TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Imperial Ale —Famous For Quality. (Aft.) Naval warships back in port. Auckland tennis cliampionsliips in gress to-day. Championship golf tournament in progress at Mirimar. Good entries received for Auckland regatta next Monday. Members of Auckland Power Boas} back after visit to Arapuni. Young man and boy drowned whitt bathing in the Waipa River. Three Kings, at Mount Roskill, swept by a grass lire, valuable plantation saved. Education Board protesting against reduction of grants for maintenance of schools. Party of Mount Albert Grammar schoolboys spent week of exploration National Park. Settlers checked fires in Waikonkoft Valley, near Waimauku, by breaks back burning. No further light has been thrown upon Point Chevalier tragedy. Inquest waa opened this morning. Bert Acosta, the famous trans-Atlantic aviator, was sentenced to five days' imprisonment for low flying. Hamilton and surrounding country was this morning enveloped in dense fog, and traffic was seriously impeded. Auckland Chamber of Commerce sympathetic with suggestion that native bush adjacent to scenic routes should bft preserved. Petrol stations exempted from 6hop« and Ofnces Act, which operates from next Wednesday as far as hours *r§ concerned. Swimming Marathon at New Zealand championship meeting won by Copplestone, of Canterbury, with J. Bnwright, of Auckland, second. A mail lorry with eighteen passengers got out of control near Te Whaiti, and plunged into a river. One passenger was killed, and seventeen others injured. Chicago crime gangs have retaliated to Mayor Thompson's declaration the reign of terrorism must with several bomb outrages on prominent officials. "The worst weather ever experienced/* is how the commander of the Aquitania described Atlantic weather conditions which delayed the colossal liner two days in her arrival at New York. Sales on 'Change: Taupiri Coal, 25/; Milne and Choyce debentures, 23/9; Hikurangi Coal (pref.), S/; Soldiers* Loan, 5 J per cent £101 2/6, do. Inscribed £101 2/6, Inscribed Loan, 1927-41, £99. The editor of the London "Morning Post" was awarded £200 against Dr. Marie Stopes, who alleged that Roman Catholic control of the paper accounted for birth control advertisements being declined.