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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 1

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■ I Peach Bacon Always Free Boric Acid. * Ad.) Waikato defeated the Wairarapa I Rugby touring team yesterday by 14 points to S. ! First full Empire telephonic broadcast from Great Britain takes place on SunI day next. A dance at Kopu developed into a . * Don ny brook" because of the jealousy of a young man. Jubilee celebrations in honour of Archdeacon Holbrook to-day and at Scots Hall to-nishL. The Niagara arrives at Suva from Nancouver to-morrow and is due at Auckland on Monday morning. Auckland Horticultural Society's narcissus show at the Town Hall conceit j chamber to-day and to-morrow. Charley Purdy defeated Johnny Pilk ington on points in a fifteen round bout at the Sydney stadium last • night. A deputation suggested to the Prime Minister to-day that the number ««f South Island seats in Parliament be fixed at 30. Bell plays Horton and Morpeth plays Sime in the semi-final of the Xew Zealand amateur golf championship at Hamilto»i to-morrow. Wanganui spring meeting opened today and concludes on Saturday, while to-morrow the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club's meeting 'win* be' beld. Outlook in the IState of Queensland is becoming darker and 500 sugar mill hand*, as well as other workers, are threatened with unemployment. It is feared that the American monoplane Old Glory has been lost at sea. since S.O.S. messages were received and searching Conard liners h*ve failed to find traces of the 'plane. A motor truck collided with a centrepole in Queen Street, this morning near the Vulran Lane corner. The driver escaped injury, but a boy having a ride with him had his face cut. Two Canadian monoplanes again attempting flight to England, the Sir John Csrlißg having left Newfoundland. and the Royal Windsor having reached A'ewfountfliid on (ae first ctap. "Victorian Railway Commissioners attribute deficiency of £47,540 for the yeaT to the refusal of the AJlan-Peacork Mtnistry to approve their recommendations for increased fares and freights. Sales on 'Change to-day: Commercial Bank (ord.) £1 8/, Northern Steam (eon.) 7/, Hikurangi Coal (ord.) S/3, Waihi £1 0/9, Lucfcr Shot (eon.) 2/, 2/3, Occidental Una '(con.) Bd, Sid. The Welsh amateur club team, the Cygnets, made 190 runs for six wickets in an afternoon's play against the New Zealanders yesterday. The start was delayed by rain and the match will be concluded to-day. John Cameron Brown, 27 years, left his wife and baby destitute 4J years ago and has now got another wife sod two children. This morning be was ordered to pay 30/ a week for' the maintenance of bis first wife and child. Milroy Thomas Smillie, a young man who had two sharp sheath knives in his belt when arrested, was remanded at the Court this morning on a charge of having assaulted his sweetheart yesterday by hitting her on the head with a hammer. A resolution passed at the Auckland branch of the N.Z. Educational Institute this morning expressed grave concern at the tendency towards centralisation in educational matters, and opposed any attempt to curtail the present powers of boards. Canterbury wrested the Banfnrly Shield from Manawbenua yesterday by 17 points to 6. This is the first time Canterbury has held the shield, which in the course of the present season has shifted from Napier to Masterton to Palmerston North and to Christchurch.