TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lion Ale —None Purer, Nouc Dcuer. (Ail.) Auckland .Regatta cu Monday. Monday will be observed as a general holiday. [ Auckland tennis championships continued to-day. Jsurburban lire brigades still busy with grass fires. Firmed prices ruling for Xew Zealand butter on Home market. Yacht Betty will represent Canterbury in Sanders Cup contest. Sliosils of jellyfish iu harbour causing annoyance to bathers. Funeral of Point Chevalier tragedy victims at Waikumete this afternoon. Mail steamer due from Vancouver ana way ports early to-morrow evening. Party of six constables left by Tefua. 10-day to reinforce Sarnoan police. Curtailed bus services decided by City Council operate from, to-morrow. Home steamer Cambridge radios that expected arrival will be on Monday morning. The steamer Middlesex, due from Home ports early on Monday, will anchor at the Powder Ground. One hundred and fifty men stopped work at Wilsons Collieries, Hikurangi, a* result of dispute with manager. Miss G. Pidgeon, of Auckland, won 220 yards ladies' breast-stroke race at Xew Zealand Swimming Championships. Stated at a meeting of Auckland strawberry growers yesterday that thb industry was menaced by a root disease.' Big opening scores by" Wellington against Auckland in Plunket Shield cricket match. Centuries by two batsmen. Steps being taken by Morrinsville Borough Council to acquire native interests in its water supply catchment areaLabour Department's figures show that there are 800 unemployed in Auckland, but social workers consider that the number is nearer 2000. Lord Cushendun, BritaiSfs delegate to the League of Nations, stated in a speech that he was convinced there would knot be another war for 100 years. For demonstrating against the sung Eucharist at a Church of England service in Lancashire several people were bound over by magistrates to keep the peace. The Liberals of Anglesea have approached Miss Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the famous Liberal statesman, to become a candidate on the retirement of the present member at the ; close of the session. Edward Rowlands and Daniel Driscoll were executed in Cardiff for the murder |of David Lewie. The Prince of Wales • made a last minute appeal for the Ih-es : of the murderers, who were members of 1 the British Legion, but that was Tej fused. ■ Sales on 'Change at the third call yes- . terday, New South Wales Bank £48, . New Zealand Insurance £2 1/, Smith : British Insurance £2 17/3, and Dalgety, " Ltd. £93 16/. This morning National g Bank of Australia (contributing issue), 9 sold at £8 12/. r Pearls, ropes, 60in. 3/; necklets, 24in. £ 1/6. Cream, beautiful lustre, unbreak- - able and well finished, at David Silk's [ 3 Jewellery Stores. —(Ad.) t —