TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lion Extra Stout —Invaluable as Tonic. (Ad.)

Waikato winter show opens at Hamilton to-morrow.

Three prisoners sentenced at Supreme Court to-day. No trace yet of tlie two escapees from Mount Eden Gaol. Auckland Art Society's annual exhibition opens at the Dilworth Building this evening. Public meeting at Point Chevalier to-night to hear an address on civic affairs. K. H. Wethered was defeated by Perkins in the final of the British amateur golf championship. Annual conference of the North Auckland dairy companies is sitting in the Chamber of Commerce to-day. A motor car stolen from where it was standing in the city on Saturday found burnt yesterday at Panmure. Fears are entertained for the safety of the Italian expedition which was returning from the North Pole. North Auckland Dairy Conference decided that any change in existing grading system would not be desirable. Sales on 'Change to-day: Sanford (ord.) £1, Waihi 11/5, Mount Lyell £1 13/9, £1 14/ and Westport Coal £1 10/3. Four adults and two children were killed in the metropolitan area of Sydney in week-end accidents, while 15 others were injured. The Waitemata Power Board protests against the suggestion that a portion of its area should be taken into the Auckland district. A resolution urging a more vigorous roading policy in North Auckland carried at North Auckland Dairy Conference this morning. Stated at Transport Commission this morning that cost of inquiry, apart from legal expenses, was banking up to three figures daily. Commission entered on its fifth week. The American trans-Continental marathon of 3500 miles was won by a schoolboy, who gets the prize of £5000. His average speed was a little over six miles per hour. The rainfall for the two days to 9 a.m. to-day was 2.57 inches, bringing the fall for the month to 10.12, which is half an inch off the May record, with four days still to go. Arrangements are being made to have the results of the All Blacks' matches in South Africa available to local telephone subscribers at 8 a.m. on Thursdays and 8.30 a.m. on Sundays. Two bungalows at Edendale were destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, one family escaping in their night attire, and the other losing all but the clothes they hastily donned.

A young carpenter gamed Thomas Williams was to-day fined £25 for being intoxicated while in charge of his motor car when it collided with & tram car on Saturday night. His license was cancelled for twelve months.

The Watersiders' Federation are negotiating with the shipowners for a settlement of the strike by the cooks, who agree to return to work on terms of the old award with one condition, that the roster svstem is retained.

The 13 ton ketch Glenae was found bottom upwards on the rocks at the mouth of the Puhoi River on Saturday evening, with no sign of the master and mate. Grave fears are entertained of their safety, in view of the heavy seas running at the time.

The Yoseric, with phosphate from Ocean Island, due at Auckland to-night, the Waipahi will arrive early on Wednesday with fruit from the Cook Islands, and the Waiotapu is expected from the Pacific Coast on Friday.

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