaka. A mother and two children dead from poisoning, and another child recovered. The annual meeting of "the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the Normal School to-mor-row. . . The match between the New Zealand hockey touring team and Auckland yesterday" resulted in a drawn game, two goals all. Australian Prime Minster promises assistance for local pilots desiring to attempt flight across Tasman in au efficient sea-going aeroplane. Successful claim - for £750 by Forest Service against Xew Zealand 'Redwood Forests, Ltd., in Supreme Court to-day. j Counterclaim for £1150 ruled out. I Three steamers, the Schouwen and Canadian Challenger, both, from Montreal, and the Kartigi, from Melbourne, arrived at Auckland this morning. The Auckland Golf Club champion, H. B. Lusk, was narrowly defeated by A. D. Duncan in the second round of the amateur championship at Hamilton yesterday. In fifing judgment t&i* morning in the test case against the comaranitv care, Mr. E. C. Cutten, SJkL, declared that they were omnibuses and should be licensed as such. The American airmen, Lloyd Bertaud and Mr. James de Witt Hill, took oil yesterday from Old Orchard, Maine, for Home in an attempt to break the longdistance flight record. The British Empire is almost defenceless against the coming famine in soft woods, says Sir Peter Clutterbuck, Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. Sales on 'Change to-day: National Bank £6 15/9, Bank of Australasia £14 14/, Commercial Bank £1 «/, £1 7/11; Whittome, Stevenson £2 3/; Waihi £1, Lucky Shot (con.) 2/, 1/11. The open champion, E. J. Moss, Trent down yesterday to J. D. Mclntosh, of Wellington; in the professional golf championship at Hamilton. Mclntosh and Butters will contest the fri W l Two games have been arranged for the Xew Zealand touring cricket team on their return bone at the end of next month, against the Kest of New Zeajand driver of a * ™»*rkai»le t escape from deafc lit* evening >hetf crashed through the railing of the Whan Bndge and somereaulted twenty feet »»to the tide.- .* .-~ - Bj SpeAl meeting: of "Ifonnt Albert Borough Council called for last eveidnt to discuss position as result of engineer refusing invitation to resign collapsed the Mayor ruling that the proceedings were not in order. ■ A match for the Ranfurlv Shield is being played this afternoon between Canterbury and Manawfaenua at PaJmerston North, while the Wwrarapa tourrag team is playing Waikato, at Hamilton. . . ■ Trades Union Congress in Edinburgh "P , *™? ,*e Mr. Baldwin's appeal far industrial peace, attacked the British Prime Minister's attitude to Labour and suggested that his best contribution to peace would be to resien. The match between Wales and the >ew Zealand cricketers ended in a damwn game. Wales declared at 183 for nine wicket*, leaving tie Xew Zealanders 234 to get for a win. When the match ended they had put on 124 for the. loss of two wickets. Now'e the time for lawnmowers and garden tools: Wingate's have them at 0»e right prices.- Opp. G.P.O.—(Ad.) Stocktaking special great reduction in first Quality pmint, September onlv, 16/ ■ gallon.—Oates, Symonds Street.—(Ad. , .