TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Britain v. N.Z. tennis Tot to-morrow and Monday. Concluding day of the Dai t aville races at Avondale to-morrow. All cricket will be in full swing tomorrow both A.C.A. and Suburban. Official opening to-morrow of the Girls' Sports Grounds at Kemuera. Finals of the military boxing tournament at the Drill Hall to-morrow night. Final of the ladies' provincial golf championship this afternoon at Titirangi. New Zealand Cup meeting opens at Riccarton to-morrow, when the Cud itself will be run. Tofua resumes her Island run to-morrow, when she will sail in the morning for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. The population of New Zealand last April was 1,454,080, of which 929,434 was m the North Island and 524,083 in the South. The Notts fast bowler Larwood had a field day against Victoria vesterdav getting seven wickets out of" the Him which fell for 163 runs. Hamilton was visited by a severe electrical storm yesterday afternoon, electric light and power and telephone services being affected by the disturbance. The steamer Nauru Chief, from Ocean Island, and the Matakana, from Liverpool, both due on Sunday. The mail liner Aorangi is also due "in the afternoon from Vancouver. The V.ILC. meeting opens to-morrow at Flemmgton. The VJLC. Derby, for which the Auckland-owned Prince Humphrey is one of the fancied candidates is the chief event. Melbourne Cup will be run on Tuesday next. On April 1 of this year the population of Greater Auckland was 206310 of Wellington 130,120, Christchurch and Dunedin 84,060. The respective* populations of the major provinces were Auckland 490,914, Wellington 292230 Canterbury 221,393, and Otago 149 470* The Tasman. flyers have all ,been honoured with New Zealand Air Force commissions, Kinjreford Smith with the major ' Ulm ** «»ptain, and Litchfield and McWUliam as lieutenants. The. appointees are simultaneously transferred to the reserve of ofneere. • ■ • . Sales on 'Change to-day: N.Z. Refrieeratmg (cont) (O/ 2); Wilsons Cement, f2; Commercial Bank (ord.), £1 10/4Mount Lyell. £1 16/3; Waihi (ex div )' 13/; Bank of New South Wales, £51 15/' JNew Zealand Insurance, £2 6/3- Auckl SLSVv. 3/I> £1 •"-■■*» £5 given away yesterday to a "Thrifty Shopper."—See advt. page s.—(Ad.) Clarendon's offer a special variety of sweets for Friday and Saturday for 2/« ,D * T™ sho Ps—next Hi ß Majesty's and next St. James' Theatre.—(Ad.)