TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■ ■■ Uon Ale, Ideal Summer Drink.—(A3.>" Belioensing of motor vehicles coa* menced to-dav. Auckland beaohoa thronged bathers yesterday. Minister of Public Works visiting East Coast districts. New Salvation Army Hall opened terday at Grey Ltdo. Slijrht improvement in Auckland UH« employed situation last week. School of 42 bottle-nosed vrhaleg stranded at Whangarei Heads. A serious outbreak of typhoid ievar is reported in Mangonui County. Top floor of Mining Chambers in Queen Street gutted by liro late last evenings Radio message received that cyclone passed over Vavau in Friendly Island*. Memorial service to late Earl Haig held afc St. Clary's Cathedra! yesterdays Steamer Dewey wit h general caigo from Pacific Coast ports due this e»ening. Conference of heads of railway departments being held at Wellington this week. Warships Dunedin and Diomede will cruise in New Zealand "waters during autumn. Daylight Limited expresses, except for Easter week, will cease running after this week. Nine-year-old boy killed at Ellcrslie yesterday through collapse of concrete gate pillar. Beneficial rain fell in parts of the province yesterday. Showers in several Auckland suburbs. Eleven prisoners came before Mr. Justice Reed at the Supreme Court thii morning for sentence. First official tour of North by Minister of Health (Mr. J. A. Young) to be made early next month. Two firemen injured •when verandah of burning boardinghouse collapsed at Pukekohe this morning. Toheroa hunters caused trouble afc Muriwai speed trials yesterday through trespassing on the course. Naked body of Horace Humphries, missing from Rotorua since January 27, found in Lake Okareka. Further reduction of penny a unfb in electrical light charges proposed 4>t Waitemata Power Board. Minister of Defence (Mr. J. C. Holieston) makes first official tour of southern part of North Auckland this week. People in Mangonui County are circulating a petition to secure continuous telephone service throughout the district. Delegation of businessmen 'will proceed to Samoa on occasion of first trip by new Government motor ehip Maui Pomare. Attempt to swim Cook £ trait, on Saturday by R. J. Webster, of Auckland, abandoned owing to low tempera* ture of water. Sales on to-day:—Auckland Gas £1 3/3, South British Insurance £2 17/6, N.Z. Bank £2 19/, and Commercial Bank (ord.) £1 7/4 J. Cricket benefit match to be played for C. C. Dacre next Saturday. Auckland cricketer due to leave soon to take up 1 a position in England. Question of a water supply discussed at a meeting of Mount Wellington ratepayers on Saturday evening. Matter to be further investigated. Fire at Tonson Garlick and premises, Karangahape Road. early thig morning caused damage estimated between £SOOO and £10.000. Dr. A. W. Hill, director of Kew Gardens, arrived in Auckland yesterday and made visit of inspection to Jcaurl bush at Cascades at Waitakere Ranges. Engineer of Waitemata Power Board reported this morning that he was not in favour of the erection of concrete transmission poles. Board deferred discussion for a month. I Main lino derailment at Whnngamarino station this morning, a truck on express goods train leaving the line. Traffic blocked two hours, and Limited 2Xpress delayed an hour. Second-hand jewellery bought, sold, renewed, exchanged or remade. New designs submitted, at David Silk's 3 Jewellery Stores, Queen Street.—(Ad.V