TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 56, 7 March 1929, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

City Council to-night. Ascot Vale Stakes at Flemington today. Final cricket Test starts at Melbourne to-morrow. Auckland croquet championships in progress. Kacing to-day at Bulls and at Kapier Park to-morrow. Forty-six points of rain fell in the 24 hours to 9 a.m. to-day. The New Zealand riflemen had. further successes at Williamstown yesterday. ''High tea" at Methodist Trinity College this evening to celebrate the opening of the college. King's Old Boys beat Christ's College Old Boys in the annual cricket match yesterday by eight wickets. The biennial district council meeting of the Rechabites' Order will be held next Tuesday at St. Sepulchre's Hall. Final of the Auckland Bowling Centre's pennant competition on Saturday between Rocky Nook and Helensville. Twenty-seven cases of dysentery reported in the Auckland health district last month, as against none in Januarv. Feature of the Waikato Central Show at Cambridge is the increased number of hunting horses appearing in the ring events. Judgment given at Supreme Court today for £3SS damages against Alexander Henry Martin, formerly law clerk,, of Auckland. London wool sales opened yesterday with brisk competition, but prices are down about a penny per lb compared with last January. Minister of Health says that this week's big event is the inauguration of the cancer prevention campaign at Wellington to-morrow evening. Kecord ratepayers' poll in Waitemata County yesterday, when the proposal to introduce the system of rating on unimproved values was rejected by an overwhelming majority. Robert Vernon extracted £5 from a ehy solicitor yesterday by a story in which he posed as the agent in a big property deaL To-day he was sent to gaol for three months. The Byrd Expedition supply ship Eleanor Boiling, which was ordered to return before reaching the ice owing to fe»r that she might be caught, arrived oack at Dunedin yesterday afternoon. Fog on the coast is delaying in wardbound steamers. The Rukhine, from We'lington. and the Tregenna, from Makat -a. both due early this morning did not make port till this afternoon.' Farewell presentation this afternoon to the Auckland organiser of the United Political party, as he is leaving to take «p his apjwintinent as Dominion organiser. e The Model Furriers are sacrificing Real Marmot, Peschaniki, Chapelle 5 , Mu*quash coats at less than half usual price. Fur coats worth 2ogns.. now from Sgns.—Xote address: 99, KTwpe Rd. Ad. Hazard's Sale. Lease Expiring. Torches, knives, razors, watches, fiahipg tackle, big reducti<«is; tennis rackets at cost. Hazards Queen St., opp. H-M, Real fox furs, all shades, from 37/6, at The Model Furriers, 99, K'hape Rd. (Ad.) Why pay fancy prices for your furs when you can buy for half the price? Moose Fur Co.. 432, Queen St.— (Ad.) Guaranteed fur coat*, from ogns, at The Mode] Furriers.—Xote oniv address: 99. Karangahape Road.—(Ad.)* Ladies.—Final opportunity to buv niillinery half price and less at M<-Cabe's bic millinery store. Xewton.—(Ad. i Latest atitTiiun millinery, evening gowns sports wear, now showing at Miss Dixon's Queen Street, downstairs *>!jowrooni. (Ad. J The Model Furriers announce the Ja.u few day? of their great sale. Take thi« opportunity of securing your winter funs at practically your own price. Xote address: G. Green, 99, K'hape. Rd.—Ad.