TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 172, 23 July 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Joyful reunion of airship Italia survivors. Hotel at Drurv destroyed l»y fire iait evening. Firm tone for 2sew Zealand -wool at London sale. Arbitration laws will not be amended* iliis session. Death announced of Dame Ellen Terry, famous English actress. Heavy rain caused flooding in several Auckland suburban areas. Sitting of Arbitration Court in Auckland opened this morning. Gate takings at Auckland Winter Show amounted to £3551. Summer Time Bill to be discussed in Parliament during present week. At tennis America defeated Italy in final challenge rotuid for Davis Cup. Governments of fifteen nations bare accepted American draft treaty to outlaw war. Auckland Golf Club purchased additional forty acres of land at Middlemore. Lambs over a month old are to be seen on 31 r. T. Martin's farm at Koto-

tuna. All Blacks defeated South Africa, by seven points to six in second Test ma tell. Sales on 'Change to-day: Bank of New Zealand, £3; Waihi, 12/1*1; and Commercial Bank, £1/9/9. Australia defeated England hy 21 points to 14 in final League Test match played at Sydney. Waitcmata Power Board dedded to oppose proposed creation of s new borough at Shoal Bay. Body of Captain Bcrridgc, master of ill-fated schooner Isabella de Fraine, recovered near Hokianga. . Mrs. 3lary Ann Wells, who died in Wanganni yesterday, saw Queen Victoria before her reign began. Captain Lyon, of monoplane Southern Cross crew, announces . proposed flight from London to Los Angeless in 1929. Bishop H. W. Cleary, of Auckland, and Father C. Martindale, of. London, injured in motor accident near Hamilton. Settlers at Te Atatu decided to take lift j tobacco culture on community system, and intend to plant twenty acres to start with. At Rugby Auckland defeated Thame? by 20 points to 6. At. League Auckland beat Canterbury- bv tbe large score of 66 to 26. Bound Britain air race for King% Cap won by W. L. Hope, holder, a lady entrant being third, and winning prise for air club competitors.

Lock-out affecting half a million cotton workers dedared by Lancashire employers following strike by workers over unionists* subscriptions. Poverty Bay and Franklin district courts, which were a feature of Auckland winter show, will probably be displayed at Wellington show. Have you seen the diamond engagement ring? selling at half-price at David SiJk's 3 Jewellery Stores?—(Ad.)