TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The final All BlacP" trial will be played at Wellington to-morrow. The well known Australian thoroughbred stallion Valais is dead. Movement is afoot to merge portion of Mount Roskill Road Board area Jo borough of Mount Eden. Owing to a dispute with the manager, the miners at Rotowaro did not work this morning. The Rotorua is due next Sunday after- - noon from London and Southampton with passengers. A mysterious explosion which wrecked a house in Toronto killed three people and injured five others. Portuguese Independence Day, the anniversary of the foundation of the republic, falls to-morrow. When galloping on the course proper at Ellerslie this morning Alloway broke a fetlock joint and had to be destroyed. Railway Department has decided to supply free paper bags on mail express and through passenger trains for protection of ladies' hats. Gaming Act pleaded at Supreme Court to-day in defence of claims against the estate of a Chinaman deceased. Greetings were exchanged by the Prime Ministers of England and Canada at the initiation of the ■ wireless telephony service to the Diminion. Several writs, aggregating a total of £86,000 in claims, have been issued for alleged libel arising out of the New South Wales election campaign. Sales on 'Change to-day: Union Bank £14 18/6, Pukemiro Collieries £2 19/, ; Millie and Choyoe (deb.) £1 4/, Ohine- , muri Mines 6/, 6/3, Mount Lyett £1 6/9. A conference of the New Zealand 1 Labour Federation will be held at the ; Auckland Trades Hall next Monday. Delegates from kll over the Dominion will be present. The New Zealand champion Limerick , was beaten into second place in the ■ Metropolitan handicap at Randwick yes- ■ terday, carrying 191b more weight than . the winner, Mnrillo. It is reported from Tokyo that a " devastating storm broke over Boniu i Islands, wrecking 100 houses. The sugar crops were badly damaged, but -the casualties were few. Four overseas steamers, the Tofua, ■ from the Western Pacific; Maryland, [ from Java; Ulimaroa, from Sydney, and ' the Pacific Transport, from Nauru, , arrived at Auckland to-day. l "A catch phrase," said a magistrate in r Christchurch, after hearing counsel talk » of the "irresistible impulse" which caused | a woman to steal from a shop. He sen- ; tenced the woman to hard labour. ' William Harold Melville Taylor, the } man arrested in connection with, the 1 mailbag roVbery at Frankton, was j to Auckland tMs morning under - escort. His bail is fixed at £1000. | The name of Mr. T. K. Sidey, the 5 author of the Summer Time Act, is to ■ be enshrined in a New Zealand athletic 4 championship challenge cup as a mark of 7 gratitude by Dominion athletes.' 1 v "Mount Eden Borough Council intend to 5 provide area three acres at Nicholson [ Park for football and cricket. Arranget ments made for rock on property to be 1 shifted by a contractor free of cost to I local body. " Reported at Mount Eden Borough Coun- [. cil meeting that pheasants are now very t- plentiful on Mount Eden and that native ! pigeons and tuis have been seen. Moun- £ tain area has been gazetted a bird 4* sanctuary. The names of four candidates will go before the Professorial Board of the Auckland University College next Monday for the selection of the two Auckland candidates for this j em's Rhodes Scholarship. The Sydney town planner, Mr. G. S. Keesing, says that Auckland has only two serious traffic problems—Grafton Bridge and Newmarket. He also states that a unified scheme of town planning should be prepared to provide for an ultimate population of a million. • A message from Melbourne says that the floods in Gippsland are spreading. The Latrobe River, which is normally a chain wide, is now three miles across, and though people are shifting to higher ground, stock losses are heavy and increasing. The 33ft launch Speedwell and its owner, Mr. Edwin Walker, of Russell, are missing. The launch left for Russell on Monday of last week, and fears are felt that it has been blown out to sea. It was last been passing Leigh early on Tuesday morning. Hannah's are remodelling their Queen Street premises. Special bargains during alterations.—(Ad). Kow*a the time for lawnmowera and garden tools. Wingate's have them at the right prices.—Opp. G.P.O.—(Ad.)