TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Lion Beer is a Man's Drink. (Ad.) Tofua due from Samoa next Monday. Easier prices at Christchurch wool sale. Prisoners sentenced at Supreme Court this morning. Poll at New Lynn to-day «i question of forming a borough. Cash only taken in mail bag robbery on ferry steamer Wahine. Hamilton loan of £40,670 proposed for waterworks extensions. Main Highways Board members touring South of Auckland districts. Motor car, iiiissinjr from Auckland, found abandoned at Tauranga. Mount Albert Borough Council to seek unemployment subsidy from Government. More city educational institutions visited by Minister of Education this morning. Intense cold in England. London experienced the lowest temperature for twenty years. Industrial deadlock reached in Australia in connection with miners' and timber workers' dispute. The story of a Hawera boy who set out to seek his fortune is interestingly told in a telegram published to-day. Prime Minister announces issue of Government debentures at 5 1-S per cent interest, with currency of eight years. Sham fight, in which territorial forces and Navy will take part, to be staged at Orewa Beach early to-morrow morning. J. B. Batchelor, the solicitor who was arrested in Melbourne on a charge of theft, was to-day remanded in Christchuch till February 21. Statement by hospital chairman that no reflection had been made on members of honorary staff accepted by medical deputation , which waited upon the board last evening. Young man appeared at Police Court this morning on a charge of theft. Police stated that he had spent £400 in a month on high living, including - champagne suppers. Sales on 'Change to-day: Union Bank of Australia. £15 8/6; Westport Coal £1 11/6: Wellington Gas. £1 11/ ; Waihi, 13/11: Soldier's 5i per cent Loan, £101 10/; War Loan, 41 per cent, 1938. I £0!) 15/; Waitemata Loan, 6 per cent. j £105: Hamilton Loan, 4J per cent, £$r> j 10/; and Taranaki Oil, 3/9. I P. Groos, tailor, 4, Durham Street, for j 1T.29 new season's goods. Choice selection of new patterns. Walk 35ft from Queen Street and save 35 per cent. Next Stewart Dawson's.— (Ad.) For home-cooked lunches, morning or afternoon tea, try Mecca Cafe. Yorkshire Buildings. Shortland Street. Xew management. Parties catered for.—(Ad.) Excursion Pine Island daily. Leaves Auckland 10 a.m , returns 3.50. Return fare 1/6. Refreshments on island.— (Ad.) i ~